Posted on 09/24/2007 12:33:08 PM PDT by Daffynition
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Columbia University President Lee Bollinger excoriated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday, going through a long list of documented actions and remarks by the firebrand Iranian leader and his government.
"Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," Bollinger said to applause from many of the 600 people in the room for a speech from the Iranian leader.
He cited the Iranian government's "brutal crackdown" on dissidents, public executions, executions of minors and other actions.
And Bollinger assailed Ahmadinejad's "denying" of the Holocaust as "ridiculous" and "dangerous propaganda." He called the Iranian leader either brazenly provocative "or astonishingly uneducated."
"The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history," he said.
He said he doubted Ahmadinejad would show the intellectual courage to answer the questions before him.
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"Germany seeks no additional territory," Hitler stated after the Munich conference with Chamberlain et al.
One more reason why Ahmadinejad has been called "Little Adolf." And he's closer to a nuclear weapons capability than Hitler was.
I kept wondering who are those people clapping?
It is an outrage these braindead students gave him such applause. He deserved nothing but jeers.
A Republican or US military commander would have gotten a far colder reception at Columbia University than this loathsome dictator.
The people of Iran will never hear the rather weak criticism from Lee Bollinger.
They will only hear the thunderous applause of the terrorist sympathizing audience.
This is just Bollinger covering his butt for a stupid decision in the first place.
I’m as conservative as they come, but I don’t understand all the fuss about allowing this nutjob to speak. By allowing his ideas to come out, don’t we form a better understanding of his madness? Isn’t the free-flow of ideas key to overcoming his lies?
The Persian leader is a homophobe and homo-denier!
Can't have that!
My hope is that the ‘petty, cruel dictator’ from Iran was significantly more surprised and in a very negative way.
“going through a long list of documented actions and remarks by the firebrand Iranian leader and his government.”
But none worthy of excluding him from the campus, like, you know...being pro-life, Christian or ROTC.
I truly don’t have a problem with controversial speakers giving speeches at American universities or other public forums. Look at the long list of speeches by Soviet and Chinese leaders that have taken place on American soil. It proves that they don’t have any rhetoric or ideas that we are afraid of.
However, I do have a serious problem with this dirtbag! Ahmadinejad has been identified as a participant in the seizure of our embassy in Tehran. This scumbag participated in an act of war against this country that was one of the worst black eyes this country has seen in the past few decades.
He should never have been allowed a visa in the first place—UN speech or not.
Exactly.
What is seen in Iran will not be what we see here.
Columbia and Bollinger will be used as propagangda.
It will look completely different in Iran.
Demonstrators hold signs outside Columbia University as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks on the university campus in New York September 24, 2007. Ahmadinejad accused Israel of occupation and racism on Monday at the start of a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly meeting that has sparked protests and anger. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES)
I agree.
It will be spun back in Persia as a type of victory over the infidels.
He mostly filibustered and championed the Palestine cause.
He is both a Holocaust and Homo Denier!
..and a whiner.
Calling him “petty” and “cruel” is excoriation??
Only at CNN....
I posted this on a previous thread, but what the heck. :)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_re_us/iran_us
“You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated,” Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the leader’s Holocaust denial. “Will you cease this outrage?”
He told me also that women in Iran are free, free-er than any women on the planet.
Does anyone find it strange that Iran released a Columbia College Graduate they were holding recently? Wonder if some kind of deal was struck for the dictators appearance.
Did not know about that? Any links?
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