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2007-09-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian leader 'petty, cruel dictator,' school president says

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 In my experience university prezes are "petty, cruel dictators", Ahmi is something else.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-25 01:16|| 2007-09-25 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 FARK.com > EXAMINER article on Dubya advising Hillary > DUBYA/Bush IS A CLOSET DEMOCRAT. And Bill Clinton was the best dadburned, you betcha boy, Republican POTUS the USA ever had.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-25 05:08|| 2007-09-25 05:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Some have said that this forum is the same as inviting Hitler to speak in America in 1939. Isn't this more akin to allowing Hitler to speak in 1942?

Posted by Super Hose 2007-09-25 07:32|| 2007-09-25 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 I may have misjudged Bollinger. He sounds like a real prick, and I can appreciate that.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-09-25 07:34|| 2007-09-25 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 notice the podium and background, normally covered floor to ceiling in Columbia's name and logo, were shrouded in black. I expect that was a weak attempt to disassociate Columbia in future published vid/photos. They woke up and found what a PR disaster their little dip into dictator-succor was

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-25 07:39|| 2007-09-25 07:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Joe, Bush's advice to the Clintons is aimed at keeping her from boxing herself into promises that would be disastrous, like premature withdrawl in Iraq, if she were elected.

It's a responsible thing to do and shows Bush is acting like a statesman, not a short-sighted partisan IMO.

Posted by lotp 2007-09-25 08:48|| 2007-09-25 08:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The president of Columbia University did invite Hitler's ambassador to Washington to speak at the school in 1933. The student body erupted in vehement protest at allowing such an evil regime to be presented as if its ideas were as worthy of discussion as any other, that the invitation was rescinded, and never renewed.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-25 08:59|| 2007-09-25 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Also, President Bollinger commented that he would equally invite Hitler to speak at the university, for the same reason that he invited the honourable president of Iran. A news bulletin of his statement was released to the university community and the public on Yom Kippur.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-25 09:02|| 2007-09-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm sorry, I had the wrong man.

"If Hitler were in the United States and wanted a platform from which to speak, he would have plenty of platforms to speak in the United States. If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him."--Dean John Coatsworth, Fox News Channel, Sept. 23, 2007 link

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-25 11:14|| 2007-09-25 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Inviting Dinner Plate to speak to a bunch of" I cant help being liberal " students takes the wool off of their dainty little eyeballs and exposes them to "real" evil, something you just cant do that easily with the "normal" round of guest speakers presented to University students.

Posted by Vespasian Greans8866 2007-09-25 11:20|| 2007-09-25 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparently all the tailors in Iran have also been executed.

Posted by Angeregum Sproing1890 2007-09-25 11:20|| 2007-09-25 11:20|| Front Page Top

#12 He might be right about no gays in Iran, though. Like somebody said on the radio yesterday, "Have you seen the way the guy dresses? Jeeeeesuz!"

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-25 11:25|| 2007-09-25 11:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Interesting information came in to a national talk show yesterday. An Iranian who is now in the US was a political prisoner in Iran 20 years ago in a Tehran prison. Said he went through some of the most brutal torture a human being can experience. And he said that one of the executioners in that prison 20 years ago was Ahmadinejab.

Posted by Angeregum Sproing1890 2007-09-25 11:38|| 2007-09-25 11:38|| Front Page Top

#14 But he wasn't involved in the hostage taking, tho, right? Just some guy who looks like him, but it was really .. um, somebody else, who we can't find right now.

Posted by Bobby 2007-09-25 13:26|| 2007-09-25 13:26|| Front Page Top

#15 re 13 & 14, this was a priceless opportunity to bring as many of the Teheran hostages on to that stage, give them a microphone and ask them "Have you seen this man before?"
But Bollinger is an intellectual, that would be an action, and he only deals in words.

Posted by Grunter 2007-09-25 13:41|| 2007-09-25 13:41|| Front Page Top

#16 It's obvious I don'tdeal in words- " as many of the hostages as they could find on to that stage..."

Posted by Grunter 2007-09-25 13:43|| 2007-09-25 13:43|| Front Page Top

#17 Gunter, dinner jacket should have been arrested as soon as he showed up. Then put in a line up.

Posted by Angeregum Sproing1890 2007-09-25 14:25|| 2007-09-25 14:25|| Front Page Top

#18 "dinner jacket should have been ~~arrested~~ shot as soon as he showed up."

There - fixed that for ya', #17 AS.

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