Iran's Smackdown on Dubya

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. Posted December 12, 2006.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had a feast this week and his main course was George Bush with an apple in his mouth.

Q: The other sensitive issue that people want to know your position is on, because this has come up often, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rejection that there was a Holocaust. Do you believe that there was a Holocaust in which six million Jews were killed?

A: I am currently thinking about the Iraqi issues.

-- CNN's Wolf Blitzer, interviewing Iraqi Shiite leader Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, who was in the U.S. for a meeting with George W. Bush. Al-Hakim repeatedly declined to answer the Holocaust question.