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A Lack of Sanity
Supreme Leader: Rule of money in West over
Highlighting the current status of liberal democracy in the West, the Supreme Leader said as the school of Marxism has collapsed, sounds of the decline of the West’s liberal democracy are now heard.
I guess the “supreme leader” doesn’t understand a whole lot about the new definition of “liberal”. The new type of liberal doesn’t believe in freedom, unless of course, you agree with them. Hmm….kind of like that ‘religion of peace’, eh?
The Islamic movement is spreading day by day and the Islamic Revolution as the driving force of such a great ideological movement should strengthen the factors behind its progress, the Supreme Leader said in a meeting with Friday prayer leaders from throughout the country.
And just like a plague, that spreading MUST be stopped.
“Iran strongly stood up to the plots masterminded by global arrogance and by relying on the Almighty God overcame all difficulties. Now there is no sign of Marxism in the world and even Liberalism is on the decline,” pointed out the Supreme Leader.
Uh….does this moron even know what Marxism is? It’s pretty sad that someone can be called a leader, and be that dadburn ignorant. Will someone please send him a dictionary, and a copy of The Communist Manifesto? Sheesh!
Referring to scandalous collapse of Marxism, the Supreme Leader said they lost their strongholds one by one and finally turned into a spider web and were wiped up completely.
Is crack wide spread in the “supreme leader’s” household? What the hell is he talking about?
Highlighting the current status of liberalism in the western democracy, the Supreme Leader said that “Political claims and fabricated mottos of this school about human rights and democracy were revealed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib prison, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and bombardment of various parts of the world. And today, the rule of money in the West has been broken and their outcries are heard.”
The current problems facing the West show to what extent the economic claims of Liberal Democracy was false, said the Supreme Leader, adding that the western analysts have now confessed to inefficiency of their economic theories.
Regardless of the rest of the blather, today’s ‘liberalism’ and democracy have NOTHING to do with each other. Kind of like Islam and democracy, don’cha know. They just don’t go together.
The Islamic Revolution will continue treading its path vigorously despite some minor shortcomings, the Supreme Leader made it clear.
Shortcomings? That’s what he calls it? Shortcomings? Like hanging children, and beating women? Those shortcomings? Granted, there are a lot more, but hey…why point out the obvious, right?
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Wow!
I had NO idea…… Barbie is Jewish?
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Heading Towards The End?
Iran: Tensions between US and Russia behind nuclear push, says expert
Iran’s decision to step up its nuclear programme was a bid to exploit the current tensions between the US and Russia, a leading Middle East expert said on Friday.
Sami Al-Faraj, director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies, expressed concern in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI), after an announcement by Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar.
“Iran is certainly taking advantage of the crisis in relations between Moscow and Washington in order to develop its nuclear technology,” he told AKI.
For some reason, this seems bassakwards. Iran starts with the nuclear stuff, Russia is helping them, and THEN tensions start to escalate. Amhadinnerjacket threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Things get more tense. “Jacket” continues to threaten, not just Israel, but the “great satan”, aka USA, and the UN decides sanctions are needed. Right. Right?
Ali-Reza Sheikh Attar said Friday that Iran has nearly 4,000 working centrifuges at its nuclear facility at Natanz and another 3,000 were being installed.
Oh, and Jacket can’t count either, but this doesn’t surprise me. He’s not the brightest bulb in the box.
“Russia has sought the political support of countries in the organisation, among them China, but received a cool response. Iran could work to convince countries that are members of the SCO, like Kazakhstan and Kirghizistan, to support the Russian position in Georgia.
“In exchange, Tehran would have strong political support for its nuclear programme.”
The last thing the world needs right now is Iran and Russia playing footsie. Hopefully, China has more sense than to join this merry band of thieves.
At the same time however, he warned that a possible intensification of Iran’s nuclear programme could become “a big problem for the international community” because it comes at a time of great tension in the Middle East.
Gee, ya think? Creating and adding to that tension would be…..drum roll please…….IRAN!
Referring to the UN Security Council’s anti-Iran resolutions, Attar said that the sanctions were futile and ineffective.
“Had westerners become certain that the resolutions would bring us down to our knees, they would have definitely intensified them (the sanctions),” he said.
Truer words were never spoken. The Useless Numnuts can come up with all the ’sanctions’ in the world, and such countries are going thumb their noses. They just don’t care!
Mr Dry Bones sure got it right:
Cross posted at Reject the UN
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Ahmabooboo in the 21st Century
Obviously swiped from Dry Bones.
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Heh!
Swiped from Real Debate Wisconsin.
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Idjits
Iran has Photoshop, not afraid to use it
“The Lede” blog on the New York Times has a great piece today about a photograph of Iran’s missile test-fires that ran prominently in a number of newspapers, but appears to have been digitally altered to avoid showing one missile that did not fire.
