Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN Address ...

[Lamb Boy]

Just wondering if anybody here had a chance to watch Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN address tonight, and if so what your thoughts were of his speech ...

[Sean]

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i saw it. he made some good points about the make up of the UN and the fact that countries like the US and UK are permanent members and theres no single organ in the UN to keep the bigger powers in check yet anyone can easily bring a small country into the security council and put sanctions or whatever it wasnts on them. it was alot about the structure of the UN really.

[Lamb Boy]

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I agree ... yet the media over here started to spin his speech into anything negative they could find. Speaking of finding things, except for two three minute clips on CNN and an 8min clip on YouTube, I can not find a source for the full video anywhere! It took me a reasonable amount of time just to find a transcript. This seems totally unbelievable to me ...

I thought that his discussion on the history behind the creation of Israel was awesome. It's high time someone stood up and stated that the way we forced that area to except this new country was completely unacceptable and hardly ever talked about. Most Americans probably have no idea how that whole mess began in the first place.

If we are permanent members of the UN Security Council then how do other countries ever have a chance of illustrating, and especially taking action, against world crimes we commit? The way it seems now we do not have to answer to anybody for the same crimes we tout so loudly that others are committing. It's like "Do as I say, not as I do". Regardless of his previous rants if you take his words at face value it's easy to say that this speech was a plea for change and peace.

We think we're so righteous yet which country is the only country in the world to have actually used a nuclear weapon/WMD against another country?

You can read his speech here

For the video clips you can watch the YouTube clip here and the CNN clips here

[ARK]

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I liked Ahmadinejad's comments but i liked much more Hugo Chavez's quotes. He called George Bush The Devil!(the right word) He also reminded well every body of Palestine and lebanon which were going to be forgotten.

[Lamb Boy]

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Have you seen what the Cubans have been doing in preperations for a Bush visit?

[Artsakh]

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OMG,

did anyone see the stupid expression on george w.'s face when he was laughing while standing next to koffi annan? this guy is a klutz and a huge embarrasement to the most powerful country on earth.

on the other hand, ahmadinjad kept himself very natural and kool, like a regular yerevantsi.

[karoaper]

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The point about the permanent members of security counsel having a very convenient position drom which to fry their geopolitical opponents and whitewash their and their allies' wrongdoings was a very good point. Indeed how does UN keep the most powerful nations accountable, who besides all the bs democracy talk are usually the ones who either commit the worst crimes or give their blessings for such crimes.

Sadly other than that and few other good points, the rest was pretty meaningless: all that talk about peace and justice and fairness and bla bla bla. These guys, and especially someone who has the opportunity to critisize the big shots of UN, shouldn't waste this valuable opportunity on same old rhetoric. Just say in one or two sentence that he and his country are commited to peace and leave it at that.

I actually loved Chaves's talk much more. Sulfur indeed.

[Anonymouse]

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While I despise Chavez and his Marxist antics, his criticisms of Bush and American imperialism are valid.

[Armenian]

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While I despise Chavez and his Marxist antics, his criticisms of Bush and American imperialism are valid.

Commie or no commie, I just love this guy. We need more voices like his and Ahmadinejad's throughout the world. I wish them both a long life, although the CIA might be thinking otherwise.

[Baron Dants]

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The bit about the "devil being here yesterday and it still smells like sulfur" was great.