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Reuters reports:
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.
Well, he hardly needs to.
Well thank God the End of the World countdown is coincident with the FL Disaster Preparedness sales tax holiday. Pretty much everything one needs to survive the end of the world but ammo (grumble, grumble) is tax free this week. And Charlie Crist just “happpens” to be returning from a trip to Israel last week. Mebbe I’ll buy a new gun AND ammo.
...And a battery powered coffee grinder. Because there’ll be hell to pay if I run out of coffee. Having to chose between nuking people and not having coffee, I’ll pick nuke ‘em every time.
You can heat up your coffee with leftover nuclear waste!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 04 at 10:52 AM • permalinkNot to worry, Prof. Juan Cole will be along shortly to tell us that it’s only an innacurate translation by dem wiley jooz at MEMRI trying to make Mahmoud look bad…
::puke::
What’s worse, Ahmenukejihad and his apocalyptic bluster, or Cole telling us to pay no attention and go back to sleep?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 04 at 11:14 AM • permalinkPlease forgive me for my ignorance, but what does Israel have to do with Iran?
Does Israel export terrorists?
Do they fund terrorist activities?
Do they do anything whatsoever to destabalize the Iranian government, economy, or society?
It sounds more like a means for the religous leaders and the government to distract the Iranian population from demanding accountability for a corrupt and incompetent governing of the nation.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 04 at 11:29 AM • permalinkThis isn’t anything new. Ahmanutjob has been promising to wipe Israel off the map for some time now. This latest thing just sounds like he’s trying to rouse a flagging power base. If that’s the case though, and he really is in political trouble, then he’s twice as likely to do something really, really stupid.
#5 - You don’t need Juan Cole if you have…Webdiary!
They have been spending the week claiming that a threat to ‘destroy the Zionist regime’ means something like ‘change the government of Israel’.
See an example of the lunacy here from one of their moonbat mainstays.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 04 at 12:15 PM • permalinkEven if ‘regime change’ was Ahmadesertjackal’s goal, it’s interesting but absolutely expected that there are addled imbeciles who think that’s a fine tactic when Iran is looking to bring it about, even if it means interfering with a liberal democracy, while when the Coalition was looking to achieve a regime change, to end ruthless brutal lunatic dictatorship in Iraq, then it’s all blood for oil and imperialism and Walmart.
Moral relativism was such a useful invention for those hypocrites.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 06 04 at 12:44 PM • permalink#10: The reality is that ‘Zionist regime’ means the current Zionist government of Israel – not the nation of Israel
Great link, Dylan. Lot’s of moonbat fun. As to the bit I have quoted: suuuure. It’s a well-known fact that Muslim fanatics are very careful in making distinctions. But, of course, there’s no need to make distinctions in this case because Minijihad was pretty clear that he was talking about Israel - period.
#10 Dylan
As Damian states, why are you having a problem with this? Ahmandbimbobad is simply going to nuke the government. The ordinary people of Israel have nothing to fear.
If he were going to go after the WHOLE country he would have to file an enviornmental impact statement with the UN. Has he done this? No!
#12 & 15: The guy is crazy.
What is even more strange is the notion that ‘regime change’ in Iraq is code for death and destruction for a
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 04 at 03:17 PM • permalink(apologies for hitting that ‘enter’ key)
What is even more strange is the notion that ‘regime change’ in Iraq is code for death and destruction for an entire nation (655,000 Lancet endorsed deaths and counting) yet ‘regime change’ by Iran with regards to Israel is some sort of parliamentary exercise.
Madness, of course, but try and argue with them and you will be banging your head against the brick wall or idiocy.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 04 at 03:19 PM • permalinkAhmadinejad needs psychological help. Can someone get rid of him please?
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 06 04 at 06:43 PM • permalinkDear MOSSAD,
please liquidate the fucking goon.
Thanks,
Yours Sincerely,
HumankindPosted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 06 04 at 06:46 PM • permalinkGood point yojimbo.
God willing the arrogant Pharaohs of Teheran, like Ahmedinejad, will being about the destruction of Iran. They are certainly working hard to do so.
#8 Wronwright
Israel’s offense to Iran is to exist, nothing more. It offends the gigantic, overweening vanity of the Muslims who run Iran that despised Jews rule a tiny sliver of land that had once been ruled by Muslims. For this unforgivable affront to their puffed up vanity the response must be genocide.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 06 04 at 06:49 PM • permalinkHitler was quite open about his intentions and appeasement gave him the room to act on those intentions. Why are we repeating the same folly?
