Tuesday, September 25, 2007

In case you were interested

I watched the speech and found it interesting. There were two major reactions from the crowd to what Ahmadinejad had to say. One was when he claimed that Iran had no homosexuals to which the audience laughed at him. The other was when he was describing the plight of the Palestinians and he drew applause. Columbia has been a major focal point in the Israel/Palestinian conflict with students secretly recording lectures and such. Other than that it was what one would expect. Here was a world leader being criticized for his nuclear policy (by a nation who dropped two bombs on Japan), capital punishment (by a country that still kills people who committed crimes as a minor) and his sponsoring of terrorism (by a nation that supports terrorists in his country). So he basically called us the hypocrites that we are.

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