Report: Iran's Ahmadinejad to meet 9/11 survivors
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Sep 22, 2007, 6:56 GMT
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Why dont they also invite Osama, Same thing aint it ?
What do we expect to gain from the reported and still unconfirmed report that the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now planning to meet the families of the 9/11 victims, meet with US war critics and give a speech at the University of Columbia,NY.
At first report he wanted to visit the 9/11 site, until the NYPD said 'NO' So why can't we just say 'No' to these subsequent requests. The answer is that in America the intellect generally rules over brute force. We would hope that there is a way of coming to an understanding between two diametrically opposed societies before we just kick his ass out of the country after his speech at the UN. But that's not going to happen. The American people will have to endure the insult of having this tyrant use the Liberties of Democracy to further his masquaraid of being misunderstood on the world stage. Yet with all that has been said and done by him, including the wantent destruction of Israel and his defiant attitude toward the UN for his action on Nuclear Energy, Columbia University,a place of higher learning will let him continue to lie and give that lie the blessings of an establish institution. For him he speaks the truth,and there lies the reason for the University of Columbia in letting him speak in the first place. Where does the Truth Lie?
It's not the lie that makes it a lie, but the number of people who believe it to be the truth.
Then we have the matter of wanting to meet with the families of the 9/11 victims. All I have to say about that is if they do meet the compassion the American people have for these families will be lost.
As far as the US war critics there isn't much one could say except that if they were to be in Iran they would probably be shot or just disappear,for ever!
When will the world be at Peace with itself, GOD only knows, but WHO's?
Last time I checked, the Ayahtolla pulls the real strings. We're simply providing a stage for his puppet.
Why is everyone so upset he wants to meet with 9/11 victims? After all, the terrorists were predominently SAUDI. Lord knows we need their oil a bit too much to expect any kind of apology from our 'friends' who somehow managed to let these extremists ferment in the seedy bossom of their monarchist state.
- boo to Iran, and boo on us.
let him visit usa and columbia u. just before he boards his plane back home,arrest the bastard and his plane. hold all his entourage hostages. blindfold them and march them at times square.hold them exactly the length of time that iran held american hostages.then release them with a severe kick in the butts.. ohh, screw thier allahs.
Why is it that no one sees the Iran President's visit as a golden
opportunity to turn things in a new direction? Should America throw
stones at this man while he is here? Or, would a visit to the 9/11
site with victim's families be a possible turning point in relations?
Contempt breeds contempt. Dialogue is dialogue. It is not out of
the realm of possibility that some average American could have the
key to helping to bridge the gap between our nations.
There will never be a bridging between our countries until our cultures are similar enough to allow it. Iran is an Islamic state, a fundamentalist one at that. They can never accept our culture because it is contrary to their religious beliefs, and to make matters worse, it has become normal to teach religious intolerance, which to them justifies eradicating all infidels and even other muslims that are not Shia. It is the same backwards thinking Christians did long ago with the Inquisition, but on a much larger scale.
Ahmadinejad is scheduled to address the United Nation. So whats the big deal about speaking at a Columbia? If we are to get so angry over him speaking at columbia;shouldn't we be as angry with him speaking at the United Nations? I always thought debate was a more reasonable approach than war. Will we lose anything if he speaks? I would thing we may gain something(doubtful) but maybe. I think we as people need to fix our government before our governmnet can fix the world. Don't get me wrong it is fixable but no one is ever held accountable, thats the problem.
In this period of hostility between to warring states, one must cease any opportunity to put some water on the fire, which we all know that will spread so quickly with disasterous outcome. What do we gain if Ahmadinejad is barred from speech in the University of Columbia? What if he has some conciliatory words? Is the largest democracy in the world going to buffer him based merely on his stupid remarks? Even an enemy has a chance to present its case before the war begins. I see less arrogance in Ahmadinejad, who tries to reach Americans, than those who try to bycott him.
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