When Bush wishes Ganji had died in prison

Last year, when Akbar Ganji was in a dangerous phase of his hunger strike, I wrote in this blog that a dead Ganji would have had more benefit to Bush than an alive one who speaks, thinks, provokes and disagrees -- and here is the proof.

Ganji has totally disappointed the "Regime change" supporters by announcing he has no interest in meeting with any U.S. government officials or U.S. -based Iranian political groups. Instead is going to meet Noam Chomsky, one of the most outspoken critics of Bush and his gang. See what Eli has written for the New York Sun:

A spokesman for the ad hoc committee arranging Mr. Ganji's visit to America, Mehdi Amini, said yesterday that the former reporter and political prisoner did not want to risk arrest upon his return to Iran. "He has said he is not willing to meet U.S. government officials. He plans to go to Iran and he does not want this to be a reason for the Iranians to rearrest him," Mr. Amini said.

Mr. Ganji first came to the attention of the White House last July when President Bush became the first world leader to urge Iran's supreme leader to release Mr. Ganji from Evin prison, where he went on a hunger strike that lasted nearly two months.

While Mr.Ganji was on hunger strike last summer, Mr. Chomsky signed a petition urging his release. Mr. Chomsky then traveled to Lebanon this spring to meet with leaders of the Syrian-funded terrorist group Hezbollah, which Iran created in the early 1980s. The areas of southern Lebanon ruled by Hezbollah resemble the Shariah state Mr. Ganji is now dedicated to overturning in his native Iran.

But then Eli is so short of finding any credible source to trash Chomsky that he's asked Banafsheh Pourzand's opinion:

Yesterday, one New York-based Iranian-American activist, Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi, said she was disappointed that Mr. Ganji was meeting with Mr. Chomsky. "Because he has been sitting in Iran and has not had to live with Noam Chomsky, he does not know what people like Chomsky do," she said. "He is looking at Chomsky as a hero worshipper, and that Chomsky no longer exists."

The frustration over Ganji's public humiliation of the administration is so much that Eli has reminds us about the superman who was discovered by Richard Perle and unlike Ganji, he is meeting with U.S. officials. He's such a good boy that they've even echeduled a meeting with vice-president Cheney for him:

Mr. Ganji's meeting schedule is contrary in spirit to that of Amir Abbas Fakhravar, a student activist who arrived in Washington in May and has since briefed reporters at the American Enterprise Institute, as well as State Department officials. Vice President Cheney's staff has scheduled a meeting with the student leader.