Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making the same mistake that Hitler did before the end of the Nazi regime. Mahmoud like Hitler blames the Jews for all things bad, and like Hitler blaming the Brits,French gov't after their WW1 treaty as being too harsh. lslamist terrorists will follow the path of the nazis unfortunately it might take millions of deaths to stop them.

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at June 3, 2007 8:48 AM

Ahmadinejad's rhetoric sounds like Hitler reincarnated.

So, when do we take this fellow out before he begins his "timetable?"

Posted by: darcy at June 3, 2007 9:23 AM

Everyone, if you can or desire to, watch Fox News Sunday near the end of the hour when Chris Wallace is going to have someone speak on "the nature of Islam."

Wanna bet it's PC rubbish by someone who doesn't know anything about Islam? We'll see.

Posted by: darcy at June 3, 2007 9:26 AM

Tick-tock....

Posted by: Foehammer at June 3, 2007 9:30 AM

And the little liberals love this iranian dictater. I wonder if this iranian sand mite understands the full capasity of repercussion.

Posted by: mustang65 at June 3, 2007 9:41 AM

If the Administration lets Iran get away with this, if it does nothing to stop the nuclear project, this will be one more element, tbe final element, the never-to-be-surpassed element, in the fiasco of the mess in Tarbaby Iraq, a mess that could, if both Islam and Iraq were seen aright, be a "victory" in what is not a "long war" but rather a war without end, and a war in which sentimentality about Muslims and about Islam, the kind that is reflected in such remarks as "winning hearts and minds" should have no place. That sentimentality, that inability to study, calmly, Islam and its tenets, attitudes, and atmospherics, prevents many people who would never accept their own ignorance in other areas, includng those presumably "tough-minded" (but also ignorant, also sentimental) generals who still believe in the damned "mission" of the Administration in Iraq, to stand back from the crisis of the moment, to cease these bright-idea cockamamie notions of applying "generally-accepted counterinsurgency principles" as if it were an accounting matter applicable across the board, push the misleading phrase"war on terrorism" from their minds, see the folly of the Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations Project, and instead think only of this: how do we make the colossal investment in Iraq further our, not Iraqi or other Muslim interests. And the way to do that is not to work to hold Iraq together and make Sunni lions lie down with Shia also-lions, but to leave them to their own, permanently hostile devices, and hope that co-religionists on both sides pour in their men, their money, their weaponry, and above all focus their attention, into Iraq).

And if Iraq is a mess, it will then be a mess that will preoccupy and worry Iran. And meanwhile, there is plenty to be done within Iran, to stir up Iranian Kurds inspired by Kurdish autonomy in Iraq or even independence, and plenty to stir up the Arabs of Khuzistan put upon by the Iranians (and that is where the oil of Iran is located), and the Baluchis, who are Sunnis and persecuted by the Shi'a of the Islamic Republic, and finally even the Azeris. There is plenty to do -- but to do it right now, not wait, not be mired, in the Tarbaby, rapidly becoming the La Brea Tar Pit, of Iraq.

Petraeus, if he comes to his senses, has the power to return, and to say we must get out, and Bush at this point has no power to stop him. Bush has no power at all to keep his mad train madly going, if the generals still in Iraq (not the ones who left, who were asked to leave, or who like Major-General Batiste had simply quit, not becuase they were "cut-and-runners," but because they had come to understand, some clearly, some less so, what folly and confusion and squandering for America the Iraq venture had become.

Posted by: Hugh at June 3, 2007 9:42 AM

They can dream about it

Posted by: LazarOfSerbia at June 3, 2007 9:42 AM

And by the way, no rest for the wicked.

Posted by: mustang65 at June 3, 2007 9:55 AM

OT, but wanted to get this in:

Everyone has been noting the MSM's sudden and increased mention of 'muslims' when it comes to these attempted terror attacks recently.

I DO NOT think they are 'waking up.'

I DO think they are prepping things for their favored political party, for the 2008 Presidential Election.

