Reality Pundit

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wrote a letter to Bush offering “new solutions” for the international problems concerning Iran. This is the first direct contact that Iran has had with Washington in 27 years. While the letter has not been made public yet, Scott Ott over at Scrappleface has a “leaked” version of the letter with the top five “new solutions” offered by Ahmadinejad:

5) Wipe Israel off the face of the map. Replace with goat ranch.
4) U.S. buys Iranian oil. I make threatening statements causing uncertainty in petroleum markets. We use the windfall profits to pay Russia to help us make nuclear devices, and to pay China to stop U.N. sanctions. U.S. continues to buy Iranian oil.
3) Get U.N. to adopt ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy regarding uranium enrichment.
2) Put Zionists in boxcars. Send back to Europe. Replace Israel with goat ranch.
1) U.S. joins global Muslim Caliphate, ensuring peace and bountiful supplies of enriched uranium for all of Allah’s people.

Sounds an awful lot like the old solutions to me. I wouldn’t except any solution short of the total dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program. If he is unwilling to offer that then there is no more discussion needed in my opinion, we must act before Iran actually has nuclear arms capabilities.