Thursday, September 23, 2010

Looks Like We Weren't the Only Ones

Canada boycotts Ahmadinejad at UN

U.S. Walks Out as Iranian Leader Speaks

Ahmadinejad's 9/11 speech sparks US fury
"The United States led an enraged Western walkout after Ahmadinejad's comments on the Al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center, which was just four miles (six kilometers) from the UN headquarters. European Union delegations quickly followed and Canada boycotted the speech even before it started."

U.N. delegates walk out during Iranian president's speech
"Incendiary statements from Ahmadinejad are nothing new for the assembled delegates. But tension grew as he recounted various conspiracy theories about the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., driving multiple representatives from the hall.

"Some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack," Ahmadinejad told the assembly. He followed with the claim that the attacks were aimed at reversing "the declining American economy and its scripts on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime. The majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world, agree with this view."

After that statement, delegates rose and exited the hall. Representatives from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walked out while Ahmadinejad discussed claims that the U.S. was involved in the attacks or allowed them to happen as an excuse to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq".
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"A European Union diplomat said that all 27 member nations had agreed to walk out if Ahmadinejad made inflammatory statements during his address."
"But Ahmadinejad did not demur from his line of attack as the walkouts proceeded. He went on to compare the deaths in the September 11 attacks to the casualty count in the wars in Afghanistan in Iraq.

'It was said that some 3,000 people were killed on September 11th, for which we are all very saddened,' he said. 'Yet, up until now in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions wounded and displaced, and the conflict is still going on and expanding.'
Of course, what he didn't say was that responsibility for much of the death toll in Iraq can be laid at his feet.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Indigo Red said...

Kudos to both Canada and US for walking out. Would have preferred they never walked in though.

September 24, 2010 8:28 pm  
Blogger Louise said...

From what I've read, Canada walked out before Iamanutjob took the podium, or perhaps didn't even come into the room until his speech was over. Some of the reports are saying Canada "boycotted" the speech. Anywho, I read today altogether some 33 countries declined to listen to his blather. That's not bad, if you ask me.

September 24, 2010 9:05 pm  
Blogger Indigo Red said...

Not bad at all.

September 25, 2010 12:31 pm  

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