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Who lost Iran?

by Speranza ( 90 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Iran, Progressives at February 27th, 2010 - 4:01 pm

Who lost Iran? The Left did. Starting with Jimmy Carter and continuing with cynical Democratic ex presidents  (and a current president) we’ve seen appeasement, obstructionism, and out and out sabotage of Republican presidents who actually wanted to confront the mad mullahs who are on the verge of obtaining a nuclear bomb.

The Left printed a false story (either in Newsweek or Time Magazine – I forget which one) that the Defense Intelligence Agency claimed that Iran had abandoned its nuclear ambitions years ago, the Left (in the form of the unspeakable Zbigniew Breszinski a former NSC head under Carter) wants American planes to confront any Israeli planes that that fly over Iraq to strike the Iranian nuclear facilities (something that will never happen by the way). By the way does anyone for a moment think that had Saddam remained in power he would have sat back and allowed Iran to go nuclear without trying to get a hold of a bomb himself?

by James Lewis
“Who lost China?” was the Republican slogan in the 1950s, after Mao Zedong conquered China and turned it into a Communist tyranny. Jozef Stalin was in power in the Soviet Union at the time and controlled half of Europe. China and Russia were both nuclear-armed tyrannies, and democracy was in retreat all over the world.

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We are once again threatened by a fast-rising rogue state, run by a totalitarian, suicidal cult, soon to be armed with nuclear weapons. The life-or-death question for the coming elections should therefore be: Who lost Iran?

We have to pin that tail on the donkeys who let it happen. The Left is always boasting about their “compassion” and “progressivism” — and most recently, they are boasting that they are “the educated class,” when they have nothing but abysmal ignorance to show. Grandiose boasting and abysmal performance — who does that remind you of?  It’s a shocking sight. But as long as the Left controls the organs of propaganda, the schools and the media, it will be an uphill battle to tell the simple truth.

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The responsibility of the Left for this looming disaster is undeniable. Who enabled the viciously anti-American Khomeini revolution, right at the height of the Cold War? (Jimmy Carter!) Who allowed the suicide cult of Khomeini to get the biggest weapons of mass destruction ever? (Jimmy! Bill! Barry!) Who radicalized the Democratic Party, so that a once-decent group of mainstream politicians were replaced by radical Lefties? (The Left.) Who constantly sabotaged efforts by sane US presidents — all Republicans — to stabilize the Middle East? (Jimmy! Bill! Barry!) Who failed to protect this country against the biggest terror attack ever? (Bill!) And who didn’t lift a finger to keep the Khomeini fascists from getting strategic missiles and nukes? (Barry!)

There you have it. Who lost Iran? The Left. The Left has constantly sabotaged US defenses, always agitating to expose the civilized world to nuclear terror.  Who blocked anti-missile defenses in Poland and Czechoslovakia? (Yes.) If ever the world has been led by a suicide cult this is it.

Bush and Cheney were trying to stop the two dangerous powers in the Gulf: Saddam and Iran. As a direct result George W. Bush was bruised and bloodied for two terms. The Left — Carter, Clinton and Obama — go out of their way to surrender to Islamic Fascism whenever they can. Obama just appointed a Muslim Brotherhood agitator to be his ambassador to the Organization of Islamic States.

At some point we’re no longer looking at stupidity and ignorance on the Left, but rather at real malevolence, a real desire to destroy this country and civilized life. When you see the same people always driving the school bus into the same marsh, over and over again, you have to finally realize they are really acting out of destructive hatred. And that is how they sound on their “progressive” websites: They are filled with rage and hatred. These are just not normally constructive people.

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When — not if — Ahmadinejad gets his fingers on the nuclear button, it is our responsibility to pin that tail on the donkeys. The media will scream and Blame Bush for Iranian nukes. We have to tell the truth, and ensure that it is never forgotten.

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Once that nuke goes off, Americans must come to their senses.

Obama is not the Messiah. He’s more like the Prince of Darkness.

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~Open Thread: Purim 5770 Edition~

by WrathofG-d ( 188 Comments › )
Filed under Humor, Iran, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Music, Open thread, Religion, World at February 25th, 2010 - 12:30 pm

Netizens, for the Jewish people Purim begins this weekend on Saturday night.  Thus from me to you and your families, I wish you all a very joyous month of Adar, and a blessed and happy Purim sama’ach!…even if you don’t celebrate it!

