Iranians decry harsh words for president Ahmadinejad

yahoo ^ | 9 25 007 | NASSER KARIMI,

[BunnySlippers]

saying his host was rude and only fueled the image of the United States as a bully.

GOOD!

[BunnySlippers]

"You can be assured that Iranians are very polite and hospitable toward their guests."<>P> Like the American hostages?

[BunnySlippers]

OOps!

"You can be assured that Iranians are very polite and hospitable toward their guests."

Like the american hostages?

[Psycho_Bunny]

offended Iranians on many levels, not least that of simple hospitality

So, to "Iranians" being hospitable of evil is more important than calling evil out?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

In traditions of the region, a host should be polite to a guest, no matter what he thinks of him.

To paraphrase someone else, explain the 1979 hostage crisis then.

[Brilliant]

Looks like the liberals have angered the Iranians. Not very diplomatic of them.

Heh, heh.

[Biggirl]

Well this was going to be expected in America. We Americans play hardball with tyrants like him.

[Biggirl]

Well remembering 1979, it is PAYBACK time.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I love how we’re supposed to be hospitable. Well, I hope they’ll forgive us since we’ve lost who knows how many lives due to his ideology.

[Grizzled Bear]

Any country that stone people behead people and consider a women worth 50% of a man should be wiped off the face of the earth.

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You forgot to add that they hang 16 year old girls for the crime of getting raped.

[Nachoman]

Please, someone post the “give a damn” progress meter.

[humint]

Iranians expressed dismay Tuesday at the tough reception given to their president in New York, saying his host was rude and only fueled the image of the United States as a bully.

Not all Iranians expressed dismay. There were many who were glad to see someone/anyone challenge the Iranian President. Some were insulted that the U.S. would host a fanatical murderer. Ahmadinejad is an avowed sponsor of terrorism and the U.S. hosts him as if he were a legitimate head of state. Either way, Columbia President Lee Bollinger's inquisitive commentary will echo in the rational minds of Middle Easterners for years to come. I believe it will reverberate as Ronald Reagan was heard by Natan Sharansky. This event was unprecedented. Of course, people of all stripes are rejecting it. It's unfamiliar territory. It never should have happened, but if you think about it, it was bound to happen eventually. Someone (important) in the United States was going to realize sooner or later how easy it is in the information age to verbally challenge the cognitive dissonance of a sociopath like Mahmood Ahmadinejad. We know, and Ahmadinejad knows The U.S. is sufficiently strong to allow a lowly professor the security he needs to do what no Iranian could do for themselves without fear. This is a fact about Iranian's freedoms whether they want to admit it to themselves or not. These (so called) startled Iranians wouldn't consider emulating Lee Bollinger's behavior without also considering the likelihood of their own imprisonment, torture and or execution.

What was truly beautiful about Lee Bollinger's commentary was watching the pain roll across Ahmadinejad's face as the petty dictator listened to it. It's obvious Ahmadinejad believes the lives of American soldiers, Israelis and Iranian dissidents are far cheaper than his own humiliation. It's as if he'd rather be martyred than having to endure another roasting from a man he cannot retaliate against. Ahmadinejad's perceptions aside, what Lee Bollinger said was not insulting to Ahmadinejad. Bollinger stuck to reasonable assertions based on evidence and asked targeted questions. I think Bollinger showed that he had studied Ahmadinejad's previous interviews. I also think Bollinger asked the same kinds of questions anyone would have asked, had they studied his previous interviews.

[AwesomePossum]

a recorded history of 7,000 years of civilization and culture

So refined, that they force young boys to march in groups, locked arm in arm, to clear minefields...........if they break formation and run away, they are killed......

So refined, that armed, state sponsored religious radicals enter college dorms, lock the doors, then go room to room, randomly killing and maiming those who would dare protest the Iranian religious dictatorship..........

So refined, that they show little to no respect for diplomats and embassy grounds and personnel........

So refined, that they threaten their neighbors with annihilation, simply for trying to stay alive..........

So refined, they seek to destabilize an entire region, and even the whole earth...........

7,000 years of nobility and harmony, and we American ingrates are blind to it.............how shameful of us...........aw, bite me.......