Ahmadinejad: "I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers"

A man who believes that could try anything. After all, he can't lose. Note also that he ties victory to Islamic fervor -- a recurring theme throughout Islamic history. Islam has no theological or conceptual apparatus to deal with defeat other than regarding it as a sign that one's Islamic commitment was not sufficiently strong. "Iran President Ahmadinejad: 'I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers'; 'We Have [Only] One Step Remaining Before We Attain the Summit of Nuclear Technology'; The West 'Will Not Dare To Attack Us,'" from MEMRI:

...The following are the main points of the Iran News report of Ahmadinejad's Iftar speech:(6)

The Second Islamic Revolution

"...I told you that the second wave of the [1979 Islamic] Revolution has already begun [with my election to the presidency in 2005], and that it is bigger and more terrible than the first..."(7)

The Connection to God and the Anticipated Muslim Victory Over the Infidels

"On the nuclear issue, I have said to my friends on many occasions, 'Don't worry. They [i.e. the Westerners] are only making noise.' But my friends don't believe [me], and say, 'You are connected to some place!' I always say: 'Now the West is disarmed vis-à-vis Iran [on the nuclear issue], and does not know how to end this matter [with us].' But my friends say: 'You are uttering divine words! Then they will laugh at us!'

"Believe [me], legally speaking, and in the eyes of public opinion, we have absolutely succeeded. I say this out of knowledge. Someone asked me: 'So and so said that you have a connection.' I said: 'Yes, I have.' He asked me: 'Really, you have a connection? With whom?' I answered: 'I have a connection with God,' since God said that the infidels will have no way to harm the believers. Well, [but] only if we are believers, because God said: You [will be] the victors. But the same friends say that Ahmadinejad says strange things.

"If we are [really] believers, God will show us victory, and this miracle. Is it necessary today for a female camel to emerge from the heart of the mountain so that my friends will accept the miracle?(8) Wasn't the [Islamic] Revolution [enough of] a miracle? Wasn't the Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini] a miracle?... "

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"I say that now, by the grace of God, we have gone most of the way; be confident that they will not dare to attack us."

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I'm A Nut Job has surpassed Hitler for sheer insanity. The cukoo is certain he has a direct line to Allah and his choice of words on the second wave of the revolution are the typically negative ones that only a Koran freak would find comforting. This guy must be stopped somehow because he's one of those true maniacs who will gleefully enjoy the death and destruction that come with nuclear war. It is truly astounding how most of the world does not see this lunatic for what he is-an evil maniac who wants world destruction instead of even world domination. How can anyone with half a brain not see that?

Let me put this bluntly: if any "dirty bomb" explodes this weekend in the United States, all the virgins in Paradise are not going to save Iran and Syria and Pakistan from the wrath of the "infidels".
Why do I mention Pakistan? Because after a WMD attack upon Americans, there will be no reason to allow any Islamic state to hold nuclear weapons.

Cut the leashes, crush the nuclear arms and the potentials and send a clear signal to the Islamic world -- if you dare do it again, the rest of you are next.

Don't tread on us.

Yet another reason to damage, as severely as possible, the Iranian nuclear project. Tarbaby Iraq must not be allowed to get in the way. The sooner the Americans withdraw, the sooner the inevitable will happen between Sunni Arabs and Shi'a Arabs in Iraq, and the resentment and fear of Iraq among Sunni Arabs will mount, and they will be more likely not to put an act of indignation (at least the assorted Ozymandiases who run the Sunni Arab countries will not) but, instead, to have a hard time containing their pleasure.

If something goes down in the Middle East Israel can have Syria, the US can have Iran and the peaceniks can have a foot in their rears. THIS time, let's get it done right!

When he is saying "God" I assume he said the name of the false god of Islam and MEMRI chose to use the word "God"?

His comments about getting worried when US warships leave the Persian Gulf (instead of arrive) are actually pretty perceptive.

Let's really spook him and move our land forces from the streets of Iraq to re-inforced bunkers in Kurdistan.

Ah-ha...here it is...ONCE for ALL...for the WHOLE WORLD to see...the Iranian moron says HE HAS HEARD FROM GOD...that we cannot harm them. (This is gonna be SOOO easy...) SO, when we attack them and hammer their nuclear ambitions, then the WORLD BETTER SEE THAT THIS MAN DOES NOT HEAR FROM THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD because the message he heard did not come true!!! (therefore it CANNOT be from GOD!!). Here it is, the litmus test! So if we hurt them , it PROVES he does not hear from God, so the world that gives him so much press time BETTER GET READY to DENOUNCE him at every level and in every way and had better ALL AGREE that he has NO relationship and is NOT a representative og God and should reject him and admit that the freak is EVIL! Let's see if the world can step up to the plate one minute after we hurt them bad!! (cause that's gonna happen!)

