Posted on 01/21/2006 8:05:03 AM PST by beaversmom
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 21 Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told senior leaders of a radical Palestinian group in Damascus on Friday that the Middle East conflict has become the locus of the final war between Muslims and the West, Irans official news agency, IRNA, reported.
Ahmadinejad, who was speaking on the second day of his two-day trip to Syria, told the leaders of Hamas, Today, victory in Palestine has become a matter of life and death for the Islamic world and for Global Arrogance (the West).
The Iranian president urged the Palestinians to reject moves such as Israels withdrawal from Gaza.
Some point to the withdrawal of the occupiers from parts of Palestine, but this event has already been greatly detrimental to Muslims, Ahmadinejad said.
If the occupiers stay on even one inch of Palestinian soil, the goal of Palestine will not be realised, Ahmadinejad told Hamas leaders, who included Khalid Mashal, the head of the groups political bureau.
We must not let our guard down now for even one moment against the enemies plots. Belittling the goal of Palestine is a great plot that the enemies are after, he said.
Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a myth and said that Israel must be wiped off the map.
Sorry,but I doubt that.
First it must be a DECLARED WAR by CONGRESS!!
Then we must KILL ALL of THEM with the least amount of regard to civilian casualties, and we must destroy everything they own, hide in, live in and WORSHIP in.
It must be total annihilation of our enemy and our enemy's capacity to wage war!!!
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I think Bush does. But, do the American people? Or, are they listening to the treasonous lies of the Leftists?
Power means alot in geo-politics, that I can assure you. Siding with the Iranians is suicide. They may not like us, but most aren't stupid and most aren't signing up for suicide either.
Well, he gets it, at least. There are plenty of "smart" people out there who refuse to accept what this Iranian boob owns freely..
The American public does not understand greatly due to POOR PR from the Bush Administration that these people from birth are taught to hate us.They want to kill us all! It's simply a manner of survival,it's we die or they die.There is no in between.
So instead of being a "real leader"and preventing this from happening,he's trying to make damn sure it happens.This bum is a Jim Jones waiting to happen.
If nukes are deployed, what targets will they be deployed against?
By far the most likely target is Israel. Jerusalem is only "holy" to Islam as a trophy, having been siezed from the Christian kingdoms that held it prior to Islam's bloody wars of conquest. It is more important to them to deny it to Christians and, particularly, to Jews, as those are God's people and Muslims serve a different master.
So, how long would it take to wipe Jerusalem off the map if they only have one bomb? Flight time for one of the missles from Iran to Jersusalem is probably under 15 minutes.
Then what? And what if they have more than one? Ahmadinejad has said he wants Israel wiped off the map. How many bombs would it take to effectively make the entire territory uninhabitable?
Or, the obvious alternative targets are our forces or our economic interests in that part of the world. We can't reasonably expect to stop them from launching a successful surprise attack against our forces in Iraq with a missle, or against one of our carrier groups in the Gulf with either a missle or with a simple nuclear equipped mine anchored to the bottom of the gulf.
Clearly we would respond, but how? Nuke Tehran? How many millions of innocent people are there who are as opposed to these madmen as we are? How many are MORE opposed but don't have the means to fight back? I know some, personally, and if we've paid attention to the blogs coming from there we know there are many. And if we do nuke the Mullahs, what will be the worlds reaction to us?
This may be the most perilous time in human history. I've felt for some time that the Bush/Powell/Rice doctrine that has guided our activities in the war on terror has had, as its primary goal, avoiding an all out war between the west and the Islamic world. I believe that Iraq was viewed as the key log, the piece that if removed from the playing field would fundamentally change the balance away from confrontation and to a reasonable hope of progress. I think it's working and I think that Al Qaeda and the other radicals, including the Iranian Mullahs, see that too. And that's why I think they are going to do this thing. Why they can't allow us to succeed, even if it means their own personal destruction.
But there are other possible consequences to a nuke attack on either Israel or western forces or interests. It might tip the very unstable "western street" over to out of control rage directed at all Muslims, everywhere. How many mosques might be burned or blown up if Jerusalem is nuked by Iran? How many Muslims, or just "muslim looking people," will be dragged down and beaten to death by outraged people? So far all of the madness has been on their part and the rest of the world has cowered and let them get away with it. What happens if the west decides that it really is a fight to the death?
If the initial withdrawls of the Israelis were "greatly detrimental to Muslims", who is to say that any hypothetical withdrawl from the whole of "Palestine" wouldn't be even worse?
The Palestinians have proved, conclusively, that they are incompetent to run their own state. Until such a situation improves, I really don't see how adding to "Palestinian" power is going to help anyone, even the people it allegedly frees.
They were freer under the Israelis!
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Anyone who believes Muslims, ALL Muslims, aren't their enemy, are deluded.
Some are. Most aren't. In Iraq for example, if the terrorists enjoyed majority support of the population, we'd have to be extremely ruthless to suppress it. As it is, we get a handful of daily attacks, some successful-most not, and we are routing the sucmbags with the assistance of the Iraq soldiers and just as importantly, the citizens are ratting them out.
In Turkey, despite having an Islamist party in power, you and I could safely walk the streets of that country and thousands of americans live there.
In America, despite the definite existence of sleeper cells, the vast majority of muslims are here peacefully, and have every intention of remaining so. the celebrations by the local Iraqi populations in the Seattle are when Saddam was captured was fantastic.
The Kurds, also muslims, love the USA.
the Iranian people, by and large, are the most pro-american muslims in the ME and will celebrate wildly when the stinking mullahs are hung from lamp posts.
My brain absolutely cannot process the thought of Pres Bush letting what some people think prevent him from taking out a lunatic who he knows for sure will use nukes if said lunatic is given enough time to develop them. It makes no sense to me.....then again, politics makes no sense to me either.
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