Following is a statement by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), ranking member, Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, in reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Denial of the Holocaust:
"It is ludicrous, outrageous and repugnant for anyone, particularly the leader of a country, to deny the existence of the most atrocious genocide in human history. President Ahmadinejad willfully ignores abundant and incontrovertible evidence, and by doing so he implies that such atrocities are acceptable. Statements like his, so blatantly racist and inflammatory about a moral issue of such historical and lasting importance, should be universally condemned."
