What's wrong with this picture...? MIKE WALLACE talks to Ahmadinejad...?

and finds, no surprise, he isn't quite what we've been led to believe...

"60 Minutes" veteran correspondent Mike Wallace may have retired last March but that hasn't stopped him from scoring an exclusive interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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But when they got there they were told that the Iranian president was very busy and may not get to talk to them. The CBS crew cooled their heels, so to speak, in Tehran's 100-degree heat in a hotel without air conditioning.

"We waited, and they said, 'he's still busy, he doesn't know, he hasn't decided,"' Wallace said. "We were scheduled to return. If he hadn't talked to us by late Tuesday we were going to get on the plane. All of the sudden word came through he was going to talk."

The 3:30 p.m. interview didn't come off until 5 p.m., but Wallace said their talk stretched for an hour and a half. "We went on and on," Wallace said. "We were told we were going to get 30 minutes."

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Wallace dismissed the common perceptions of Ahmadinejad.

"He's actually, in a strange way, he's a rather attractive man, very smart, savvy, self-assured, good looking in a strange way," Wallace said. "He's very, very short but he's comfortable in his own skin."

(Wallace's interview will appear on the "CBS Evening News" tonight and on Sunday's "60 Minutes.")

what's wrong with this picture...? mike wallace arranges a sit-down with ahmadinejad...? hey, i mean, good for him... he's got my admiration for doing it... but where, i would like to know, is condi...? where is george...?

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