they work as prison guards.

tenure - let that be our answer to Ahmadinejad and El Haj - Holocaust deniers and messengers of hatred! http://www.petitiononline.com/barnard/

he is a great man and need to get off the man. america been doing this for the past years. americans want to rule the world thats been the plan for years.

It amazes me how you people of the of the so-called "civilized" world unwittingly dropped the deceitful "civility" mask that you've been wearing and showed your ugly face to the whole world. When a guy like Bollinger takes it upon himself to insult his guest who is a foreign dignitary who happens to be a president of an independent and sovreign state then you guys probably have a different interpretation of words like "civility" and "hospitality". Shame on your "civility"!

Why does the world now question the legitimate right of Israel to exist and Israel's right to Judea and Samaria? Because Israel has not firmly proclaimed it and in fact has used it's own land as a bargaining chip for peace. If you admit you can give away your land, you obviously arent claiming it as yours to begin with. Israel needs to say to Iran and the world, The Land of Israel is forever Jewish land. Judea, Samaria and the Golan. We will not give away an inch. We will defend every inch. The arabs can live there if they choose, peacefully ,otherwise they can go to the other side of the Jordan or Egypt.

the beginning of sentences? Where did you go to elementary school? The teachers you had should be fired. Talk about imbecilic.

americans support and encourage freedom of speech. i as a jew, an israeli and a zionist support the appearance of ahmadinejad on columcia's campus simply because i was SURE that he will make an utter fool of himself. i was there in person and one of the questions asked was one of my own. what happened there was exactly what we wished to happen. namely, that the world, not only jews, zionists, etc.... will be able to see into the diseased mentality of a very small, uneducated, simple and vain man that is rediculed by the entire civilized world and that has no presence of mind to sound intelligent, knowledgeable, that has no intelligence regarding world community and understanding of world affairs, economics, politics and security. what we all saw there, and it is mostly the opinion of all faculty and students present is that this very illiterate and unintelligent person embarrassed himself profoundly on stage and in doing so embarassed his country and the good people who live in it. do not think for one moment that this individual won. he didn't. the feelings amongst the atendees was that of a man of very very limited verbal and intellectual ability. much respect he didn't get and much of what he said, considering he wanted to impart knowledge and science to the audience, was met with laughter and derision. he simply made fun of himself and during his speech most of the faculty rolled its eyes and waited for concrete answers. what we got was evasion and no answers at all, pointing to the fact that on ahmadinejad's part, there were no answers...at least not intelligent ones. to answer an answer with a question of his own is not to answer at all. we all thought we will be learning something. but, alas, at the end of this rediculous affair, the dean simply said...."we've wasted our money here". however, when he professed that there are no homosexuals in iran, that simply sealed his fate. it was an uproar of laughter on an unimaginable scale. all in all, he insulted the intelligence of iranian people and showed the world that he's basically "a small little and cruel tyrant" as bollinger so astutely comented. we also didn't need a lecture from the kuran to say the least. we already know the passages and suras of this book. questions needed to be answered honestly and to the point and none of them were answered. indeed a waste of podium and finances. i was so dissapointed to say the least.

The Columbians asked for a freak show and they got one! They got a speaking Monkey dressed as a human being. ASPCA should be alarmed that animals are subjected to such public humiliation. At least, at the end of the freak-show, Bollinger should have clarified that "No animals were abused during the show". This was a surprisingly awakening face-to-face meeting between the freedom of Democracy and the Imbecility of Fundamentalist Islam. Judging from the reaction, the latter failed to impress and succeeded to ridicule itself - like it rightfully deserves. I wonder whose heads will roll in Teheran (LITERALLY) after this fiasco. Now why do I have a feeling that Muslims will claim that Ahmedinejad fell into a Zionist trap and was duped into making a fool of himself and Islam in front of the whole world! I bet the media had a field day!

I think Iran would be much better off if he spent more time taking care of inflation and unemployment than worrying about the Palestinians

That is what I am doing. I am planning to take a surgery review course for recertification In New York, November this year. Similar courses this November are offered by both Columbia and Albert Einstein (http://www.mecme.org/pages/display.php?crs_id=3602). If there are any general surgeons reading this note, and considering which course to choose - Choose the Albert Einsten course, and BOYCOTT Columbia.

