[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Ahmadinejad at Columbia

[Doug Henwood]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Lubna Nadvi wrote:

> Ahmedinejad asked the US government whether he could visit ground  
> zero, the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York and was turned down.  
> In an interview he said that he had wanted to pay his respects to  
> the dead. Now I have issues with some of his rhetoric...but I think  
> its diplomatically unacceptable to deny a President the chance to  
> pay his respects at the site of such a major incident.

My guess is that the Bush admin is afraid that visiting Ground Zero  
would soften Ahmadinejad's image, making it harder to portray him as  
the Great Satan.

Doug