Ahmadinejad needs a Giuliani to face

Iran’s Ahmadinejad is coming to New York.

Where’s Rudy Giuliani when you need him?

Ten years ago, in 1995, Giuliani booted Arafat from his city. (H/T> Ninme). At the time he said <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/feder020399.asp" "I would not invite Yasser Arafat to anything, anywhere, anytime, anyplace…".

Giuliani was criticised by the Clinton administration for his move.

In 1995, Giuliani was roundly criticized by then-president Bill Clinton and The New York Times for having Arafat removed from a concert in celebration of the United Nations’ 50th anniversary at Avery Fisher Hall, to which the city had invited world leaders. “I had specifically not invited him and six or seven other people I didn’t like. But he got a ticket from someone else. I asked my chief of staff to throw him out on the premise that he had no right to be there,” said Giuliani.
Giuliani has no regrets, even though he was accused of “creating an international incident.”

I like a man who clanks when he walks.

Kandra is writing on the visit of the former president of Iran over at Couric’s blog, and noting the security involved. Thanks, Greg. Now I’ll have that damn song in my head, all day.