It seems that a person educated and holding a "phd" would learn to either spell correctly, punctuate correctly or at least proof-read prior to posting. I am not highly educated but find your education and "phd" to be questionable.

smiling.

would you please quote ONE sentence from any of his interviews that he said ANYTHING bad about the Jews? Just one sentence is enough, daling.

we did nothing different than this midget iranian imbecil did when he insulted israel, a sovereign independent and democratic country by saying it is the little satan and when he said america is the big satan, when he soiled the memory of 6 million jews by saying the holocaust never happened and when he said he'll wipe israel off the map!

my apologies. i wrote the comment way too fast upon leaving the office after the debate and i normally do not capitalize neither punctuate or spell check when my correspondence is of an informal nature. however, i did mean as truth and fact the entire response and whether i do capitalize or do not doesn't change my ideas and the imbecilic clown and unintelligent performance of a leader that is basically an uneducated peasant with a twisted ideology and an extremely narrow grasp of reality, politics and history. the smirks and rolling eyes in the crowd, as well as the comments post this rediculous debate were very telling in the least. upon exit, dr. bollinger whom i am in constant contact with said that the entire experiment was ca waste of funds. we learned not a thing and found this little leader of great insignificance in the total global realm of things. indeed a waste of funds and a waste of the enormous intelligence and knowledge of the atendees that were there.

This president of Columbia University did the best thing someone has done in a long time to strike back at the forces of evil in the world we live with today.. I want more... more and more.... It didnt get much better for the believer in freedom and democracy.. This Iranian tinpot dictator was soundly put in his place.

to speak at an Iranian Univ.

It is petty and sad that a person like Bollinger is holding the position of president in a very reputed university.He is a big insult for Columbia University.

This was carefully planned, obviously. How much people believe, listen, and whatever traps we and they fall into is up to them. However naive we/they are will will shown in the future. G_d help us all.

A single United States submarine waits quietly in the ocean.

First, there was NEVER any "civility" attributed to the people who insult their guest or their host, like the 60 Minutes so-called reporter in Tehran. Secondly, there has NEVER been a mask. The ugly crudenss of these type of people has always been obvious to anyone who bothers to look. But those loud mouth "UGLY AMERICANS" including the thug that plays the role of the big cheese in Columbia, do not represent the descent Americans who are shaking their heads in dismay when they see such base behavior. Don't take me wrong, people should be free to express thier opinions about any politician domestic or foreign without any reservation, but for a host of to attack his/her guest in such a vicious and uncivilized way, there's no explanation other than the "dean" was showing his real self and lack of character. Ahmadinejad, unfortunately, proved HE was the civilized party. His stature is higher among many Americans and other people in the world as the result of the barbaric behaviour of some Americans.

Ahmedijackass hang them all

Obviously YOU! Since you support someone who claims homosexuality does not exist in his own country!

The idiot was so humiliated today first by the very powerful introduction by Bollinger, and then by his own idiotic statement (no homosexuals in Iran!) which was laughed at by the crowd, that your are understandably very angry and frustrated! But that is how life goes. Ahmadimonkey will remember this day for a looooong time to come.

Do you what kind of ignorant, uneducated, hatefilled and illogical imbeciles you two sound like? Anyone with a brain cell would cringe to post comments such as yours. There are times when it is best to remain silent!

"...but for a host of to (sic) attack his/her guest in such a vicious and uncivilized way..." you say. Yes, kitty, like Ahmadinejad and his crew treated 52 American embassy 'guests' in Iran back about 28 years ago? Is that an example of the dignity with which you people treat foreigners? You pot calling the kettle black? You have the temerity to call Americans ugly, base, vicious, crude? What about the 'dignity' with which you people treated American academics who were visiting Iran recently? Or perhaps the dignity with which you people treated the captured British sailors who were patrolling international waters on a UN mandate in the Persian Gulf? I could go on and on but even you get the point (though I doubt your imbecile leader, Monkey face would). You have the gall to call Americans barbaric? Shut up, learn to spell "decent" and "their" then crawl into your black hole, you insolent, hypocritical cretin!

Get over it. This man has offended more people than there are New Yorkers. He has directly and indirectly funded a series of attacks against Israel, the secret cooperation and arms supplying between him and hamas, or him and Hezbollah, or him and Syria, exposed time and time again. Bollinger took a daring step in advocating the right to freedom of speech and inviting him over to talk in Columbia, but in accordance with that freedom, Bollinger had the right (you hypocrites) to attack Mahmoud's disgusting positions, thereby resulting in his public humiliation (there are no gays in Iran, dodging every question in favor of random Qu'ran quoting). Wah wah wah, let's all cry for Ahmadinejad. I mean, his deny the holocaust cartoonist convention extravaganza- well, those didn't hurt anyone's sensibilities. Right? So how dare anyone be so mean to poow liwwle ahmad? It's just Jews after all, correct 49?

at least he can stay awake to do his job. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=33e_1190510735 Enjoy.