I hate to say but I am pretty sure we shall have a Democrat President in 2009. A (small) chunk of the vote he or she gets, will be do to the (mis)perception that they are 'strong' on terror.

Once they are installed, the Real agenda will come out.

And we won't be liking it. But I am sure the Jihadists will.

Just doing some thinking... ;)

Posted by: Gary at June 3, 2007 9:55 AM

'due'

Posted by: Gary at June 3, 2007 9:56 AM

People, people, the "Power-Player of the week" on Fox News Sunday was HIRSI ALI!!!!!!!!

OMG, IT WAS GREAT!

Posted by: darcy at June 3, 2007 10:00 AM

"He pointed out the Palestinians as an example of a people who draw encouragement from the ways of the Iranian people."

...THe Palestinians also draw machine guns, land mines, rockets, IEDs, grenades, mortars, RPGs and much ammunition from the Iranians.....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at June 3, 2007 10:16 AM

The real questions that have to be answered: What will happen to Iraq if America, and the other coalition troops leave to soon? These questions need to be clearly and concisely addressed. Will Iran move in and take advantage of a weakened Iraqi Government? How important are the demographics here? Imagine an Iran that has taken over Iraq along with its assisting proxy country Syria. Is Iran fighting wars by proxy, IE Hezbollah,hamas ,and a array of several other Islamist groups ? Do you want to see an Iranian style Mullahocracy almost on the border of Israel? Why is Turkey staging large divisions of troops on the Northern Iraq border ? Does a military need a staging area close to the enemy? How many Generals do you know that would fight a war by giving up ground to an enemy? Do you think the Islamists will be more emboldened if we leave Iraq and feel that the west can be beaten because they do not have the stomach for a long fight? If we leave Iraq will the Islamists, and Al-Qaeda start to move towards the great satan with greater determination? Just asking.

Posted by: Mackie at June 3, 2007 10:21 AM

If the Administration lets Iran get away with this, if it does nothing to stop the nuclear project, this will be one more element, tbe final element, the never-to-be-surpassed element, in the fiasco of the mess in Tarbaby Iraq, a mess that could, if both Islam and Iraq were seen aright, be a "victory" in what is not a "long war" but rather a war without end, .....

A sentence without a period? Yes, well if we can finish the war with Iraq -- what will be the point of taking on Iran anyway?

The days in the west were you "win wars" is over -- that is simply not the way western leaders think anymore.

Note the different thinking with Iran?

He is talking about thinks like "coming to an end;" "winning the war;" and saying the kinds of things you should be hearing from people like bush.

I believe that ultimately Iran will win -- becasue they want to win; the west will lose, because the leaders don't believe in winning -- only containment and management.

Western thinking has to go back to an older less PC paradigm otherwise it WILL be enslaved under sharia.

There's not too much to figure out.

Posted by: witness at June 3, 2007 10:28 AM

Yes, well if we can't finish the war with Iraq

Posted by: witness at June 3, 2007 10:30 AM

"The real questions that have to be answered: What will happen to Iraq if America, and the other coalition troops leave to soon?"

Mackie,

I used to ask those questions but now I couldn't care less. The people of Iraq deserve to have the coalition leave "too soon". They know who the jihadists are but they keep quiet. They're not willing to fight for their own freedom because they don't see fellow Muslims as oppressors. To heck with them.

"Do you think the Islamists will be more emboldened if we leave Iraq and feel that the west can be beaten because they do not have the stomach for a long fight?"

And what if they are emboldened? The people of the Middle East (including Iraq) would rather see us leave than see freedom flourish. If they think our turning our back on Iraq means they can beat us they're in for a rude awakening (or maybe a permanent slumber?) They boast about how much they crave death, so let's take them at their word and give it to them. Boy will they be surprised!

Posted by: PMK at June 3, 2007 10:44 AM

Iraq discussion aside, I agree with Gary. I know many here will argue about Iraq, but that's not his or my point about the MSM gearing up.

