Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
So what would have been the problem with President Ahmadinejad laying a wreath at the WTC Memorial?
It would have provided a media event protraying Ahmadinejad as a human being sympathetic to the victims. As Philly Steve pointed out, that doesn't fit into the Administration's propaganda.

Philly Steve, I don't doubt that those are the aspirations of the Cheney Bush Administration, but I am not so pessimistic as to dismiss the possibility that circumstances are different enough that we won't get fooled again.


Steve
Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.

(Native American prayer)