But, this time they decided not to send Mike Wallace to shower the 9-11 Truther with praise.
CBS released this interview with Ahmadinejad:
(CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not press his plan -- just denied by New York City police for security reasons -- to visit ground zero in New York City, he tells 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley in an exclusive interview conducted Thursday in Iran.President Bush agreed with New York City officials who want to ban Ahmadinejad from Ground Zero:
The Iranian leader says he's "amazed" and skeptical that most Americans view his visit there as insulting as his intention was only to show respect. The interview will be broadcast Sunday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Asked if he intends to press his request to visit the World Trade Center site, Ahmadinejad tells Pelley, "Well, it was included in my program. If we have the time and the conditions are conducive, I will try to do that."
"But the New York Police Department and others do not appear to want you there. Do you intend to go there anyway?" Pelley asks.
"Well, over there, local officials need to make the necessary coordinations. If they can't do that, I won't insist," the president replies.
"Sir, what were you thinking? The World Trade Center site is the most sensitive place in the American heart, and you must have known that visiting there would be insulting to many, many Americans," Pelley says.
"Why should it be insulting?" Ahmadinejad asks.
"But the American people, sir, believe that your country is a terrorist nation, exporting terrorism in the world," Pelley says. "You must have known that visiting the World Trade Center site would infuriate many Americans."
"Well, I'm amazed. How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?" Ahmadinejad says. "You are representing a media and you're a reporter. The American nation is made up of 300 million people. There are different points of view over there."
Mr. Bush noted that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has spoken in the past of strikes against Israel, and said his threats should be taken seriously.Right on!
"This is a person that constantly talks about the use of force on Israel, for example, and Israel is our very staunch and firm ally," Mr. Bush said.
President Bush made clear he is in firm agreement with a decision by the New York City Police Department to deny a request by the Iranian president to place a wreath at the site of the World Trade Center in memory of the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
Shouldn't the Left be coming to Mahmoud's aid about now?
Republican Presidential candidates blasted Ahmadinejad on the news that the Iranian President wants to visit Ground Zero.
HotAir has John McCain's strong response to Mahmoud's request.
UPDATE: Woops!... I spoke too soon.
Liberal bloggers started their defense of Ahmadinejad~!
UPDATE 2: Ian Schwartz has video of patriot Joe Lieberman slamming Ahmadinejad.
UPDATE 3: Here they come... Leftists line up in support of Ahmadinejad:
Huffington Post- "So, no, I wasn't angry that Ahmandinejad wanted to visit Ground Zero. I was angry, however, at the "pack mentality" of our leading journalists."
Attywood- "The folks who take out their frustrations in the Persian Gulf out on Moveon.org have now moved on themselves, into a tizzy over the possibility that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might lay a wreath at Ground Zero when he comes to New York to address the UN."
Josh Marshall- "Alternatively I guess it's that he's a very mean guy, said bad things about Israel or questioned the Holocaust? Is this man any worse than the various Soviet dignitaries who we feted and hosted around our country? Or is it simply that we've grown increasingly infantile as a country since the end of the Cold War, more and more obsessed and histrionic about minor powers like Iran and Iraq?
That's nice!... To Josh Marshall, when Ahmadinejad continually threatens to wipe Israel off the map, it's really just a few "bad things" he's saying.
The apologists on the Left are getting to be too predictable.
UPDATE 4: Pajamas Media has a roundup of blogger reaction.
Doug Ross believes he found the Columbia University poster.
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commentary.. HT : Pajamas Media
Ahmadinejad and the Craters of World War IV
Claudia Rosett
September 19, 2007
So now it’s not enough for Iran’s Bomb-Lover-in-Chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to make his third trip in three years to New York to address the UN General Assembly — in preparation for which, his envoy has already rolled out the carpet by presenting Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with his own portrait woven into — what else —a rug (see photo, below). Now we learn that Ahmadinejad wants to go lay a wreath in the crater where the Twin Towers once stood — Ground Zero.
The New York Sun was all over this story when I dropped by their offices in lower Manhattan this afternoon, and is among those reporting that Ahmedinejad’s plan has been rebuffed. Let’s hope it stays that way. He should not be allowed into this country in the first place — if the UN wants to host him somewhere, a slagheap in his own country would be an appropriate venue for the ceremonies. Given the appalling reality that he is coming to New York — yet again — to allow him anywhere near Ground Zero would dishonor our country, and the Americans who died — some trying to save others —on the clear September day when World War IV brought hell to Manhattan.
