Iran’s President Treated Rudely; Lieberman Wants War
by James Buchanan
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University, but you’d never know he was a guest based on the way he was treated. Ahmadinejad was badgered and insulted with a long list of neocon lies. The Jewish media has been shamelessly smearing Iran, claiming that the Iranians were supplying the Iraqi rebels with weapons. The truth is that the Iraqis looted arms depots that went unguarded because Bush, Perle and Wolfowitz went into Iraq with too few troops. The Iraqi rebels have been using these weapons to attack our troops ever since.
The neocon accusations include a claim that Iran is making copper hemi-spheres for use in road-side bombs. Considering that there are millions of Iraqis sitting around doing nothing because we ruined their economy, perhaps some Iraqis surfed around the Internet and figured out that copper hemi-spheres might enhance their roadside bombs. Previously, the neocons accused the Iranians of supplying mortar shells to the Iraqis, but the shells they showed the public had Western markings instead of Farsi. The neocon claims always seem to fall apart if they are required to show the public their so-called evidence.
Ahmadinejad patiently responded to the rude treatment and numerous slanders. He pointed out that Iran wanted to pursue peaceful nuclear energy production. (Iran has rich uranium deposits and the US had no objections to Iran building nuclear reactors in the ’70s when the Shah was in power.)
Ahmadinejad responded to questions about the Holocaust by noting: “There are researchers who want to approach the topic from a different perspective. Why are they put into prison? Right now, there are a number of European academics who have been sent to prison because they attempted to write about the Holocaust or research it from a different perspective, questioning certain aspects of it. My question is: Why isn’t it open to all forms of research?” (more…)