"Ozymandiases"

Australian statuary.

"Ahmadinejad"

A deadly fool.

Note also that he ties victory to Islamic fervor -- a recurring theme throughout Islamic history.

Yes, Robert it is a recurring theme throughout Islamic history. Unfortunately, it is still used today to rally Muslims towards whatever cause is on the jihadi agenda.

According to Islamic theology, fighting for Allah brings down showers of grace from heaven. Suicide bombers are viewed as marytrs instead of criminals who violate the rules for engagement that most civilized ( non-Muslim ) nations use on the battle field such as not target innocent civilians.

According to Muhammad, Allah looks down upon the infidel and does not give them his blessing.

"Do not take the unbelievers for friends" (4:144). "Do not be close friends with any other than your own people" (3:117) And "when you meet unbelievers, behead them until you have made much slaughter among them" (47:4).
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Christian theology about fighting in combat is not based on the misguided belief that God revels in blood killing to advance his holy religion- as Muslim theology does.

Christian theology about fighting in combat tends to gravitate around the just war theory, a theory that was developed by St. Thomas Aquainas and is still open today for debate in its application.

In short, Christian believe that fighting for God is permissible under certain conditions. The classic just war tradition gives us three benchmarks: recovery of that which has been wrongly taken, punishment of evil, and overall defense of the common good.

Read about just war here:
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0501/articles/johnson.htm

The just war theory uses justice as the benchmark for getting God's approval of war. It is not based upon the faulty theological notion that God relishes in killing his opponents to advance His kingdom on the face of the earth (as Muslims believe with the theory of dar al islam).

Delusions of invincibility are very dangerous. This man appears to be as crazy as muhammad was, maybe more so. I wonder why he didn't become a mullah because he is more than qualified.

The rhetoric intensifies, but does it mean anything? With these lunatics, it's impossible to know.

I do not expect Ahmadinejad's speech to make much headway in the mainstream media. If it does it will probably be passed off as something only for local consumption in Iran. What it does bring to the forefront is that diplomatic negotiations with Iran are a complete waste of time. It is impossible to negotiate anything with someone who thinks as he does. Hitler was rational compared to this. The other problem I see with this is, are our governments listening to this? Are they passing it off as just more muslim nonsense and blather? Only time will tell. I fear for western civilization.

"I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers"

lol! This guys is hilarious! He sounds like a muslim version of George W. Bush :)

Johnathan; I enjoyed reading your article. Mr. Johnson’s thoughts on Just War are in the finest traditions of the Western world. But can a civilization that practices the tradition of Just War be successful in defending itself against the Fast Jihad and Slow Jihad we discuss here, given the one-man, one-vote democracy that we have adopted?

France will be a Muslim-majority Country in fifty years unless something is done to change the calculus. Things don’t look good for some of our more enlightened ideals. Its ironic that Ahmedinejad and those like him may be idealisms' best hope.

"I have a connection with God,' since God said that the infidels will have no way to harm the believers"... The West "Will Not Dare To Attack Us", says Ahmadinejad

It will be almost too easy to prove such asinine bravado false. How arrogant will he be when the cruise missles start falling? Expose the Midget Madman as the delusional fraud he is. I can't believe he would set himself up so easy to take down. How will he explain to his people that Allah must have called in sick on that day?

Engage target.

If something goes down in the Middle East Israel can have Syria, the US can have Iran and the peaceniks can have a foot in their rears. THIS time, let's get it done right!

Don't we give medication to people who hear voices in their heads?

That being said, can we medicate this lunatic immediately if not sooner?

This bloke gets more and more worrying as time goes on.Lets prove him wrong and blast Iran back to the stone age.

Perhaps, in the light of Hugh's reference, we should re-write Shelley's poem. How if it read as follows -

I met a traveller from islamic lands,
Who said -- "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart....Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is mohammed, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Well, I only changed three words but what a difference they made.

I can dream, can't I?

Dominic.

Sorry, four words and to preserve the rhyme an 's' should be added to the word 'sand' at the end of the third line. None-the-less, I stand by the sentiment.

Dominic.

"I Have a Connection With the Gods, Since they Said That these Greeks Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers" ?.....Darius at Gaugamela after getting his ass kicked twice already ?

"I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers" .....Ahmadinejad at ?

Yeah,like he would be at the fight !