Why indeed, Darrin. It drives me fucking crazy.
I know many leftists- having been one myself in a past life - and they’re so obsessed with Iraq (or rather, their version of what’s going on there) that they just can’t see anything beyond that.
Nothing. Oh, sorry, yeah, asylum seekers and David Hicks.
The fact that there is a nation pursuing nuclear weapons that has actually said they will blow up another nation as soon as they have one, seems just to not register.
But when it comes, it will be Israel’s fault.
They brought it on themselves, you konw, because of those f-ing refugee camps that have been there since 19 f-ing 48, refugees that will not be taken in by any of the neighbouring Arab countries….
But anyway, the fact that Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Iranian government have all pledged themselves to the annihilation of Israel (by which they mean, the annihilation of Jews ie kill them all), just doesn’t really mean much to your average Labor voter (or Democrat voter in America).Posted by daddy dave on 2007 06 04 at 10:27 PM • permalink#8 According to a young socialist idiot I had a chat with last year, Israel is the biggest exporter of terrorism.
And everyone knows they have nukes and are aggressive.
When it was pointed out to this person that Israel may have nukes, but it has never used them, I was advised that Israel’s aggression is hypothetical.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 04 at 11:27 PM • permalinkFunny.
The SMH had nothing to say about any of this today.
Instead, they were complaining about Israel proposing a boycott of Mamma Mia, the Musical.
Imagine how many thousand words would be allocated to Israel attacking Palestinians, yet because this week it’s the Lebanese flattening them (i.e. Jenin that actually happened) they haven’t even noticed.
#29
In a worst case scenario, Israel would take a huge hurt but keep existing as a nation, a place and a people. The arab nor the muslim will be able to make that claim once all is said and done, if the implied road is chosen.
Actually, the Iranians believe the exact opposite - that the death of 5-10 million Arabs is a bargain, in exchange for killing (another) 6 million Jews.
On the other hand, this is a pretty ‘out there’ scenario in the opposite direction.
#32
Dan is right. The Arabs, Iranians included, don’t give a shit about the Palestinian Arabs. Hence if they were to be taken out along with 6 million Jews, so be it.
It was the same in 1948: the Arab states invaded Israel and even if they won, they would have not given any state to Palestinian Arabs. Indeed, they weren’t even an entity really, until the 6-day war. Only then did they discover their nationalism.
Ahmadinejad deserves missiles launched at him from all directions. Then he would shut the hell up.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 06 04 at 11:58 PM • permalinkWhat I meant was, if the Iranians do pull this off as they say they want, then the population of the “arab/muslim world” will be obliterated. There’ll no longer be any reason to hold short or continue to pretend that there’s any coexisting with them.
200 years later and they’re a dim memory that those academics that dwell on useless trivia will argue over having actually ever really existed.
I mean the billion or so of them, all of them, where ever they live.
#34
Grimmy, I’m not convinced that people worldwide will all of a sudden drive to their local Muslim suburbs and go postal.
This is why I believe Islam needs reformation (remotely possible), not destruction (even more remotely likely).
That doesn’t mean large sections should not be destroyed, by the way.
It’s too bad people are more worried about global warming, which thus far has a death-toll of around zero.
#36, Dan Lewis:
Yep, never know until it’s over but don’t discount the concept of a real ‘rage break’ among large portions of our population. Also, we wouldn’t really need to do the eliminationism on a personal one-on-one basis, at least at first.
We did invest huge amounts of cash and labor into building a really nifty nuke load-out. Gotta get some return on that investment sooner or later.
Also, about your reformation idea. I thought the salafi/wahab was the reformation? Prior to that islam was devolving into localized ritual and blending with other religions and beliefs. Wahab was all about bringing islam back to its roots.
I don’t have access to the tardis so no way of knowing for dead sure, but I honestly do not see any way at all that islam will be able to coexist with non-islam.
Islam was very much born through war (read battle of Badr, for example) and for as long as there’s both islam and any sort of other on the same planet, there will be war by islam upon that other.
Again, I’m guessing but that’s how it lines out from my current perspective.
#14 Can’t claim victim status if you’re not around to see it now, can you?
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Uh oh. The one thing the Palestinians seem to have mastered is the punching of buttons (and related explosive ignition devices). I’d take this as a very serious threat. Not least because it’s being made by Mybadmood AaahhhOOOOga Minijihad. Big mistake, not “engaging” this guy and his regime early in the Iraq war (and by “engaging”, I don’t mean jaw-jaw).