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Ahmadinejad: Scared of Holocaust survivors!

The dimwit’s Columbia speech is garnering all the attention — for good reason — but he sure dropped some doozies speaking to the National Press Club. Like when the moderator asked: “Would you be willing to meet with Holocaust survivors who wanted to discuss their experiences with you? And why or why not?”

AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): What do you want to happen from this?

MODERATOR: I don’t — I’m just asking the question that was handed to me.

AHMADINEJAD (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I raised two questions about the Holocaust. I said if the Holocaust happened and is a reality — when, granted that the Holocaust is a reality, then why don’t we allow more research to be done on it? Why are European researchers sent to prison when they question some nature (ph) or aspect of it? Assuming that it — the Holocaust — well, the reality of the Holocaust is here, it saddens us when any human being is killed; Jews, Christians, Muslims — no difference.

How he snapped at the moderator is like the slightly more dignified way of saying, "Ewww!!! Keep them away from me!!!!"

Complete with Freudian slips as he tries to woo America! If it… er, when it; assuming that… er, well the reality…

The world according to Mahmoud

I woke up this morning to the sounds of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yammering on the TV, giving us enough sound bites to last through the rest of what will hopefully be his short reign. I mean, where does one start? Iran is supposedly gay-free, women are treated with respect when not being clubbed by religious police for showing skin, and the Holocaust needs further skeptical research like -- and he specifically said -- any other scientific issue like physics theories or math equations (thank you, Dr. Mengele). Ahmadinejad doubted al-Qaida's involvement in 9-11, and when asked to answer if he sought the destruction of Israel -- with a simple "yes" or "no" answer -- he wouldn't respond and went off on a tangent.

It's not surprising that Ahmadinejad said any of these things. It is sad that some people in the audience applauded some of his assertions. But as my friend Gay Patriot West (gays -- purely an American phenomenon, according to Mahmoud) points out, Ahmadinejad's Bush-hatred frankly makes him attractive to many Americans who have taken the mantra "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" way too far. GPW latches onto a Daily Kos post where a writer describes her crush on Ahmadinejad, passion stoked by mutual Bush-hatred.

And, in response to my earlier thoughts, apparently Columbia would welcome Adolf Hitler to speak! A dean at the school said:

"If (Hitler) were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him."

Gee, would students then be assigned term papers to debate the merits and drawbacks of his "final solution"? If Hitler waltzed into New York to speak at a college campus, was given security by the state, was given a platform for his hate, how much culpability would the university then have when it comes to the continuance of his rule and the crimes he'd commit?

So a quick recap of Ahmadinejad's speech:

"Women are respected more than men are."

Well, Iran does extend the courtesy of shrouding women before they brutally stone them to death:

And, of course:

"Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country. We don't have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it."

That would be because they exterminate gays every chance they get:

And I just heard a lefty colleague say, "Well, I think we just didn't understand him right on the gay quote... I think he was just saying it isn't as prevalent as in the U.S." I think you're an apologist for a tyrant, so there.

The mouth and the mime

Today, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hopped on his lil' jet plane to head for U.S. turf, with an aim of telling us what's what. "Due to certain issues, the American people in the past years have been denied correct and clear information about global developments and are eager to hear different opinions," Ahmadinejad told Iran's state-run media.

Ahmadinejad's opinions that we're supposedly so eager to hear include (props to Realite EU):

"We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world.“

"The countdown for the destruction of Israel" has begun.

"Iran does not give a damn about resolutions."

"Them (the West) invented the myth of the massacre of the Jews and placed it above Allah, religions and prophets.”

Yesterday in Paris, legendary mime Marcel Marceau -- a French Jew who escaped deportation to a death camp and whose father died in Auschwitz -- died at age 84. Though he would become famous for his wordless art, as the horrors of the Holocaust unfolded young Marceau was anything but silent:

"With his brother Alain, Marceau became active in the French Resistance, altering children's identity cards by changing birth dates to trick the Nazis into thinking they were too young to be deported. Because he spoke English, he was recruited to be a liaison officer with Gen. George S. Patton's army.

His father was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

'Yes, I cried for him,' Marceau said. But he said he also thought of the others killed.

'Among those kids was maybe an Einstein, a Mozart, somebody who (would have) found a cancer drug,' he told reporters in 2000. 'That is why we have a great responsibility. Let us love one another.'"

Ahmadinejad and Marceau. The coward, and the hero. The man who would wipe out an entire Jewish nation, and the man who celebrated life and saved children from death camps. The man who denies the Holocaust, and the man who survived.

How can we properly honor the victims of the Holocaust? By listening not just to what Ahmadinejad says on American TV or to Columbia students, but to what he said before he left Iran and what he'll say when he gets back. He is about domination, destruction, and death. And if we are silent in return, we're just inviting a Holocaust sequel

Mullah Mobsters

Not long ago Iranians rose up in protest when the government started rationing gas, but it’s gotten awfully quiet lately. In case you are wondering why, it seems that the Mullah Mob bosses are cracking down and having scores of folks whacked. Over the past six weeks over 100 people have been hanged or stoned and another 150 will be executed in the next few weeks. The Mullahs are making sure that the executions are getting plenty of airtime on TV but not all executions are being advertised. In true mob form, some of the opposition to the tyranny in Iran is simply disappearing.

