Mike Gravel has stepped into the tempest in New York surrounding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit for the United National General Assembly meeting, and the controversial leader’s request to lay a wreath at Ground Zero, which was denied due to security concerns cited by the NYPD.
Gravel has rallied to his side. In his blog entry Let Ahmadinejad Go to Ground Zero on the Huffington Post, Gravel began by disagreeing with Ahmadinejad’s political views and that he finds his statements on the Holocaust “wrong and disgusting”, but said it would be wrong to deny his visit. “By snubbing him, we snub to the Iranian Government and its people.”
Gravel then went on to say that it is dangerous not to make a clear distinction between those who attacked the United States on Sept. 11 and those whom President Bush labeled as a member of the ‘Axis of Evil’. Gravel’s main argument springs from an intelligence report describing “Iran’s covert war against the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies.” Gravel regrets that after the United States received help establishing ties with the Northern Alliance during the war in Afghanistan, the Bush administration decided to reject further Iranian resistance rather than work together to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. According to Gravel, there is a great missed opportunity in not letting him “send a message to the Muslim world that 9/11 was an atrocity that everyone, including fundamentalist Muslims, should mourn.”
Back on the campaign trail, Gravel wrapped up a trip through Nevada. While competing with casinos for money in Las Vegas, Gravel impressed the city paper Las Vegas Sun with his anti-war experience acquired during his battles in congress to end the war in Vietnam. Sun reporter J. Patrick Coolican expressed his surprise in what he heard from this ‘fringe’ candidate: Gravel has “a voice more powerful in a 90-minute conversation than in the sound bites of televised debates, where he’s come across as slightly wild-eyed and eccentric.” While in Nevada, Gravel stopped by KNPR studio to discuss the Iraq war, the other candidates, and his plan for direct democracy among other things.
Gravel brings intelligence, reason, sensitivity and a strong backbone. If we as a country were lucky enough to have him as President, the rest of the world would finally realize that we aren't as ignorant & uncaring as we seem.
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Gravel brings intelligence, reason, sensitivity and a strong backbone. If we as a country were lucky enough to have him as President, the rest of the world would finally realize that we aren't as ignorant & uncaring as we seem.
MIKE IS NO BULLSHIT STANDUP GUY. HE KNOWS THAT ZIONISTS ARE THE REAL ENEMY TO OUR COUNTRY.
TAKING OVER CONGRESS AND THIS ADMIN. WITH THERE MONEY AND CREATING THE 911 DECEPTION WHICH GOT US INTO NEVER ENDING WAR IRAQ AND IRAN.
SEE TERRORSTORM AND LOOSE CHANGE BOTH FREE ON YOU TUBE.
THEN GOOGLE ZIONIST CRIMES
CRIME OF THE CENTURY 911.