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Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to debate
Reuters (via Yahoo News) ^ | 8/29/2006 | By Parisa Hafezi

Posted on 08/29/2006 2:41:00 PM PDT by Cementjungle

TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged President Bush to a televised debate and voiced defiance as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs.

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"Peaceful nuclear energy is the right of the Iranian nation ... it wants to use it and no one can stop it," he told a news conference.

The White House said Ahmadinejad's call for a presidential debate on global concerns was a "diversion."

The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend uranium enrichment -- a process which can produce fuel for civilian reactors or explosive material for warheads -- and has threatened to consider sanctions if it does so.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; iran
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

If Democrats take the House and Senate..this is
the pattern they will pursue...and the country will really
be in a bind...Appese..appease...and bang..you are
dead...Jake


21 posted on 08/29/2006 5:18:49 PM PDT by sanjacjake
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To: Cementjungle

There is nothing to debate. I hope we talk with the military.


22 posted on 08/29/2006 5:19:48 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: SoldierDad

>>>["The debate should be go uncensored in order for the American people to be able to listen to what we say and they should not restrict the American people from hearing the truth."]

I'm assuming here the debate will be conducted in English since Bush doesn't speak Persian. I don't even know if the prime minister of Iran speaks English too. I believe he speaks other languages besides Persian, but does he speak English too?


23 posted on 08/29/2006 5:26:43 PM PDT by stultorum
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To: stultorum

Not sure. During the Wallace debate (debacle) there was an interpreter. My fear is that Am a dinner jacket doesn't really want a debate, but an opportunity to take out the President of the United States.


24 posted on 08/30/2006 8:06:34 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: BallyBill

25 posted on 08/31/2006 12:09:37 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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