Miss Kolka

It is interesting to see how Ahmadinejad is portrayed just hours before he is to adress students (and the world) at Columbia University in New York this monday. Its enough to google his name to find some humiliating pictures and lots of unjust criticism that appears right away. The man has clearly become the next evil leader everyone should hate - after Osama, Saddam, Hitler, Stalin .... Unjust I say because I personally have never heard so very shocking comments made by this man - sure he questions that the Holocaust took place and Isreal's right to exist, often critices the US and Bush and he defends Iran's right to develop a nuclear program. On the first point - for him and his country - Israel is clearly the enemy considering the history and he is by nature provocative so that has to be taken into account. On the second point - well he's not the only one, joining Venuzuela's Chavez (who is regularly portrayed as a lunatic by the world's media) and on the last point - I still don't understand why some countries are trusted to have the bomb and not others- of course people have an equal right to defend themselves and no one will convince me that the United states are more wise in their use of weapons than other countries.

So Ahmadinejad is in New York for the UN Security meeting that will probably adress the Situation of Iran's nuclear program - Last year the same topic was on the agenda - what has changed since then? Nothing. The international community still says Iran should not develop nuclear weapons and Iran still claims it does not have use for the bomb and only has a peaceful program. The president wanted to go to the site of the World trade center and pay his respect to victims of the 9/11 attacks on his US visit (maybe a shameless PR-move?) but because of "security reasons" was banned from going there. Also last year A. was scheduled to speak at Columbia University but it was cancelled at the last minute. Will he be allowed to speak this time? It has been announced that 600 tickets for the venue sold in less than an hour - that security is tight and that mass protest against the Iranian president have been organised. Well, if protesters are using the same arguments as I found on the internet and heard on CNN - "he is evil"- and "we are going to show him what freedom of speech means" than it is likely to be completely useless. Ahmadinejad says he wants to express himself in front of a US audience to clear things up and explain himself. Is it possible that things have gotten lost in translation?

Whatever is on his mind.. he still is number one on my list of axis of "evil cuteness" amongst world leaders.