The MSM IS talking the "see how bad the Republican foreign policy is" route TO BETTER ENSURE the Democrat front-runners' comments get through as more sensible.

This is so anyone who'd normally vote Republican or Conservative in any sense of the word becomes too irritated with Bush policy to try & change leaders, but to just BAIL for the Left.

I AM PISSED, BUT I AIN'T STUPID...and I won't fall for THAT ONE (suspect few if any on this site would). Question is, what about the rest out there???

Let's keep reminding ourselves WHO is behind the MSM & their reporting EVERY TIME, and we'll be just fine.

Posted by: Miss_Anthrope at June 3, 2007 11:13 AM

Talking of John Lennon, the following lyrics of Imagine is what he seems to be going by:

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too

1. No religion other than Islam, as dictated in Quran 8:39;
   
2. No religion, since the others would have been eliminated, and Islam itself is universal. If something is universal, the category wouldn't exist.

Posted by: Infidel Pride at June 3, 2007 11:23 AM

Ahmedinejad is a vaccine against our own enlightened arrogance. Somebody forgot to tell him that history is over.

Posted by: pez at June 3, 2007 11:54 AM

President Chimpy in Iran is a mster of agit-prop- in fact, shouldn't the Mahdi already arrived?

As for Iran's nuclear program and Israel, I suppose the trick is to figure out what's real and what's propaganda.

Posted by: s at June 3, 2007 11:57 AM

President Chimpy in Iran is a mster of agit-prop- in fact, shouldn't the Mahdi already arrived?

As for Iran's nuclear program and Israel, I suppose the trick is to figure out what's real and what's propaganda.

Posted by: s at June 3, 2007 11:58 AM

Anticipation

We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway, yay
And I wonder if I'm really with allah now
Or just chasin' after some finer day

Anticipation, anticipation
Is makin' me late
Is keepin' me waitin'

And I tell you how easy it feels to be hizballah
And how right to destroy Israel
But I, I rehearsed those lines just late last night
When I was thinkin' about how right a fight might be

Anticipation, anticipation
Is makin' me late
Is keepin' me waitin'

And tomorrow we might not be together
I'm no prophet and I don't know allah's ways
So I'll try and be your mahdi here right now
And stay in power 'cause these are the good old days

Posted by: crusader rabbit at June 3, 2007 12:11 PM

Another announcement by Ahmadinejad of "Israels Destruction". How many have there been so far?

Iran is electing a new president in '09, and I seriously doubt Ahmad will be reelected. This could be the year he carries out his devious plan to attack Israel, folks. Hunker down.

Go Israel!!! We are with you!!!

Posted by: champ at June 3, 2007 12:40 PM

That's to bad we will not get our soldiers before we rid Iran?! ?;;?

Posted by: MZ at June 3, 2007 12:58 PM

Admadmadofjews said it right the time of destruction is near to rid these tryants! To hell with you Amadmanofjews!

Posted by: MZ at June 3, 2007 1:02 PM

There is little time to correct this situation.

If the world leaders had any guts at all, they would stand up with ONE voice at the upcoming G8 summit in Germany and tell Iran the jig is up.

Tell Iran to retreat to within their own borders, physically, ecomomically and philisophically, pull in their arms of infulence and support of hezhollah, hamas, and all others, verifyably demonstrate your giving up of nuclear ambitions because the "countdown to your own destruction has begun".

Say it with resolve, say it now. Show them the consequences for all Islamic ambitions around the world. Say it now because it is almost too late.

Now say to the muslims in the west, those who have not assimulated, this warning is for you too. You will be doing the submitting from now on. You will be rooting out the extremists instead of deflecting blame, hanging your hat on the victimization game, instead of being apologists and deceivers,you will become citizens or you will get out.

"There is something profoundly wrong"
"... when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism. There is something profoundly wrong when there is so much distrust of our intelligence community that some Americans doubt the plain and ominous facts about the threat to us posed by Iran. And there is something profoundly wrong when, in the face of attacks by radical Islam, we think we can find safety and stability by pulling back, by talking to and accommodating our enemies, and abandoning our friends and allies. Some of this wrong-headed thinking about the world is happening because we're in a political climate where, for many people, when George Bush says 'yes,' their reflex reaction is to say 'no.' That is unacceptable." - Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Sorry, I am dreaming today.

