President and Kingmaker This weekend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made waves by claiming the holocaust never happened. In October, he claimed that Israel was a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the map". Sheesh...What a wingnut. At the time when President Bush claimed that Iran, Iraq, and North Korea were an "axis of evil", Iran actually had been moving toward reconciliation with the west for several years. After that brilliant, bellicose David Frum masterpiece, Iranian voters elected Bush's doppelganger, Ahmadinejad, to power. What do the Iranian hardliners have to say? THANKS MR. BUSH! Tehran's conservative intelligence minister, Ali Yunesi, publicly thanked Bush for his remarks, which were repeatedly broadcast by state television during election day. Bush's statement against the elections was even used by Ahmadinejad to denounce his rival in the run-off, former President Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had said Tehran should explore a dialogue with Washington. Read It: George W. Bush: The Greatest Poster Boy Islamic Extremism Ever Had