Here is the general Purim story (in which the hero is a Woman), in Lego form:

Purim is Judaism’s most dramatic, fun-filled holiday. When else can you dress up like a bunny rabbit and eat doughy triangles filled with prunes and poppy seeds?

Purim occurs on the 14th of Adar. (In certain walled cities like Jerusalem, “Shushan Purim” is celebrated on the 15th of Adar.)

The main event is reading the Book of Esther.  Set in Persia 2,300 years ago, the “Megillah” (as it is commonly called) recounts how a seemingly unrelated series of events spun together to save the Jewish people from annihilation. The quickie version is as follows:

When King Achashverosh throws a huge six-month party and the queen refuses to follow orders, she is replaced by a new queen – Esther the Jewess. Esther’s uncle Mordechai, the leader of the Jews, uncovers a plot to assassinate the king — putting him also in a favorable position with the king. All this comes in handy when Haman, the king’s top advisor, obtains a decree to have all the Jews destroyed.

In the end, through a complex twist of events, Esther gets the decree reversed, Haman is hanged on the gallows, and Mordechai becomes prime minister.

The name Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther) actually mean “revealing the hidden.” Unlike every other book in the Bible, Megillat Esther never mentions God’s name even once. The hidden hand of God is revealed through the maze of events. There are no coincidences.

Megillat Esther teaches us that life challenges work out for the best, because what appears as obstacles are really opportunities to develop ourselves for the better. And it all comes from God’s invisible hand that guides our fate, every step of the way.

-More information can be found here, and videos here.  Last year’s post can be found here.

{The Article}

One major aspect of the month of Adar, and of Purim specifically is the idea of JOY!  So, whether you are Jewish or not, enjoy this open thread and be happy!

-Oh, did I mention that one of the commandments of Purim is to drink heavily?

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Iran stands with Hezbollah

by m ( 112 Comments › )
Filed under Hezballah, Iran, Islamists, Israel, Lebanon at February 18th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

Iran vows to stand by Hezbollah against Israel

TEHRAN,Iran — Iran’s president on Thursday said that if the Israelis launch a new war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the militant group should retaliate strong enough to “close their case once and for all.”
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If they could, they already would have. Instead they claim victory while whining about getting their rear ends kicked by a “disproportionate response”.

Not right in the head.

“The preparations should be of the level that, if they (the Israelis) want to repeated the mistakes of the past (by attacking), then their case should be closed once and for all and the region delivered from their evil ways forever,” the Iranian president said, according to the state news agency IRNA.

“The people of Iran will stand by the peoples of Lebanon and the region in this,” he said. Nasrallah dismissed any fears, saying Israeli “threats will lead to nothing.”

Iran is a key supporter of Hezbollah, believed to funnel it weapons and millions of dollars in funding, though Tehran denies arming the Shiite group. Hezbollah, also closely allied to Syria, boasts a heavy arsenal of rockets capable of reaching deep inside Israel.
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Hm.

Nasrallah: Iran arming Hezbollah unconditionally
Israel: Commandos Seize Huge Iranian Arms Shipment

Hezbollah’s relocation of rocket sites to Lebanon’s interior poses wider threat

But back to the article…

Lebanon’s prime minister also warned of “escalating” Israeli war threats and vowed Lebanon would support Hezbollah in any fight. The prime minister, Saad Hariri, is a pro-U.S. figure and longtime rival of Hezbollah, but the group is now a member of his national unity government.

Normally I would laugh at their saber rattling. But since we’re allowing Iran to get in a position to follow through with their threats, it’s a whole different ballgame.