I agree with you aladdinsane57
They've tried to conquer Europe about 2400 ago, but they failed misserably! And not only that, but they had the chance to gain somehting, withing a great hellinistic empire which gave greek science,art,technology and culture, in other words, they had a chance to be civilized by westerners. But as the loosers that they still are, they accepted islam after some hundred years. So fuck them. They ate shit then, they'll eat shit now. It is up to us to make all these bestiality practicians (aka pig-lovers) and pedophiles to get inside the ass hole from which they came from...

Don't expect retaliation if the Islamic fascists launch their nukes or dirty bombs for you know the ACLU will go to the liberal Ninth Circuit and get a STAY and the Democrats will say their constitutional rights are being violated.

And...

C.A.I.R. will cry out Islamaphobia...

Limes: I believe that a civilization that practices the the tradition of the Just War can rightly defend itself against the fast and slow jihad that we discuss here.

This is a complex issue that is difficult to write about in just a few short sentences. But I will give it a shot.

First, let me say that I fully agree with Mr.Johnson's statement:

"In the Catholic conception of just war, the use of force may be necessary to right wrongs and to establish peace. To forget this, or to rework the just war idea so that it is nothing more than a set of rules for overriding a general judgment that force in itself is morally suspect, is to change the substance of the tradition."

Remember that the use of force can be necessary to right the wrongs and to establish peace.

In other words, the use of force can be allowed to bring about justice and establish order. I believe this is what St. Augustine had in mind when he spoke about working to bring about the City of God. War can become a holy endeavor to restore order and advance the city of God.

It is true that there are some "wrong things" being carried out by Muslims in France and Western Europe. For example, the terrorism in the U.K and Spain. Or the Muslim riots in France that resulted in the killing of innocent Frenchmen and the burning down of some Catholic churches- to mention just a few examples.

These actions must be stopped- by force if necessary. The right to defend innocent people and protect a religous tradition that promotes the common good should be cherished in French society and defended at all costs.

It is critical that Europeans and infidels allow the just war theory to be promoted in every corner of the world. But this is a difficult undertaking. Establishing justice and turning a wrong into a right is a challenging endeavor by most standards.

Even in the most successful cases where the Just War was successful, a certain level of consensus about the definition of right and wrong created the right conditions which allowed the forces of justice to overpower the forces of evil.

In today's world, where relativism and political correctness has blurred the definitions of right and wrong, it is difficult to have a general consensus about moral issues. Determining what is truly right and what is truly evil in the modern world is often a slippery slope. What is the benchmark? For some, it is the Bible or Torah. While for others it is American Constitution or even the Communist Manifesto.

But it is true that many people in the west today don't really understand the power of Islam. Sadly, westerners seem to underestimate the power of the Koran to inspire hatred ( evil) against infidels.

Westerners must become more educated and vigilant to stop the advancing intentions of Muslims who are waging a jihad against the west and western values. Westerners must challenge the root cause of jihad, the Koran and Muhammad.

Westerners must understand the connection between modern terrorism, Muhammad, and the Koran.

For the Just War to be effective in today's world, a universal set of norms around justice must become established. For starters, it would be a good idea to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in every corner of the world.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be promoted and fully established -even in Muslim countries. It will establish a higher moral order than the Sharia and level out the playing field for the Just War to be waged.

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Limes: It is absolutely essential that the west does not forget to promote article 18 and Article 19 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This must be the Trojan horse to break down sharia and jihadis.

Article 18.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Hah! As if they really practice those Articles in the Declaration of Human Rights! Just look at what the Jihazis did to Christianity in the Californian School System:

http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/jihazis-are-brainwashing-your-kids-at-school/#more-125


It's like Bizzaro World, over and over...


http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com

It sounds like wishful thinking, like Ahmadinejad is "assuming" the sale. What a bunch of crap. It looks like all smoke and mirrors to me.

But then one nuclear bomb could ruin his whole day. And his argument.

"I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers"

Tell it to Zarkawi.

I object to the way the article above is using the word GOD for "Allah'- the pagan moon-god...

there is a difference, regardless to what Mohammedans & Islamo=christians would have us believe...

Ahmadinejad" is nuts but hes nuts like hitlerThey will not emerge from the Fire. 2:167

he must think he is going to kill the west with the few irbms he poscesses were just the boomers alone could turn iran into a radioactive hole in the ground and if we get hillary as pres in nov he might just win becauze i think rather than fight she would submit and pay jizha but it looks like ahmadinejad follows thid qoute
# Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (But if they desist in their unbelief, then don't kill them.) 2:191-2

# War is ordained by Allah, and all Muslims must be willing to fight, whether they like it or not. 2:216
its time to fight backbefor bush is gone

Nip it in the bud, assassinate it...

