Ahmadinejad wants to visit US

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The U.S. State Department says Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied to visit the United States as part of an Iranian delegation to a U.N. nuclear conference in New York.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Wednesday the United States has a responsibility as the host of the U.N. headquarters to accept the Iranian president's visa request.

 

The Iranian delegation is due to participate in a conference aimed at reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which Iran is a signatory. The monthlong conference begins Monday and has been held every five years since the NPT went into effect in 1970.

Crowley says Washington wants to see Mr. Ahmadinejad play a constructive role in the conference.

My friend Stef tells me that the Obama administration has increased the budget for the State Department by 40 percent.  I guess luminaries like P.J. Crowley don't come cheap.

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

My guess is that P. J. Crowley is a jealous man -- and that he seethes with envy every time he thinks about Robert Gibbs. Who could blame him? In the early months of the administration, Gibbs was -- without question -- its prize buffoon. Evidently Crowley, who was pretty much of a nonentity, watched Gibbs's rise to the pinnacle of clownishness, and resented it. The human heart being a repository of covetousness, Crowley no doubt set out to equal -- or excel -- the redoubtable Mr. Gibbs. From what I've seen on TV of late, Crowley hasn't yet excelled Gibbs, but he's certainly caught up with him. The man -- as evidenced by his remark about Ahmadinejad playing "a constructive role" -- is a born jester. If the White House ever bestows a "Foot in the Mouth" award on some administration luminary, I cannot imagine how it will choose between Gibbs and Crowley. I'm sure glad I don't have to make that decision.

[JACK (NO FAT) SPRAT]

P. J. and the moron arabists who found their place in life by "working" there do nothing with their time except appear on tv and say something stupid. Gibbs is on a much higher level than P.J. and this is obvious by his greater body dignity. WHAT??? achmadinejad was born of parents addicted to alcohol and gambling. This is what Gibbs told me which only proves the PJ CROWLEY is wrong.

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