Reason enough. Now go get 'em. Before they try to get us.

Posted by: freewoman at July 31, 2006 10:25 AM

iran will not abide by UN demands, yet expects Israel to abide by UN demands.

Not if, but when will the mushroom clouds grow over the middle east??????????

Israel protect yourself for the rest of the world will not protect you. America and Americans support and belive in your rights of self protection including bombing any country that attacks you even if innocent(?) citizens are killed.....

God has stated that the only choice is for Israel to survive and therefore Israel has to destroy it enemies.

Wars are won by killing the enemy.

iran will use nukes on Israel and America as soon as iran has them. Anyone that does not believe this, should move to iran and work for a peaceful solution with the iranian relegious government.

Preparre, be armed, be ready.

The Texican.
Freedom, the only choice at any cost and the cost will be immense.

Posted by: Texican at July 31, 2006 10:35 AM

Did you hear? The U.N. just announced yet another deadline -- this time past the one the Iranians even imposed on themselves. August 31st.

I couldn't help but laugh at this "Breaking News".

Posted by: Foehammer at July 31, 2006 10:38 AM

I'm with Tex,get ready.

Posted by: Patriot8 at July 31, 2006 11:02 AM

Certainly Hizb'Allah's attacks are intended to serve as a warning of Iran's ability to sew chaos in the region, but as Dr. Walid Phares points out, there is also the matter of the Cedars Revolution and Lebanon's faltering steps towards democracy to consider:

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/07/hizbollahs_iranian_war_in_leba.php

Posted by: Mike at July 31, 2006 11:47 AM

Iran started this with Israel and is wanting it to escalate so they can justify attacking Israel.

It seems the jihadist almost always let us know beforehand that they are going to attack us , never in any great detail, but almost nobody listens .

HUMMM note to self....take some money out of the bank to buy a generator , spare gas cans and gas , mre's and cangoods , new AR-15 and a few cases of ammo.

All before the 21st of August.

Posted by: old-dude at July 31, 2006 11:54 AM

Lebanons non existent attempt to control its destiny shows that Islam is prevalent in Lebanon and as such, Lebanon has been dedicated to support Hebzollah and terrorism since day one.
No surprise here.
Iran is pulling the strings here and you can expect to see a lot of "civilians" dying in the near future.
Of course, the Islamic terrorists will accuse the evil infidels.
No Surprise here either.

Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 31, 2006 11:57 AM

Old Dude....I agree and have already done the same. If people think August 22 is just rubbish or that the Islamists are not eagerly waiting for the 12th Imam, go to this link and read their blogs. The nutter in Iran is going to make it happen (he thinks) and the world governments are failing to pull their thumbs out.

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showforum=80

I believe this 12th Imam is going to be the Anti-christ.

Posted by: The Goobs at July 31, 2006 1:26 PM

Foehammer

The U.N. just announced yet another deadline....That is the same thing they did with Mad Man Insane - resolution after resolution and everyone of them violated. Delay after delay. There must be a purpose by the UN for this - - Uh O, I think I can hear the UN voices now - “Iran hurry up - we delayed it again - don’t take so long - hurry!!”

Time for all free countries to hurry and put a stop to this.

Posted by: THSIMJ at July 31, 2006 2:06 PM

This article is to my mind the strongest proof yet to arrive indicating that the best means of dealing with Iran would be by the detonating of EMP weapons over its airspace, thus rendering it incapable of launching weapons of mass dstruction as its electronic infrastructure to do so will have been rendered useless.

The western democracies, if they wish to survive, had best use the same over virtually all nations of the Islamosphere and the Communist bloc (including North Korea, China, Venezuela, Cuba,and Russia). It has been proven they are operating in unison with Islam and have facilitated the rise of Islamic terrorism worldwide. Humanity has had enough.

Totalitarianism, whether Islamic, Communist, fascist, or Nazism, IS extinction of the human spirit.

Let's all contact our representatives in governmnet and see if we can't wake them up!

Posted by: pythagoras at July 31, 2006 2:49 PM

Winds of War: Shaping the Battlefield
Posted today at the Gathering Storm - http://the-gathering-storm.blogsource.com/

We’re losing the asymmetric war on terrorism. And in a perverse way, some good will come out of it. You’re probably thinking to yourself that I’m one sandwich short of a full picnic, but bear with me.

As I stated in yesterday’s post, asymmetric warfare is another name to guerilla warfare, freedom fighters, the resistance, or terrorism. It’s all one and the same - a military force that has the backing and support of the indigent population and/or has received material and financial support from other countries that use it as a de facto tool of their aggression. The current war that the Anglo-Saxon/Israeli forces are waging against the Islamists who use the jihadists as their military arm is an asymmetric war – and they are winning.

