Posted on 07/08/2008 11:38:31 AM PDT by ShadowAce
UPDATED: War clouds continue to build in the epicenter. Last month in Rome, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that the United States and Israel would soon be "annihilated," language he had not used so explicitly since October 2005 when he promised to wipe Israel "off the map" and urged Muslims to "envision a world without the United States." This week, his regime authorized a new series of Iranian war games. He ordered the digging of 320,000 graves to bury the enemies of Islam. He is calling for the unification of the Islamic world politically and economically, including the creation of a single currency.
What's more, Iranian TV is running a new anti-Semitic documentary film series entitled, "The Secret of Armageddon." Setting the stage for a coming apocalyptic war that will usher in the Islamic Messiah known as the Mahdi or the "Twelfth Imam," the series focuses on a series of Bible prophecies that inform Jewish and Christian End Times theology. While the presentation is grossly distorted, some facts do emerge. Iranian scholar Dr. Ismail Shafe'i Sarustani , for example, tells viewers that the word "Armageddon" is "originally a Hebrew word" and "is a real geographical region, situated south of Haifa," noting that "the place was shelled by Hizbullah during the 33-day [July 2006] war." Iranian historian Mohammad-Taqi Taqipour notes that "these [Evangelical Christians], along with the Jews, believe that the War of the End of Days will take place in the desert of Megiddo, in Palestine. They believe that Jesus will return, and that then there will be a millennium of happiness."
The series, however, accuses Jews who were recently victims of genocide -- during the Holocaust Ahmadinejad denies ever happened -- of actually planning to commit genocide. "There is a genocidal Zionist Jewish plan for the genocide of humanity at the hand of the Zionist Jew-boys," claims one Iranian researcher interviewed for the program. "The Zionist Jew-boys talk about a 'Greater Israel' -- from the Euphrates to the Nile -- but their actual goal is world domination." At one point, Iranian researcher Shams Al-Din Rahmani argues that "the goal of the Zionists is the total destruction of Islam."
During the June 7th episode, the narrator embraces anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and proceeds to try to justify Iran's own war plans. "Today, there are many indications that the 'hidden hands' of world Zionism were involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack. According to a large group of Western intellectuals, the Zionists are the real rulers of the United States. According to irrefutable documents published by independent American media outlets, the Zionists used intelligence agents and spies, with the full cooperation of agencies with the country, to carry out this terrorist operation in full view of the world, in order to prepare the ground for taking over Afghanistan and Iraq, and to realize the dream of a greater Israel."
Top Israeli intelligence officials, meanwhile, increasingly believe that time is running out. They believe that Iran could have nuclear weapons within a year and one former Mossad chief is urging his country's leadership to launch a massive series of air strikes against Iranian nuclear and other military facilities before it is too late. Israel's Air Force just conducted a test run of such a bombing mission. John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., says he believes Israel may strike Iran sometime in late fall or early winter, after the U.S. elections in November but before the inauguration of the next American President on January 20. A senior Pentagon officials told the Washington Post several days ago he is worried about the same scenario -- a November surprise -- prompting both President Bush and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to make strong public statements warning the Israelis not to take such actions. Until just a few weeks ago, it was widely believed in Israel that new parliamentary elections would be held in November. But at the last moment, Defense Minister Ehud Barak withdrew his threat of voting to bring down the Olmert government for a few more months. This led some to speculate that Barak may be calculating that Israelis couldn't be fully immersed in an electoral campaign and a bombing campaign simultaneously.
The U.S. does not want Israel to strike. After all, the repercussions of such a war with Iran would be global in nature. Israel would face tens of thousands of incoming missiles not just from Iran but likely from Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and possibly the West Bank. Some of these missiles could be have chemical and/or biological warheads, even if the nuclear warheads in Iran are not yet ready. Ballistic missiles would also be likely fired from Iran at the oil fields in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, at oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and the Straight of Hormuz, and at U.S. bases and forces in Iraq. Tens of thousands of suicide bomber cells could be activated in the region -- especially in Iraq and Israel -- and perhaps even in Western Europe and the U.S. and Canada. Iranian efforts to topple Jordan's King Abdullah II and/or Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in favor of radical Islamic regimes friendly to Tehran could also be set in motion. Oil prices could shoot from $140 a barrel to $300 a barrel or more. U.S. gas prices could spike to $7-$10 or more, with horrific domestic and global economic repercussions.
No wonder Washington doesn't want a war with Iran. No wants such a war. I certainly do not, nor do the Israelis. Yet, the U.S. does not have a convincing plan to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons program in time. Nor does the U.N., or the E.U. Diplomacy isn't working. Economic sanctions have been imposed on Iran since 1979 to little strategic effect. Unfortunately, the words of Sen. John McCain keep echoing in my head this week. In April 2006, the senior Senator from Arizona appeared on NBC's Meet the Press. He warned, "there's only one thing worse than using the option of military action, and that is the Iranians acquiring nuclear weapons." For if Iran gets the Bomb, he said, "I think we could have Armageddon."
