JUST SHOVE YOUR WREATH
CITY TO IRAN PREZ: STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM GROUND ZERO
By MURRAY WEISS and DAVID SEIFMAN in New York and GEOFF EARLE in Washington
NO DOGS ALLOWED: New York politicians said just the thought of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad setting foot on…
“do us all a favor and go live in Iran where you won’t find one for miles you scum bags” Rick - if you bothered to check some facts before making sweeping statements you would find Iran has over 25,000 Jews (I believe the most in the Middle East…
posted by Mark
September 20, 2007 — That was the response when the Iranian Mission to the United Nations asked city, state and federal officials if Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could lay a wreath at Ground Zero during his visit next week.
At a Sept. 6 meeting with the NYPD, Secret Service and Port Authority — five days before this year’s emotional 9/11 ceremony - the Iranian Mission was told no one is allowed in the pit because it’s a live construction site and dangerous.
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As for Ahmadinejad, who is arriving Sunday to address the U.N. General Assembly, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, says his country is giving “lethal” support to Iraqi militias.
Speaking yesterday in London, Petraeus said evidence shows the Axis of Evil member, which sponsors Hezbollah, listed by the State Department as a terrorist group, is training militias and giving them weapons - including rockets and especially deadly improvised explosive devices that have killed many American troops.
According to recent reports, EFPs - explosively formed penetrators - accounted for 18 percent of U.S. and allied troops’ combat deaths in Iraq in the last quarter of 2006. And intelligence reports point to Iran’s role in providing them.
But for a few hours yesterday, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly had City Hall and civic and religious leaders reeling with his remarks that talks were under way on a possible Ahmadinejad visit.
“They have expressed an interest in having the president do that [visit Ground Zero],” Kelly said at a news conference. “We are engaging in conversation with them right now as to that possibility. . . It is something we are prepared to handle if, in fact, it does happen.”
In a terse clarification hours later, Kelly spokesman Paul Browne set the record straight.
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So Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he wants to go visit Ground Zero, lay a wreath down there. And this idiot mayor, Bloomberg: “Oh, yeah, I’ll be glad to escort you down there. NYPD will be glad to take you,” in a giant appeasement move, and a firestorm erupted.
They said, “No way, he is not going down there escorted by NYPD, Secret Service, or anybody else. He’s not going down there.” Then Columbia University got in on the act! “Well, we can’t have a great leader like this disrespected, so we want him to come speak to our students at Columbia University.” He’s going to do that.
Then Ahmadinejad says, “Screw it. I’m going to Ground Zero anyway, whether you take me or not.” Why don’t they just have Ahmadinejad do a joint address at Congress? If he’s going to go to Columbia University… I mean, he’s an enemy of Bush and he’s a friend of the Democrats, right? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Right?
Just check’n. Still waiting for something formal from Nancy P. and Harry R.
Nothing yet.
The whole Ahmadinejad thing is always taken out of context by the common media. And what they leave out is that he said that thing about Israel in the context of what Iran would do if attacked by Israel. The press and many repubs make it sound like he said it as a stand-alone statement. Not that he’s a nice guy or anything, but they need to give it a rest.
Just wanted to comment on your statement:
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel, state-media reported.
In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders in Malaysia, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
“Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented,” Ahmadinejad said, according to state-run television in a report posted on its Web site Thursday.
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TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran’s new president has repeated a remark from a former ayatollah that Israel should be “wiped out from the map,” insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state, and lashing out at Muslim countries and leaders that acknowledge Israel.
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Ahmadinejad Says Eliminating Israel Will Solve Crisis
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Aug 3, 2006 by Alex Morales
The elimination of Israel will solve the crisis in the Middle East, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
Israel is embroiled in conflicts with Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon to the north, and Palestinian groups in Gaza and the West Bank. Israeli forces began bombarding Hezbollah targets in Lebanon following the group’s July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, less than three weeks after Palestinians seized another Israeli soldier.
The definitive solution to the conflict is “the elimination of the Zionist regime,” Ahmadinejad said, according to Iran’s state- run news organization, IRNA. He was referring to Israel. “The existing discord in the Islamic world stems from plots masterminded by the Zionist regime.”
… I believe the words spoken by this terrorist leader. “elimination” of an important ally of the US in the region. The Ahmadinejad is also supplying weapons to insurgents, that are KILLING and INJURING our solders in Iraq and Afghanistan. I find it repugnant that he is invited to speak at a prestigious College, and believe it will only be used by Ahmadinejad as propaganda against the West.
Would Columbia University invite Osama Ben Laden for a nice chat with students? UNBELIEVABLE, AND UNACCEPTABLE.