Transcript of speech at Columbia

Published: September 25, 2007, 12:27 pm

I found a transcript of the Ahmadinejad speech at Columbia University. It was strangely hard to track down, there was no transcript linked from the major news sites such as the NY Times, Washington Post, or CNN. Maybe I'll blog about the speech later. Until then, I'll just remind you that Ahmadinejad is trying to be diplomatic, and what he says may not represent his true thoughts. For example, Ahmadinejad may believe that there was a conspiracy which fabricated the Holocaust in order to create an excuse to create a Jewish nation in the Middle East, but it would be undiplomatic to say that, so instead he just says that people should be allowed to "research" whether the Holocaust really happened. After all, what's the purpose of spending so much effort advocating "research" of a topic, unless you believe the research will turn something up that's favorable to one's political viewpoint?

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