Re: Ahmadinejad: "I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers"

This is an aspect of the belief-system that should frighten people: the inability to separate fact from belief and a consequent tendency to bad judgement as counter-arguments posed by reality are ignored or attacked as "Islamophobia" (the equivalent of being called "anti-soviet", "revisionist", etc. in the old USSR). The blurring of the line between reality and fantasy will eventually cause a catastrophe for Ahmadinejad, but it will have rippling consequences to others-both believer and unbeliever.

During WW2 several senior German field commanders on the eastern front noted this blurring of reality and belief with Hitler. Hitler's belief system consigned the Russians to a level vastly inferior to the Germans, and yet the evidence of reality showed otherwise. Hitler had said of Russia (1941) "All we have to do is kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will fall". Yet, one field commander noted, early on, that the Russians (who Hitler said would run) were resisting with growing determination, and that in several pockets of resistance, Russians were fighting to the last man on the late 1941 front. The field commander noted the Russians "are not fighting for Stalin, they are fighting for Mother Russia and to prove they are men with dignity". Yet, Hitler's assumptions continued right through the battle of Stalingrad (late 1942-early 1943) and he only faced reality that he and the Germans were not the best people when the Russians were two blocks away from his bunker (April 1945) so that he had to commit suicide.

The mind-set of Ahmadinejad and of many believers in the Islamic belief-system are similar to Hitler and the Nazis re unbelievers. Eventually they are going to face reality when they bring a catastrophe upon themselves because of their belief-system fantasy re unbelievers. Beliefs are not facts.

Thanks Johnahtan; Although I wish I shared your confidence in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I question its ability to drive forces of ill intent or the voting masses who seem to know more about Paris Hilton than they do about what brought us this far in the evolution of our society.

But fear is a great motivator. And Admadnejad is equipping himself with the tools to create it, perhaps his 20,000 suicide bombers, his biological program, or a nuclear bomb. If something happens, the electorate will demand a reaction with teeth. In the most ethical case, a Constitutional Amendment (or European equivalent) with sweeping restrictions on Islam, in the worst, some version of Yugoslavia.

I've gained a lot of respect for the Catholic Church in the past couple of months in any case.

On the matter of beliefs treated as facts: the current Administration may now be facing reality that democracy (a society where public opinion matters) may not be the deep yearning of all humans. Iraq is not a nation state like Germany and Japan after WW2. It is a stew of ethnic and sectarian hatreds seasoned with Islam. After the break-up of the Roman Empire it took nearly a 1,000 years for the nation state to replace the Roman political structure, the break-up of the Ottoman Empire will require a long period of violence until much of the Mideast finds a stable political system. The attempt to impose that from outside (as after the Ottoman defeat and occupation of the Mideast following ww1) will not work now either.

"I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers"
the monkey man from iran will have limited time left on earth.

So Beasty Boy has a connection with Allah. Is that like sticking your finger into a light socket or what? It's a wonder BB does not glow. He does look happy, but thats probably because he likes his power and noteriety. No one ever paid attention to him before, and now everyone is...what a headrush he must be having. What revelations he must be getting. Allah dont make no small talk. So Allah whispers sweet nothings in BB's ear. The only other person he has done that to was Mohammad. BB is now competing with Mohammad. He is in the same position ushering in Mahdi, as Mohammad was ushering in Allah. Competing with Mohammad must be some kind of blasphemy. What does 'Sharia' say about that? Is there such a thing as a 'messiah (Mohammad) complex' in Islam? Is it considered mental illness or blasphemy? Probably both in my estimation.

On the matter of Iraq and "democracy": Churchill often (somewhat like Lincoln) was eerily accurate in his presentiments. In one memo to LLoyd George (1920) he advocated terminating the occupation of the Mideast and keeping the Ottoman Empire intact. He wanted an easy peace for the Turks and their empire, much different than that for Germany. From A Peace to End all Peace, David Fromkin, page 494: "We ought to come to terms with Mustapha Kemal and arrive at a good peace with Turkey, he argued in a memorandum to the Cabinet on 23 November 1920, so as to stop estranging "powerful, durable and necessary Turkish and Mohammedan forces. We should thus re-create that Turkish barrier to Russian ambitions which has always been of the utmost importance to us". Churchill seems to have had bad vibes re involvement in the Mideast.

(BTW, Fromkin points out that at least 1/4 of the Arab leadership that were negotiating with the British re Jewish settlements in "Palestine" were selling land to the Zionists at top price. I think that the Arab leaders of that time believed that they were going to have their cake and eat it too as per their Islamic belief-system. But beliefs are not facts.)

