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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has always been a pertinent and revealing tale when it comes to how it correlates with world events, life and human nature. The idea that one can be lost and not understand that their compass and means to get home has always rested within, is a powerful reminder as to how we tend to complicate the most simple aspects of our lives and how we understand and view the world.

Dorothy’s journey into Oz also taps into another area that seems to elude us yet we know is true all along, life is not always as it seems. This premise is embodied in all the ‘Oz’ characters on some level but none more than in the Wizard himself. His facade of fire and brimstone scares and shakes all comers, yet it is merely a mask to a feeble man just as lost as those he is trying to guide home. The striking and intimidating persona presented through a curtain of fire and billowing voice is a puppet or as the world now knows him in his most recent incarnation; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad, is merely the front man for a Supreme Leader whom together are doing their best version of Willy Tyler and Lester or for you purist Paul Winchel and Jerry Mahoney. Either way, the dummy is saying one thing while the puppeteer is saying completely the opposite. The Puppet: We are enriching uranium for nuclear power. The Puppet Master: Oh, by the way did we tell you that we have a second enrichment plant and have enriched enough uranium to make a functional nuclear weapon? The Puppet: I am the duly elected President of Iran. Puppet Master: Detain any one who contradicts the election’s outcome.  Read more... (704 words, 2 images, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)

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