Obama and Ahmadinejad at the UN -- Where President Obama Really Stands on Iran

President Obama rips Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying shame on you for your 9/11 lies

BY SAMUEL GOLDSMITH AND KENNETH R. BAZINET

New York Daily News -- September 25th 2010

President Obama said it's 'inexcusable' for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to spew theories on 9/11 just blocks from where tragedy occurred.

President Obama ripped into Iranian strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday for his "offensive, hateful, and inexcusable" rant at the UN blaming America for the 9/11 attacks.

"For him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of Ground Zero, where families lost their loved ones, people of all faiths, all ethnicities who see this as the seminal tragedy of this generation, for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable," Obama told the BBC.

The U.S. delegation walked out of the United Nations General Assembly Thursday in protest when Ahmadinejad began spewing venom about the U.S. role in Al Qaeda's Sept. 11 attacks.

Ahmadinejad spat out more of the same hate-laced anti-American rhetoric yesterday during a press conference near Ground Zero, where he called on the UN to find the "true reason" behind the attacks.

"Don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee?" the outspoken leader asked.

"An event occurred, and under the pretext of that event two countries were invaded and up to now hundreds of thousands of people have been killed as a result. Don't you feel that that excuse has to be revised?" he added.

"Why do you assume that all nations must accept what the U.S. government tells them?"

Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad met with Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested last year while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border. Shourd, freed 11 days ago, pleaded for the release of her friends.