Advice to 0bama: Send Cheney
It would be funnier if it wasn’t so damn serious.
Posted on 07/05/2009 5:01:36 AM PDT by Son House
After his reelection as Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extends an invitation to his American counterpart Barack Obama for a debate before the eyes of the world.
Addressing Iranian heads of medical universities on Saturday, President Ahmadinejad offered to debate President Obama at the United Nations headquarters in New York before the eyes of all nations of the world.
President Ahmadinejad had previously urged a debate with former US president George W. Bush.
The Iranian president wrote an 18-page letter to President Bush in 2006 that touched on religious values, history and international relations. The letter was viewed as an offer extended to the United States for dialogue.
However, the Iranian official's letter never received an answer from the former US president.
Under the former US president, Washington pursued a carrot-and-stick policy toward Tehran over its nuclear program and by setting preconditions, snubbed calls by President Ahmadinejad for talks on the long-standing dispute.
Meanwhile President Obama has adopted a new tone for engaging Tehran, drawing a sharp line between his foreign policies regarding Iran and that of his predecessor.
The call for talks come as earlier in February, Ahmadinejad expressed willingness for dialogue but stressed that negotiations should be held "in a climate of fairness with mutual respect."
Earlier in May a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz said the United States had set October as its deadline for engaging Iran in the first round of talks over the country's nuclear activities.
The report quoted the special US envoy on Iran, Dennis Ross, as saying that "unless the US sees a change in Iran's position on its nuclear program, Washington's stance toward Tehran will stiffen at that time."
The comments at the bottom are interesting...
salam
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:38:12 GMT
1.i hope mr. obama will accept it. 2. i wish mr. ahmadinejad has a little bit courage to start a debate with mr. mousavi
Amin
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:36:37 GMT
First prove you are in charge then we talk.
delta9
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:53:45 GMT
So how is any meaningful change in policy going to result from a debate? It sounds like just spectacle to me. It seems to me if they were serious about change they would meet together in private, and perhaps Obama should meet the ayatollah in private, in public there will only be grandstanding on both sides.
Abbas
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:07:39 GMT
InshaALLAH these zionist will get a big defeat from Shia Muslims and they cannot get their hands on Bag e Fidak which is purely the authority of AHLEBAIT and their bloodlines. long live Ahmadenijad and all our respectable ULEMAS.
Get Lost Get Real
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:56:49 GMT
My comment is real and I say LONG LIVE AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI AND LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION. Death to all you haters and Shia Islam will be the winner over any zionist fools. Hazrat Isa and Imam Mahdi will be coming back to punish all you idolators.
Are they going to debate who is the better dictator?
Without a teleprompter Zero won’t have a clue how to respond.
It will be a two hit knockout, I-wanna-jihad hits Zero and Zero hits the floor.
This could turn me into an Ahmadinejad supporter, really. Enemy of our enemy and all...
Advice to 0bama: Send Cheney
It would be funnier if it wasn’t so damn serious.
His he challenging our RESIDENT in Chief With or Without a TelePrompter?
Ahmadinejad Challenges Obama To Live Debate
Hmmm. Who to root for?
Both need to lose!
A debate?
About what? Who’s the better muslim?
Exactly - who do you root for? Answer: the muslim!
Oh right, which one?
Allow me to define the terms and use of my TelePrompTer, I will win all debates!
Better idea:have Odinga debate Rush,live,no teleprompter,put it on pay-per-view.who’s got the popcorn?
Without a teleprompter and some goober in the background telling this boob what to say, Obammy couldn’t debate Howdy Doodie.
The knockout will come when ZerO admits the Holocaust did not go far enough. About 3 seconds into the first round.
Yeah, the fascist muslim dictator or the Iranian guy?
Oh, this is easy. Let Biden stand in. He will keep ah madinejad off his game. That Joe is one wild and crazy guy.
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