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Zaphod
adaydream:
You and others have been rattling off this soundbyte for months, if not years. Sure, bring the troops "home", I am all for that. Just be clear about what enfolds in the region then. "Peace" it ain`t, you can be sure about that.
Posted in: Iraq bloodshed in April kills 1,073
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Zaphod
The Shiite judges are already licking their finger at the chance of hanging a Christian. Aziz does not have a snowflake`s chance in hell to get out of this alive, regardless of the merit of the charges.
Posted in: Iraq's Tareq Aziz goes on trial
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Zaphod
Jeancolmar:
Sorry, you can not separate the two. "Mein Kampf" is a bestseller in the islamic world, and the growing holocaust-denial and antisemism in Germany is a muslim phenomenon. It is getting increasingly difficult to teach the Holocaust in schools, because muslim pupils complain. The same thing is happening in other European countries, but in Germany this imported new antisemism is particularly iffy because of German history.
Posted in: German historians want Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' republished
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Zaphod
For 20 years he listened to this and donated to this, and wow he is "outraged". A late awakening?
Posted in: Obama tries to distance himself from pastor
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Zaphod
jeancolmar:
There is nothing inane about it. Ever since the Iranian islamic revolution, Iranian leaders have been spewing hate against the Jewish state, and Ahmedinejad has repeated announced the coming destruction of the "zionist entity" (he consistently refuses to even use the name Israel). Khameni is on record for having speculated that the islamic world can easily survive many nukes, while Isreal would be destroyed by a single one.
With a nuclear armed Iran, Israel will be under permanent threat. And a first use by an Iranian president (be it Ahmedinejad or another mullah appointee) is ENTIRELY possible.
What is inane is to pretend that reality is otherwise, because we don`t like it.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
Mein Kampf is a best-seller in the islamic world, and widely available online on islamic sites. So I really don`t know what he wants.
Posted in: German historians want Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' republished
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Zaphod
It is ridiculous seeing all three candidates promising to use government money to subsidize gas prices. What happened to energy independence, to green technologies, to cutting carbon dioxide?
Oh yes, it is all supposed to be painless...
Posted in: Clinton focuses on Obama's opposition to gas tax plan
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Zaphod
Sezwho,
Hezbollah (like Hamas) lobbed rockets into Isreali towns from the middle of population centers and then crows about "civilian casualties" once Israel finally responds. How exactly would you suggest to respond to that -- especially taking in account a press corps that says nothing about rocket victims in Israel, but immediately has screaming headlines once Israel responds?
grsmza: The tiny Sheeba farms are claimed by both Lebanon and Syria. Israel has totally withdrawn from Southern Lebanon, which it occupied for a long time, in exchange for--- more terror from Hizbollah.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
usaexpet:
" Wow seriously sick stuff. How does this woman go on to lead any kind of normal life? "
She doesn´t. And even more horrific are the fates of her two older children. Born in that dungeon and spent the first 18/19 years of their life their... they don´t even remember normal human interaction, never having had any. Horrible. The 5-year old should be OK.
Posted in: Austrian had seven children by daughter locked in cellar for 24 years
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Zaphod
Know any other country where the murder of 48 tulips would warrant a police investigation and newspaper headlines?
Posted in: Tulips chopped up in Yokohama
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Zaphod
jeancolmar:
" Excuse me, I meant Iraq. Israel bombed a reactor in Iraq 27 years ago. That "preemptive" strike was well before the Gulf War. It was not done in self-defense. Speculation is all a buzz about Israel doing the same to Iran. "
Israel bombed the Ozirak reactor, and everyone was grateful for that. Before you discover the lastest "news", I can also remind you that Israel bombed North-Korean type nuclear reactor last year, that Syria had been building illegally.
"Doing the same" in Iran is not possible, for logistical reasons. The US probably could, but will not.
Iran will get its nuclear bomb, and chances are good that Iran will nuke Israel within the intermedate future, finalizing the "real holocaust" (Iran does not accept that the first one happened).
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
jeancolmar:
When did Israel bomb an Iranian nuclear reactor??? The accusations here get weirder and weirder.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
Sezwho:
Israel has completely withdrawn from South Lebanon and from Gazah (and got more terror in response both cases). That is hardly "extending reach". The only territory that Israel holds is the West Bank, and that is a real problem that would not be solved by withdrawing from it.
Come again? Israel finally responded against Hizbollah rocket attacks that went on for month and months, while Israeli citizens had to live in bomb shelters. What is a country supposed to do when a state-in-a-state declares war on it?
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
Hollywood could not make this up.
Posted in: Austrian had seven children by daughter locked in cellar for 24 years
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Zaphod
jeancolmar:
" Clinton's remark was in regard to a hypothetical situation. What if Iran nuked Israel? she was asked. An extreme question and an extreme answer from her. It was a leading question and a stupid one. Iran does not have the capacity to nuke Israel and its leadership is not that stupid. ( A better question would have been What would you do if Israel nuked Iran? ) "
No, that would have been a stupid question. Israel has never used its military except for self-defense. Israel has no ideological background to nuke Iran. Israel respects the right of Iran to exist -- all it wants is to be allowed to the same.
Ahmedinejad has threatened countless times to eliminate the "Zionist entitiy" from the face of the earth. His mullah mentors have repeatedly discussed the option of a nuclear attack on Israel and concluded that it is feasible -- Israel would be destroyed by one nuke, while the islamic world would survive many nukes. In Ahmedinejads ideology (the "12er" sect of the Shiites), a nuclear armaggedon would even be desirable, because it would herald the coming of the hidden imam. He has alluded to that many times in his speeches.
The question to Hillary was entirely reasonable, and a nuclear attack by Iran on Israel, once Iran has its islamic bomb, is highly likely.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
MacCain is called a warmonger because he correctly says that withdrawing from Iraq would cause the place to erupt in civil war. That is simply stating a fact, but stating facts is probably not a high priority in an election. Oba and Clinton both say they want to withdraw, but they both claim that that would mean peace. That is a ludicrious suggestion. Obama has already said he wants to withdraw, but go back in once Al Quaida appears -- in other words, he is going to conduct a massive, wasteful, military U-turn. What idiocy!
Withdrawal can be discussed, but the candidates should be honest about the consequences.
The soundbyte about a "war with Iran" is equally silly. There won`t be any. The ressources are simply not there. But what do facts matter... all that counts is the glib label "war monger".
Cheap sloganeering on all sides.
Posted in: Clinton challenges Obama to one-on-one debate
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Zaphod
Hamas could have peace and prosperity any time. All it needed was stop terrorism and recognize Israel. Of course then it would not be Hamas any more.
Posted in: Hamas awaits Israeli response to truce offer
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Zaphod
japanyesterday:
I agree many more percent. But remember the Americans have stood by while the Shiite government wrote the Sharia into the Iraqi constitution (which had been secular before). Now who is the real clown?
Posted in: Rice, in Baghdad, calls al-Sadr coward
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Zaphod
GeorgeRoualt:
Hezbollah is an Iranian creation. Thanks for making my point.
Posted in: Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran if Israel attacked
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Zaphod
GeorgeRoualt
Yes, muslim clerics are routinely calling for killing complete strangers, for "crimes" as trivial as writing a book, drawing a cartoon, converting to another religion, or simply being a homosexual or being Jewish.
That is why the Iraq war was lost the moment when Bush stood by while the Shiite government wrote the islamic principles into the new constitution. Guess I have to agree with you there.
Posted in: Al-Sadr says threat of all-out war applies only to U.S.-led forces