"I wish the Iranian people well, and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
From the: Wow! But I'm not surprised dept...
...not, that is, that 1] noted, er, social critic/filmmaker Oliver Stone wanted to make an apparently sympathetic film about Ahmadinejad's Iran; 2] that Iran turned him down, suggesting that even though he's part of the American "opposition" (yeah, I guess you could say that!), he's still part of the "Great Satan" (!); and 3] despite this, Stone isn't mad: