Iran's president says his country doesn't need a nuclear bomb and isn't building one. And he says it isn't spoiling for war with the U.S.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an interview to "60 Minutes" that aired last night. Check it out here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/23/60minutes/main3289342.shtml
I found it interesting, his reluctance to answer direct questions. But I also found it interesting to hear his viewpoint on Iraq and President Bush. He apparently couldn't come up with a trait he liked about President Bush. He also says that Israel is not a nation.
Today, he's to speak at Columbia University in New York. Ahmadinejad says he wants to give Americans a chance to hear a different voice and that they have been denied "correct information." In the past, that different voice has gotten him in trouble. Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust is a myth.
But one New York state lawmaker says the Iranian firebrand should be arrested, not allowed to speak.
The Iranian president's request to lay a wreath at Ground Zero was denied by city officials and condemned by politicians who said it would violate sacred ground.
What do you think? Should Ahmadinejad be banned from speaking because his viewpoints on the Holocaust and Israel aren't aligned with those of most of the U.S.?
Or maybe his alleged links to terrorists and plan to make a nuclear bomb should be the basis for ban?
Then again, isn't Ameria all about free speech?
