Iranian president calls for 'impartial' probe of Holocaust

eyl

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Fri Jun-16-06 02:27 PM
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Iranian president calls for 'impartial' probe of Holocaust

Some people don't know when to stop digging

Iran's president on Friday questioned evidence of the Holocaust, calling it an unproven fact that needed to be verified.

"I think we have sufficiently talked about this matter and these Holocaust events need to be further investigated by independent and impartial parties," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a news conference following a meeting with China's president.

"An event that has influenced so many diplomatic and political equations of the world needs to investigated and researched by impartial and independent groups," he said.

Haaretz

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Phx_Dem

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Fri Jun-16-06 02:30 PM
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1. He really is obsessed with this

what could he possibly hope to gain by doing this?

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Minnesota Libra

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Fri Jun-16-06 02:44 PM
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2. It's always been the hope of some Arabs and........

Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 02:46 PM by Minnesota Libra

......some others to hopefully disavow the Holocaust.:banghead:

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Violet_Crumble

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:16 PM
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6. Iranians aren't Arabs...

And Holocaust Denial is a product of Europeans and Americans, not Arabs. While acceptance of Holocaust Denial exists amongst some Arabs, it's been borrowed from the well-funded and highly organised groups in the US and Europe and has been taken to like a duck to water due to a liking of conspiracy theories of all sorts...

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Tom Joad

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Fri Jun-16-06 06:19 PM
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7. Like i said in a different context, it is terrible when history is revised

when people's pain and suffering is made not to exist. Or the blame is placed on the victim. this we saw several times this week.

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Turbineguy

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Fri Jun-16-06 03:28 PM
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3. If the Holocaust had

taken place during this Bush administration, I'd agree he'd have a point.

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applegrove

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Fri Jun-16-06 04:47 PM
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4. Give it to him! This is just a superficial attack. Give it to him. Now.

Send in the witnesses and survivors. Send in the documents. Send it all in.

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Violet_Crumble

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:11 PM
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5. Doesn't he do this every Friday?

And on Monday's it's the 'Israel Must Be Destroyed' speech? Eventually he's going to work out that to shock and outrage people, he's going to have to come up with some new material...

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