Zogby poll - Bomb Iran! - Page 11

ARedFox · 10-31-2007, 03:57 PM

Religion and politics is the most unstable concoction on the planet. They are ineffective together when opposed by another large group, but the people deem it necessary to live by.

sectionOne · 10-31-2007, 04:12 PM

"TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday millions of Iranians would be ready to sacrifice themselves fighting the country's enemies, in an apparent reference to the United States and its allies."

Bert Spivey · 10-31-2007, 04:26 PM

And the irony is Schumer said that attacking Iran would destroy the GOP

http://www.observer.com/2007/schumer...-destroy-g-o-p

Coolio43 · 11-06-2007, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by freethinkr

You are spreading a rumor that isn't true. The Iranian president (I won't try to spell his name in fear of butchering it worse than you) did not say Israel should be wiped from the map. He said the zionist regime should be erased from the pages of history. And he has stated repeatedly that the way to do this is through diplomacy and negotiation. It's quite a reasonable stance really, once you slow down the anti-Arab spin and look at the issue objectively. Bush has said far worse about Iran, and he means it. If you think Iran is a threat to national security and liberty, I'd take a good look at our leadership. They are doing far more to make us insecure and less free than any foreign power could ever hope to accomplish.

edit: ok, after reading the rest of this thread, I see this was addressed. But yeah, quit blindly following our leaders. I can understand blindly following them for the first four years, as they really did seem well intentioned... but I'd think we would have all learned our lesson by now.

Ahmadinejad: Wipe Israel off map

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has openly called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the president told a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled The World without Zionism.
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land," he said.
"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran's revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini.
His comments were the first time in years that such a high-ranking Iranian official has called for Israel's eradication, even though such slogans are still regularly used at government
rallies.

Al Jazeera English - Archive - Ahmadinejad: Wipe Israel Off Map

Proof in the puddin'

lakeman · 11-06-2007, 11:28 PM

Since you bring it up.. what did the Ayat Allah Khomeini say?

He said "They will not hesitate to strike Iran if they are capable of it. However, their threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities cannot be realised. They are aware Tehran's reaction will be so harsh that Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth and US interests will be easily damaged"

This was in July 2005.

Clearly he is talking about Isreal and not just about zionism. And granted that in this context he is talking about Iran's response to an attack by Israel. But Ahmedinejad picked up on what the Ayat Allah Khomeini said and expanded it.