Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a bad person?

I don't know him personally, maybe he's doing the best to serve his country, but I think we need to watch out for and be careful about the president of a country who hates Americans and burns the American flag and screams at demonstrations 'down with America' and 'kill all infidels' and these same people are trying to make nuclear weapons. I think we need to be wary.

I don't really think that he is a bad person. it just happens to be that he is not understood or is too simple to believe in. infact i think he is one of the better leaders of present world. offcourse you may disagree with me or anybody can for that matter but as per his background, what i have known, he is simple and humble. He is a son of blacksmith and he is proud of that and i think it is one of the great things about him. He served well as governor of Tehran specially in transport sector, in which he has his PhD. He also assumed a culture of humility for himself, another great thing about him. Now comes the controversial part, that is political one. indeed he has said somethings which are not as diplomatic as world expect a president to say. but i would like to point out that western media has much politicized the issue and somewhat distorted his statements to look scary. for example he never actually said that "Holocaust is a myth", he only said that holocaust is an excuse used by zionist to usurp the palestinian land. now there is a difference between "excuse" and "myth". he also questions the number of jews massacred in that event. his whole point is that this event should be investigated. Now the whole western world who boast of their freedom of speech rights don't allow revisiting of historical events, while at the same time hurt muslims by making cartoons of Prophet MUHAMMAD in the pretext of freedom of expression. About Nukes, Iran has every right to develop peacefull energy reactors, but it should assure others that the use is not deviated from peaceful purposes. having said that, i wonder where were these countries who are crying now when Israel was making nuclear arsenal? where were they when other countries were doing that with the help of black markets? it's seems more like a political issue than security issue, given the double standards of America and Europe. About hostage crisis, this is too a politicised issue which could have been better resolved through diplomacy than media. i hope it will be settled down. sorry for a bit long response but i am not very good at english so to express means more words for me:-)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated publically that he would not only welcome an apocolypse to usher in the return of the 12th Imman, but that he felt an obligation to bring this about. How can anyone even contemplate letting such a man have access to nulear weapons? Is he a bad person? Wrong question. The correct question is, "Is he a bad person or merely crazy?".

How is he doing the best for the good of his country. He keeps raising tensions between his countries and others, his country has an atrocious human/civil rights record program, and he denies the Holocaust, hates Jews, and hates Americans... I'm not thinking he's such a good guy. It is even rumored that he was one of the Iranian students that took the US hostages in Iran for 444 days in 1979.

I don't know much details about the president of Iran. From what I could gather he is a true patriot and a very simple man. His only intensions is about bettering the life standards of his people. How can anybody find fault on this? On the other hand the US and it's allies are after countries which they think are threat to world peace. We all know what happened in Iraq. The US and Co., baselessly alleged Iraq of piling weapons of mass distruction and having links with the evil powers who plotted the September 11 attack on US. Now after the invasion they cannot find any WMD. In the case of Iran the US is creating a situation in which they can put Iran in the evil side. In the current situation the US and Co are the real threat to world peace. They plan war after war. Their war on terror has evolved into a horror to the world. They don't cooperate with the UN. They don't even pay levies due to the UN. In the attempt to contain global warming they don't even sign the Kyoto treaty. They don't mind to pay heed to many of the UN General Assembly resolutions and veto many security council resolutions. They do not cooperate with the world to bring down proliferation of neuclear weapons. The plea that they could keep any number of neuclear war heads and others should not have any is simply unacceptable. In short, exploring if Ahamadinijad is a good person is meaningless. The situations leading to his present stance should be evaluated.

how you talk like that? you have fact? dont say anythink if you not have a fact or data? i think, you just dislike him.