What Iranian leader actually said at the UN

Triggering the walkout:

UNITED NATIONS: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday sparked a walkout at the United Nations when he launched a diatribe against Western nations, in a speech denounced as "crude" and "unacceptable."

Here are some of the quotes from his speech:

"Who imposed, through deceits and hypocrisy, the Zionism and over sixty years of war, homelessness, terror and mass murder on the Palestinian people and on countries of the region?

"Which country's military spending exceeds annually a thousand billion dollars, more than the military budgets of all countries of the world combined?" "It is as lucid as daylight that the same slave masters and colonial powers that once instigated the two world wars have caused widespread misery and disorder with far-reaching effects across the globe since then."

"If some European countries still use the Holocaust, after six decades, as the excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists, should it not be an obligation upon the slave masters or colonial powers to pay reparations to the affected nations?"

"Who used the mysterious September 11 incident as a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, killing, injuring and displacing millions in two countries with the ultimate goal of bringing into its domination the Middle East and its oil resources?"

"Instead of assigning a fact-finding team, they killed the main perpetrator and threw his body into the sea. AFP