Just to show who is in charge the Mullahs are also jailing scores of people. Over 4,000 have been jailed for dress code violations just in Tehran and dozens for “hooliganism”. An incredible 430,000 have been arrested in just the last few months across the country for drug related charges. The Mullah Mob has arrested so many people that the jails can’t handle them so they are scrambling to covert 41 buildings to prisons with 33 other prisons in the works.

While Iranians openly vented their displeasure with the government a few months ago, now their hostility has been driven underground. The Iranian government’s use of these barbaric tactics shows their weakness and one wonders how long it will be before the Iranian population pushes back. The next time they decide to vent, it may be all over for the Mullah Mobsters. One can only hope.

Them's fightin' words!

Certain to piss off Mahmoud Ahmadinejad like nothing else, but hats off to Shimon Peres for telling it like it is:

"...Peres said Ahmadinejad was 'an unbelievable joke,' adding the Iranian president 'claims he's religious.'

'My impression is that in his eyes the nuclear bomb is higher than Allah, than the God in heaven. He's worshipping the bomb more than he's worshipping the God in heaven,' Peres said."

Ahmadinejad rebuffs Oliver Stone's offer!

Yes, after all of Oliver Stone's bread-breaking with Fidel, he's still just a "part of the Great Satan." The director approached the Nazi-ish Iranian leader about making a documentary, ostensibly about Ahmadinejad's vivid life as a civil engineer and Khomeini puppet, and was reportedly told to go pound sand:

"...Mr Ahmadinejad, who has often criticised Hollywood as a bastion of pro-Zionist interests, was unimpressed by Stone's radical credentials after viewing the films.

'While it is true that Oliver Stone is considered to be among the opposition in the US, the opposition is still part of the Great Satan,' the president's media adviser, Mahdi Kalhor, told the semi-official Fars news agency.

'We believe that the American cinema system is devoid of all culture and art and is only used as a device. In the last two years, the global arrogance [Iranian shorthand for the US and Britain] has made a lot of effort to portray their own image of Ahmadinejad, not the one which exists in reality. Hollywood and other Zionist media react to phenomena they don't like through different processes.'"

Ahmadinejad: Human shield!

Yes, the Iranian president has volunteered to serve as a human shield to keep the Natanz nuclear facilities from being attacked!

Ahmadinejad said on Esfahan TV recently:

"If it helps you calm down, ask them just when they are planning to attack, and I myself will go to the people of Natanz, and we will sit down together in the nuclear facilities, and if they want to attack, they will have to attack us first."

Um, like that would actually keep anyone from attacking. "Don't fire -- you might hit Ahmadinejad!"

Iran mad at Rushdie's knighthood

Just look at Khomeini! (Who is dead, of course, but always looked mad, so fits this story well; as well as the fact that the ayatollah issued the fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989 for "The Satanic Verses.")

The Iranian government's response to Rushdie being knighted for his contributions to literature:

"Honouring and commending an apostate and hated figure will definitely put the British officials [in a position] of confrontation with Islamic societies. This act shows that insulting Islamic sacred [values] is not accidental. It is planned, organised, guided and supported by some Western countries."

This, of course, after Iran held a bunch of British sailors hostage and paraded them on TV in cheap suits, has been arming Iraq militants, has been arming the Taliban, is working on the destruction of Israel, is fast-forward on its "peaceful" nuclear program, and is basically doing its best to screw up any part of the world it can get its hands on.

And how could they have not enjoyed Rushdie's great cameo in "Bridget Jones's Diary"?

Lieberman = ballsy!

Honest Joe lives up to his moniker, saying Sunday:

"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq. And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers.

We've said so publicly that the Iranians have a base in Iran at which they are training Iraqis who are coming in and killing Americans. By some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers. Well, we can tell them we want them to stop that. But if there's any hope of the Iranians living according to the international rule of law and stopping, for instance, their nuclear weapons development, we can't just talk to them.

If they don't play by the rules, we've got to use our force, and to me, that would include taking military action to stop them from doing what they're doing."

Can he run for president?

Gee, these should be fruitful talks with Iran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the upcoming U.S.-Iran talks about the security situation in Iraq:

"The US has called for holding talks with Iran to settle security problems in Iraq. We have announced our readiness for talks to help the Iraqi government and nation ... Iran and Iraq have very friendly ties. Those who came to the region from thousands of kilometers away cause trouble. They are used to looking for an external factor instead of accepting their mistakes whenever they fail."

Yeah, these talks are a great idea. Sit there and let Iran blame us for everything while they sneak IEDs into the country and train militants that are wreaking all the havoc. Yep, we're the ones who "cause trouble." It's all our fault.