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Surprise! Iran wants the destruction of Israel (and America, England, France, Italy...)
NRO ^ | 10/31/05 | Michael Ledeen

Posted on 10/31/2005 12:21:07 PM PST by StatenIsland

This is what we're up against. It is a frenetic network of fanatical terrorists, supported by a group of mad mullahs hell-bent on our destruction. Forget about the microanalysis of the Iraqi 'insurgency.' This is not primarily a war conducted by angry Baathist remnants of Saddam's bloody regime; it's much bigger than that, and the epicenter of the whole thing is in Tehran, and its ideology is brutally enunciated by Ahmadi Nezhad.

Britain, France, and Italy are at least expelling some of the jihadis, along with some of the most fanatical religious leaders. We are not, so far as one can see, doing even that. And we are certainly not taking any of the obvious, rational, and thoroughly justifiable steps to provide political and economic support to the most potent enemies of the world's most dangerous terrorist regime: the Iranian people.

Sooner or later, one of these many schemes will succeed, and we will have a new version of September 11th. Perhaps only then will our dithering leaders resume fighting the war against terror, a war currently limited, to their shame, to a defensive struggle within the boundaries of Iraq, while they move against us on a global scale.

Faster, please.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; ledeen; michaelledeen; russia
Ledeen on target yet again.
1 posted on 10/31/2005 12:21:08 PM PST by StatenIsland
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To: StatenIsland

I'm now convinced that only a nuclear terrorist attack is going to wake up the West.


2 posted on 10/31/2005 12:23:27 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Semper Paratus
I'm now convinced that only a nuclear terrorist attack is going to wake up the West.

For a week or two. After that, we'll roll over and go back to sleep, again.

3 posted on 10/31/2005 12:27:51 PM PST by magslinger (At the end of the day the only truly educated people are autodidacts.)
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To: Semper Paratus

... and that'd be that. Game over. Thank you for playing. Ya'll glow in the dark now. Radiation cleanup and alternative energy companies and technologies would experience a true reneissance (buy stock now... :) )


4 posted on 10/31/2005 12:29:21 PM PST by farlander
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To: Semper Paratus
"I'm now convinced that only a nuclear terrorist attack is going to wake up the West."

Nope, The Ward Churchill's of the world would say that we deserved it. Face it the left has traveled so far into dreamland that it is no longer possible to wake them up. The best we can hope for is to try and take back the schools so as to keep the loonies away from the next generation. If we can come up with an alternate University system in the same way as FoxNews and the Internet created an alternate media we may have a chance to free the next generation from the Communist / Socialist / Liberal / Progressive or whatever new name the left comes up with for their bankrupt philosophy.
5 posted on 10/31/2005 12:34:07 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: All

can someone link that map of the new caliphate?


6 posted on 10/31/2005 12:42:21 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker!)
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To: Semper Paratus
The problem is that Iran will Probably hit Israel first, leaving the peace mongering American liberals wanting to stay out of it until they take out a major city in one of the fifty states. If we have a democrat for a president when this happens, it could take awhile for Nuclear weapons use. Iran will not strike while George Bush is in office, unless they want Iran turned into a smoldering heap of highly radiated wasteland.
7 posted on 10/31/2005 12:48:46 PM PST by herkbird (Semper Fi)
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To: herkbird

And, there is no way that they will see any connection between Iran and anything else. In spite of the fact that Iranian leaders have scapegoated and demonized America for 25 years, they will say that the Irqanian people never did anything to us.


8 posted on 10/31/2005 1:40:04 PM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: herkbird
The problem is that Iran will Probably hit Israel first...

I doubt Israel is stupid enough to absorb a first strike by Iran. My guess is Israel pulls the trigger on Iran when they deem they have no other choice remaining and the US state dept will chide them for over reacting and try to restrain them...unless we have a sitting president with cajones enough to slap them down.

Ann Coulter nailed it dead center right after 911 when she said (I'm paraphrasing) "the way to stop international terrorism is to kill off all the mullahs and imams, etc and offer the general muslim population the option to convert or..."

Maybe one of the freepers has her exact quote.

9 posted on 10/31/2005 1:54:57 PM PST by kimosabe31
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To: kimosabe31

10 posted on 10/31/2005 2:39:17 PM PST by gunnyg
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To: gunnyg

The wisdom of her statement becomes more apparent every day.


11 posted on 10/31/2005 3:36:53 PM PST by kimosabe31
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To: StatenIsland

In other words:

"We want to be the world"....

good luck, but your gonna get your A$$ whipped if you don't shut your mouth....We are in the next country, and that's not ALL of our military...


12 posted on 10/31/2005 3:37:01 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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