From Fromkin's book, pages 522-523: "Not merely non-Palestinian Arabs but the Palestinian Arab leadership class itself was deeply implicated in these land sales that it publicly denounced. Either personally, or through their families, at least a quarter of the elected official leadership of the Arab Palestinian community sold land to Jewish settlers between 1920 and 1928."

Yet we constantly hear the claims that the Zionists "stole the land". Meanwhile, the great Arab landowners made the Jewish people pay top price for the lands that would later be cobbled together to form the state of Israel in 1948. It appears the Islamic creed permitted the agreements of sale and it also permitted the Arabs to break the contracts of sale later. The great Arab landowners wanted to steal the land-not the Zionists. The Zionists paid dearly for it.

Here is a perfect opportunity for our "leaders" to take on this nutjob and humiliate (there's that word again) him, or at least further isolate him, politically. Has any prominent Western leader ridiculed this man publicaly for these remarks? None that I know of. (I have to admit here I don't always get a chance to keep up.) The Iranians I know hate this guy and the mullahs he works for and would love for him to get a public dress-down. It would be inspirational. How can we win this "war of ideas" when our public officials can't even point out the obvious lunacy of the Iranian President or articulate the idiocy and danger of his ideas?

bluezion-

That's a good point. Many of the formerly oppressed people in the Soviet Empire said that they inwardly cheered as President Reagan denounced their oppression by the Soviets and their leaders. Lech Walesa said Reagan's words did matter. However, President Bush is not very good at using the "bully pulpit". In fact, he's awful at it. Reagan knew how to take the heat, even when he called the USSR "the evil empire". Reagan ignored criticism on many things. I think he would be very tough on the Iranian thug, and he would ignore the firestorm of criticism that would come after he termed Ahmadinejad a "demented madman" or something along that line.

Let him go on and on like this. Let him build himself up as a chosen individual sent to lead an invincible Iran. Let him spew about how radiant light surrounds him at the U.N., and how everyone was transfixed.

Once he's created this personna for himself, all that has to happen is for him to be taken down a notch and his support will vaporize.

> A man who believes that could try anything.

Just ask President Bush. It was widely reported that in 2003 he said to a Palestinian delegation at the Israeli-Palestinian summit at Sharm el-Sheikh: "I am driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."

> After all, he can't lose.

Well...

Lots of talk on this site about "taking care" of this idiot Ahmadinejad and others.

I don't think that will ever happen. The USA is under resourced due to mega problems like Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine/Israel, North Korea and now also commits to the defence of South Korea and Japan. Iran has got the USA just where it wants, spread too thin around the world, mired either in presence or commitments. And just to help, the rest of the world depends on the useless UN to engage these problems.

Meanwhile, the politicians will turn a blind eye due to their complete disconnect with: the public, and urgency of the issues. Iran knows the politicians for the next two years are only concerned with saving their asses in upcoming elections. That gives Islamists substantial time to further achieve their goals all over the world.

The US is powerless to take care of all these threats. In all fairness, why is it always the US who is expected to do all the engaging and saving mankind’s ass anyway?. Mostly, the rest of the world is absolutely gutless on the threats faced today.

These threats will continue and will intensify from here on until they are threats no longer, but replaced with deeds.

Time is running out.

We are in serious trouble.

I'm not sure madhat is crazy. He knows how to play the bluffing game wih the west. He knows that America is moribound both externally and internally. He knows that the US will not attack Iran, they have for all intents and purposes already said that attacking Iran was suicide. They won't do it.

Bush is too concerned about oil prices, and creating animosity amongst his staunch arab allies. A pre-emptive attack on Iran is simply off the table.

Madhat will be able to get his own bomb, test it as many times as he wants, put it on a missile, and then play the big man on campus. And the west will do nothing but issue condemnation.

The same thing is happening with North Korea.

Meanwhile, madhat's stature goes up in his own country, as he will swagger like a cowboy with a six shooter on both hips.

Soon most beligerent arab nations will have the bomb. Then it will be a mexican standoff from that point on. The US has always said that it would not tolerate a nuclear Iran, but they said that of North Korea, too. That was all rhetoric.

"Not tolerating" a nuclear nation, implies that you intend to physically stop them from becoming nuclear. But no nation on earth is willing to do that.

So, I ask, who is the crazy one? Madhat, who is playing the game to his advantage, or Bush who is having his bluff called?

Meanwhile, China and Russia sit on the sidelines, licking their chops, waiting for America to take a nuclear hit by their proxies.

Essentially, as a power, the US stands alone in the world. The wolves gather around for the kill, and the vultures circle over head to pick the corpse.

