Showtime must be approaching ...

Ahmadinejad says he is ready to talk with Obama, and his conditions are open to debate. He lambastes Bush for past belligerence and strong-arm tactics and fawns praise for Obama's gentle and humble approach. He further reiterated Iran's desire for its sovereign ability to develop enriched uranium for "peaceful" purposes. He also announced that Iran has 7000 centrifuges now, up from 6000 in February.

"[past negotiations failed because] they were insisting on stopping our peaceful activities, they were trying to impose that. The Iranian nation has always been for talks, dialogue has to be based on justice and respecting rights ... Justice means both sides are treated equally and bilateral rights are respected ... Today conditions have changed. We had presented a package. Given new world developments, new subjects need to be added to the package"

-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking during celebrations for Iran's Nuclear Day, in which a number of nuclear advances were announced.

So, maybe the Sentinel is a stupid, slack-jawed, doe-eyed, low-brow and Iran really does not want the 12th Imam to re-appear and they really don't want to incinerate the Zionist-pig nation and her supporters; however, does anyone remember that period of time when Neville Chamberlain was coming back to Britain announcing peace in our time? He had just signed this fancy document (after some killer negotiating - with words) with Hitler that said Hitler promised not to start a war. There was this brief period when everybody breathed this huge sigh of relief.

I believe this is our brief period.