Greetings Infidels!
...from a megalomaniacal, backwards, religious conservative. Sound familiar? Only he doesn't put his foot in his mouth as often as ours does.
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger won some points back when he tore Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a new one yesterday .. called him a petty, cruel dictator, etc.
While I'm glad that we can shine sunlight on such evil, I'm confused and don't know why everybody is hollering about free speech. I thought these rights were based upon the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights for citizens of the United States.
So, Lucy please 'splain to me where Ahmadinejad has any rights here in this country to say things that most rational thinking people find obnoxious .. in a US University .. on US soil? Thank you very much.
When Ahmadinejad was asked about widely documented government abuse of women and homosexuals in his country, he said, "We don't have homosexuals in Iran."
The audience laughed .. Mel Brooks would have loved it.
So .. Iran is just like the RNC. No gays there either! Not a one.
Wikipedia: "Same-sex intercourse officially carries the death penalty in several Muslim nations: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen."
(Also Texas, Alabama and Wyoming, etc.)
Anyway, I guess he thinks they killed them all.
Ahmadinejad no more represents the majority of his people than Bush does. And the younger, more moderate and more secular generation in Iran could be a great ally for the US in the future -- unless we radicalize them and turn them against us by bombing the hell out of their country.
Ahmadinejad disgusts and repels me .. but the guy could get up there before Columbia's audience and do nothing but sing show tunes and the Bushies would still consider it a call to war.
Ahmadinejad's actions are controlled by the idiot theocrats back in his country .. and he is generally disliked by his own people. But the war mongers that rule the US are desperate for the world to view him as the very latest Hitler in our midst. And for the most part, that's how we view him .. a little Hitler with elevated shoes and lousy suits.
Before he left Iran he gave a speech before a flag that said "Death To America" .. then there's all that 'holocaust is a myth' and 'Israel needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth' and supporting terrorists stuff.
How I wish we could've frog-marched him through the Holocaust Museum.
All of sudden I'm having immense empathy for the Iranians. I imagine anyone in Iran watching this guy (if they could) was embarrassed and muttering "Whattadumbass!"
.. just like we do whenever Bush opens his mouth.