The Christian US is the underdog, perhaps 200 million strong at its core, lined up against billions of heathens; the billion islamic maddogs, the half billion traitorous Europeans, the billion hostile latin american indians, the half billion former duplicitous Soviets, the billion strong cunniving Chinese, the billion PC Indians, and the ever fatter Michael Moore.

Against the whole hostile world, can the US hold out? Those nuclear weapons, that I thought as a young man, where the most terrible and useless things ever created, may turn out to be the only thing to save western civilization from being destroyed by the heathens, the way Rome was destroyed.

God bless our nuclear deterrent. I just hope that we have someone in power who will use it if we are attacked. I know Hilary won't. I don't think Bush would. McCain won't.

We need a mad dog of our own. But where art thou?

Dryheat, are you proposing some sort of moral equivalence between Bush and Ahmahdinejad? I have to say, that's an analytically bankrupt position that won't withstand even the most cursory look at the broad scope of their actions from anything resembling a humanistic viewpoint. I hope, for your sake, that you aren't naive enough to believe that adults with actual thinking skills would take that seriously.

God bless our nuclear deterrent. I just hope that we have someone in power who will use it if we are attacked. I know Hilary won't. I don't think Bush would. McCain won't.

We need a mad dog of our own. But where art thou?

Weve had the false prophet ,Muhammad and there is
the anti-christ , Islam !
Don`t worry , everything will work out fine.
Our mad dog is there , somewhere.
Search the web for End Times and scare yourself
silly this Halloween.

August 22:

"God bless our nuclear deterrent.........
We need a mad dog of our own. But where art thou?"

And yes August 22, the vultures are circling.

I don't believe there is a nuclear deterrent. They are not afraid of it. They will use theirs as soon as they get it.

As far as "mad dog" goes, they have him, we won't. The west is too busy with petty partisan politics.

I don't mean to say they are afraid of it, when I say deterrent. I mean God bless those missiles, because we will need them to protect ourselves from utter subjugation. But who will launch them.

Which brings up a technical point. Only the President and vice president have the football with the launch codes. What if Washington was nuked and the chain of command broken, those satchels destroyed and the codes with them? Who will give the order to fire, and where will such a person gets those codes.

I'm afraid that our nuclear deterrent, as designed to be triggered from NORAD, is vulnerable to a terrorist strike. We are looking for missile launches, but have no way of knowing if a nuke is already parked and buried a block away from the Whitehouse, which contains both the president and the launch codes. And in the US system, only the president can order a launch and to do so - he must use those codes in that satchel.

I wonder if there is a Plan R, as outlined by General Buck Turgidson?

August 22, I see your point and yes I think there is a plan in case the President and Vice President is incapacitated. Of course such plan is not likely to be known to the public. Surely one exists, God Willing.

Ahmad states, "I have a connection with God".

Yeah -- his "connection" is with the god of the nether region.

Wasn't the [Islamic] Revolution [enough of] a miracle?

The Islamic Revolution, acceded to by Jimmy & Zbig, was ineed a miracle for pedophiles and Islamic clerics of both the ped and non-ped variety.

Other than that, everybody lost on the whole deal. Such is Islam.

* 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 *

Don’t be so quick to call Prez Mahmoud a nut job or a cuckoo. In the eyes of Islam his beliefs and behavior are rational and indeed righteous. To argue with this logic you must renounce the idea that Islam is a religion.

There is no other right path.

Muslims are NOT in touch with God, nor do they worship God. Because al-lah itself is NOT God.
God is Yahweh or Jehovah. And not al-lah.

The believers who claim emphatically that allah and God are the same are the ones who believe a fairytale about some guy who sat in a cave in the 6th century and made statements about seeing somebody arrive and tell him that HE was the archangel Gabriel -a rep from "God"- but God in this case turned out to be allah instead (but both he and "Gabriel" continued to make the claim allah and god were one and the same). But there was never ANY proof of any of this.

What he shoud have done was hand the Kuran back to whoever it was that showed up and told him "no thanks. "This is a piece of crap, Gabe."

Gabriel works for Yahweh not 'al-lah' (a name which by the name is a contraction of al-ilat and does NOT mean ;'the god' it is its own name and proves it can NOT be Yahweh).

So the whole thing is lie top to bottom. But since Islam commands the believers to lie to the remainder of humanity, it would be no surprise if everything else in it proved to be a lie too (and is). Maybe it was the talking trees and talking rocks. Or maybe it was just hallucinations caused by the smoking of camel poop.

So the believers who claim allah is god are repeating hearsay. And nothing more.

Ahmadinejad might as well tell us that he saw the dish run away with the spoon this morning.

