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(2006-09-21) - The Republican National Committee (RNC) today offered to fund
a coast-to-coast U.S. speaking tour featuring Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in the weeks leading up to
November's Congressional elections.
The offer comes in the wake of two days of public remarks by the two foreign
leaders before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations and U.S.
news media. Their diplomatic pronouncements included.
- denying the Holocaust,
- calling the U.S. president "the devil",
- praying at the U.N. for the return of Islam's fabled 12th Imam,
- praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro,
- insisting any nation has the right to develop nuclear technology,
- portraying the United States as the locus of evil in the modern world, and
- plugging Noam Chomsky's book "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for
Global Dominance."
"President Bush can talk about his national security plan and foreign policy
all day long," said an unnamed RNC spokesman, "But no one makes a more
compelling case than the duo of Mahmoud and Hugo. We want to make sure every
American has an opportunity to hear these important world leaders."
The Republican source said sponsoring the pre-election Ahmadinejad-Chavez
speaking tour was also a way of "reaching across the aisle to help our
colleagues in the Democrat party to get their message out, so the American
voter can make an informed decision."
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