Oddly sensitive president

This news item at first seemed like a new urban legend but now I'm not quite so sure. It seems that President Ahmadinejad has been the butt of a text-message joke mocking his personal cleanliness. Specifically that he smells. Bad. Take a shower, dude.

Let me get this right. Our friend Mahmoud talks openly about vaporizing Israel with his shiny new nukes, is threatening to unleash suicide bombers on the west, and is bragging up his fancy-pants new weaponry intended to make the Straits of Hormuz a killing ground. No problem there. Despotic theocratic dictators do that sort of thing. The threat of assassination by sniper rifle: no biggee. Smart bomb? Bring it on. Tell him that he should think about using soap once in awhile and suddenly he gets all serious on us.

Perhaps the west shouldn't threaten economic sanctions or military action against his regime as a consequence for their nuclear ambitions; maybe we should send B-2 stealth bombers with loads of dirty and smelly laundry. That'll show him.