IRAN: God Wills It, But The People Don't Want It (Iranian youths calling Bush "the messiah")

strategypage.com ^ | April 24, 2003 | Q & D Headlines

[Destro]

IRAN: God Wills It, But The People Don't Want It

April 24, 2003: In Iran, young people are calling American president Bush "the messiah" and wondering when he will invade Iran and free the people from the dictatorship of the Islamic clergy. Meanwhile, the Islamic radicals see the departure of Saddam's forces as an opportunity to spread Islamic rule into Iraq. Most Iraqi Shias apparently don't want an Islamic republic. But neither do most Iranians. Makes no difference. God wills it and things are likely to get ugly before they get any better.

April 23, 2003: The Iranian rebels long based in Iraq, the People's Mujahadeen, say they have reached an understanding with American forces and have been allowed to keep their weapons and Iraq bases, as well as their goals of overthrowing the religious rules of Iran. The US government believes the People's Mujahadeen can muster about 5,000 fighters.

US Marine light armor are now patrolling parts of the Iraq border, checking for hostile (to America) Iranians crossing the border.

The US has warned Iran against sending agents and aid to Iraq in order to try and establish an Islamic republic.

[pgyanke]

Granted Issac was the true legitiment heir of Sara and Abraham, but I don't think maternal or paternal lines of offspring changed God.

Not the issue.

Genesis 17: 19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. [1] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My suggestion on this page is not original.
Dante claimed to have seen Mohammad in Hell.

[dufekin]

NEWSFLASH: It's even better than we thought! The Messiah in Shia Islam IS A RELIGIOUS LEADER who apparently never dies:

The Twelfth Imam is believed to have been only five years old when he became Imam in 874 on the death of his father. Because his followers feared he might be assassinated, the Twelfth Imam was hidden from public view and was seen only by a few of his closest deputies. Sunnis claim that he never existed, or that he died while still a child. Shia believe that the Twelfth Imam never died, but disappeared in about 939. Since then, the greater occultation of the Twelfth Imam has been in force, which will last until God commands the Twelfth Imam to manifest himself on earth again as the mahdi or messiah. Shia believe that during the occultation of the Twelfth Imam, he is spiritually present--some believe that he is materially present as well--and he is besought to reappear in various invocations and prayers. His name is mentioned in wedding invitations, and his birthday is one of the most jubilant of all Shia religious observances.

http://www.1uptravel.com/country-guide-study/kuwait/kuwait6.html

[Steve0113]

soooo? I was in diapers in 1948...didn't stop me from fighting for freedom and getting my ass shot off in 1968.

Not in your own country, unlike the young Iranians.

and the ones who were in diapers in 1983 I trust are out of diapers by now and can deliver to us those responsible for the bombing in 1983

Have you ever lived under a dictatorship?

and can fight for their own liberation...

And die trying. Your talk is cheap. Try that kind of bravado when it's your own government killing you and yours, in your own house. You'll get a different perspective.

[exDem from Miami]

Makes sense to give them a pass. After all, some of us who voted for Clinton in '92 are right wing Republicans now.

[potlatch]

The dominoes are starting to fall! Pray it works out for the good.

[Destro]

history shows that dominoes are both bad theories and bad pizzas.

[potlatch]

I don't know about the theories, but agree on the pizzas!

[philosofy123]

Absolute power; corrupt absolutely. We do not want our president to be King/Emperor/God or a tyrant. He is in service to our country at our discretion.If he does not perform we vote his a$$ out. We do not worship leaders here.