GORGAN, Iran – President Ahmadinejad announced on Tuesday that the West is trying to turn the September 11 attacks into another Holocaust so that nobody dares to question the issues surrounding it. 

I agree with the first part, but the second is iffy.  He's got OoSnap to contend with on that one.  Sometimes I almost feel like every new thread they make is just attempting to out-stupid the others previous thread.

http://infidelsarecool.com/2010/09/22/ahmadinejad-attacking-iran-will-cause-a-war-with-no-limits/

Of course he coudn’t go without denying the Holocaust again…

"Mr Ahmadinejad was again questioned about the killing of millions of Jews in Nazi death camps during the Second World War.

He described it as “a historical event used to create a pretext for war.”

“The question is, why don’t we allow this subject to be examined further…. It is incorrect to force only one view on the rest of the world,” he was quoted as saying.

“We need to ask, where did this event occur, and why should the Palestinian people continue to suffer for it? I am not an anti-Semite. I am anti-Zionism,” he said."

In my opinion there is something wrong about the definition of "holocaust denial".

The term suggests that a "holocaust denier" completely denies that the holocaust even occured. The official definition however is going  far beyond that: It's already considered "Holocaust denial" if someone only questions the official number of 6 million jews killed, or if someone says the holocaust wasn't that unique because there were similar mass murderings in history.

In my country (germany) that's the definition of "holocaust denial" and you can go to jail for several years for "holocaust denial". I think such laws are bad and in fact counterproductive, because if people cannot legally express their doubts about the official version, you cannot explain them and it only leads to conspiracy theories etc. For example, I can understand that some people think that the total number of jews killed by the Nazis may actually have been quite a bit lower than the official number:

The official number of jews killed has always been 6 million. And up until the mid-80s, the official number of people killed in Auschwitz was 4.3 million. (I remember that still in 1992 when I was visiting a concentration camp with my school class we were told that number). Nowadays however it is proven that the number of people killed in Auschwitz was only about 1.2 million. So I can understand that some people may think "Wait a minute - if the number of people killed in Auschwitz was overestimated by 3 millions for decades, wouldn't that mean that the total number of jews killed was overestimated as well?" There was never any public debate about this (at least in my country), probably because questioning the official number alone could lead to going to jail. It was never publically explained as well, in fact I think only few people even know that the number of people killed in Auschwitz was overestimated for decades. That makes perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories...

I mean instead of having the momentum of it falling going downwards it had the equivalent force going upwards as its momentum was stopped by the ground, causing fairly well the same effects (floor by floor collapse) except in the opposite direction.

Edit: @Arnold. Actually the 4M at Auschwitz was considered wrong by western historians from basically the start, it was basically the official Soviet figure because it was good propaganda.  The change came with the collapse of Communism.

Several things here:
* What makes you think VGChartz, a place for videogames (it does have an OT area, true) is a platform for you to vent about every single subject under the sun, taking positions that will only iritate people?

* Does 1 million Jews dying in the Holocaust somehow make it acceptable, over 6 million?  Does force encampment in horrible conditions, and loss of possessions, to outtight extermination, acceptable?

Anyone have the over/under on how many more of these subjects num will create over the next 30 days?

The Auschwitz figure was reduced to close to a mil in the early 80s...totals still stood because it wasn't all death camps victims. Though I don't find it surprising to find out 4mil was still taught in the 90s in Germany, I did find the whole silence thing there about the issue oppressive indeed.

I'm pretty sure that number was testified at Nuremberg by the commanding officer of Auschwitz.

Ok, one thing people need to be wondering about is the sinking of the Titanic coverup.  How come no one is discussing this?

A bit big, sorry.

Just for the  guy who talked aboutexoskeleton.

I would say, this is a massive steelstrukture...