The article on AlterNet: Ahmadinejad's Speech at Columbia University Is as American as Apple Pie begins on a fair note demanding that the Iranian President be allowed to exercise the Right of Freedom of Speech which he along with the Khamenei deny their own people.

But then it becomes a rant peppered with obtuse ignorance:

They will question his absurd ideological views that the Holocaust never occurred and that Israel should be wiped off the planet.

And here most of us do know that Ahmadinejad's words had deliberately been twisted by the western media:

When properly translated the Iranian president actually calls for the removal of the regimes that are in power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future. Nowhere does he demand the elimination or annihilation of Israel. He called for greater governance for Palestine. The word map does not even feature. And the president makes plain that the Holocaust happened, but, he argues western powers have exploited the memory of the Holocaust for their own imperialistic purposes. What the mainstream ran with is complete deception.

Then further on they validate their argument by invoking the Godwin's Law:

Old film clips of Hitler depict him ranting from a podium about the supremacy of the Aryan race and the sinister nature of the Jews. Because the Nazis had taken control of the media and imprisoned dissenters in concentration camps, no one in Germany had the opportunity to challenge his racism or impugn his persecutions. The result was that he managed to indoctrinate millions and galvanize them to support his mass murder.

Lets forget that Hitler was democratically elected. And what if the Iranian people said the same thing about the current America where laws like the Patriot Act exist, where spying and eavesdropping on non white folks is encouraged, where their own country has invaded another, where they have places like Guantanamo Bay where people disappear all the time.

Feeble arguments such as these will not win the Western powers sympathy nor support to invade Iran.