September 24, 2007

Department of Problem Solving

Ahmadinejad at Columbia:

A) Question: why do you execute homosexuals?

B) Ahmadinejad answers that, well, the US has capitol punishment too...

C) The President then boasts of the efficiency of Iranian government policy: "We don't have homosexuals in Iran like in your country".

UPDATE: CSPAN caller now: "Get some research on this so we can implement it in America..."

24 Sep 2007 20:10:32 | Iran

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