Mass. Gov. calls planned Khatami talk "propaganda"

[rodeodance]

I think it is disgraceful of Rommy. We may not like what he says but it is a University setting where all should at least listen.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060905/us_nm/khatami_romney_dc

Mass. Gov. calls planned Khatami talk "propaganda"

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Gov. Mitt Romney on Tuesday said Massachusetts would not provide any security support for former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami's weekend visit, calling his planned speech at Harvard "propaganda."

Khatami is due to speak on Sunday at Harvard University in Cambridge on the "Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence."

Romney said Khatami will not receive a state police escort or any other state help. Federal officials will attend to his security.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said the state normally provides a police escort to visiting dignitaries. He said U.S. State Department officials had contacted the state police's tactical unit, which typically coordinates traffic-stopping escorts, prior to Romney's statement.

Romney, a 2008 Republican presidential hopeful, called the visit "a disgrace to the memory of all Americans who lost their lives at the hands of extremists, especially on the eve of the five-year anniversary of 9/11."

[ck4829]

1. Connecting Khatami to Extremists?

What a bunch of idiots.

[MADem]

4. The irony, there--he's a lone moderate voice!!!! NT

[Rex]

2. Mittens shits propaganda for his overlord (BFEE)

Fuck you, corporate slave. I hope you rot in Hell.

[MADem]

3. Well, his buddy George Bush and Condi at State let the bastard IN

So, if he has a gripe, he'd better bring it up with them. Oh, and run it by the cash cow at the RNC, Ken Mehlman, too, while yer at it, Mittsy-Shittsy!

And the real reason they're probably not gonna give a state escort is because they're afraid Mitt's "on the cheap" Big Dig pals will loosen a few bolts and drop a cement ceiling on the guy while going through the tunnel!!! :rofl:

REALLY...you are a former head of state, visiting America. Which security force do you want protecting you?

Carpetbagger Mittsy's....or the FEDS?

The guy is a greasyhaired douchebag. His douchebaggery knows no bounds. And how fucking STUPID can he be?

IRAN, like IRAQ, had NUTHIN' ta do with NAHN WUN WUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Was Khatami involved in 9-11?

--p!

[scarletwoman]

6. Oh, for f**k sakes! Khatami was a pro-Western moderate, who hoped to

improve relations between Iran and the West and lessen the power of the Mullahs. Because our cowboy moron prez blew off all possibilities of evolving our relationship with Iran toward renewal of diplomatic relations with his ridiculous rhetoric about the "axis of evil", the moderating and reformist elements of Iranian polity were fatally weakened, resulting the election of hard-right Ahmadinejad.

And of course, no one is going to remind the American people of the fact that the Iranians held massive candlelight vigils after 9/11 in sympathy for the United States.

Romney is a moronic bastard.

sw

[IndianaGreen]

7. The "propaganda" is to say: 'America's aggression is fueling extremism'

This is what Romney and the GOP don't want people to hear:

Robert Fisk: 'America's aggression is fuelling extremism', says Iran's ex-president
By Robert Fisk in Chicago
Published: 04 September 2006

As the West's "war on terror" burns across the Muslim world, one of Islam's most principled leaders - the former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami - issued a grave warning yesterday from the very heart of America, the country whose troops and allies are fighting Islamists across the Middle East in a war that is costing thousands of Muslim lives.

"The policies of the neo-conservatives have created a war that creates more extremists and radicals," he told The Independent in Chicago. "The events of 9/11 gave them this ability to create fear and anxiety ... and to create new policies of their own and now events are creating an expansion of extremists on both sides. A struggle is under way to dominate this world multilaterally ... We are a witness to war - with suppression from one side and extremist reaction in the form of terror from the other."

Mr Khatami might appear an improbable figure in the breakfast room of one of Chicago's smartest hotels, dressed in his black turban and long gown, his spectacles giving him t+he appearance of a university don - which he once was - rather than the seer of Iran, a man whose demands for a civil society and democracy at home were overwhelmed by the ascetic clerics who surround the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Yet he is enormously important in the Sunni as well as the Shia Muslim worlds as a philosopher-scholar, which is probably why the Bush administration gave him a visa, and his message was the sharpest he has ever delivered to the Muslim world and the secular West.

The former president said: "We have to find ways to confront these people on both sides. We need public opinion to be influenced ... And now the neo-conservative policies have created this sort of war."

But Mr Khatami, who defended Iran's role in the nuclear crisis between the West and Tehran - he asked why Israel was allowed nuclear weapons while refusing to sign the nuclear non-proliferation pact - did not spare the perpetrators of what he called "the inhumane terrorist attacks" of 11 September 2001. "I was one of the first officials to condemn this barbaric act ... this inferno would only intensify extremism and one-sidedness and would have no outcome except to retard justice and intellect and sacrifice righteousness and humanity," he said.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1359829.ece

[stepnw1f]

8. STFU You Fascist Prick!

Trying like hell to get the people behind the idea of attacking Iran! Why don't you enlist you macho talking chickenhawk? If you spent half the time you spend combing your hair on doing something righteous, you may have mattered to us all in Massachusetts.

[msongs]

9. where's the soundbite of bush admitting to propaganda?

saw it in the last year where he talks about how what he says is propaganda

wish I had a copy. the dems oughta run it now and then but they don't have the nerve or desire to win bad enuff

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[nealmhughes]

10. Mitt must have his magical underoos stuffed in his ears and over his head:

the former president has announced his one man "good will" tour over a month ago. His itinerary has been made public: WTF?

A former president of a state doesn't deserve respect? And one who is working to establish a dialogue between Iran and the USA at that?

[Anakin Skywalker]

11. More Blather from a Rethug.

STFU, Mitten!

[Anakin Skywalker]

12. What Did Iran Have to Do

with 9-11, you dumb f*ck?! (referring to The Mittdiot here)

True to the Bush and neo-con worldview, let's just lump them all together, right?

[High Plains]

13. What an ass is Romney. And a know-nothing.

And a panderer. Shame on him for this cheap stunt.