An Iranian University Invites Bush to Speak

Source: Washington Post



By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 2, 2007; Page A15

After the controversial appearance of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University last week, an Iranian university yesterday invited President Bush to travel to Iran and speak on campus about a range of issues, including the Holocaust, terrorism, human rights and U.S. foreign policy, the Fars News Agency reported yesterday.

The invitation from Ferdowsi University in the northeastern city of Mashhad asked Bush to answer questions from students and professors "just the same way" that Ahmadinejad took questions "despite all the insults directed at him."

The White House said yesterday that Bush would be willing to travel to Iran, but under different circumstances.

"President Bush looks forward to traveling to a democratic Iran, an Iran where its leaders allow freedom of speech and assembly for all of its people and an Iran where the leaders mourn the victims of the Holocaust, not call for the destruction of Israel," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

The rhetoric followed the passage of a nonbinding resolution by Iran's parliament that labeled the CIA and the U.S. Army "terrorist organizations." That move came after the U.S. Senate last week approved a similar non-binding resolution, by a 76 to 22 vote, that urged the Bush administration to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group

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Chickenhawk frat boy won't go!

Would the GOP be allowed to select the audience?

I don't think so.

and get laughed at.:popcorn:

i might not like the dude's message but let's be real, he knew people wouldn't like him or his act and he got up on stage and did his gig anyway

bush by contrast only plays to handpicked crowds

it's a question of courage

that's about all he's capable of doing besides ruining our country.

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"The White House said yesterday that Bush would be willing to travel to Iran, but under different circumstances."
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After the genocide maybe, he sure in hell won't be leading anyone into battle.

And appear unannounced with a plastic turkey (which is which?), make a quick speach surrounded by carefully chosen soldiers flown in specially, then fly out again.

Never leaving the Green Zone.

Unscripted chat (with insults included) at some university? NO WAY.

Not good for the image of a king.

Good line.

Welcome to DU!
:toast:
:hi:

God only knows what the idiot would say. He would probably call them all terrorists.

(Their childrens would need to learn Bushese.)

"I have no idea what the hell he's saying."

:applause: EXACTLY!

disgusting man he is.

... which really means: pretending to fly in on a bomber, wearing a fake jumpsuit and carrying a bullhorn to proclaim in a prearranged photo op that they've been "liberated".

:spank:

Congratulations on having reached this milestone.

visit.

Sounds to me like he looks forward to going to Iran after a 'regime change'.

Bush's vocabulary isn't a part of the English lexicon.

NO university should invite Dubya to speak!

;-)

Which begs the question of which of the democratic presidential candidates would accept the invitation if they were president.

and be asked questions about his evil plans!!!

Chairman of FRC title. And I can't even imagine what would happen if Gravel went -- he actually could be well received!

D'oh!

The Iranians would think he was putting on a comedy routine.

Amedinajad said there were no gays in Iran and if we could give him an address of one-he would want to visit them.:spray:

It's was good to see that we aren't the only ones that vote for comedians.

:spray:

could he make a speech without use of his normal repetoire ...
terra, al qaeda, 911, hehehe, smirk, axis of evilness, etc.?


Neocon speechwriters brainstorming:

1st person: I've got nothing, how about you?
2nd: nope
3rd: zippo
4th: how about we're making progress toward peace by working together, etc.??
1,2,3,4 together: :spray: nice one

He's got a phoneme set that is a mish-mash of Texas and Connecticut... Drives me nuts...

I suppose that's a given...

Iran has his number

He's a big shot when he has America covering his back
but he is nothing without America

he does not even talk to the American people only his sick base. Geez, can't we please change the locks on the WH.

lol :rofl:

Can we have more of this, please? It's too bad Bush won't go, but this - the willingness to talk to and listen to the "other" - is the stuff of which peace is made.