Comments on: Apologize? Like Hell.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:45:32 +0000

You may well be right, T-Steel.

I think in six months, the image of Mad Mahmoud standing unfazed at Columbia University will be a far more enduring image than anything Lee Bollinger has ever said.

We'll see.

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:16:13 +0000

Ahmadinejad "breezily" brush off everything because he is a stone ugly fool. Substitute "breezily" for "stupidly". Look Jimmie, Ahmadinejad can get a stage anywhere. He's a walking stage. That can't be helped. BUT he wasn't allowed to just spit his venom without being checked. And the "check" is important in today's always plugged in world. More and more will come to loathe him because he can't defend himself. And who did it to him? Some American university guy and some students.

And as far as those in Iran that are "bleeding and dying for their freedom" unless they stand up to him or we attempt another Iraq style liberation, him and the Grand Ayatollah will continue to persecute them.

Jimmie, I absolutely respect your passion on this issue and others. But there are despots visiting the U.S. regularly (like some of those African leaders supervising holocausts in their countries). Ahmadinejad is just another one of those despots who's own words de-legitimizes him.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:42:27 +0000

So what that they hit him hard with questions, though? What good did the questions do? How did they overcome the huge boost of legitimacy that the invitation gave him?

Did you see how breezily Ahmadinejad brushed off everything Bollinger said? Now how do you think that's going to be reported around the world? How do you think that will be read by the people bleeding and dying for their freedom in Iran? How do you think that's going to play in Iraq where Mahmoud's power base is killing our soldiers and Iraqis every day?

That's where today mattered and Bollinger played right into the little fascist's hands.

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:38:37 +0000

By the way, I'm not a member of the left or right (I have issues with both). Been a moderate independent my entire adult life.

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:26:04 +0000

Thanks Jimmie for reading my post.

I don't feel shamed simply because I know President Ahmadinejad is a slimy, nasty, and lying little man. I didn't like Columbia inviting him at first but withheld judgement seeing if they were actually going to hit him hard with questions. It happened and I was please. Lee Bollinger was accused BEFORE this event of sympathizing with Ahmadinejad and being a fringe leftist nut. He was nothing of the sort.

Now I do understand the intensely strong feelings you and others have. If he was allowed to visit Ground Zero, I would have teleported myself to his face and applied some of my Tang Soo Doo training liberally to his body. But I respect Lee Bollinger for doing exactly what he said he would do. And Ahmadinejad looked stupid no matter how his speech is spun.

The real issue/problem in Iran is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. That guy IS the heart and soul of Iran. And he pulls all of Ahmadinejad strings along with controlling his human bombs.