Tyrants Not Welcome Here

The New York Sun: an editorial

The headline "Bush Invites Iranian President to New York" that appeared recently on one Web site after President Bush announced that it's likely Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be allowed into America to address the United Nations will dishearten Akbar Ganji and other freedom fighters in Iran.

The president told reporters: "We have an agreement with the United Nations to allow people to come to meet and I suspect he will be there to meet at the United Nations." As long as Mr. Bush accepts the existence of the United Nations filled with repressive states, and accepts the existence of such a United Nations on American soil - which he does - he has little choice but to allow the leader of a repressive terrorist-sponsoring state into America. READ MORE