We did not seek it, but that’s what we’re fighting — World War IV (I’ve just finished Norman Podhoretz’s fine new book of that title, see Roger Simon’s review). There are long and no doubt important debates to be had over the roles, connections and rivalries between radical Sunnis and radical Shia, between the wahhabis and Hezbollah and Hamas and Osama bin Laden and you-name-it. But in this war, our enemies have this much in common: They despise the free world, and seek to subvert, attack and destroy it.
And in that broad and ugly campaign, which began well before Sept. 11, the Iranian regime that Ahmadinejad will represent next week on the UN stage has played a major part. Iran’s rulers have been bombing, kidnapping, terrorizing and poisoning humanity for almost three decades. If Ahmadinejad wants to visit the craters he and his kind have left, in this war they have made, he could save himself the trans-Atlantic trip and start right there in his own neighborhood. There are the bomb craters of Lebanese politicians murdered when they stood up for a country free of Syrian-Iranian-backed repression and terror. There are the sites in Iraq where people now free of Saddam Hussein and aspiring to a decent life have —with Iranian backing — been blown up or gunned down. There are the places in northern Israel where Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 landed its barrage of Iranian-supplied munitions… the list is varied and very long. Actually, if Ahmadinejad wants to do some wreath-laying, he doesn’t need to leave home at all. He could start with the graves of Iranians tortured and murdered for defying his own regime.
hope i didn't break any rules
posting the entire article.. :)
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Oh please God let one of the Dems say it was wrong to deny him access to gz!
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if he goes there i'm sure he sill be attacked. i hope.
ReplyDelete"Alternatively I guess it's that he's a very mean guy, said bad things about Israel or questioned the Holocaust?"
ReplyDeleteCan there be someone stupid enough to actually write this stuff? Mean guy? He is supplying munitions that kill and maim our soldiers. QUESTIONED the holocaust?? He has openly stated that he wants to COMMIT a holocaust! Said bad things about Israel?? Try threatened to destroy it, all the while seeking the means to do so.
Sometimes, you just don't need to consider both sides of an issue. Some things really are black and white, good and evil. I think liberals in this country have lost their ability to reason.
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HT : Pajamas Media
“The Age of Psychopathy”
excerpt:
[I am full willing to believe that there are biological differences in information processing between liberals and conservatives, but I suspect that it has more to do with choosing to give precedence to emotions and wishes far more than those emotions and wishes deserve. The left, to put it bluntly, don’t merely tolerate ambiguity, they worship it — and even deliberately seek it out even in situations where it doesn’t exist! Just listen to those 9/11 Troofers who will not be dissuaded from their conspiracy theories by any rational argument. In a way, ambiguity means never having to face reality.
Narcissists, psychopaths, and paranoids are “tolerant of ambiguity” in pretty much the same way.]
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ReplyDeleteRomney said it best..
"Ahmadinejad's shockingly audacious request should be met with a vehement no. It's inconceivable that any consideration would be given to the idea of entertaining the leader of a state sponsor of terror at Ground Zero. This would deeply offend the sensibilities of Americans from all corners of our nation. Instead of entertaining Ahmadinejad, we should be indicting him."
he also responded first.. (thumbsup)
ps: i didn't know Hillary said anything until i read the C&F cartoon commentary, also didn't see Romney's nor President Bush's comments mentioned, go fig..
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iamnot, Lieberman did an outstanding job. I think that we should trade him for a Chafee and a Hagel. What the hell, let's throw in a Snow too. If we talk fast enough we could con them out of a Z. Miller. What do ya think?
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ReplyDeleteClearly the threat involves a date of significance. To who?
The significance of the 10/10/2007 date? Well...
The month of Ramadan, the month of fasting, has a special status as the month of religious spirituality and devotion. However, in Muslim tradition it is also perceived as a month of Jihad, a month in which Allah grants military victories to His believers. It was during Ramadan that Muslims triumphed in many battles throughout the history of Jihad for the sake of Allah – among them the battle of Badr in 624, the conquest of Mecca in 630 and of Andalusia in 711, the battle of Al-Zallaqa (in Andalusia) in 1086, the battle of Ein Jalut in 1260, as well as the 1973 War (called The Ramadan War)
I also keep thinking back to Beslan, 1 September 2004, the Moscow Theater hostage crisis, 23 October 2002 and Ramadan's significance as a date to commence aggression, the Month of Jihad.
Iran is a 1/2 day ahead of us... when it's 10/11 there it will still be "10-10" here.
Iran has promised a devastating “final response” to supporters of the Jewish State on October 12, the Islamic Republic’s Quds (Jerusalem) Day.
“Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Quds Day's rallies,” Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said at a weekly press conference Wednesday.
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Quds Day is held each year on the last Friday of the Islamic month of Ramadan. It was instituted in 1979, following the Islamic revolution by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
Will Iran be be celebrating a devastating “final response” on 10/12/2007 at their Quds Day rallies in Tehran?
I have to agree with the post over at Powerline
ReplyDeleteFrom Death By 1,000 Paper Cuts, on Ahmadinejad's visit to New York:
In a world of perfect karma, Ahmadinejad would be captured by American "students" and held hostage for over a year, paraded before TV cameras and threatened almost daily with death.
The "international community" would be OK with this as long as we didn't send him to Guantanamo Bay.
Via Mark Steyn on The Corner
And further if anyone gets a whiff that ImaDamnNutJob changes his mind and tries to approach the place, I hope all the buildings in the area empty out to provide a human shield to the place and he cant get withing two or three blocks of that location.
Remember How Iran Responded to the 9/11 Attacks?
ReplyDeleteWith all the ruckus over the request of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit “Ground Zero” during his visit to New York to lay a wreath [1], it is somewhat worth remembering how Iran responded to the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Knowing how short American memories are and knowing how many Americans share President Bush’s habit of conflating all U.S. opponents and enemies into some sort of utterly fictional “united front,” like the now famous “Axis of Evil” (none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with the 9/11 attacks); I began preparing in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It was fully predictable that there would be an Islamaphobic backlash in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and that people with a vested interest in promoting anti-Muslim hatred would later try to equate the entire Islamic world with the attacks in New York and Washington DC. So, beginning on September 12, 2001, I began compiling the actual responses to the attacks by all the countries of the world with a Muslim majority regardless of their political standing or relationship with the United States. Visiting and saving snippets from official government outlets for these states (embassy websites, Ministries of Foreign Affairs, &c.) as well as searching the media for relevant articles discussing the reactions of these states, I saved all this data for the fifty-two states in question and put it online in the “International Islamic Response” website. After several moves to different hosts, I kept all this data and it can now be found online at: http://iir.internetactivist.org/
So what was Iran’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks?
"On behalf of the Iranian government and the nation, I condemn the hijacking attempts and terrorist attacks on public centers in American cities which have killed a large number of innocent people," President Khatami said in reaction to the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. ... "My deep sympathy goes out to the American nation, particularly those who have suffered from the attacks and also the families of the victims," he said, noting, "terrorism is doomed and the international community should stem it and take effective measures in a bid to eradicate it." Khatami added that the Islamic Republic of Iran is treading a road to uproot terrorism and to this end, he noted, it will spare no efforts.
And related news stories included:
“Iranians Honor U.S. with Moment of Silence” (NY Post)
“Khatami Condemns ‘Terrorist’ Attacks on U.S. Targets (People’s Daily, Iran)
“US calls Iran’s response ‘positive’” (Economic Times)
“Terror attacks transform U.S. image in Iran’s media” (Gulf News)
“Powell sees hope in Iran, Syria response to attack” (Reuters)
“'Iran News’ deplores attacks on major US landmarks” (Iran News)
“Iran expresses rare sympathy for U.S. over attacks” (Reuters)
“Iran ayatollah says he is heart-broke over U.S. attack” (Gulf News)
“Iran seals Afghanistan border” (AP)
All of this was saved in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 at http://iir.internetactivist.org/020.html though of course many of the links are no longer valid, being six years old.
The point was – and remains – to show that contrary to whatever the Islamaphobic hate-mongers might say today, the vast majority of the Islamic world, even including states that the US has had difficult relations with, were sympathetic and supportive in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The whole supposition that there should be any problem with President Ahmadinejad laying a wreath at “Ground Zero” is just a statement of American ignorance, bigotry, and hated completely unjustified by anything Iran has done.
Anyway, to learn more about the response of the world’s majority Muslim countries in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, visit the International Islamic Response website at: http://iir.internetactivist.org/ Just click on any of the countries listed on the left to see how they responded. Just to save you some time, the ONLY majority Muslim states that were not sympathetic was Iraq (at the time under Saddam Hussein and suffering from US imposed sanctions that resulted in the death of over a million Iraqis [2]) and Afghanistan (then under the Taliban).
John S.
Notes:
[1] Pat Milton, "New York bans 'photo op' visit to Ground Zero by Iran's president," The Scotsman, 21 September 2007, http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1509712007
[2] Peace Action, “End Sanctions on Iraq,” Peace Action Education Fund, undated, http://www.peace-action.org/camp/justice/iraqfs.pdf