The Anglo-Saxon/Israeli forces are fighting this war alone. The other free democracies of the world are not willing to accept the fact that we are in the beginnings of a world war as the jihadists believe. Nothing new here. It happened he same way in the 1930s. While the world tried to accommodate the fascists regime demands of Germany, Italy and Japan, they in turn knew they were in world wide conflict with the democracies and acted accordingly. The UN can’t bring itself to define terrorism, China, Russia and France are making a profit selling weapons and military technology to the Islamic republics, the appeasers and apologists check the Anglo-Saxon/Israeli tactics at every turn, and the MSM keeps the people in the dark.

We’re on our way to losing Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon to the Islamists. That destiny has already been sealed with the two new constitutions in Iraq and Afghanistan that America and its allies agreed to (snatching defeat from the jaws of victory) and the next election in Lebanon that will usher Hezbollah into power. The Islamist Shiite agenda will then be in place.

The new constitutions of Iraq and Afghanistan states clearly that no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam. Sharia Law will rule over any and all laws passed by the democratic assembly in those countries. As for Lebanon, the end result of the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has made Hezbollah stronger and more popular that ever which will end with Hezbollah gaining majority power when next year’s elections are held in Lebanon.

The end result will be the realization of Iran’s (and Al Quaeda’s) dream. To create an Islamic Shiite Empire that spreads from Pakistan to the Mediterranean, and eventual return of the Caliphate. We could assume that Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Mullah Omar just might compete for that honor. Syria, being Sunni, will eventually fall to Iran’s plans and the more ‘moderate’ Islamic nations in North Africa and Indonesia will have to make their decisions on whether to join this new Islamic alliance.

These developments, in a perverse way is good for the final struggle against Islamism for it will shape the coming battlefield and identify clearly the enemy in the world war to come. The Islamists will no longer be able to hide behind its asymmetric warfare which we can’t to defeat for the reasons stated above, and move the conflict into a traditional conventional war where we can use our military might to win.

The question is how will this conventional war begin? That has yet to be determined. Will it be a nuclear attack by Iran on Israel? Will this new Shiite Islamic Alliance oust the sheikdoms of the Arabian peninsula and gain control of the oil fields forcing Europe’s, America’s and Japan’s hand? Will China sit still for Europe ‘protecting’ the oil fields of the Mid-East or will this create an even wider and more deadly war with China?

The future looks grim.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 31, 2006 7:14 PM

Bibi weighs in on this, in an interview with Rush Limbaugh:

