Not too long ago I ran across the headline “Ahmadinejad Proud of Holocaust Denial.” Sounds like a bad guy, doesn’t he?He stoked the fires ahead of the visit with new comments casting doubt on the Holocaust. Asked about widespread condemnation of such remarks, Ahmadinejad said Monday: “The anger of the world’s professional killers is (a source of) pride for us,” according to state news agency IRNA.During a speech Friday, he questioned whether the Holocaust was “a real event” and called it a pretext used by Jews to trick the West into backing the creation of Israel. He said the Jewish state was created out of “a lie and a mythical claim.”
In politics when people tell you that your enemies are angered, it’s standard to reply “I’m proud to have them as my enemies.” That’s not a big deal.