Posted by: sounder at June 3, 2007 1:14 PM

Maybe its not such a bad idea to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan, which keeps Iran permanently in the American military sandwich. It maybe expensive, but how much more will it cost to tame this Iranian Chihuahua at a later date.

Posted by: Bar at June 3, 2007 1:18 PM

Not commenting on the nuclear problem directly, the president hinted that "Khomeini believed that when a nation reaches a point where it makes a decision, no power can tackle it and this is the road Iran is taking."

That's what the Japanese thought when they attacked Pearl Harbor...

Posted by: duh_swami at June 3, 2007 1:40 PM

I might have to write my own book on this damn subject before we finally take action. I hope not.

This will have to do for now:

The Road to Victory in Iraq Runs Over Iran and Islam

Posted by: Foehammer at June 3, 2007 2:15 PM

The countdown to Israel’s destruction announced by Iran did not worry anyone attending the recent event at the St Gallen, bearing the well known characteristics of the deterioration of academic life in Eurabia.

On Thursday 31. May at the opening of the St. Gall University Symposium in Switzerland, Dr. Seyed Mohammad Khatami, Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran explained that lack of spirituality is the problem of the ‘West’ which has come to dominate the world.

In 300 years of wars, the ‘West’ should have learned that mastery science alone cannot solve our problems. Khatami cited Karl Popper saying that whenever man embarked on building heaven on earth, he created hell.

Natural resources are subject to exhaustion and their depletion leads to competition and conflicts. Modern man instrumentalizes human life and science. Colonial exploitation of man by man is rooted in this view and reflects the present global crisis, the former president of Iran said. One cannot build paradise on earth built on science. Modern world suffers from one sidedness and world domination. This resulted in the real crisis of the environment, limitation on freedom and injustice. This has brought extremism, violence and terror. Development must now be sought in a way that departs from the present paradigm, according to Khatami.

We need to expand the diversity of human nature. A beautiful Koranic verse, according to Khatami is that God will not change any person unless they have undergone an inner change themselves. A culture of dialogue rooted in sincere concern will open the way for peace and justice. Nature and air in the Koran is seen as the cradle of man and not the source for appropriation. As long as the selfish and domineering profiteers reign, love and peace is postponed.

In the 1980’s Nixon anticipated that the cold war would come to an end, Khatami said, and now a new enemy must be found. That is when Islamophobia was created. The civilization of dialogues foundation created by Khatami in Geneva in the UN will work to break down the hatred and threats between Islam and the West

We would like to profit of the huge scientific achievements of the ‘West’. But it is spiritless, cold. But the east can provide this element. Because there is no soul to the ‘West’s’ achievements, they are built on exploitation, destruction of the environment. The destiny of human man is so complicated but interesting. Instead of looking for violence and war, we should learn from each other and cooperate. Let’s have the dialogue with each other, Khatami suggested.

Look at nature, one hand pockets the profit but all humanity suffers from the ozone hole. Heidegger said technology is not just a tool to be used. Khatami pleaded that the consuming sprit should be changed.

“His Excellency offered of the most extraordinary perspectives ever presented in the history of St. Gallen”, gushed Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International. “Very, very inspiring”.

“Dr. Khatami my heart is still palpitating”, glowed a female student, “the East can teach the West spirituality, but is that still possible today?”

We cannot issue a decree but the ground is prepared for such positive evolution Khatami said. The end of the 20th century was the era of the huge crises. Postmodernism broke with tradition and criticized modernism. Nature and the human is a tool and thus we suffer. The crisis in the East has a root in the West. The East suffers due to the West. Even in Islam western style of life is contagious. Rumi the great Iranian philosopher articulated the great thirst for spirituality.

