The Deniers versus The Deciders

Outrage over Holocaust conference

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has met delegates at a conference in Iran questioning the Holocaust, drawing widespread international criticism.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned it and British PM Tony Blair called it "shocking beyond belief".

Iran says it wants to debate what it calls taboos surrounding the Holocaust. Conference participants include white supremacists and Holocaust deniers.

Some six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime during World War II.

According to the foreign ministry in Tehran, 67 researchers from 30 countries are attending the conference in Iran, which is home to 25,000 Jews.

Participants include a number of well-known "revisionist" Western academics. American David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, is to present a paper.

Denial & outrage, outrage & denial. Seems as loony as a South Park episode, but then, we've been living with the masters of outrage & denial, the Bush/Cheney junta, for six years. For every holocaust denier there's someone claiming there really are WMD in Iraq. For everyone who says the genocide of Europe's Jews was largely a fabrication to justify the State of Israel, there's someone else saying 30,000 more American soldiers ought be enough to turn Baghdad into something like Phoenix Arizona. You cut & runnin' fool, it's an insurgency not a civil war. How about those Big Lies of evolution & global warming? Scientists at the National Weather Service are, ah, somewhat constrained from mentioning the latter as if it has any connection to the reality of their science. New Orleans & the Gulf Coast? Doing just fine, Brownie. While the "deniers" are gathering in Tehran, we're stuck with the "deciders" in the White House.