US Delegation Walks Out On Ahmadinejad At UN

Credit where it's due I suppose. I have to admit I wondering if we would.

France on Wednesday led a walkout of a dozen delegations, including the United States, to protest a fiery speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly.

"It is disappointing that Mr Ahmadinejad has once again chosen to espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric," Mark Kornblau, spokesman to the US mission to the United Nations, said in a statement.

Delegations from Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Denmark, France Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand and the United States left the room as Ahmadinejad began to rail against Israel, a European source said.

Israel had already called for a boycott of the speech, and was not present when the Iranian leader began his address. Canada had already said it would heed the boycott call.

It would have been better had we not been there to start with but this was better than nothing.

Here's my question...how's that promise to meet with Ahmadinejad coming along? Only about 4 months left to make good on it.

Kind of curious that no one in the big time press is asking what happened to this campaign promise, isn't it. Yeah, I'm just kidding. Of course they are shoving that down the memory hole.

posted by DrewM. at 09:52 PM

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