Iranian president to speak at Columbia University in New York?

i only watch the womens races. during the mens races i surf on my iPhone.

I'm gonna have to go with Columbia though it would be close. They are returning 3 out their 4 guys from Penn Relays last year.

Mitsubishi is the worst of the Zaibatsu. Mitsubishi controls the prices of seafood products in Southeast Asia, and keeps prices at a rock bottom, driving out of business, traditional fisherman who have fished the waters for generations.

He saw how successful Lydiard last tour was..maybe he'll have some insight into why and how to run!

defense wrote:

Israel today is not a democracy and never has been. Israel is Simon Herzl's Jewish superiority cult, an apartheid state, criminal, murderous, countless war crimes. Simon copied Hitler in the 1900's. Simon is a Hungarian Jew, founder of National Zionism.

Theodore Herzl is the name you're looking for, as Simon was his grandfather who while a believer in the idea of Zionism, but is not the founder of Zionism. Theodore Herzl was dead in 1904, so I am not sure how he could copy "Hitler in the 1900's". Israel has democratic elections where every one is allowed to run for office and the results of the elections are respected. Sounds like a democracy to me.

As for my opinion on the Iranian President speaking, I do agree with the other that he is a blowhard, and the real power lies with the Ayatollah. Let's face it, the Ayatollah can block people from running for election that he thinks are too liberal, and can block legislation at will. The Iranian president is a product of these prevailing conditions, and it benefits him to take a contrarian, hard-line approach to everything to make him seem more dangerous and unreasonable to the Western World. That way he can garner better concessions and be appeased.

The President of Columbia Lee Bollinger (a competitive masters sprinter btw), isn't a fan of Ahmadinajad. He's not going to debate him. He's going to give him a piece of his mind and tell him why we all think he's misguided. It wont change his mind but Bollinger's aim is to try to educate some Americans who may not realize what a nut-job the Iranian President really is.

defense wrote:

Jewish superiority cult, an apartheid state, criminal, murderous, countless war crimes.

Care to back any of that up with actual cited references/evidence?

Yet Columbia does not allow ROTC on campus. It invites this clown to give free speech a boost yet denies its students the chance to partake in ROTC.

What a joke of a university.

defense wrote:

Stalin's #1 henchman was a Jew.

Your point? There are lots of bad people who are/were Jews. There are lots of bad people from all cultures/religions/races.

defense wrote:

Iran, the entire Arab world, plus 2/3rd of the rest of the world wants National Zionism to be destroyed.

Your point?

I'm guessing you have none, and you are simply a ranting antisemetic lunatic.

The reason for the alliance is that Israel is a democracy located in a strategic part of the world that is otherwise occupied by theocracies. The same reason why there has always been an America-Israel alliance. I'm not sure what "money" you are referring to other than the foreign aid Israel recieves from the US. Many countries in the middle east, and around the world, recieve foreign aid from the US, including the Palestinian territories.

anyone see his interview on 60 Minutes? what a piece of work this guy is!

I think the reply to my post by the poster known as Defense pretty much gives credibility to everything I said.

These wack jobs are anti American and anti semetic. Yet many people think the same way as Defense. Many of them are wealthy,privaledged young white elitests who get brainwashed by the hate America crowd that teach at schools like Columbia.

Not everyone is brain washed, sometimes situations can shape racism. When a particular race wrongs you 3 times i think its grounds for racism.

You've got to go back to school man, read some history books before you're this boolshit.

you have no idea what ur talking about.

oldfart wrote:

there is zero credible evidence that any iranian is involved with killing american soldiers or in supplying base materials

there is a huge amount of evidence that saudi arabia is supplying the sunni\'s with explosive devices plus funding and W meets with the saudi govt on a regular basis

iran was the first middle east country (before israel) to publicly offer condolences on 9/11

who is being hypocritical?

as has been pointed out, being president of iran is not the same power position as other countries. he is not the commander in chief. his calls for regime change in israel and the US sound identical to what the US president has called for in other countries.

Globalism wrote:

The freedom fighters are from all of these countries.

Freedom fighters?

The culture of the burkha? The culture that stones homosexuals to death? The culture that kills women who are raped.. because they were not faithful to their husband?

Freedom fighters?

Are you joking or f***ing retarded?

luv2run wrote:

Yet Columbia does not allow ROTC on campus. It invites this clown to give free speech a boost yet denies its students the chance to partake in ROTC.

So?

Apples and oranges. The banning of ROTC at Columbia is in protest to the military's ridiculous "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy on gays. That is called exercising free speech.

If somebody wants to be ROTC, then they should take the train to somewhere that offers it instead of whining about how the big bad university is being unfair. Wah!

[quote]luv2run wrote:

So?

Apples and oranges. The banning of ROTC at Columbia is in protest to the military's ridiculous "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy on gays. That is called exercising free speech.

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But it's OK to invite someone to speak on your campus who supports killing all gays?

Gays shouldn't be in the military. Its not about but sex and interior design.

Its about killing people. If some prissy pants was out there putting curtains up on the barracks wall, and flowers on everyone's boot, I'm sure he'd get his ass beaten.

ROTC is not military, its more of a military academy type tradition, not actual military service (some will go on into the military, but its still not actual military service). The point being that attacking ROTC for a military policy, is like beating up someone's children who didn't do anything wrong.

ROTC creates many opportunities for minorities to advance in society, and in the military as OFFICERS and not enlisted personnel. ROTC actually gives minorities more of a fair shake than enlisting would anyways-

The only reason I can conclude as to why a University would ban ROTC is to surpress and hold down whites. Judging from how white all the sports teams seem to be a Columbia and other Ivies, the supression of minorities wouldn't surprise me one iota. Surpressing ROTC is racist, and only closet racists will do it.