Posted on 06/03/2007 5:48:17 AM PDT by etradervic
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the world would witness the destruction of Israel soon, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Ahmadinejad said last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah showed for the first time that the "hegemony of the occupier regime (Israel) had collapsed, and the Lebanese nation pushed the button to begin counting the days until the destruction of the Zionist regime," IRNA quoted him as saying.
"God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying during a speech to foreign guests mostly from African, Arab and neighboring countries who attended ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is known as the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has lost public support after Israel failed to achieve its goals during last summer's 34-day war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon—freeing two captured soldiers and crushing the militant group.
The war was sparked after two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah militants in a cross-border raid. The fighting ended with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire that called for deployment of U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanese troops in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel.
Ahmadinejad has made anti-Israel comments in the past.
In October 2005, he caused outrage in the West when he said in a speech that Israel's "Zionist regime should be wiped off the map."
His supporters have argued Ahmadinejad's words were mistranslated and should have been better translated as "vanish from the pages of time"—implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.
because there are legions that wish to talk, have tea and cookies and to understand the feelings of all involved
Better to sell a gallon @ $3+ and make record profits, than have a traffic cone in front of a dry pump with $10/gal. posted.
I wonder if that little weasel ever heard of the Masada complex?If Israel is losing a war and about to be destroyed they will launch every nuke in their arsenal at high value Muslim targets.They might even try a one way mission to Moscow.
Perhaps because he sits on a large percentage of the world’s oil reserves. Without oil Iran would be a pimple on a camel’s butt. With oil he can jerk the West around like a puppet on a string.
The only real answer is for the U. S. to become energy independent as quickly as possible, a la Manhattan Project.
Am I the only one who can see this?
why doesn’t someone stick a sock in it?
That's no way to talk about the State Department. They prefer you refer to them as "delicate wisps of biscuit" instead of the gauche "cookies."
LLS
No, you are not the only one.
LLS
The idea is that of the neighborhood work site. In any of our metro areas, there cannot possibly be more than about 20% of the working population which needs to be at one physical place five days a week. The rest might not be organized enough to work at home, but they could easily work from neighborhood work sites within a mile of their homes four of the five days and substitute electrons for all the oil and rubber. The same is certainly true of school kids.
That would resolve our fuel and traffic problems at a single stroke and pull us straight out of the oil market, other than for the possibility of exporting the stuff.
Am I the only one who can see this?
I see it, but our elected leaders apparently don't. While a Manhattan project could provide alternate energy sources they would take a long to to prove out and become widespread. Our legislators could unlock the oil we already have (estimates are that 90% of US oil in the ground is locked up by legislation for 'environmental protection'). With the drilling closer to home we could reduce our reliance on the middle east and use the existing 'energy transmission systems' to have a quick impact while we develop other technologies. Oil companies would invest in drilling here to save the transportation and bribery costs involved with middle east oil, even knowing that the search for a replacement was on.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.