Members of this think tank: Richard Haass who worked in State Department under Bush, Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor to Bush Sr., and Robert Blackwill, who directed Iraq policy at White House. Ummmmmmm where did they think this talk was going?????

NEW YORK (AP) - Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke away from events at the U.N. General Assembly to hold an informal question-and-answer session with high-powered members of America’s most prestigious foreign policy think tank - despite objections from some Jewish groups and the Bush administration.

The Council on Foreign Relations said afterward that Ahmadinejad had engaged in a “protracted punch and counter-punch” with 19 members for about 90 minutes in the conference room of a New York City hotel late Wednesday.

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