Posted on 01/31/2010 6:49:19 PM PST by edpc
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the "global arrogance" on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
"The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism," Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
"If the Islamic Revolution had not occurred, liberalism and Marxism would have crushed all human dignity in their power-seeking and money-grubbing claws. Nothing would have remained of human and spiritual principles," he added.
Ahmadinejad said that in the three decades of its history, the Islamic Revolution had inspired some great developments in the world.
The Iranian president made the remarks as the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approaches.
Iranians are expected to pour into the streets on February 11 to celebrate the occasion in public rallies across the country, as they have done annually over the past three decades.
very interesting bitt
I am not use to quotations meaning that you were quoting another, I guess being new, you would see most use html or bold, italics, something, so I guess it’s on both of us isn’t it?
Sorry I didn’t know what your “ “ meant on such a fast moving thread, but you are in no place to chastise me, being a newbie, you have a problem here it is taken up in email, not off to a great start are you?
~Anything else I can help with?
With Israel massing troops against Lebanon and Syria - either to prevent retaliation after an attack on Iran, or if war breaks out on their borders, the Ahmadi-Nejad arrogance is serious.
It could be a dirty nuke on Israel (regardless that it would also pollute Palestinians - or equally likely an EMP (electro magnetic pulse nuke bomb - no human damage) on a Western target.
Iran has had that technology for quite some time and has delivery capability from an offshore rust bucket cargo ship if need be.
Possibly using a refurbished foreign flag cargo ship captured by Somali pirates as a stalking horse to make the “delivery”.
Lots of conjecture but little hard fact. Certainly enough for Obama to acquiesce to strengthen US presence in the region - ostensibly to protect our Arab friends.
My suspicious mind jumps out of the box here and into a conspires mode where Obama is setting up a win/win situation for himself.
He has an agreement with pal Ahmadi-Nejad to create this crisis (remember never let a crisis go to waste), he jumps to protect his Arab supporters from Iran.
Things happen.... the Arabs and the West feel direct attack pain. Perhaps in New York or suicide bomber already in the USA in our Malls and thousands of our school children being kidnapped and probably killed- part of retaliation) or Saudi oil fields destroyed.
Now the clincher: Obama declares war on Iran, Congress passes an Act of War, as part of his outrage (at death and damage to the USA or Saudi or other Arab countries or in a change of heart, even to Israel.
With a rapidly angry American populace blaming him for his weakness and inability to Administer or govern the country, he will simply - as per the Act of War DECLARE MARTIAL LAW AND RULE BY DECREE. The ultimate LEGAL power grab and imposed obedience of every American BY LAW.
How easy is that?
Very out of the box but also a very real possibility by those brains which put this useless, inexperienced idiot into our White House. For no other purpose than to ruin America for them. He has served NO OTHER purpose this far.
argh. you are so on the spot.
Thanks for the ping!
What happens to the world economy and all those “materialistic” things homodinejad has been raving about if Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz?
More devastating to the world than a nuke and affects the entire world including the mideast oil producing nations he has no use for.
Think about it
Just curious, what the jist of what you removed?
~~MUST read the great Krauthammer ... PING!
“Where does one begin? Power is no longer a zero-sum game? Tell that to the demonstrators in the streets of Tehran. Tell that to the Tamil Tigers or to the newly liberated Baltic states.
No nation should try to dominate another? Perhaps, but that’s merely adolescent utopianism. The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
No nation can dominate another?
This is simple nonsense. How can a man of such intelligence— and a president of the United States—even allow himself to utter these words?
But most disturbing is the notion that what he called “the cleavages of a long-gone Cold War” are obsolete and senseless.
These cleavages were actually the dividing line between free and unfree, between democratic and Communist, between the West and an Evil Empire that had stamped out the face of freedom in half of Europe and in an archipelago of far-flung colonies from Vietnam to Cuba to Nicaragua.
This was no accidental dividing line. Yet in place of this so-called cleavage, Obama wants to bring about a new 21st-century world of universal understanding and accommodation.
And for that, the U.S. is to be the facilitator, the healer, the interlocutor, the moral example—led, of course, by the man floating above it all, “a fellow citizen of the world,” as he called himself in Berlin.
Indeed, it was in Berlin, in that unforgettably bizarre setting, that candidate Obama offered the best insight into how he sees the world when he asserted that the Berlin Wall came down because “there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.”
As one? If anything, the world stood as two: those who for decades strove relentlessly to bring down the wall and those who for those same decades strove to maintain it—that is, those who put it up in the first place.
The wall came down not because of any kumbaya coming together of people, but because the United States, acting often unilaterally, but certainly with only a few allies, at very high cost in two hot wars (Korea and Vietnam) and one Cold War that carried the constant threat of nuclear annihilation, persisted in fighting relentlessly to contain and bring down the Soviet empire.”
Heck,we could even fight God!
The Global Caliphate started in approximately 33 AD when a certain Jewish carpenter was executed by an oppressive state regime. The rest is history... They mock G-d at their peril...
“Bush is NOT someone Israel would rely on to deliver THEIR message.
More likely the UAE. Dubai in particular and/or Saudi Arabia. I think they are ALL worried about the movement of oil through the Strait. Disruption there is the worst possible thing Iran can do.
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