“Dr. Khatami you have given us a remarkable expose today” Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach summed up the speech: “the limit of secularism and the limit to enlightenment in West which we inherited from the 19th century is evident. I was amazed by your quote from the Koran; we must change our inner self. From my background which is Christian it echoes the words of Jesus, you need a new birth so that your eyes are washed and your ears opened., A tremendous opportunity for dialogue a remarkable session I wonder if I can ask you all to stand and applaud for all that Dr. Khatami has said to us.”

Khatami’s speech can be viewed at the link below.

http://www.stgallen-symposium.org/symposium/programme/programme_37_th.htm

Posted by: Hugo Schmidt-Fischer at June 3, 2007 2:16 PM

I'd love to hear Doctor Khatami explain how I exist in a universe of the Qur'anic god's creation. I no longer have any doubt at all that I'm not doing what I'm doing by chance, so I'd love to know how that is. Odd that such enemies of Islam would be allowed to manifest at all if we are all Muslims waiting to "revert". I most certainly have no intention to do anything but oppose Sharia, Islam and any other incarnation of 7th century dogma that seeks to destroy my country and strip the naive citizens of the West of their rights while they wallow in Dhimmitude or abject ignorance of the dangerous truth.

Lord Griffiths is a damn coward and a fool for making such a comparison at the end of that speech and showering accolades, and it is that kind of outlook on the world that has forever allowed evil to thrive and ultimately has lead to the power of the lie of Islam in our own time.

If Hell exists, Muhammad is burning there:

A cask by losing centre-piece or cant
Was never shattered so, as I saw one
Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind.

Between his legs were hanging down his entrails;
His heart was visible, and the dismal sack
That maketh excrement of what is eaten.

While I was all absorbed in seeing him,
He looked at me, and opened with his hands
His bosom, saying: "See now how I rend me;

How mutilated, see, is Mahomet;
In front of me doth Ali weeping go,
Cleft in the face from forelock unto chin;

And all the others whom thou here beholdest,
Disseminators of scandal and of schism
While living were, and therefore are cleft thus.

A devil is behind here, who doth cleave us
Thus cruelly, unto the falchion's edge
Putting again each one of all this ream,

When we have gone around the doleful road;
By reason that our wounds are closed again
Ere any one in front of him repass.

- Dante's Inferno, Canto 28

Posted by: Foehammer at June 3, 2007 2:37 PM

Since the Iranians are flouting international law, shouldn't all of their ambassadors and other reps be arrested and held against their country's future complaince with the world's demands?

Otherwise we are simply allowing their terroristic agents to infiltrate our countries.

Pressure needs to be put on this delusional and militant verminous gang.

Let them lose their feelers.

As a foretaste of having their head squashed. (Or worse.)

Posted by: profitsbeard at June 3, 2007 2:43 PM

Frankly Hugo, I dont give a ...A Gable line from an old movie. Gone with the Wind, I think.
Khatami can talk all day, talk all night, talk till he turns blue, and when he's done, if he's done, no one will have a clue...Allah willing...

Khatami will never replace Clark Gable, or Clark Kent for that matter. He talks a lot but has no basic talent...

Posted by: duh_swami at June 3, 2007 2:49 PM

I find the following interesting, after Ahmadinejad makes it clear over and over again, his intent is "Israels Destruction",
this is going around Muslim web forums....

Ahmadinejad never said "Israel should be wiped off the map" (implied genocide), it is deliberate deception in the translation.

Ahmadinejad is now ..having to wear the "wacko Jew destroyer tag"...(poor guy)..

The VICTIM of Israel's deceptive story....

WTF

He ONLY calls for the removal of the regimes that are in power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future.......

Hummm...but thats OK?

http://judicial-inc.biz/wikipedia.htm

Memri (The Middle East Media Research Institute) - was founded by Colonel Yigal Carmon, who spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin. Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence.

