The Bush administration is considering taking the unprecedented step of preventing a visting head of state from addressing the United Nations in New York by denying a visa to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran's new elected conservative president.
Officials said a decision rested on investigations into whether Mr Ahmadi-Nejad was involved in the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis and the killing of an Iranian-Kurdish dissident leader in Vienna in 1989. Iran denies his involvement in either event.
It's best this pariah do his talking from Geneva. Or from the Little Galapagos -- since it's the hub of crap export already.
(Via Lucianne.)
Posted by floridacracker at August 5, 2005 11:26 PMWouldn't it be better to allow him to enter the country and show him that we think as much of his diplomatic immunity as showed our embassy workers by arresting him?
Posted by: B's Freak at August 7, 2005 03:19 AMNah, jerkish behavior is for the other guy.
Not letting him in would be a solid smack, and has precedent.
Just keep him out .A challenge to his ligitmacy is just whats needed.We should make about a 30 page list.Let them set ap a UN annex in say Port Au Prince for all the human detirus that infests the rats nest known as the UN.
Posted by: LC.IB NeilV at August 8, 2005 07:24 AMIf the U.N. weren't in New York, we wouldn't have to worry about who we let in.
Posted by: Juan Paxety at August 8, 2005 12:27 PMPort-au-Prince, eh? Dag, that's a nasty place...
Posted by: Donnah at August 8, 2005 02:49 PM