Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address the United Nations General Assembly today. So will US President Barack Obama. According to an interview he gave yesterday, Ahmadinejad plans to continue lying about his country's nuclear ambitions and he will attempt to portray Iran as the innocent and reasonable party in the upcoming discussion of nuclear issues next week with six world powers including the United States. The big question is what will the American president say?

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The Bush administration had refused to negotiate with Iran until it agreed to freeze its uranium enrichment efforts which it has not done. (source) But just as he promised in his campaign, President Obama will sit down with the same Iranian leadership that has denied the Holocaust ever happened, continues to call for the destruction of Israel and has killed tortured and imprisoned many of its own citizens for daring to demand fair elections. These are the people the Obama administration wants to sit down with.

There is no doubt that, just like in his UN speech today, Ahmadinejad will lie and attack and accuse and lie some more while the European and American participants play by the rules and will be humiliated by the experience.

As I wait for the two presidents to speak today I wonder if President Obama will try to give the false impression that he is a true leader or will he speak in moral equivalencies, offer national apologies and extend more unrequited offers of peace and goodwill? At least we'll get a day off from listening to him drone on about nationalized health care.