Retrieving another now-deleted page from the archives of Memri's website also throws up a list of its staff. Of the six people named, three - including Col Carmon - are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html

Memri's intent is to find the worst possible quotes from the Muslim world and disseminate them as widely as possible. One of its ‘crown jewel’ translations was Iranian president Dr. Ahmadinejad’s last year speech – When he asserted (in Persian) – for the removal of the regimes that are in power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future. Nowhere did he demanded the elimination or annihilation of Israel. He called for greater governance for Palestine. The word map did not even feature. And the president made plain that the Holocaust happened (though not necessarily six million Jews were actually killed), but, he argues western powers have exploited the memory of the Holocaust for their own imperialistic purposes. What the mainstream ran with is complete deception.

Original text of Dr. Ahmadinejad’s speech:

http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-603386

http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2006/05/ahmadinejad-lost-in-translation.html
Memri’s Israeli deceptive story:

Ahmadinejad: Lost in translation
From Today's Little Red Email
It was October last year when we came home, flicked on the radio and listened aghast to the news that the Iranian president denied the Holocaust had happened and said the state of Israel should be wiped off the map. ‘Christ,’ we thought, ‘this nut job’s playing into their hands with this kind of rhetoric.’ Since then “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion” as one US academic has described the Iran/US imbroglio has ratcheted up to high alert with Seymour Hersch of the New Yorker reporting that the White House is all prepared for nuclear strikes. It would take just 12 hours to deploy nuclear weapons for a bunker busting strike that would kill a million Iranians according to conservative estimates commissioned by the Pentagon. Nuclear armed planes are now on constant alert and public opinion has been framed around those mad, mad statements on Israel by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But what if the pronouncements by Ahmadinejad that cast him as this season’s baddie incarnate had been a) mistranslated and b) taken out of context?

When properly translated the Iranian president actually calls for the removal of the regimes that are in power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future. Nowhere does he demand the elimination or annihilation of Israel. He called for greater governance for Palestine. The word map does not even feature. And the president makes plain that the Holocaust happened, but, he argues western powers have exploited the memory of the Holocaust for their own imperialistic purposes. What the mainstream ran with is complete deception.

The deception has been aided by the fact that much of the media use an ‘independent’ company called Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri) for translating Middle Eastern languages. Memri just happens to be owned by two right-wing neo-con Israelis: Meyrav Wurmser, the wife of one of Dick Cheney’s aides (and ex-special assistant to ‘Strap-on’ John Bolton), David Wurmser and former(?) Israeli Military Intelligence officer, Colonel Yigal Carmon. Indeed a look at Wikipedia’ s incomplete staff list seems to suggest a heavy Israeli bias in staffing and at least two more ex-Israeli Military Intelligence people. Still the little red email is sure that’s just a coincidence, as is the fact that the Israeli army (presumably military intelligence) has also used this mistranslation tactic in the past.

And once Ahmadinejad had been brushed with the wacko Jew destroyer tag, it was a short hop, skip and ein Sprung before he was alongside Adolf Hitler in the pantheon of baddies. Like Milosevic and Hussein before him, Ahmadinejad’s Hitler comparison is as sure a sign war is imminent.

Unlike Hitler though Ahmadinejad doesn’t rule Iran, nor does he control its foreign or military policy. The man in charge of all that is Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran is a theocracy, and Khamenei is the theocrat-in-chief. To give you an idea of where Ahmadinejad lies in Iran’s political hierarchy, note that no one can even run for the presidency in the first place without the approval of Khamenei and the Guardian Council, a group of six clerics and six conservative jurists that are selected by Khamenei.

Ahmadinejad serves the purpose of being a believable bogeyman. He’ll find his Ph.D. in civil engineering and being a founding member of the Iran Tunnel Society useful if Seymour Hersch’s bunker-busting nuke allegations come true.

Posted by: Joe Schmoe USA at June 3, 2007 3:06 PM

the solution to cut off the nuclear iranian menace is not invading that country which is very complicated,the real solution is effect based operations (EBO) ¡in ten days that threat dissapaear! read this article that explain it
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2006/04/collapsing_iran.html

Posted by: Bernardo at June 3, 2007 3:14 PM

Electro-Magnetic-Pulse over Iran?

