First of all, I would like to apologize for not writing a column last week. Personal matters kept me very busy, and things were quite emotional, I had neither the time nor the willingness to write and I want to assure you I will do my best to prevent that from ever happening again.

I would like to write about Iran, something I have covered before in a previous column and many posts on my blog (http://bwreport.blogspot.com/). The country is a direct sponsor of terror and is indirectly killing Americans.

They are providing weapons to Iraqi terrorists to be used to kill American soldiers. That is disgusting. And now, the man at the top, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is in America. On a controversial trip he has come to our side of the pond to speak about him, his country, and his world views.

The reason for all the uproar is not only because he is supporting the murder of U.S. Troops, but because he has denied that the holocaust has ever existed, said that he believes Israel should be “wiped off the map”, and despite requests from America and our friendly countries, continues to develop a nuclear program.

The man is a terrorist and I was glad when he was denied his request to descend to the bottom of ground zero (a place restricted from public access). We are in a war because of what happened at that delicate location, and in that war our people are being killed by his weapons. That kind of irony is hard to come by, which is a good thing.

But the story gets worse, at his speech at Columbia university on Monday Ahmadinejad dodged the questions he was asked. At one point the even made the stunning claim that there are no “…homosexuals, not like in your country…” The people over at Hot Air were joking wondering weather it was a bad translation and what he really said was “there will be no homosexuals”.

Then today he gave a speech at the U.N. where he again made the shocking and laughable statement that “In Iran there are no homosexuals”. The funny thing is, as soon as he took the stage, the U.S. delegates got up and left. Which may have been a good thing because over the course of his speech he continually bashed America and its allies.

Now, finally, as far as the nuclear program is concerned I look at Iran like North Korea. They do not like us. They are building weapons that could potentially cause massive damage on American soil. They must be stopped.

So far, it looks as though our talks with North Korea have worked well and we haven’t had to force military action. This is good because that could cause strain on Iraq, as well as decrease the chances of a Republican being elected in 2008.

But where Iran is concerned I get worried. We persistently ask them to discontinue their production of nuclear weapons but to no avail. Nobody wants to invade Iran, but we need to understand that if they are planning to kill Americans they need to be stopped. And if gets to the point, we may need to fly over and bomb their facilities. Yes, innocent lives will be lost. Yes, this would greatly increase the tension between us, as well as the chances of a full fledged war. But we have to look at it this way: Us? Or them?