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Sarah Palin’s friendship

by Speranza ( 73 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Sarah Palin at February 12th, 2010 - 5:30 pm

Caroline Glick nails it on the head regarding who Sarah Palin supports and who hates her. I think that it is shameful that so many people who should know better take a condescending and snobbish approach to the woman with the different accent and the area from which she was raised. I am not one of those who wants Sarah to run for president, but right now she is the only one standing up and rallying opposition to the Obama agenda. To treat a friend (Sarah)  as an enemy and an enemy (Obama) as a friend – that is the very definition of folly and ingratitude.

by Caroline Glick

US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on healthcare and global warming despite his Democratic Party’s control over both houses of Congress, Iran’s announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce weapons-grade uranium is a testament to Obama’s feckless incompetence. Even his most ardent supporters are admitting this.Take the New York Times. In a news analysis Thursday of Obama’s failure to prevent Iran from advancing with its nuclear program, David Sanger wrote that for Obama, the last year has been “a year in which little in his dealings with Iran has gone the way that the White House expected.”

Since Obama first announced his wish to sit down with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate in the spring of 2008, the 44th US President’s only strategy for dealing with Iran has been to appease its leaders. And as of Tuesday, he still believes that ingratiating himself with the regime is his best bet.

On Tuesday Obama wouldn’t admit that appeasement has failed even as all of Iran’s top leaders said they were expanding their illicit uranium enrichment activities. The most he would do was acknowledge that the regime’s leaders “have made their choice so far, although the door is still open.”

As for sanctions, well, Obama said it will take “several weeks” to put those together at the UN.

The distressing truth is that Obama’s aim has never been to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. His whole “sanctions-if-engagement-fails” strategy is just a ruse. The Obama administration has never intended to place sanctions on Iran. As one senior administration official told the New York Times, the purpose of the sanctions talk is to get the Iranians to agree to negotiate. As he put it, “This is about driving them back to negotiations, because the real goal here is to avoid war.”

Got that? As far as Obama is concerned, Iran with nuclear weapons isn’t the main concern. Israel using force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is the main concern.

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On Saturday, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin gave the keynote address at the Tea Party Movement convention in Nashville, TN. As she did in the presidential campaign, Palin electrified her audience in Nashville by credibly channeling the populist impulses of American voters. In her signature line she asked, “So how’s that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?”

Palin excoriated Obama on his handling of US foreign policy. Among other things, she noted that a year into his quest to appease dictators, America’s international standing is in shambles. “Israel, a friend and a critical ally now questions the strength of our support,” she added.

Palin bellowed that on issues of foreign policy, there is no room for self-delusion. As she put it, “National security, that’s the one place where you’ve got to call it like it is.” And then, “We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America’s friends from her enemies and recognizes the true nature of the threats that we face.”

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Palin, who is considering a run in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries is using her public platforms to reassemble the coalition of security hawks, social conservatives and blue collar workers which propelled Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980. Her support for Israel serves her in building support among both security hawks and social conservatives.

Unlike Obama’s empty protestations of support for Israel, Palin’s support is obviously heartfelt and therefore will not diminish while Obama remains in office. And as Palin becomes stronger, her ability to influence the US debate in a manner that constrains Obama’s freedom to intimidate Israel into allowing Iran to become a nuclear power will rise.

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Iran opposition leaders attacked as regime floods streets

by Speranza ( 123 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Iran, Islamists at February 11th, 2010 - 7:32 am

Well  something big is going to happen soon in Iran. Either Iran will go nuclear, or the regime will be changed. Too bad the media is basically ignoring this story and the response from the White House is deafening. The only way to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions is not an Israeli air strike (which will not happen) but for the Iranian people to over throw the mullahs. I would be more optimistic about the latter if we had a POTUS committed to regime change instead of reaching out to “The Islamic Republic of Iran”, the use of that term is the essence of appeasement.

by Martin Fletcher

Iran’s regime sought to thwart another massive opposition protest today by turning out its own supporters in huge numbers, imposing draconian restrictions on the media and making the headline-grabbing announcement that the Islamic Republic was now a “nuclear state”.

Determined to prevent the so-called Green Movement from hijacking the biggest day in Iran’s calendar, the anniversary of the 1979 revolution, the regime also flooded Tehran with security forces who moved swiftly and violently to break up opposition demonstrations.

The opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mohammed Khatami – a former president – were attacked. Zahra Eshraghi, the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 revolution, was briefly arrested. She is married to Mr Khatami’s brother and her own brother, Hassan, has made clear his hostility to the regime.

Mr Karroubi’s son, Hussein, said his father had to get out of his car and walk towards Sadeghieh Square, where thousands of supporters had gathered, because the roads were blocked. He was joined by hundreds of other protestors, but they found their way blocked by plainclothes security forces who attacked them with knives, batons and teargas.

