Presidents George W. Bush of the United States and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran are expected to take their nuclear dispute to the world stage, when both were to give speeches to the United Nations General Assembly.
Bush and Ahmadinejad were to be among keynote speakers on the first day of debate by global leaders at the General Assembly -- the last for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who stands down at the end of the year.
The dispute over whether Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons has become one of the main sources of international tension in recent months, along with the wars in Lebanon and Iraq and the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.
AFP titled their piece, 'Bush and Ahmadinejad to make rival cases in nuclear dispute at UN.' In the interest of honesty, it should've been titled, 'Two Lunatics Address UN General Assembly.' The leader of an oil rich nation will argue that his country needs to develop nuclear energy. The leader of a nuclear weapon rich nation will argue that 'nukes is bad.'
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