After Bush declined the offer in 2006. When will the long-winded letters start? “Ahmadinejad Renews Call for Open Debate with US President,” from the Fars News Agency, May 25:
“As I invited the US president to a debate in (my address to) the United Nations during my visit to New York in the past, I repeat my call for a debate (with the US president) to study the root causes of global problems and management and collective participation in (the establishment of) sustainable security and peace,” Ahmadinejad told foreign reporters in a press conference at the presidential office here in Tehran today.
“The human being and powers should change their view about world management as this is the only way to establish sustainable peace,” Ahmadinejad said, and added, “And a major part of this change should take place in the kind of look that the dominant ruling systems have over the world, and a new system should be created in the world equations.”
Ahmadinejad offered Bush a televised debate before he traveled to the United Nations in 2006, a proposal that was spurned by the White House which said the suggestion was not serious.