Posted on 01/19/2006 1:22:21 AM PST by mal
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
So rants Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Given his apocalyptic rhetoric, we can understand why President Ahmadinejad might want an arsenal of nuclear missiles. He'd be able to shake down a constant stream of rich European emissaries, threaten the Arab Gulf states to lower oil production, neutralize the influence of the United States in the region — and, of course, destroy Israel.
In all his crazed pronouncements, Ahmadinejad reflects an end-of-days view: History is coming to its grand finale under his aegis. Indeed, President Ahmadinejad magically entrances even his foreign audiences into stupor. Of his recent United Nations speech, he boasted: "I felt that all of a sudden the atmosphere changed there. And for 27-28 minutes all the leaders did not blink."
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Fear not folks.
Just as we nipped Hitler in the bud, before he could start a world war, so too will Europe squash Iran before it can trigger a regional or larger war.
Right?
at least I enjoy to hear this nazi crap over and over...
Either Ape Boy from Iran is talking heaps of trash about it or some jewish extremists are riding the german guilt wave again. Stunning.
..and I think that we are in deep shit with this Iran thing. If I see the german chancelor shaking hands with W agreeing on a diplomatic strategy on the issue I feel trouble ahead.
They are going to discuss it - seriously and for a prolonged time.
leveling the facilities would be of course your job again - embarrassing but true - and I hope it's not the right thing done to late once more. There's a lot at stake this time.
Greetings from Europe (germany)
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Someone put it pretty well yesterday. We can fight a nasty war now (or very soon) or we can fight a nuclear war later.
Very perceptive. One thing that Ahmedinejad knows is that we - the West - are a different people now than we were in the 1930s (although the Europeans were pretty weak then, too). We - both Jews and Christians - have largely lost our religion and our culture and have nothing motivating us but a leftist-instilled sense of guilt for even having once had a religion and culture, with the result that we really want to be liked by creeps like him. His playing the "victim card" is probably one of the cleverest things he has done.
Kinda odd. Bush has been as steady as a rock on the War on Terror and Iran will probably have its nukes within just a few months, so it's definitely Bush who will have to deal with it (Thank God.)
Quite. But I don't agree with his statement that [Iran] must become the victim, and the Europeans the ones who forced his hand., because the Europeans aren't going to do didly squat except talk, talk, talk, or maybe wave around a flimsy piece of paper and pretend they accomplished something.
I agree, the Europeans won't do anything. He's simply trying to try to make it look as if they're attacking him; he makes impossible demands, for example, that even they can't go along with. Then, presto, they're "attacking" poor little Iran, which just wants to have the tiniest bit of nuclear power to keep its feeble little lights burning but the big evil Western powers that are sitting on a pool of oil ... er, wait. I guess he's got some more creative thinking to do on that one.
How low has magnificent Persia fallen! The nation that conquered mighty Babylon and then rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem on God's orders, now has a street punk talking like that other street punk, Adolph Hitler, and making no more sense.
Now they say he even holds his audience spellbound, as der Feuhrer, who studied Mesmerism, also did.
Is this another dress rehersal for the reign of Antichrist, or the real thing?
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We laugh at all this as absurd. We should not.
Money, oil and threats have brought the Iranian theocrats to the very threshold of a nuclear arsenal. Their uncanny diagnosis of Western malaise has now convinced them that they can carefully fabricate a Holocaust-free reality in which Muslims are the victims and Jews the aggressors deserving of punishment. And thus Ahmadinejad's righteously aggrieved (and nuclear) Iran can, after "hundreds of years of war," finally set things right in the Middle East.
And then a world that wishes to continue to make money and drive cars in peace won't much care how this divinely appointed holy man finally finishes a bothersome "war of destiny."
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An antichrist, maybe not THE Anti Christ.
A thought occured to me when I read this phrase. What if Iran's plan really is to build those reactors to generate power? They would then be in the position to shut down their own oil production without being affected. I know the US doesn't get any oil from Iran, but wouldn't their doing this cause the price to skyrocket, even more than it has?
Just a thought.
I fear a nuclear exchange is in our future. The Iranians are gonna get the worst of it though....
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