...of anotha color.
Get it right! ;-)
Posted on 12/14/2005 4:50:36 PM PST by Trueblackman
THE RECENT COMMENTS BY IRAN’S PRESIDENT SHOWS WHY WE MUST STAY THE COURSE IN IRAQ
The recent comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have given justification to our invasion of Iraq and for military leaders in Washington and Jerusalem a nuclear armed Iran is variable that is completely unacceptable.
President Ahmadinejad statements that “Israel should be wiped off the map” and “That holocaust was a myth,” should remind us all that it was Saddam Hussein who used this same type of rhetoric during the first gulf war to justify his SCUD missile attacks against the Jewish nation and his long funding of families of former suicide bombers, who had killed innocent Jewish Nationals inside Israel.
President Bush invasion of Iraq (whatever intelligence withstanding) was bold and forward thinking, the attacks of 9-11 showed that the United States can no long standby and allow threats to simply materialize, while do nothing about them outside of offering idle and empty threats as was done in the 1990’s.
If the United States along with other Western Nations had taken a real stand against the Taliban’s after their takeover of Afghanistan, then it would be possible that Osama Bin-Laden would have never gained a base of operation to plan and coordinate attacks upon American Interests following his expulsion from Sudan in 1998.
Ahmadinejad seems to be steering his nation toward a possible (nuclear) confrontation with Israel and Western Nations and the current 100,000+ troops currently station in Iraq are forming the tip of a ready spear.
The United States not only needs to stay the course in Iraq, but needs to confront Iranian leaders over their attempted interference in Iraqi Affairs as the recent detention of an Iranian Truck(with an Iranian Driver) containing false ballots just days before national elections shows. 1000’s of Muslim Fighters from all over the Middle East have poured across the Iranian Border, along with those from Syria to carry out a proxy war against American and Iraqi Forces and are responsible for the deaths of 1,000s of innocent Iraqi civilians. Iraq has become the default bulwark against Iranian aggression within the region and American needs to fortify that position
Iran’s nuclear program has one purpose and one purpose only, that is to be used as a confrontation tool against American Interest in the region. A nuclear armed Iran could easily cut us off from oil and refinery resources as well as plunge the world markets into an economic depression. Americans could easily find the cost of gas and oil outside of their means and this would be used by Bush’s political opponents as cannon fodder in their attempt to regain power.
Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean, Congressional Democratic Leaders Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and John Murtha have all called upon Bush to provide a timetable for a withdrawal and redeployment of troops from Iraq (cut and run), but for all their rhetoric, they have failed to even consider the possibility of dealing with a nuclear armed Iran and would be the first critics of the cost incurred by Americans as stored reserves of oil started to dry up as the conflict would play out.
The United States has a duty to protect not only our interest in Iraq, but those in Israel as well and American and Israeli Political Leaders should speak with one voice that a nuclear armed Iran will not be tolerated and that both militaries should stand ready to ensure that Iran never obtains let alone threatens stability of the region with nuclear weapons.
Western Nations should continue their diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear program, but the statements of Ahmadinejad show that the window on diplomacy may be closing fast and that military force may be the only way to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The United States runs the risk of being drawn into a wider nuclear conflict with Russia as they would surely retaliate against Israel for the lost of oil fields in the Caspian Sea due to radioactive fallout from an Israel Nuclear Strike, following a Iranian Nuclear Strike on the Jewish Nation, that is a risk neither the United States, Russia or Israel can risk. America must use all means to stop Iran from obtain nuclear weapons no matter what the cost.
Greetings, my brother from another mother...
I would love to read this, but cannot right now. I promise I will read it later, and then I will comment on it.
...of anotha color.
Get it right! ;-)
The only thing that should stay on course concerning Iran is about 100 neutron bombs and glass truck.
I wonder if the Iranians would be pursuing nukes and aiding the insurgency without the message of weakness coming from the Dems?
as good a read on the implications as i have read ,in a short concise matter of fact lay it on the line manner.
great job and i agree 100% with your assesment.
That new Pres of Iran is a phony. Anybody that talks like he does while in that office is appealing to the small group of *&^%kissers that surrounds him. None of them believes a word of it. Xerxes he ain't. He is short like Napoleon and just as amoral, but Napoleon was game anytime, even 2 AM. This guy isn't.
Maybe it's nothing, but this fact begs the question about Hussein's weapons. We all knew that the Iranians wanted nuclear material as Hussein did. Yet now the Iranians are saber-rattling concerning their closeness to making nuclear bombs.
Could what is missing in Iraq be in the Mullahs' hands? But like I said, maybe it's nothing.
Phony story. Didn't happen according to the Iraqi government.
Who knows? I had a dream last night that all this stupidity coming from the Dems was actually a coordinated effort between both republicans and Dems to sacrifice a political party (Dems) in order to deceive and encourage our enemies to reveal their hand. Feign weakness and division. Small chance of being a reality but it would make for a good thriller novel.
Could you post a link and if true I will remove it from the final cut.
There is no question whatsoever in my mind that the 'rats defeatist rhetoric is giving hope to our enemies and could encourage them to do something stupid.
Same goes with the UN and the Europeans. If our "allies" had stuck with us before the way a war might not have been needed at all. Thanks Dems. Thanks France.
Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:41 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections. "This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders. "I heard this yesterday and I checked all the border crossings right away. The borders are all closed anyway," he told Reuters.
Iraq's frontiers are closed for the period of the election. "I contacted all the border crossing points and there was no report of any such incident," Khafaji said. Interior Minister Bayan Jabor also denied the reports, which the New York Times ran prominently, quoting a single unnamed Interior Ministry source, and said it was an attempt to discredit the election process.
The Times story said a tanker packed with partly filled-in ballots had been stopped by border police at the town of Badra, east of Baghdad, after entering from Iran. The driver had told the border police that three other tankers had entered Iraq at other crossings with forged ballots, the unnamed source told the Times. Khafaji said that when he established the reports were false he tracked the source of the rumor, and said it appeared to have come from the Defense Ministry's intelligence unit.
The ministry denied any involvement.
The reports had raised concerns that Shi'ite Iran, which has close links with two powerful Islamist Shi'ite parties in the Iraqi government, was attempting to influence the election. The United States has repeatedly expressed concern about Iranian attempts to gain influence. U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad on Tuesday called Iran a "predatory state".
Rumors and "dirty tricks" have featured in the build-up to the election, the first for a full-term parliament since a U.S.-led invasion overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003. Some Sunni Arab candidates have sought to discredit the Shi'ite-dominated government ahead of the vote, and Shi'ite candidates have disparaged Sunni challengers.
good post!
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