Pythagoras,

Absolutely right on. Allah is not God. If you look at what Allah demands, encourages, threatens, etc., there is no trace of a loving, benevolent god at work here. There is plenty of evidence for a spiteful, vengeful, selfish entity that wants all for itself and doesn't care who or what it destroys to get it.It's the same thing as any other ancient pagan god: destroy for me. Disregard the sacredness of human life for me. Slaughter people for me. Slaughter yourselves for me. And after you've given your all for me I'll get rid of you like yesterdays trash bag.

This is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus Christ. He said, love your neighbor as yourself. Love God first and next, love your neighbor. Turn the other cheek. Do good unto your enemies. You're not allowed to kill yourselves. Sexual sins are forbidden. No sex with little kids or next of kin. No coveting your neighbors stuff or his wife. Opposite, opposite, opposite!! And to top it all off, He died for us...NOT, the other way around.

I once had a friend I used to call the King of Persia. He was always extolling the virtues of Islam and telling me how I should convert because I would be really happy as a Muslim, (Silly boy!!) One day we were discussing this very point and I asked him what it was that Mohammad did that was so great. I said that the amazing thing that Jesus did was that he said He was going to die and then rise on the third day, and then HE DID IT. I asked him if Mohammad had ever done anything like that and this friend shut up. He just shut up, which I don't remember ever having happened. He had no answer and no defense.

Jesus Christ is the difference between True God and True man, and some guy who made up a bunch of crap to impress his wife and realized if he killed people to force them to accept his religion, he could take their stuff, screw their wives and make himself look really important. Now which one looks like the True God?

"Essentially, as a power, the US stands alone in the world. The wolves gather around for the kill, and the vultures circle over head to pick the corpse." August22

Never, ever, underestimate the country that has stood alone before ..... we have been there before and will be again with or without the US.

Are we looking at the anti-christ here? The bible does say the anit-christ will come from persia(for those who don't know persia is iran). I think it also said the anit-christ will be looked upon as a god. Ahmadinejad, as crazy as he is, is very intelligent. He knows he can rally all the poor muslems up and fight the west. You think ahmadinejad really believes he talks to god? You think he really believes in Jihad at all? Hell no. He just knows exactly what to do when it comes to starting violence and by presenting himself as one of the ordinary peoples, he gains even more support. Think about this very clearly, if the moslems really believe the propaganda they see on tv, why wol't they believe Ahmadinejad is in communication with god?

the big question about Iran now is not how much it can hurt the US or US allies, it is how far Iran is willing to go to create the chaos which many Iranians believe is necessary to bring about the return of the hidden imam.
Ahmadinejad's public statements, if sincere, indicate that he believes he has an important part to play in this, and that the Iranian nuclear effort is bound up with this. more worrying still is the suggestion that he actually believes himself to be the hidden imam.
following this logic, it will not be necessary to fatally damage the US, it will be sufficient to wound to the point where massive retaliation, or the outbreak of a general world war, produces the right amount of chaos for the hidden imam to
appear and do his stuff.
so, the really big question seems to me to be:
how much chaos is enough ?

Purple Haze -

You stated, "The bible does say the anti-christ will come from Persia."

I've been studying bible prophecy for nearly 30 years, and I've never read that in the bible; but that doesn't mean it isn't in there. Do you happen to have chapter and verse where it states that the anti-christ will come out of Persia/Iran?

Thank you.

venividivici, Spencer's post says that because Ahmadinejad thinks he talks to God and acts on behalf of God he is dangerous and thinks he can't lose. OK well Bush thinks he talks to God and acts on His behalf too, and he also (apparently) thinks he can't lose. That's a specific practical equivalency, not a general moral one. To accept the argument in the first case and deny it in the second is a philosophically bankrupt attempt to have it both ways.

I hope, for your sake, that you aren't naive enough to believe that just because someone has done good things that everything he does must be right, or that he can't be dangerous.

"...I told you that the second wave of the [1979 Islamic] Revolution has already begun [with my election to the presidency in 2005], and that it is bigger and more terrible than the first..."(7)
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Could anyone imagine President Bush talking about how with his election Republican power was "bigger and more terrible than ever"? How about Tony Blair talking about the Labour party? Or Howard talking about how "big and terrible" Australian democracy is?

Ahmadinajad and his lot don't even have the same frame of reference as the rest of us. He doesn't care that life for the average Iranian (not to mention political dissidents or religious minorities) is dreadful. All he cares about are his messaniac fantasies. Unfortunately he has a lot of support both at home and abroad.

August22:

"God bless our nuclear deterrent.........
We need a mad dog of our own. But where art thou?"

