Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the US has been met with anger by many Americans-strange that the country of 'free speech' kicks up a fuss when they hear someone who doesn't speak the American way.
Ahmadinejad hasn't done himself any favours by denying the holocaust in the past, but I believe we have to look at what he has actually said during this visit:
Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons-they did not work for the Soviet Union, and they have not worked in Iraq, he sees no reason why Iran would want them. He actually said that he doesn't see why the Palestinians should be paying for an event(the Holocaust) that they had nothing to do with. He has said that Iran is a peaceful country(how many countries has Iran attacked since Independence?-none, how many has the US attacked-too many to count).He wanted to visit ground zero to pay his respects,but was turned down!
Here we have an Islamic leader, who although yes, he is a dictator(how about the rulers of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and China) is obviously willing to have a dialogue with the West.Should we be turning him away? He could help Iraq much better than we have been able to. Are we so unwilling to seek peaceful dialogue? We may just have to hope that the next American president has more courage than the coward in the White House now.
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