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No, no, no! Eeevil Republicans always stage an October surprise.
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that the United States and Israel would soon be “annihilated,”
This *problem* isn’t going away. I say, “Let’s Roll” it ain’t gettin any cheaper.
It will survive. But it can survive without buildings. The road can be very rocky as it survives. Afterall Our Lord has chosen them and they will always get it worse than anyone else.
Pray for Israel. It’s the best that we as individuals can do.
Er... it seems that he says stuff like this every day... if he ever STOPS saying stuff like this then I would start to be concerned.
I doubt they’ll nuke Israel, just having nukes takes away Israel’s only advantage & reduces it to a weak third world country beseiged by enemies on all sides & even from inside. Not much need to nuke it, unless Israel does it first, ‘cause Israel will be headed to a natural death.
Hey I heard rumors that Saudi Arabia has some Paki nukes in exchange for having funded Pakistan’s nuclear program. You know, I think Pakistan is more likely to nuke Israel than Iran. They hate Jews like crazy & can barely control their psycho Islamist population.
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Why fool around and give them time to prepare a stronger defense. Do it now and get it over with.
Iran is feeling her oats again. There will be no Iranian Mullah Empire. The Sunnis hate them worse than they hate us.
Besides, there are lots of ways to bring down Iran. A few “Accidents” at oil centers would cut off the funds. Maybe a little plague to rip through the population? Or maybe a “Terrorist” Nuke in their capital? It wouldn’t take much to take out the bomb making factories, one little part taken out and the whole thing could come apart. Maybe a general could take on the mullahs, kill them all at one meeting? Maybe the Shahs son can comeback leading a new movement? Maybe a revolution could be launched from outside? A little poison here, an “accident” there and things could really change. A single act, in the right place, could do a world of good for the whole middle east.
Its all fake Mo_ham_mads rightiousness, they don’t think logically, they think God has called them to kill. They would certainly nuke Israel...
The worst part to me is when Russia and China jump in to form their own new world at the battles peak, seeing we are vulnerable..
Come Lord Jesus, we don’t care about no stinking false prophet’s 12th Iman..the real antichrist..
Let’s Roll!!
Holy Shiite, that means a lot of dead U.S. muslims also.
This week, his regime authorized a new series of Iranian war games. He ordered the digging of 320,000 graves to bury the enemies of Islam.
Only 320,000 graves to bury the enemies of Islam? What an optimist.
He is calling for the unification of the Islamic world politically and economically, including the creation of a single currency.
That will be a miracle, since his Shiites only comprise 10% of the Muslim world and the different Sunni sects comprise the rest - except for the Sufis whom the other two major muslim groups also hate.
That's the one thing that can always be counted on in Middle Eastern muslim speeches - exaggeration to the max for the illiterate/ignorant crowd appeal. Nasser of Egypt was a master of that sort of oratory.
About 113 wars going on already, probably still going on in Nov.
F***ing idiots, clamoring for national suicide. In a sane world, it would kill the treasonous 'Rats' chances.
I don't think that this is too much to ask.
2 posted on July 8, 2008 12:42:31 PM MDT by SIDENET
It is right after G-d's holidays !
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
Tens of thousands of suicide bomber cells could be activated in the region — especially in Iraq and Israel — and perhaps even in Western Europe and the U.S. and Canada.
This in itself is cause for war.
Strike now, Strike Hard, continue to Strike until Islamic Iran is no more.
I agree with you. Let’s play “real hard ball now” and get it over with — been thinking about this lately...
Agree — bomb Iran now -— Numerous neighbors here in L.A. who arrived in the US in the seventies are very worried about what’s going on and are ENCOURAGING our current administration to get in there and do something.
They detest what’s happening in Iran and are fearful for their (mostly elderly) relatives who never felt they could leave the homeland.
Because WE want an attack in that time period
That way, it isn’t Bush’s war, and the incoming president will have to deal with it in full force right from the start
anyone who cries UNCLE too early will either be in the trash heap of politics immediately or long forgotten, both quite likely in this country...
I think its going to happen since Israel does not have the guts to take out the Nuclear reactors. They keep waiting for us to do it... Why wait when your country’s very existence is at stake?
We might well want that but it would most definitely be "Bush's War" since, unless there is absolute victory, the new President will move heaven and earth to claim it was a mess they inherited. Actually, McCain will have to do the heavy lifting because Obama will get a pass from the MSM automatically.
anyone who cries UNCLE too early will either be in the trash heap of politics immediately or long forgotten, both quite likely in this country...
Maybe in the long term but I suspect the new President will be content with backing the country away from a full fledged nuclear war and we'll be too busy picking up the pieces and dealing with $1,000 oil to worry about history.
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