Anyone?

Posted by: Laughs_at_Silly_Jihadis at June 3, 2007 3:19 PM

Speaking of John Lennon, Ahmadinejad should met the same fate Lennon did.

Posted by: CaptainGrevious at June 3, 2007 5:07 PM

the Iranian goosesteeping president should worry more about high umployment, high inflation, crime, drug abuse, inadequate housing, etc. His remarks about israel's destruction is a diversion to the many problems his government have created over the last 30 yrs.

If the Iranians have any common sense, they would get rid of him as president, one way or another.

Posted by: callmeinfidel at June 3, 2007 5:47 PM

"countdown"? gee...what a shock, and so timely, at their Dday-5 weeks to go.
Nothing like telegraphing your intentions.

Posted by: jcom972 at June 3, 2007 7:31 PM

Just commenting on the posting by Hugo Schmidt-Fischer - Khatami's lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling. "One cannot build paradise on earth based on science..."...But, frankly, dear Mr Khatami, to judge by the example of Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia the attempt to build paradise on earth by the forcible imposition of sharia creates...pure hell. And so far as I can see from the evidence of history, in Arabia, in the Holy Land and the entire Middle East, in North Africa, in Egypt, in the Balkans and Turkey, in Pakistan and Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the ceaseless external and internecine warfare, rampant corruption, ruthless exploitation and oppression (both of poorer Muslims and of non-Muslims) and gross personal extravagances indulged in by Muslim rulers tends over time to bring about ecological and social collapse. Environmentalists should look up what happened to the Arabian oryx once the sheiks got hold of modern firearms. Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad didn't just record the dust and ashes to which eretz Israel had been reduced by centuries of Muslim despotism; he also recorded the misery and ruin presided over by Muslim despots in Syria and Lebanon.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 3, 2007 7:34 PM

The division by Islam of the world into dar-el-Islam and dar-el-Harb is emblematic of its contempt for unbelievers, who are the Islamic equivalent of Hitler's untermenchen. Iran's thugocracy should be wiped out.

Posted by: jewdog at June 3, 2007 8:03 PM

l think we need to give islam an expiry date, say like July 4 2007.

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at June 3, 2007 8:10 PM

Heck, if memory serves me right, the father of the last shah changed the name of Persia to Iran to impress hitler, since it means "land of the ayrans", just one more echo of the nazi past, and among the eerie parallels to the same.

Posted by: jcom972 at June 3, 2007 8:39 PM

PMK

We won't leave too soon. Big oil wants to control Iraq and do not want China or Russia to get hold of the oil.

I know many will not hear what I'm saying, but if you dig deep enough....all political CRAP is about money.

In the minds of croprate fat cats, our kids can be blown apart all day long - so long as they can make huge profits.

Sickening bastards.

Posted by: The Goobs at June 3, 2007 8:46 PM

http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/05/news/international/iraq_oil/index.htm

Posted by: jcom972 at June 3, 2007 9:14 PM

VERY interesting Newsweek article.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/needtoknow/2007/04/want_middle_east_stability_mov.html

Now, go to www.blb.org and look up all references to Babylon in the book of Revelation.

Posted by: The Goobs at June 3, 2007 9:16 PM

Jcom972, excellent link, excellent article. It proves big oil has their fingers in the Iraqi pie.

I'm sure our corporate fat cats are happy to have China, Vietnam and India having a piece of that pie....after all, they're moving our factories to these countries to line their fat wallets even more - at the expense of middle-class Americans. They need these countries to have access to that oil if their factories are to keep running.

I have one word for you.

GLOBALIZATION

Posted by: The Goobs at June 3, 2007 9:24 PM

That garden dwarf should wait and see who is going to have the last laugh. Certainly not him.

