Iran's Khatami Thanks U.S. for Quake Aid

[rodbarnett]

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
Associated Press Writer

BAM, Iran (AP) -- Iran's president thanked his country's biggest enemy, the United States, for sending help after this weekend's devastating earthquake, as survivors Tuesday mobbed relief trucks and bulldozers dug trench after trench to fill with the white-shrouded bodies of the dead

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[GRClarkesq]

1. Lets not get all warm and fuzzy

"Humanitarian issues should not be intertwined with deep and chronic political problems," Khatami told reporters in the provincial capital, Kerman. "If we see change both in tone and behavior of the U.S. administration, then a new situation will develop in our relations."

[rodbarnett]

2. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

eom

[mmm]

3. Khatami is good

By comparison, he makes Bush look like an evil little boy

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Three cheers for the Great Satan

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