Posted on 09/19/2006 5:24:15 PM PDT by libs_kma
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler and made fun of his name on Tuesday during a congressional hearing on the U.S. strategy to end Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.
"Ahmadinejad -- I call him Ahmad-in-a-head -- I think he's a Hitler type of person," Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
"He has made it clear that he wants to destroy Israel. He has made it clear he doesn't believe in the Holocaust. He's a, he's a -- we all know what he is," the senator added.
Ahmadinejad, who took office in August 2005, has issued threats to Israel, compared its offensive in Lebanon this summer to the behavior of Nazi Germany and called the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died, a myth.
The United States accuses Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons, of supporting terrorism and of aiding the insurgency in Iraq. Iran says its nuclear program is to generate nuclear power.
"I don't believe that as long as he's there that we're ever going to solve Iraq," Voinovich said. "There seems to be a very deliberate, premeditated effort on their part to expand their influence in that area and this nuclear issue is just part of it."
Voinovich made his remarks shortly before President George W. Bush delivered a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in which he said the Iranian government was using the country's resources to fund terrorism and pursue nuclear weapons.
Ahmadinejad was to address the U.N. gathering later on Tuesday.
The 70-year-old senator has challenged Bush on a number of issues. His opposition to Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador last year forced the president to sidestep the congressional approval process and appoint Bolton directly.
Voinovich, who has been a U.S. senator since 1999 and was governor of Ohio from 1990 to 1998, changed his position in July and now supports Bolton's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Does anyone actually pay attention to Voinovich and his voting record or just his speech last year on Bolton? You all consider yourselves political minded, but you obviously don't know Voinovich: rabidly pro-life, led the effort to defeat embryonic stem cell research, co-sponsored the flag burning amendment, and on and on and on. So he had it wrong the first time on Bolton, oh well. It takes a real man to see the error of his ways, admit it, and change his mind. And he's not even up for reelection! Get off the Bolton thing and actually pay attention to what a man does EVERY day, not just one day.
OK, I'll buy that.
Ahmadinejad = AMadNutJob
OMG! Don't insult Hitler!
Also, put the Embassy Marines on full combat alert, ROE, shoot to kill anyone trying to approach the embassy in a threatening manor, like climbing the fence, throwing rocks, or Molotov cocktails, that sort of thing.
Hey "press", is that you BILL?
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