Posted by: hemoglobin at June 4, 2007 6:03 AM

Why don't we start killing these people. It's not like we haven't got the technology. That's what the British should have done when Ayatollah Khomeini passed that death sentence on Salman Rushdie, that and deported thousands of Muslims back to the paradise of Pakistan.
I'm waiting for the Left Wing rabble, the ones currently rioting at the G8 summit, to show shock and amazement at this dictator's words. I'll be waiting a long time.

Posted by: Ian at June 4, 2007 6:36 AM

The Goobs;
The thought of moving the UN to Iraq is interesting. (Me being one that likes to consider issue/solutions from the polar extreme and then step toward the more rational). What I've been finding most interesting as of late is the number of far lefty liberals that comment on these blogs. A statistical study would likely show that I agree with around 20% of the blow-back regarding articles such as this. Frankly it worries me that the conservative side is so content and silent. Something is working for the "can't we just all get along?" corporate/academic/political controlling hippie left. It seems that all we have to hope for is the right wing candidates like Tancredo can bring some reality into the equation. I really don't think this day is going to work for Republicans.

Posted by: Abrog8 at June 4, 2007 10:29 AM

Ima-mad-dindong's insanity is wrapped up in the same packaging as that of the nazis and the imperial jap warlords: the same genocidal rhetoric, the same yap about universal peace and the uprising of the oppressed. Only the dates and names of the players have changed.

Posted by: desertdawg29palms at June 4, 2007 12:43 PM

Ima-mad-dindong's insanity is wrapped up in the same packaging as that of the nazis and the imperial jap warlords: the same genocidal rhetoric, the same yap about universal peace and the uprising of the oppressed. Only the dates and names of the players have changed.

Posted by: desertdawg29palms at June 4, 2007 12:44 PM

"Frankly it worries me that the conservative side is so content and silent. Posted by: Abrog8"

You know....I used to be very right of center, but I'm starting to get disgusted. Rush sounds like he believes that Republicans can do no wrong. Neil Cavuto thinks our healthcare system is perfect and is trying to force-feed the public that socialized medicine is bad. I had it in England and it was brilliant. No doctor bills to try to understand. No fighting with the insurance company. No worries of not being able to afford healthcare. If I lost my job, I'd still have national insurance and I wouldn't have to worry about losing my home for medical bills. THAT will never happen here because what NO One wants to say is that our politicans are selling our country out to corporate america. By that I mean that they are not loyal to the average citizen but are only loyal to those who fund their campaigns and promise them lucrative jobs down the road. This is why neither party is prepared to enforce the existing laws regarding immigration. Corporate America does not want border control. They want cheap labor that they can pay under the table while they drive down wages and drive a bigger wedge between the rich and the poor. NO loyalty. All greed.

The reason we have no Republicans willing to be critical of our government is real simple.....

BREAD and CIRCUSES. The Romans knew it and our current government knows it. Keep the people fat and entertained and they are less likely to rise up and become political. Maintain the status quo whilst you sell the country and its freedoms out from under the complacent citizens.

We criticize France, but at least they have the gumption to protest and demand change when their government slights them. We just moan, drive our pick-up trucks to Wal-Mart and put more Americans out of work - but oh well...."I'm all right jack."

The country I loved growing up....the patriotism I have always felt is being chipped away. Our politicans are not patriots they are globalists and they will destroy this country.

Posted by: The Goobs at June 4, 2007 4:21 PM

P.S. How about we demand a NATIONAL referendum on the illegal immigrant issue? Ask WE THE PEOPLE what WE want? What do you think folks?

By the way...I was interested in Fred Thompson until I saw his voting record - that he voted AGAINST elderly being able to buy their drugs from Canada.

Seems he is in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry. Oh well...what can we expect from a former lobbyist?

Posted by: The Goobs at June 4, 2007 4:24 PM

Back to topic...
Same thing putin says doesn't exist, is the very same thing that the mOslem munchkin is really referring to about his "countdown".

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4275

...much to the chagrin of such notable "experts" as john "breck boy" edwards, the "axis of evil" isn't counted out just yet.

Posted by: jcom972 at June 5, 2007 1:06 PM