This assumes that "we" thought he was a "harmless populist" even after his statement regarding the destruction of the state of Israel.

>Just when we though perhaps this guy was a harmless populist...
>
>"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth". "
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527142.stm
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>My question is he:
>A: stupid
>B: a racist
>C: doesn't read history books
>D: pandering to the lowest common denominator