RUSH: We have former Prime Minister Netanyahu on the phone with us from his Knesset office in Jerusalem. We only have ten minutes, so I want to get right to it. First, welcome to the program, and great to talk to you again, sir.
NETANYAHU: Well, it's very good to talk to you, Rush.
RUSH: All right. Some observers in the United States are sensing a new Israel here: less willing to commit to total victory as in the past, on the basis of the way the current conflict with the Hezbollah group's being waged. Is that true?
NETANYAHU: I hope not. I've given my support as opposition leader to the government. The people of Israel, overwhelmingly, have given their support for victory, that is to remove the threat. Much as the US during the Cuban missile crisis said, "Those missiles have to go," we say, "Hezbollah and those missiles have to go," because otherwise there will be no peace for Lebanon, no peace for Israel, no peace for anyone.
RUSH: We're hearing -- I'm hearing -- some discontent in this country. There's some concern that the current prime minister isn't willing to unleash the full complement of Israeli ground forces. If that's true, what's the reason?
NETANYAHU: I don't know. We're in the middle of a war, and I don't want to start second-guessing. I think the important thing is to fix your eye on the goal. The goal set by the government is to remove -- eliminate the missiles and eliminate and break Hezbollah's fighting ability -- and whatever means are required, then those means should be used. Land, air, sea, you name it. I think it's important to understand, Rush, that we're not just dealing with a Hezbollah Islamic militant threat. We're dealing with an Iranian-backed assault on a western country, and we're just the first target, and they openly say that we're the first target.
We're the small state. You are the big states. Europe, though it doesn't understand it, is a middle sized state, so it doesn't really side up with us, but two million of our people are hunkered down in bunkers, when our cities are rocketed, our children are murdered, and when we respond against these terrorists who are hiding deliberately in civilian areas, they attack us. They actually, in doing so, attack themselves. I don't think that the US has any such misunderstandings, any such lack of clarity. I hope that the Israeli government doesn't have lack of clarity. We need clarity in our target, and the target is to remove our common enemy committed to our destruction and something that we have to remove as a clear and present threat to our future, to our security.
RUSH: I couldn't agree with you more. I'm not trying to foment discord between you and the prime minister, either. It's just that so many of us who support you remember past Israeli involvement -- Six Day War, Yom Kippur War -- and it just looks different this time, and so we ask questions: Why? Because like you we all know that the focus of this is Syria and Iran. We don't hear our government talking to us like that. We don't hear our government telling us that in this country. Do you ever sit there wondering, as an individual... I know these are maybe tough questions for you because you're leader of the Likud Party, and you all are very united today in this latest battle with Hezbollah. Do you ever wonder to yourself, why the US doesn't act now to take out the regime in Iran? The entire world knows who's behind this. They've been helping Al-Qaeda, attacking troops in Iraq. They're not far from getting nuclear weapons.
NETANYAHU: Well, I think this is the greatest question of our time. It is not only of monumental importance to Israel, because Iran, while denying the Holocaust took place, is openly declaring its intentions to make another Holocaust with the six million Jews of Israel that they intend to eliminate. Iran also intends to become a nuclear power, an empire, with long-range missiles that now reach every capital in Europe and within a decade would reach the Eastern Seaboard, and they have a crazy, particular Shi'ite conception of a grand apocalypse that's supposed to be taking place right about now, in which millions will die on all sides, on both sides, and this band of Shi'aism will rule the world. Now, you may ask: "How is it possible? Religious wars died in the Seventeenth Century."
Not for them. Not for them, not for the likes of Al-Qaeda who smashed into buildings in New York, and not for Iran that is building an atomic arsenal for that effect. But what they've really done here is far as the first test salvo, and the question of our response -- and by "our response," I mean not only Israel's response to Hezbollah, but the international response to Iran and its way station Syria. I think that's a crucial question that you're raising. Now, President Bush has said something very important just recently, a month ago. He said that he would not let Iran acquire nuclear weapons. That is very important. How he plans to do it, what means he plans to use, of course, he leaves with himself. But there's no question right now that there ought to be a division of labor. The US and the responsible members of the international community -- if you can find them -- they should press Iran and Syria to cease and desist the support and arming of Hezbollah, and Israel should be left to do the job that it must do, that is to disarm Hezbollah and destroy its missile arsenal.
RUSH: Has anybody...?
NETANYAHU: That's what needs to be done.
RUSH: Is anybody stopping you from doing that? Is anybody putting the brakes on you?
NETANYAHU: I don't think so. Not yet, I have to say. I don't think that, you know, we've had -- all wars have limited time. You know, it's not an unlimited amount of time anyway, and I've said that from day one, and the time that you have available you should use with the power that you have available. The more power you use, the less time you need. So obviously we don't have unlimited time and therefore we should use more power, a lot more power to crush Hezbollah. That's what's required, and I think if Israel shows this resolve, if the Israeli government shows this resolve, then America -- first of all America -- would respect it. At the end of the day, so would the Arabs.
RUSH: Let me try this question. It's a little bit of a lengthy question, and I know the phone connection here is not the best but I want to ask you this because it's a topic that's really roiling much of the American population, and that is that the war has two aspects: the PR spin war and the reality.
NETANYAHU: Right.
RUSH: The media, Mr. Prime Minister, suggest that Israel is losing the PR media war and has got to change its tactics so that it can win the PR media war. I don't think that Israel can ever win a media war and I don't think George Bush can ever win a media war, because the world's media is not interested in the facts of reality in this current conflict. You can point out the reality of the Hezbollah people using civilian human shields all day long; it still will be ignored. Do you think you can lose the real conflict with Hezbollah if you also lose the spin war, or do you not care about that, just focus on the reality of actually winning the war as that used to be defined?
NETANYAHU: First of all, win the war. Win the war on the ground and win it quickly and decisively. That would be, always, my first preference. Secondly, you're quite right that from the Twentieth Century on we've learned that to cement a military victory you must have a political victory. To have a political victory you must win the battle for public opinion. To win the battle for public opinion, you must convince that public that your cause is just and the cause of your enemy is unjust. There's never been a more just war than this one, that's obvious. We are fired upon from Lebanon and from Gaza when we left and vacated every square inch, in a totally unprovoked manner. Our soldiers were kidnapped and murdered; our cities were rocketed upon. So this is a just war. Now, can Americans understand that? I happen to think that Americans understand that very well and overwhelmingly so. I don't believe that is the case in Europe -- Western Europe, at least, perhaps in Eastern Europe where they understand power a little better. But Western Europe shows signs of debilitation, signs it's not understanding where their interests are and where morality is. They view everything in a post-colonial prism so to them we are colonialists. We, who are living in our land --
RUSH: Right.
NETANYAHU: -- who are gripping onto our land for 3,000 years, we're supposed to be the colonials. But nevertheless I sense a crack in Europe, too. It is not that they support Israel. It is that they don't support the Islamists, and they don't support the Islamists because they are being plagued by the same plague. So for them it's a pox on both your houses, but what America knows Europe doesn't know. It's our house. It's the same house. Israel, America, the free societies of Europe, we're the same house, and the likes of Iran and Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda, they want to destroy our house. Israel, to be sure, will be their #1 target but we're only their first target, and they say so. They want eventually to get you, and they have no problem and no inhibition firing upon civilians, hiding among civilians. These are, by the way, two war crimes, according to the Geneva Convention. Not only can you not deliberately fire on civilians, you cannot deliberately hide among civilians. You have here this criminal organization supported by criminal regimes with a criminal goal of destroying Israel, but ultimately destroying the West. Let's not be fooled. Let's gear ourselves and fight this battle and let's win it.
RUSH: Well, we admire every effort you're making. We really do. It's tough to wage war on an enemy that considers the death of its own children a victory. Just one more question, because I know your time is limited and you have to go. But I'm trying to figure out how you have a ceasefire, how we can have a ceasefire, with terrorists who are backed by Iran which have as their goal the destruction of Israel. Has anybody, any country, anybody from the United Nations or anybody else explained to you in Israel how this ceasefire, a "sustainable, meaningful ceasefire" with a bunch of terrorists, would actually work?
NETANYAHU: No, I don't think so. I don't think a ceasefire by itself will work. I think it will work the other way. I think running away from terror or not finishing terror gets terror to come back and bite you, bite you even with greater bites. I think that the important thing is what are the conditions that lead to a ceasefire, and it seems to me that the most important thing is to dismantle Hezbollah's fighting ability and destroy that missile arsenal. That's when you should have a ceasefire --
RUSH: Right.
NETANYAHU: -- when they can't fire anymore.
RUSH: All right, so what you're subscribing describing here is a ceasefire that results from your victory?
NETANYAHU: Yes.
RUSH: Exactly. Makes perfect sense to everybody. Well, look, I'm glad you made time for us today, Mr. Prime Minister. I know it's hectic for you right now. We appreciate the time very much and the best to you.
NETANYAHU: Always good to talk to you, Rush. Thank you. Thank you for your support.
RUSH: You bet. That's former prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 31, 2006 7:54 PM

