Ahmadinejad's parting shot

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his controversial visit to the U.S. by telling the United Nations that his nation would defy demands to halt its nuclear program. Thank goodness he's gone, said Michael Goodwin in the New York Daily News. Ah

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his controversial visit to the U.S. on Tuesday by telling the United Nations that his nation would defy demands to halt its nuclear program. He said that—despite threats by “arrogant powers” to impose sanctions or take military action—“the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed.”

“Mercy, mercy,” said Michael Goodwin in the New York Daily News. Thank goodness, it’s over. “No more Iranian madman.” First Ahmadinejad “stained” the campus of Columbia University, and then he spouted the “same bile and nonsense” at the U.N., blasting what he called “certain powers” and the “Zionist regime” as the “focus of all evil” while professing “love for all mankind.” Let’s hope the disgust provoked by his visit “will be the start of a global awakening against this global menace.”

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