The photograph was sent out by the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and made available by Agence France-Presse. The apparent deception came to light when the Associated Press later sent out what appeared to be a nearly identical photo from the same source, but without the fourth missile.
This is a hoot.
No need to even make a comment on this one. 
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Freedom of Speech For Me, But NOT For Thee
News Agency: Iran Shuts Down Newspaper Critical of Ahmadinejad
Authorities have shut down a Tehran newspaper ,the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday, after the paper published a story critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s stance on Israel.
The Press Supervisory Board, which is controlled by hard-liners, banned Tehran Today on Saturday after the paper’s editor was summoned to court for publishing material deemed as insulting Ahmadinejad, IRNA said.
The news agency did not provide more details. But the announcement comes after the paper published a story Saturday that said Ahmadinejad’s comments on Israel “seems to have led to a different result — more pressure on Iran and more support to Israel.”
Gee, I thought the Iranian people had such freedoms? Yes, I AM being sarcastic. Because according to this story Fox is referencing:
The daily subject to a ban admitted in a statement that it overstepped limits of freedom of expression.
The statement said that the daily has failed to observe moderate approach in dealing with the country’s political affairs.
The Press Supervisory Board has banned ‘Tehran Emrouz’ newspaper for and revoked its license for lack of legal conditions.
Tehran’s Public Prosecutor Office has summoned the banned daily’s director for “publishing articles and images insulting to president”.
How is it possible to overstep freedom of expression? Oh, yeah…Iran doesn’t really have freedom of speech. Their freedom consists of only saying good things about the evil folks in charge. And this is what they call freedom.
We, in this country, honestly have NO idea how good we have it! The sufferers of BDS can say anything they damn well please, whether on the idjit box, in the fish wrap, or around the internet. They have freedoms that others can only dream about, but not verbalize. The far left AND far right can demonize our military, yet have to consequences. And yet, there are those who want to stop free speech for others. Sounds kind of like the “handlers” in Iran, doesn’t it.
This poor guy has apologized. For what? Speaking the truth. Odds are, he’ll end up rotting in some Iranian jail, or swinging from the gallows for some trumped up charge. Pray for him, and all those like him who would dare to speak up against tyranny.
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Chats With The Enemy?
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Chatting With The Enemy
Iran ‘paid Iraq insurgents to kill UK soldiers’
The allegations are contained in a confidential “field report” written by a British officer who served in Basra during one of the most dangerous periods of the conflict. The report, which has never been made public, shows the full level of Iran’s involvement in the insurgency for the first time.
The document states that the Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) – also known as the Mahdi Army – one of the most violent insurgent groups operating in Basra, used money from Iran to recruit and pay young unemployed men up to $300 (£150) a month to carry out attacks against the British. The findings have been passed to the highest levels in the military.
The leak comes at a time of rising tension between Iran and the international community, as Tehran continues to stonewall UN inquiries into allegations that it has carried out research to develop a nuclear weapon.
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In the report, Major Job discloses that in the course of five months his base was attacked 350 times. Old State Building, which is in the centre of Basra, is the most-attacked British base in recent history.
In an attempt to discover who was behind the attacks, the officer says he established a network of informers, who supplied him with detailed intelligence on the actions of the insurgents and who was behind their funding.
The officer states that the reports of Iran’s involvement came from a network of 25 sources, which included a former Iraqi army general, prominent businessmen, local sheikhs and council leaders.
He writes: “We learnt from a number of our Key Leadership Engagements [local contacts] that the source of the problem was the level of unemployment in Basra.
“JAM, using funding from Iran, paid the unemployed youths in the region of $300 per month to attack Multi National Forces. We also learnt that JAM had a drugs culture and that youths literally got hooked on being associated with JAM.”
Have a chat, with no preconditions, MR Hussein? I don’t bloody well think so!
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Living In The Land Of Oz
As President Bush commemorated Israel’s 60th anniversary by attacking Barack Obama from overseas, here at home he found an all-too-frequent ally: John McCain.
Uh….no, actually he said a Senator during WWII had said “if he had only talked to Hilter”…. Get the facts straight you egotistical putz!
When Bush accused “some” — including Obama, Bush aides explained — of “the false comfort of appeasement,” McCain echoed this slander.
Slander? What slander? Is he saying Hussein never said he’d chat with Ahmabooboo with NO preconditions? Sorry Scary, but that’s exactly what he said. Again….facts!
Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person’s reputation or standing in the community.
John, ya might want to use a dictionary the next time you put pen to paper!
“What does he want to talk about with [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad?” McCain asked, fumbling to link Obama to the Iranian president’s hateful words. Soon, a GOP talking point was born.
Wow! I didn’t know the non leadership of the GOP read my blog, and many others, who have been saying the same dadburn thing. And I tell ya, I’m no big McFeingold fan, but this is one thing he didn’t fumbled on.