Mr Karroubi’s bodyguards had to bundle him into a passing car which managed to drive him away, but not before the security forces smashed its windscreen and bodywork. One of the bodyguards was seriously injured. Mr Karroubi’s other son, Ali, was arrested.

Opposition websites reported numerous clashes across the capital between the security forces and large crowds of opposition supporters chanting ‘Death to the Dictator’ and “Iranians – support us, support us”.

They claimed the security forces were using live ammunition, knives, teargas and paint-filled balls that would enable them to identify protesters later, that they were beating and arresting women as well as men and that they were smashing car windscreens.
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Caption This

by snork ( 166 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Caption This, Iran, Open thread at February 7th, 2010 - 8:00 pm

In case it’s not obvious, that’s Mr. Dinnerjacket. And this is an open thread.

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Iran Hostage Crisis, 2010

by Eliana ( 77 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Iran, Islamic Supremacism, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism at February 3rd, 2010 - 5:00 am

Here we go again, although Iran is demanding the release of Iranian prisoners in exchange for the hostages this time.

The arrests of three American hikers who apparently wandered over a border into Iranian territory has turned into a full blown hostage crisis. Iran claimed today that they were negotiating with the American government for the release of Iranian prisoners for the three hostages who have been accused of spying (which carries the death penalty in Iran).

Although we may agree that the young progressives who wandered into Iranian territory were foolish beyond all measure to take such a risk, Iran is prepared to take full advantage of the situation.

According to Iran, some of the Iranian “prisoners” that they are demanding are people whose whereabouts aren’t actually known. They simply disappeared. This means that they could be in hiding or that they’ve defected to the west. They could be imprisoned by the west in unknown locations. They could be dead.

Fox News reports:

TEHRAN — Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed a swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran.

Ahmadinejad said in interview with state TV that there were ongoing negotiations about exchanging the hikers for several Iranians jailed for years in the United States.

“There are some talks under way to have an exchange, if it is possible,” he said. “Recently they (the U.S.) have sent messages, we answered to bring them (the Iranians), to bring these people (the hikers). We are hopeful that all prisoners will be released.”

Ahmadinejad did not mention any specifics but in December Iran released a list of 11 Iranians it says are being held in the U.S. — including a nuclear scientist who disappeared in Saudi Arabia and a former Defense Ministry official who vanished in Turkey. The list also includes an Iranian arrested in Canada on charges of trying to obtain nuclear technology.

“I had said I would help in releasing them, but the attitude of some of U.S. officials damages the job,” said Ahmadinejad. “There are a large number of Iranians in prison in the U.S. They have abducted some of our citizens in other countries.”

U.S. officials are denying that such negotiations are taking place:

“We have made clear that we would like the cases of all our missing and detained Americans citizens to be resolved,” National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said, naming the three hikers and three other Americans in Iran. “If President Ahmadinejad’s comments suggest that they are prepared to resolve these cases, we would welcome that step. But we have not entered into any discussion with Iran about an exchange.”

Iran’s foreign minister said in late December that the three would be tried in court, but he did not say when a trial would begin or what the three would be charged with other than to say they had “suspicious aims.” Earlier, the country’s chief prosecutor said they were accused of spying.

U.S. officials are, of course, dealing with Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s Iranian supervisors:

When the list of 11 Iranians came out State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said it appeared the Iranian government was trying to suggest some kind of equivalence between the hikers and Iranians that had left Iran.

“There really is no equivalence at all,” he said at the time.

Three of the Iranians on the list have been convicted or charged in public court proceedings in the United States. The circumstances surrounding some of the others are more mysterious.

Ahmadinejad Open to Exchange for Detained American Hikers

If any of the missing Iranians have actually defected to the west, their release to Iran would mean their deaths. If Iran sticks to their demands regardless of the unknown fates of the missing Iranians, the three hikers could be put to death.

Just to keep things mildly entertaining for the Iranian side, the Iranians are also stalling for time again in their nuclear ambitions by claiming that they are willing to soften their position on the matter of enriched uranium:

Iran also said it was ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the UN.

