Our country is being led by teenagers. The U.N. Security Council is supposed to vote today on whether or not to impose sanctions on Iran for their uranium enrichment activities. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was planning to come to New York City to address the Security Council prior to their vote. So, what did Condi do? She’s ever so clever.
Mohammad Mir Ali Mohammadi, press secretary of Iran’s mission at the U.N., told The Associated Press the U.S. did not deliver a visa to the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, in time for the Iranian president to pick it up before for the council session Saturday.
Of course, our embassy official in Bern says this isn’t true.
But Daniel Wendell, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland said Ahmadinejad’s and other Iranian officials’ passports had been handed over in Bern on Friday. Another 31 other passports for support staff were to ready later in the day. The passports would then be taken by courier to Tehran in time for the Iranians to fly to New York.
Zarif told reporters “the visas for (Ahmadinejad’s) crew were not ready yet.”
You do the math.
This is how the Partito Nazionale Bushista rolls.
And they wonder why so many people have caught Primary fever so early. Because no one can wait to get a new president and administration in. People want this gang out yesterday.
Makes me more and more believe that the UN main seat should be moved out of the US. Similar things happend when Chavèz visited. His doctor and other people of his group were not allowed to leave the plane. A host country to the UN should not be allowed to have this power as to who can visit the UN or not.
I agree, the UN siege should be moved to a civilised country…
Right. We’re to believe it’s perfectly reasonable and appropriate that the receipt of some, but not all, of the necessary visas at the Iranian Embassy in Bern on Friday enables the Iranian delegation to fly from Tehran to New York in time for Saturday’s Security Council vote. As Condi has made some attempts at genuine diplomacy lately (Georgie isn’t the only one concerned about his legacy, eh?) this would appear to have Cheney’s fingerprints all over it.
AF
Boorish, loutish, petty, stupid, childish…the list could go on and on as to what this gang of imbeciles thinks passes for diplomacy or even common courtesy. Do they actually sit down and makes lists of ways to make the US look like ignorant narrow minded buffoons? The face of the ‘ugly American’ continues to get uglier.
I tell you — it isn’t just GOP politicians who are children. Look around you in the real world. Start with the internet. I see so many really, really childish actions. And don’t assume they are all very young chatters/posters. Most are 30, 40, 50 — and older. Then look in your real life. In the workplace, etc. Children. Never grew up. That is the problem with America — too many politicians and regular Americans are children in the bodies of old timers. I shudder at thinking how much MORE childish America will be when these children’s children “grow up.”