In spite the NYPD’s rejection of his request to be escorted to Ground Zero, the Islamofascist president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not given up on the idea:
(New York - WABC, September 19, 2007) - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.
A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.
The source says regardless of the NYPD’s rejection of the request for a Ground Zero tour, Iran’s president and his entourage will be accompanied by a Secret Service protective detail, a detail provided to all heads of state when they visit the United States.
The Iranian mission to the United Nations made the initial request to the NYPD and the Secret Service, who will jointly oversee security during the president’s two-day visit.
Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive September 24 to speak to the U.N. General Assembly, as the Security Council decides whether to increase sanctions against Iran for its uranium enrichment program.
Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani have found themselves in the rare position of agreement:
Mayor Rudy Giuliani released the following statement on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
“Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden’s son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero - hallowed ground for all Americans - is outrageous.”
Senator Hillary Clinton released the following statement:
“It is unacceptable for Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who refuses to renounce and end his own country’s support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation’s history.”
Keep the pressure on the WH, and your representatives in the House and Senate, and let them know that you don’t think the Secret Service should be providing any escort whatsoever to Ahmadinejad.
In the meantime, whether or not he visits Ground Zero, he’ll still be in the US next Monday, and because of that, Michelle Malkin is organizing a “welcoming party.” Click here for details.
My friend Angevin at The Oxford Medievalist has more, and points to the typical “but Iran hasn’t done anything bad to us” BS we are seeing in the lefty blogosphere in response to the controversy, somthing that can also be seen here.
Let him see it. Let him see what his type of BS rhetoric causes in his people. If he gloats the nearest Secret Service Agent has my permission to withdraw his service weapon, and put one between dick nose’s eyes. We are a bigger and better people that he. This is the youngest civilized people group in the world, and we make one of the oldest people groups in the world, look like they never existed. 1000 years from now people will still remember the United States of America, but no one is going to remember the revolution in Iran. It will be nothing more than a passing paragraph in most history books. This man doesn’t concern me on little bit. He is a barking dog, who has been neutered. He is a nobody. Let him go, and when you goes before the U.N. and trumpets about the greatness if Islam, people will remember that he and his ilk are the cause of most of the world’s ills. - Lorica
Comment by Lorica @ 9/20/2007 - 10:18 am
I have been reading that the WH should take this as a warning from thier base…from the American People, that if they thought the backlash on Immigration was bad….wait for the outrage when they allow this idiot to go to Ground Zero.
It fills me with loathing that this is going to be allowed.
He should be restricted to the UN building.
By him visiting Ground Zero he will be making this into a publicity stunt and it will be played up for him and Iran, and make the US look even weaker.
Nothing good will come of his visit to Ground Zero.
Nothing.
Restrict him to the UN and if the UN complains tell them they can move to another country then.
Comment by sanity @ 9/20/2007 - 11:40 am
If this vile man (the head of one of the current era’s great terror sponsoring nations) is allowed a propaganda photo op at Ground Zero, it will rank as one of the most shameful episodes in our nation’s history. A pox on whatever nincompoop (or group of nincompoops) that is working to enable this.
Comment by Tango @ 9/20/2007 - 6:19 pm
Of course, on Monday I’m-a-damn-nut-job will still get to give a speech at Columbia University.
Lee Bollinger, the simpering leftist president of the university has released a statement on the talk. This is part of it:
Whoa…hold the phone there. Wasn’t it just about a year ago that a mob stormed the stage and disrupted a scheduled talk by Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen at, of all places….Columbia University? And what was Mr. Bollinger’s response then? He blamed the College Republicans for hosting the event.
Apparently there are some ideas that the ivory-tower types won’t address through the powers of dialogue and reason.
OK, then. Pop quiz!
Which of these ideas and beliefs, according to Columbia University, is so extreme that violence is an understandable response?
a. Holocaust denial
b. Publicly calling for the destruction of the state of Israel
c. Supporting international terrorism and arming terrorists
d. Reporting illegal border crossings to authorities
Clearly, liberalism is a mental disorder.
Comment by Great White Rat @ 9/20/2007 - 10:21 pm