Ahmadinejad said Iran would have no “problem” giving the West its low enriched uranium and taking it back several months later when it is enriched by 20%. The decision is a major shift in the Iranian position on the issue.

As Ahmadinejad suggests in state TV interview exchange for three US hikers jailed in Iran, indicates softened position on uranium deal

All this is happening mere days after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strongly hinted in a speech that Iran controls the world:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a Tehran conference Saturday that whoever controls the Middle East controls the world, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

In a speech during a conference marking 30 years to the Islamic Revolution, Ahamdinejad reportedly implied that Iran is the top power in the Middle East. “Now the question is who has the last say in the Middle East? Well, of course, the answer is clear to every one,” Ahamdinejad said.

Ahmadinejad: Whoever controls the Mideast controls the world

As Carl in Jerusalem often says, “What could go wrong?”

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Iran claims Harsh Blow will come Feb. 11

by Rodan ( 172 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Iran, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at February 1st, 2010 - 11:00 am

The Arabist regime of Iran, which has the Persian people enslaved, is once again making ludicrous claims.  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is claiming that Iran will land a harsh blow against Global powers. What is this blow you ask? Well they are not giving any clues what the blow is!

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.

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Wow. Iran is against Marxism! Do the progressives realize that their beloved Iranian Regime rejects their economic ideology? It doesn’t matter, as long the Iranian regime opposes Israel and Americans they will receive Progressive support.

What will the Left do in reaction to Obama’s new actions against Iran? Tensions are increasing as Obama is now giving our so called Arab allies Missile Defense weapons to protect them from Iran. The US Navy is also deploying more ships to the area.

Things are getting interesting in the Persian Gulf.

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Nightmare in the Middle East

by Speranza ( 258 Comments › )
Filed under Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Egypt, Hamas, Hezballah, Iran, Iraq, Islamists, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taliban, Terrorism, Turkey at January 31st, 2010 - 9:00 am

Yes the Middle East/North Africa/Central Asia is a rotten neighborhood. How’s that Cairo speech apologizing for all our sins working for you Barry? I think that Egypt post Mubarak is the nation (after Iran) to worry about the most. Mubarak might be a corrupt, back stabbing, duplicitous autocrat– but they at least Egypt (since 1977)  is nominally a friend. We have spent billions (bribes as far as I am concerned) on Egypt and its military in order for them to nominally agree to maintain the Camp David accords. A return to Nasserism could be a disaster for all. As for Pakistan, I hope one day India launches a first strike to take out that failed nations nukes. I am glad that Peters rightfully understands that the Palestinians are not the problem over there but a symptom.

by Ralph Peters

Whatever planet Earth may find in short supply in 2010, violence and misrule will remain abundant, from the most-recent round of Muslim-vs.-Christian massacres in Nigeria to Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez’s delight in unleashing his thugs on students marching for freedom.

But no region — not even sub-Saharan Africa — competes with the greater Middle East when it comes to wanton savagery, thwarted opportunities and the danger posed to innocent populations around the world. With fanatical terrorists of unprecedented brutality, Islamist extremists pursuing nuclear weapons, rogue regimes, disintegrating states and threats of genocide against Israel, the lands of heat and dust between the Nile and the Indus form a realm of deadly failure that will haunt the civilized world throughout our lifetimes.

A survey of the region’s key countries — and problems — doesn’t offer much good news for the Obama Administration’s naive foreign policy efforts:

LEBANON: This isn’t a country — it’s a temporary stand-off. Recently, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, whose father, Rafik, was assassinated by Syria, had to make a humbling visit to Damascus. Syria’s decades-long penetration of the government in Beirut and various Lebanese factions (not least, its backing of the Hezbollah terror organization) has kept Beirut dependent on Damascus to break the political gridlock in parliament. Meanwhile, Hezbollah has been rearming mightily in the wake of its 2006 war with Israel. A new war would devastate much of Lebanon — if internal strife doesn’t do it first.

EGYPT: A US client long counted among the most stable states in the Middle East, Egypt faces a potential succession crisis as octogenarian president Hosni Mubarak, who’s ruled the country for almost three decades, grooms his singularly unimpressive son, Gamal, to take over upon his death. The government and armed forces are more factionalized than they seem to outsiders, Islamist movements have proven ineradicable, and violence against Egypt’s minority Christians is on the rise again.

