Posted on 09/22/2007 12:43:33 PM PDT by yorkie
NEW YORK (AP) - Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk, Fidel Castro delivered torturously long rants, Yasser Arafat showed up wearing a holster and Hugo Chavez called President Bush the "devil." Now, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is securing his place in this rogues' gallery of world leaders who have visited New York for the U.N. General Assembly, the annual gathering where petty despots and powerful heads of state alike get their say.
Ahmadinejad will be making his third appearance in the past three years. Tensions with Iran are escalating as the United States accuses the country of trying to develop nuclear weapons and arming insurgents in Iraq with powerful roadside bombs that kill U.S. troops.
A defiant and unpredictable Ahmadinejad is not expected to defuse the situation when he appears at a forum at Columbia University on Monday and addresses the General Assembly on Tuesday.
"You should treat this as an off-Broadway production," former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said, describing the United Nations as a "Twilight Zone" that gives a platform to "tinhorn dictators." "The General Assembly is the theater in which Ahmadinejad and others perform."
The show has been going on practically since the United Nations was founded in 1945 after World War II.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk after a diplomat criticized the U.S.S.R. in 1960. On his first visit to the U.N., in Castro warned the world about American "aggression" in a speech that lasted more than four hours.
Arafat came to the General Assembly in 1974 and delivered a fiery oration while wearing an empty holster, trying to legitimize the Palestinian struggle.
"I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun," Arafat said. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hands."
A year later, the murderous Ugandan dictator Idi Iman exhorted the United States "to rid their society of the Zionists" and called for the "extinction of Israel as a state."
Last year, Venezuelan President Chavez called Bush "the devil," "an alcoholic" and "a sick man."
For his part, Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a "myth" and has said Israel should be "wiped off the map."
Bolton nails it, as usual.
Withdraw from the UN. Let the UN crumble into oblivion.
It’s not only worthless, it’s threatening.
Not bad for the AP...at least they’re listing Ahmandinejab in the right company, i.e. Castro, Chavez, Khrushchev, Idi Amin and the like.
Bolton
BUMP
Bolton for next Secretary of State
I hope we start bombing Iran while this turd addresses the academic cowards....
Get the U.N. out of the U.S. and the U.S. out of the U.N.
cant we at least put an RFID chip in him while he’s here?(without him knowing of course, Jack Bauer with his trusty jack-sack could pull it off)
Another snooker job on American liberals is about to begin.
After he arrives:
“He only wants peace”!
“We must try to understand him”.
“He really doesn’t mean all those threatening things he says”.
“Why doesn’t President Bush just talk to him”?
Fox toying with the chickens before the meal.
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