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To: Flavius

......... maybe they will ad this to their apology

Columbia professors plan to visit Iran to apologize to Ahmadinejad

NEW YORK (MNA) – An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.

Since the incident, the deans and professors from the faculties of history, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, and Islamic studies have criticized Bollinger’s behavior toward Ahmadinejad.

A member of the delegation, who requested anonymity, said the main goal of the visit is to meet the Iranian president and officially apologize to him.

“The delegation has also prepared its itinerary,” he noted.

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http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=618008


6 posted on 01/10/2008 3:08:04 AM PST by sure_fine (• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
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To: sure_fine
"“The delegation has also prepared its itinerary,” he noted."

Does it include transferring their tenure to the University of Tehran?

7 posted on 01/10/2008 3:15:44 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: sure_fine

These treasonists should be locked up, instead they are teaching someone’s children, not mine, y’understand...


9 posted on 01/10/2008 3:29:17 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: sure_fine

“An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.”

Apologize on whose behalf? These clowns need to make the trip...and we need to revoke their citizenship while they are out of the country, then deny them re-entry to the US.

Maybe they can find teaching positions in Tehran... OOPS, they’ll have to convert first. And, their lesson plans will have to be approved for content. But, that will certainly be better for them than living in a country that allows them the freedom to be morally ignorant dumba$$es.


58 posted on 01/10/2008 6:05:20 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion...)
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To: sure_fine

The LOGAN ACT....
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).

It sure would be nice to see someone in this government get a pair and file on this statute.....


59 posted on 01/10/2008 6:09:16 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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