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TURKEY: Long in NATO, but denied membership in the European Union, Turkey has grappled with an identity crisis. Increasingly, its political bosses back an Islamic identity. The ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) soft-peddles its religious agenda when dealing with the West, but has been methodically dismantling the secular constitution left behind by Kemal Ataturk — who rescued Turkey from oblivion 90 years ago.

Meanwhile, Turkey’s current leaders are dragging the country toward the Middle East and away from the West.

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SAUDI ARABIA: Its two main exports are oil and fanaticism. Saudi funding supports a global effort to drive Muslims into the fold of its severe Wahhabi cult — and to prevent Muslims (including those in the US) from integrating into local societies.

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IRAN: Racing to acquire nuclear weapons, delighting in the prospect of a cataclysmic war that would lead to the “return of the hidden imam,” beating the hell out of its own people in the streets, murdering members of the intelligentsia, and explicit in its vows to destroy Israel, the government of Iran continues to be protected by China and Russia. There will be no meaningful sanctions. Over the next few years, we’ll see a nuclear test in the southeastern desert region of Baluchistan.

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PAKISTAN: 180 million anti-American Muslims, thanks to generations of politicians who took American aid while playing the anti-American card with their constituents. The government won’t crack down on the Taliban factions it’s preserving for a reconquest of Afghanistan after we exit. It sponsors terror attacks against India, then leaves it to us to calm India down. Promised another $7.5 billion in aid, Pakistan’s response has been not only to bite the hand that feeds it, but to gnaw it to a bloody pulp. And, in an act of strategic folly, we’ve left our troops in Afghanistan dependent upon a single supply line that runs for over a thousand miles through Pakistan

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Iranian Official racially insults Obama

by Rodan ( 102 Comments › )
Filed under Iran, Islamic Supremacism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives at January 25th, 2010 - 8:00 pm

The Iranian regime is beloved by Progressives the world over. It was Tranzi Progressive pressure that forced Bush to back down from bombing the Iranian nuclear sites.  This regime has replaced Cuba as the Left’s favorite nation. Barack Hussein Obama admires the Ayatollah Government. When the Persian people rose against their Arabist regime, he sided with Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei. This appeasement of this Imperialist regime has resulted in nothing. In fact, an Iranian official has insulted Obama racially.

Mohammad Javad Larijani criticized the policies adopted by U.S. President Barack Obama and referred to him using a racial epithet.

“When Barack Obama was sworn into office he talked of verbally engaging Iran,” the U.C. Berkeley graduate was quoted as saying. “What has changed is that today this [the equivalent of the N-word in Farsi] talks of regime change in Iran.”

In a Saturday meeting at the Islamic Engineers Society, Larijani said, “I am not a racist, but I must respond to this man [Obama] in some way.”

Larijani’s brother, Ali, is the speaker of Majles (Parliament). Another brother, Sadegh, is head of the judiciary.

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Hey Obama, how’s that outreach to Iran going? Progressives, nice friends you have in Iran. The use of a racial insult shows the typical Muslim thinking. They believe that members of the Ummah are the master race. Maybe that’s why Progressives like them. After all, the concept of superior races is a Progressive idea. Look for Leftists like Juan Cole to claim, Larijani to didn’t use a racial term in Farsi.They will spin any excuse for their beloved Iranian regime.

(Hat Tip: Macker)

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Iran and Al-Qaeda try to kill Israeli Diplomats

by Rodan ( 206 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Hezballah, Iran, Islamic Supremacism, Islamic Terrorism, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives at January 19th, 2010 - 8:00 am

The Progressive supporters of the Iranian Regime have for years been saying That Sunni Al-Qaeda can never work  with Shiite Iran. As has been documented here previously, Both Iran and AL-Qaeda cooperated in the Balkans. The 1996 Khobar Tower attacks was a combined AL-Qaeda, Hizballah and Iranian Revolutionary guards operation. Many AL-Qaeda fled to Iran  after our attack on Afghanistan. There is a history, granted they have differences but they have the same enemies.

In Jordan there was a failed attempt to kill Israeli diplomats. The Jordanian Intelligence said the explosives were from Iran and the attacked was attempted by AL-Qaeda.