We need a Caesar. Unfortunately PCness has emasculated our leaders. To fight these crazed barbarians we need someone who is just as brutal and cunning. 21st century man is not equipped mentally, physically and emotionally to fight a 7th century war.

Ahmanidiot is a true psychopath. The mere fact that he thinks that he has a direct line to Allah, and that he is being told to take action against the "Infidel", is a sign of his sick mind. Mahamood was also a psychopath. Once you begin reading the sura and the hadith it becomes very obvious, that Allah (which is the Arabic name for God) has been hijacked and turned into a god from the figment of man's imagination. Since I do not recall ever seeing any press conference or news report in which GWB claimed to a direct line to God, I cannot comment upon him from this point of view. I remain cautious towards GWB with regard to his motivation.

Some have asked why did we go after Saddam and not this nut job. Well the answer is obvious, if you think about the question that you ask, and read what is written. We went into Iraq in 2003, and Ahmanidiot was not President of Iran at that time. The former president of Iran was a lot more stable in the mind than this nutcase.

It is unfair to the Iranian people to say that they stand firmly behind Ahmanidiot. There are many Iranian dissenters living in Iran. They are being brutally suppressed. I am waiting to hear the fate of the Ayatollah who did speak out and said that there should be a separation between religion and the state. He was arrested and I have not heard further information about his well-being. His supporters were also arrested in their hundreds. Iran has a large number of bloggers and many of them are dissenters. Their activity is being curtailed by such measures as being forced to use dial up instead of broadband connections. Satellite dishes have been confiscated and smashed to pieces. There is a groundswell in Iran against the present regime, but it cannot swell to the point of revolution because of the brutality of the present Ahanidiot regime.

This man is extremely dangerous. He issued the demand to GWB to either convert to Islam or suffer the consequences. Ramadan is about to end, and if you know the Koran, then you should know that after the fasting comes a renewed onslaught. This is in line with the Ayatollah who is in charge of religious affairs being photographed with a rifle in his hands. The message delivered on October 13 in the mosque was unmistakable, especially to those who understand the meaning behind the carrying of a weapon. This is a declaration of war. It is world war III, whether we want to accept that fact or not.

The NK puppet of Iran has also declared war, and everyone must beware the situation that is slowly building up.

All the same, we are the ones who are to blame for the situation, because we allow millions of babies to be slaughtered through abortion on demand, and we accept the death of the sick, elderly and disabled through euthanasia. According to how one should understand divine revelation, there has been a build-up in the desire for divine retribution, and the Lord often uses wicked people to bring about that retribution. It must not be forgotten that the wicked who are used in such a fashion, also end up feeling divine retribution. We can change the situation and stay God's hand by asking forgiveness for such grievous sins. However, when so many refuse to believe in God, then there is a real problem. Do not just abuse the enemy, pray to God that He will protect us in our hour of need.

"France will be a Muslim-majority Country in fifty years unless something is done to change the calculus." Posted by limes.

limes;
Not to worry, it won't take that long to end this. It will all be over long before this time span. That may happen in fifty, but giving a look to current events, it will likely "hit the fan" by the end of this decade.

The world is fast approaching a major conflict with islam.

Limes:
I am not advocating for western countries to add article 18 & 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to prime time television.

But I do wish that more westerners would become interested in seeing the declaration promoted around the world.

Sadly, many westerners would rather watch entertainment shows about Paris Hilton than watch news specials that highlight the oppression and violence which Muslims are doing to infidels around the world.

How superficial and anti-intellectual our western culture is becoming!

Thank God that the Pope has the spiritual fortitude to speak out against violence which is condoned by Islam. He should be given a heroes salute.

I am afraid that the only way that westerners will boldly stand up to Islam is if there is another big terrorist attack that threatens our lifestyle.

# Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (But if they desist in their unbelief, then don't kill them.) 2:191-2
# War is ordained by Allah, and all Muslims must be willing to fight, whether they like it or not
considering nut job follows islam and seems bent on getting nukes and using them maybe its time for a first strike or put 2 or 3 la class boomers on station and let him know that the next time there is a suicide bombing attack on any colaltion force both packistan and iran are going to glow in the dark why pakistan do you ask who the heck gave the info on building nukes to nut jobs peaple and would launch if iran was taken out
the other thing we could do is tell our envormentalist to foff and got the oil out of the protected sites in ak and put more money into devoloping the ab tar sands betwen the two there enough oil to make us self suficant and how hare would it be to make nukes if nut job was not raking in all that money from oil,and the saudi;s were not getting billons they need to pay for jihad against the west it would cut them off at the waist