Err folks, Iran has already lied as regards their nuke capability, whether they agree or disagree is irrelevant,they can agree to anything but then continue on with it's development, because there is now way for the US or UN to monitor them.

The Iranian tactic here is to prove to the Muslim world that it is impervious to any criticism, constraint or assault.. IOW Iran has played itself up as a hero to the Muslim on the Street, just as Nasser, Saddam, Bashear Asad etc play themselves up as hero to the Arab..

Iran's goal is more universal reaching across the racial ethnic divide to encompass all Muslims, not just Persians..

The Wahhabis (Saudis) tried that by sending their son Osama into Afghanistan, where he dropped the Gutra, Thawb, Igal for the Shi'a Turban and robe.

Posted by: Nariz at July 31, 2006 8:14 PM

Err folks, Iran has already lied as regards their nuke capability, whether they agree or disagree is irrelevant,they can agree to anything but then continue on with it's development, because there is now way for the US or UN to monitor them.

The Iranian tactic here is to prove to the Muslim world that it is impervious to any criticism, constraint or assault.. IOW Iran has played itself up as a hero to the Muslim on the Street, just as Nasser, Saddam, Bashear Asad etc play themselves up as hero to the Arab..

Iran's goal is more universal reaching across the racial ethnic divide to encompass all Muslims, not just Persians..

The Wahhabis (Saudis) tried that by sending their son Osama into Afghanistan, by using CONSERVATIVE Republicans (who as ever are stupid) where he dropped the Gutra, Thawb, Igal for the Shi'a Turban and robe.

BTW, the first President to cut and run in the face of the Muslim onslaught was Ronald Reagan, Beirut 1983 after the bombing of the Marine Barracks (yeh, he waited four months before he cut and run, and then turned around and funded and supported the Wahabbi ecumenical enterprise called the Base (Al Qaeda) headed up by favorite Wahhabi son Osama bin Laden.

Posted by: Nariz at July 31, 2006 8:16 PM

Excellent article.

Only Terrorists Allowed to Wage War
By Sher Zieve

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16555.html

Posted by: arjun.sevak at August 1, 2006 1:23 AM

"It appears as no coincidence that Hezbollah started to fire rockets into Israel just as the Security Council sat down to draft its resolutions on how to deal with Iran and its ambitions to go nuclear."

I'm shocked, shocked to find that Hezbollah is mixed up with Iran!

Posted by: TUDOR at August 1, 2006 2:03 AM

There's that word "unfair" again.

Posted by: watcher at August 1, 2006 2:21 AM