Last week’s failed attempt on the lives of Israeli diplomats in Jordan was apparently carried out on instructions from Teheran, sources close to Jordan’s General Intelligence Department (GID) revealed on Monday.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.

The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

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The Left will ignore this story because it doesn’t fir their narrative. Progressives support the Iranian regime since it’s anti-Western. They will ignore Iran’s assistance to AL-Qaeda. The truth however is out there, Both Iran and Al-Qaeda are part of the Dar AL Islam. They will join forces to fight the Kuffar. They may occasionally bicker and have some disagreements, but they are both on the same team.

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Yes, Virginia, some Scientists are Moonbats

by snork ( 152 Comments › )
Filed under Global Warming Hoax, Iran, Science, Tranzis at January 14th, 2010 - 6:00 pm

There are a few “scientific” organizations organizations in the world that are thinly disguised left-wing activist organizations. The most well-known is the Union of Concerned Scientists. This joke of an organization once sent Bill Nye the Science Guy (!) to debate a real scientist, Richard Lindzen. The result was palpably hilarious regardless of whether or not you were actually following the argument, just because of the body language (starting at ~7:22).

Note Nye’s reference to “extra people”. Slouching toward eugenics.

Other political organizations masquerading as scientific ones are Realclimate.org, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. BAS famously keeps the “doomsday clock”, which was originally created to scare the public by showing us how close to nuclear Armageddon we are, but later climate meltdown was added as an Armageddon factor.

I guess they nipped a little too much hopenchange. They recently set the hand from five minutes to Armageddon to six minutes. This was done out of optimism concerning both reduced nuclear risk, and reduced climate risk. First the statement on nukes:

A key to the new era of cooperation is a change in the U.S. government’s orientation toward international affairs brought about in part by the election of Obama. With a more pragmatic, problem-solving approach, not only has Obama initiated new arms reduction talks with Russia, he has started negotiations with Iran to close its nuclear enrichment program, and directed the U.S. government to lead a global effort to secure loose fissile material in four years.

Sometimes all you can say is wow. Just wow. That statement is so absurd on so many levels, I don’t know where to start.  Discuss.

Moving right along to climate Armageddon, we have a statement that makes up for in silliness what it lacks in absurdity:

[F]or the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable.

Oh, is that what happened in Copenchangen? I thought the whole thing fell through, and they duct taped together a face-saving facade of an agreement, because the entire world is getting extremely jaded with the whole issue, with the worst winter in decades overtaking the northern hemisphere and internet revelations of hanky-panky by alarmist scientists.

Whatever. There’s still more hopenchange in the bong. Bogart it, because it’s going to run out some day. That’s the real Armageddon that you’re all worried about, isn’t it?

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A footnote: Bill Nye’s scientific credentials consist of a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He did work for a while as an engineer, but spent most of his career as an entertainer, first as a comedian, based on his incredibly nerdy persona, before doing the PBS things. This is the public face of UCS. Thermohaline indeed.

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Bomb Kills Physics Professor in Iran

by Rodan ( 166 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Iran, Nuclear Weapons at January 12th, 2010 - 2:05 pm

In a mysterious event in Tehran, a Physics professor was killed in a bomb blast. There are many suspects in this. It could be Israel as they are known for targeted killings and may have already got to several Iranian Nuke scientists. It could be the US, which I doubt since Obama is a supporter of the Ayatollahs. The most likely explanation, the Iranian government. The Persian people are tired of living under Islamo-Imperialist occupation and have rioted against this regime. However, like all tyranny, the Collaborationist government of Iran is seeking to instigate incidents with outside adversaries. The goal, to distract the population from the oppression and unite it against an outside enemy.

PARIS — A remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle killed an Iranian physics professor outside his home in north Tehran on Tuesday, state media reported, blaming the United States and Israel for the attack.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. One state broadcaster, IRIB, quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that “in the initial investigation, signs of the triangle of wickedness by the Zionist regime, America and their hired agents are visible in the terrorist act” against the scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi.

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In my opinion, this was an inside job by the Iranian regime. Clearly they need an incident and the Scientist was not a supporter of the Regime. What is the Netizens take on this incident?