Lost in the rhetoric was the question America deserves to have answered: Why should we engage with Iran?
In short, not talking to Iran has failed. Miserably.
Oh, I dunno about that. Works pretty well for me. Of course, if the UN wasn’t full of a bunch of APPEASERS, perhaps Iran wouldn’t be at the point they are now? Just a thought.
Bush engages in self-deception arguing that not engaging Iran has worked. In fact, Iran has grown stronger: continuing to master the nuclear fuel cycle; arming militias in Iraq and Lebanon; bolstering extremist anti-Israeli proxies. It has embraced Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and spends lavishly to rebuild Afghanistan, gaining influence across the region.
Which tells me a couple of things: One, we should go ahead and bomb both of those useless countries back to the 12th century, where they want to be anyway; and two, al Maliki is sucking up to ‘Booboo, and stabbing US in the back.
Instead of backing Bush’s toxic rhetoric, McCain should have called George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state, James Baker. After years of stonewalling, the administration grudgingly tested the Baker-Hamilton report’s recommendation and opened talks with Iran — albeit low-level dialogue restricted to the subject of Iraq. Is James Baker an appeaser, too?
Toxic? No, Bush is a lot of things, but ‘toxic’ isn’t one of them. Well, unless you are leftist Dhimmi. The Iranians have flat out stated they want to destroy Israel, and us. So, Scary parroting Hussein’s “let’s have tea” nonsense tells me we made a wiser choice in ‘04. Oh, and what have those low-level chats accomplished so far? Iran still wants to destroy Israel, and us, and all Western civilization. Yep, that’s working real well.
While the president attacks political opponents from the Knesset, responsible members of his own administration meet face to face with Iranians. Yes, Ahmadinejad’s words often are abhorrent, and often Iran has played a poisonous role in Middle East politics. But when our ambassador to Iraq meets with his Iranian counterpart, he isn’t courting “the false comfort of appeasement” — he is facing the reality that Iran exerts influence in Iraq. That’s why Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have called for engaging Iran. Appeasers all? Nonsense.
“Often abhorrent”? How about downright dangerous! Perhaps those chats with the Iranians are emphasizing the idea they had better knock it off! You know, stop supplying the terrorists with weapons, stop trying to become a nuclear power with the intent of starting a MAJOR confrontation. Maybe they are setting those same ‘pre-conditions’ that Hussein doesn’t think he needs to have a conversation?
Opponents of dialogue often quip that talking isn’t a strategy. Walking away isn’t a strategy, either. McCain says that “there’s only one thing worse than the United States exercising the military option, that is, a nuclear-armed Iran.” But for all his professed reluctance, when McCain disavows diplomacy, he is stacking the deck in favor of war.
No, actually, I don’t think he is “stacking the deck”. Iran has been doing that since 1979, when Jimmah, the biggest appeaser of all, was in the White House. You notice that they were released when Reagan was sworn in, because they KNEW they’d get their collective asses kicked if they didn’t. Reagan wasn’t an appeaser.
Dialogue helps us isolate Ahmadinejad rather than empowering him to isolate us. More important, even if we fail to reach an agreement, engaging Iran will spark three conversations likely to strengthen our position.
Where does he come up with this stuff? Dialogue with ‘Booboo will give him legitimacy, to the point where he can say “See? Even the Americans fear us and want to talk!” That, in my opinion, is more than just a little dangerous.
The first is between our leaders and Iran’s. From nonproliferation to counterterrorism, frankly, Iran won’t care for much of what we have to say — but at the right moment, it is not unreasonable to think Tehran would cut a deal in exchange for economic incentives, energy assistance, diplomatic normalization or a noninvasion guarantee.
Why is it that the left assumes that these are reasonable people, who are guided by logic? Nothing could be farther from the truth. They are ruled by a book that provokes hatred and violence, and the destruction of anything, and anyone, who does not subscribe to that same book. Get a grip!
Some have asserted that meeting with Iran’s leaders would legitimize Ahmadinejad, who is neither Iran’s supreme leader nor someone whom Obama specifically promised to meet. Curiously, many critics then hype Ahmadinejad as a threat of historic proportions, thereby granting the stature they seek to deny. Iranian elections in mid-2009 could yield a less objectionable president; engaging Iran makes that more likely.
Well, actually, he’s a small man, likely with a tiny weenie, but a HUGE ego. Napoleon comes to mind, and look what he did. Then, there was Hitler, and we KNOW what he did to the world. So, is MR Scary suggesting we should play Neville Chamberlain?
As Iran’s centrifuges churn out enriched uranium, we’re asking the wrong question. Instead of wondering why Barack Obama wants to talk with Iran, we should ask: “What are George Bush and John McCain waiting for?”
Good question! Why haven’t we taken out Iran’s nuclear facilities?
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