- - - -BR- - - -Raised in New York City- - - -Sep 24th, 2008 - 13:58:51

Ahmadinejad is wrong on at least two statements made at the U.N. yesterday. One, The United States of America is and has been the most successful republic in modern History. As a republic, it has no equal in longevity. Arguably, there have been more enduring nations but these have not been in as single and uninterrupted FORM for 221 consecutive years and counting. Secondly, the United States are not nor have ever been an empire. Ahmadinejad has been to (a) college and should be ashamed of his lack of intellect in not knowing (and stating) the difference between a republic and an empire.
In addition, the United States is just beginning to become its greatest in prominence and has proven so in its ability to both come to the aid of hundreds of nations who have suffered natural disasters and political ones and asked for help from the U.S. and GOT it at critical moments in World history. The Iranian leaders country is in far more trouble than he admits and he flirts with near annihilation with his inflammatory rhetoric. He is running a 'Theocracy' and not a true sovereign nation where its leaders are held responsible for their words and deeds. Of course, Ahmadinejad IS running for reelection right now and his cheap grandstanding is transparent. The U.N., by the way, is no longer
a really relevent world class entity as can be attested to by the weak leadership it has endured in the past twenty five years.

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DaveSep 24th, 2008 - 14:16:41

The terrorists should talk. It was his country Iran that was the great Meado-Persian Empire. They conquered and took nations at their will. They were so feared because many who taken prisoner were skinned alive. These people come from a line of blood-thirsty cut throats and they ahve never changed.

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margeSep 24th, 2008 - 22:35:16

President Ahmadinejad spoke the truth about Israel and the US. Israel is a racist, terrorist, state that has brought nothing but conflict, death, and destruction to the Middle East. Israel has had over 70+ UN Resolutions passed against it for atrocities and war crimes committed against the Palestinians and arab people. Israel has been condemned by the UN numerous times for murdering innocent palestinian women and children, and stealing palestinian land. It is only because of the veto power of the US in the UN that Israel has not been punished for its atrocities and war crimes, and allowed to continue. The US uses its clout and money to entice arab countries, as Egypt and Jordan, to hold peace agreements with Israel and keep Israel in the Middle East.

President Ahmadinejad is right to expose Israel for the brutal, oppressive, racist, apartheid, state it is, and remind the world that Israel is using the Palestinians to build its own holocaust. President Ahmadinejad is also right that Israel's will follow the same path as South Africa, the Soviet Union, and other countries that have been brought down by outside force or internal force. No injustice or lie can live forever!!1

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