Countdown
Mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, announced that the countdown to the destruction of Israel has begun. Reuters does its level best to deflect the man's words and paint them in least unfavorable light.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a "countdown button" to bring an end to Israel.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map", has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state but says Iran is not a threat.
"With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a speech.
"By God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future," he said. He did not elaborate…….
……"If you make a mistake and create another war against the oppressed Lebanese nation, this time the angry ocean of the nations of the region will remove your rotten … roots from the region," the president said in another speech on Sunday night.
Time is running out to choose sides. I'm afraid time has already run out for averting this catastrophe that Western disarray has brought about. Oh, and all you true believers in the First Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of Global Warming®? Your prayers are answered. Because you will get a rapid cool down in the atmosphere.
It's called nuclear winter.
By Richard Peterson, Monday, 4 June , 2007 @ 2:00 pm
He’s blowing smoke, again.
There are no nuclear missile launch sites in Israel. The nukes are all on subs. If Israel were “wiped off the map,” Tehran, Ramallah, Medina, Makkah and a lot of other Arab cities would go mushroom just like that.
These fools are as credible as a guy in the later stages of intoxication, and should be treated as such. (Perhaps the purpose of religion is to give people who don’t drink an equal opportunity to act stupid and be a pain in the butt?)
There’s another article in Salon regarding the Six-Day War, claiming Nasser really wasn’t intending to invade Israel, just talking hawkish for the home crowd. The Israelis took him seriously, destroyed his air force in half an hour, and his armored divisions quickly after that.
If you get drunk and shoot off your mouth in a bar, someone is likely to shut you up. Some people are claiming Cheney is trying to instigate a war with Iran, much to the chagrin of the State Department. Ahmadinejad is playing right into his hands.
By Gaius, Monday, 4 June , 2007 @ 2:13 pm
But a drunk in a bar can touch off a pretty bad riot, can’t he?
That may be the scenario, but the outcome will be very bad. The West should have stodd up to Ahmadinejad before this and told him to go home and sober up, so to speak.
It may well be to late to avert the coming brawl.