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The Balkan Problem, Part 2b Who are the KLA?

by coldwarrior ( 162 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Hezballah, Iran, Islamists, Military, September 11 at December 31st, 2009 - 7:30 am

The Balkan Problem, Part 2b.
Who are the KLA?

Please see part 1, and part 2a

Time line for the Yugoslav Wars

“Ten years ago we were arming and equipping the worst elements of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan – drug traffickers, arms smugglers, anti-American terrorists… Now we’re doing the same thing with the KLA, which is tied in with every known middle and far eastern drug cartel. Interpol, Europol, and nearly every European intelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drug syndicates that lead right to the KLA, and right to Albanian gangs in this country.”

DEA agent and author Michael Levine
Quoted in the New American Magazine, May 24, 1999

[The] United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles … Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values.”

Senator Jo. Lieberman, quoted in the ‘Washington Post’, 28 April 1999

“American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia”.

Tom Walker and Aiden Laverty, ‘CIA Aided Kosovo Guerrilla Army’, Sunday Times, 12 March 2000

In this part we will continue to explore the question of Did the US and NATO pick the wrong side in the Yugoslavian Wars, from part 2a? The last installment set up the large geopolitical framework to begin to answer the above question and attempted to bring forth reasons why the West got involved in what could have been seen as yet another Balkan fist fight. The main players in the Kosovo war were the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Serbs. We have explored the Serbs in part 1, now we shall explore the KLA.

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The caterwauling Western press gets the whole Kosovo/Serbia story wrong, just like in parts 1 and 2. They would have you believe the the Muslims and the KLA were oh so pure and being murdered in droves by the evil Serbs. The networks carried the same stories over and over again, the Clinton machine had the press in their pocket. The independent press lied to the American public yet again, they carried water for radical Muslims.

The Kosovo War ends after the US lead Nato bombing campaign cripples Serbia. President Clinton claimed it was to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing. The Clinton Administration persuaded NATO, Germany and the UK to follow its lead in Yugoslavia. The West, pushed by Clinton sided with Expansionist Islamist over Christian Orthodox Serbs for political and Clinton Doctrine-place-in-history reasons. The West chose to support the KLA which was backed by the Muslim Ummah because the West did not want to deal with the possibility of Albanian Muslim refugees on their borders, and was naïve of the Islamic threat, especially the Americans do not realize that Islam had already declared war on them in the 1990’s. We did not realize this because we had set up radical Muslim networks to fight the Soviets. This is most evident in Afghanistan in the 1980’s. This support for the KLA is simply a continuation of established networks. The networks don’t necessarily fight the Soviets in the 1990’s, they are brought into the fight for the reasons stated above.

So who was it that we were supporting? Who are the KLA? The KLA, or the Ushtria Clirimtare E Kosoves (UCK), first appeared in Macedonia in 1992. Many members of KLA units are professionally trained, and include former Yugoslav army soldiers. The group functions very professionally underground, due in part to fact that some of its leaders are former members of UDBA [Internal State Security Service. Some are Muslims of mostly Albanian descent that were trained under the unified, pre-war Yugoslavian military, intelligence, and police services. Some come from the the Albanian Communist Party under Enver Hoxa and tend toward Maoism.

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Hugo Chavez blames US for Iran protests

by Rodan ( 100 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, Iran, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives, Venezuela at December 31st, 2009 - 5:00 am

South American Totalitarian Progressive and former Obama ally Hugo Chavez once again takes a swipe at his former friend. Chavez is claiming that Obama is creating the unrest in Iran. He knows this is a lie as Obama supports the Ayatollah regime, John Kerry has filed a request to travel in support of the Iranian regime. Obama is endorsing this mission. So what is Chavez’s beef with his one time ally?

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CARACAS, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government accused the United States on Wednesday of fomenting violence to undermine the Iranian administration.

The socialist Chavez is a friend of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been cracking down on opposition protests in which eight people have died during the bloodiest unrest since the aftermath of a disputed June vote.

“The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the attempts at destabilization promoted by the U.S. government against the people and government of Iran,” Venezuela’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

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The Obama-Chavez split needs watching. When Progressives turn on each other, it usually resolves in a bloodshed. Hugo Chavez is up to something and he needs watching.

Hey Barack Hussein Obama, how’s that outreach to our enemies going?

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