Posted on 11/01/2005 9:03:34 PM PST by NorthOf45
World warned
Iran's frightening words let us see enemy for what it really is
By Paul Jackson
The Calgary Sun
November 1, 2005
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hasn't taken long to show his true colours and now in the words of poet W. H. Auden in September 1, 1939, the clever hopes of a low dishonest decade are expiring.
We are finally seeing the enemy for what it is. As President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech warned, and as did Auden 65 years ago, appeasement of evildoers doesn't work.
Ahmadinejad last week declared Israel is a "disgraceful blot" on the world and must be "wiped off" the map.
He and his fanatics may soon have the means to obliterate Israel, too, for Iran is in a rush to grab nuclear weapons.
Ahmadinejad's words were backed up by Seyed Massoud Jazihiri, of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, who described Israel as a "cancerous tumour" on the world. Frankly, most decent individuals would describe Iran itself, under its current mad regime, as a "cancerous tumour" alongside, North Korea, under its equally mad leader Kim Jong-il, who also plans a nuclear arsenal and is threatening the world.
The Iranian president's threat -- no, it's not just a threat, it's a promise -- has even stirred Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Martin's and Jean Chretien's Liberal government, faced with 113 anti-Israeli motions in the UN, supported 78 of them, and simply abstained on the other 35.
Not once, until now, have the Liberals felt for Israel's plight.
Now, a flabbergasted Martin says: "This is the 21st century and Canada will never accept such such hatred, such intolerance and anti-Semitism of this kind."
He added: "We vigorously condemn what the Iranian president said."
That's a bit hypocritical, since the stance of both Martin and his predecessor Chretien has been to ignore time-after-time and year-after-year those similar expressions of hatred against Israel in the UN.
Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew also appears to have woken from his slumbers in his apartment in Paris to threats Arab sheikdoms have been making against Israel are real.
"This is becoming just too dangerous," he said. "It's a very explosive combination. Racist ideology and nuclear weapons."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose government certainly doesn't have Canada's shameful anti-Israeli record in the UN, and whose words therefore are surely not hypocritical, expressed "a real sense of revulsion" at Ahmadinejad's plots to see Israel annihilated.
"Their attitude towards Israel, their attitude towards terrorism, their attitude towards the nuclear weapons issue isn't acceptable," said Blair, who also added the western democracies may be forced to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
Actually, that's exactly what Israel itself did in 1981 when its air force performed an incredible feat, flying hundreds of miles at low level, and wiped out Saddam Hussein's Osirak nuclear reactor, sabotaging his plans for an atomic arsenal.
At the time, the UN condemned Israel for its action.
One can't even imagine the grotesque scenario that would have unfolded but for the Israeli assault.
Yet now, the world's democratically elected leaders are finally beginning to imagine what a world would look like with a radical Islamic bomb. Or rather, after an radical Islamic bomb had been launched at some innocent nation.
Even that fawning old fraud, French President Jacques Chirac, found Ahmadinejad's words "senseless and irresponsible" and said Iran "runs the risk of his country being left on the outside by other nations."
So, frighteningly, all that Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been warning about the three rogue nations -- Iraq until being liberated being one of them -- becomes ever more clearly true.
And, as in the 1930s, when the weak western democracies, led by the Liberal-Left, tried to appease Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler at every touch and turn, including letting him carve up Czechoslovakia in the hope, as Auden noted, he would leave the rest of us alone, our appeasement of radical and rogue nations is coming back to haunt us.
A final word from Ahmadinejad to those of us who will still support Israel: "Anyone who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nations' fury."
Well, just let's see who stands firm in support of decency and the tiny democratic state of Israel, and who runs for their perceived own safety.
Ping
Here's another Canadian Columnist writing about the situation in Iraq ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1513843/posts?page=1
God help us all if a Democrat is ever elected President of the US as long as Islamofacism exits.
Can't we just annex Alberta?
God helps those who help themselves. Therefore, we must all be preparing ourelves now for the fights that lie ahead in 2006 and 2008. Make a committment to donate time and money to the conservative candidates that will preserve our Nation and its will to fight. Our troops are fighting overseas and it is up to us to cover their backs here at home by standing against the terrorist sympathizers and anti-American "dissenters" who badmouth their efforts and their Commander-in-Chief. Write letters to the editor and speak up when you can. They are counting on us.
One can be assured that after the Iranian speech, a rather large percentage of location codes of Iranian cities were entered into the automatic shuffle of nuclear balistics launch points.
The result is that more cities in Iran have a target point than ever before because at any time more American missiles are contemplating heading that way if the button is pressed at that moment.
Open mouth, insert minuteman.
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If they were allowed to vote on it, Albertans would probably gladly join the USA of their own free will.
As an ex-Albertan, I can tell you that many, many of us feel we had far more in common with the folks south of us than those east and west.
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Great article....'fawning old fraud'...perfect description of Jacques Chirac. Canada isn't alone among nations that should be ashamed of themselves where Muslim/Nazis are concerned.
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An excellent point. I concur wholeheartedly!
Read Tonight BUMP!
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