Some righteous indignation

Iranian President Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust. On Monday, he held an international conference devoted to falsifying this tragic event in history. He stacked the deck in his favor, inviting only those with a bias for falsification, and not including any legitimate scholars. Annie Applebaum of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, "Unfortunately, Iran is serious--or at least Iran's president...is deadly serious: Holocaust denial is his personal passion, not just a way of taunting Israel, and it's based on his personal interpretation of history....Questioning the reality of the Holocaust has long been another means of questioning the legitimacy of the state of Israel, which was created by the United Nations in response to the Holocaust, and which has incorporated Holocaust history into its national identity."

Here's my response to all of this: There is more evidence of every kind for the Holocaust than for almost any other event in history. There are films made by Nazis, documents, branded people, concentration camps. There are thousands of testimonials of all different kinds of people who suffered through it. There is the professed purpose of Adolf Hitler to wipe out the Jewish race in the "final solution." In fact, there is more evidence for the Holocaust than there is for the country of Iran. Or for Ahmadinejad as its president. Heck, there's more evidence for the Holocaust than for the existence of Ahmadinejad. Obviously then, he never existed. So put that in your pipe and smoke it!