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 Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:05 pm Khatami To Talk At Harvard |
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| Quote: | 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."
"The U.S. State Department listed Khatami's Iran as the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism," Romney said. "For him to lecture Americans about tolerance and violence is propaganda, pure and simple." |
Yeah, I'm not too big on this guy coming over here....
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Lord Borg
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:07 pm |
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I don't mean to seem out of touch, but who is this guy?
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CJ Cregg
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:11 pm |
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Go Romney for not providing him a police escort!
lol, though. Kinda funny how this radical Islamist guy is speaking at a school founded to teach the Bible... 
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CJ Cregg
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:13 pm |
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Hes a liberal compared to the current President of Iran.
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:15 pm |
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But he's still radical. Romney's justified, I think, in not providing him with a police escort. I wouldn't.
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CJ Cregg
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:16 pm |
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| Quote: | | Khatami is known by most as the first Iranian reformist president since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. After taking office in a landslide victory and having based his campaign on promises of implementing a more tolerant, democratic and open society and the rule of law, Khatami faced fierce opposition from powerful conservatives within the Iranian political establishment. According to a famous statement made by Khatami, his government survived an average of one national crisis every nine days during his term of office. |
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:19 pm |
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I don't care if he's a reformist. In the words (not directly quoted) "The United States should not be receiving any Iranian leaders, except under the narrowest of terms." Gingrich is right on on this. I wouldn't receive an Iranian leader. What Romney's doing is tantamount, he argued, to what Guiliani did with Arafat.
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Lord Borg
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:25 pm |
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I have to wonder why it is he's doing this, it is pretty crazy, but what do we know? 
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WeAz
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| Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:13 pm |
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Probably wants to convince the world that not all Iranians are fundamentalist radicals.
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