Here's who we're giving Iraq to...

[JerrySeinfeld]

Israel will “soon be wiped out”? Iran’s President Ahmadinejad told delegates at his highly controversial Holocaust conference that Israel will “soon be wiped out” a day after he re-iterated his belief that the Holocaust is a “myth”

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[kimmy]

Israel will “soon be wiped out”? Iran’s President Ahmadinejad told delegates at his highly controversial Holocaust conference that Israel will “soon be wiped out” a day after he re-iterated his belief that the Holocaust is a “myth”

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I assume this is a calculated attempt to make westerners, and Jews in particular, as angry as people in the Muslim world got over the Mohammed cartoons. His dream would be for outraged Jews to be burning Iranian flags and hucking stuff in mosques all over Europe and North America. Then he could say "See? They mock us for responding with righteous fury when our Prophet is desecrated, but when their own sacred cows are gored, they respond the exact same way."

Except, it's not going to happen.

Maybe this will be a master-stroke of propaganda in his own homeland and around the Middle East, I don't know. But in the western world, it's just another black mark that will further tarnish peoples' views of the Muslim nations.

-k

[JerrySeinfeld]

Israel will “soon be wiped out”? Iran’s President Ahmadinejad told delegates at his highly controversial Holocaust conference that Israel will “soon be wiped out” a day after he re-iterated his belief that the Holocaust is a “myth”

link

I assume this is a calculated attempt to make westerners, and Jews in particular, as angry as people in the Muslim world got over the Mohammed cartoons. His dream would be for outraged Jews to be burning Iranian flags and hucking stuff in mosques all over Europe and North America. Then he could say "See? They mock us for responding with righteous fury when our Prophet is desecrated, but when their own sacred cows are gored, they respond the exact same way."

Except, it's not going to happen.

Maybe this will be a master-stroke of propaganda in his own homeland and around the Middle East, I don't know. But in the western world, it's just another black mark that will further tarnish peoples' views of the Muslim nations.

-k

No, Kimmy. Sadly, a few perceptive "hardliners" will notice and encourage the powers to do something. Or in the case of GW Bush, will fight a proxy war against this nut in Iraq. But sadly, most of the west will ignore the conference and we'll hear all kinds of apologist remarks from the likes of the UN and the Europeans about how there is no reason not to allow Iran to have nukes. The only real reason for most lefties to go to war is after it's too late.

[myata]

Should we remind who created the fiasco in Iraq in the first place? Or is that at least (if not how to get out of it) well understood?

[colliver19]

I think eventually the Western Powers will just have to let the Arab states and Israel fight it out amongst themselves. I realise many Americans and Canadians are pro-Israeli but by supporting Israel they are fighting a battle that can't be won. At this time due to American influence (and vast military aid), Israel has the edge over her Arab neighbours, but eventually China and other powers will come to stage, at the very least as America's equals and they will not be willing to upset the Arab nations (including Iran) particularly China as she has so much economic investment in the region already, let alone in the future.

I have no particularly pro-Arab sentiment, but it doesn't take a genius to realise Israel is doomed - her neighbours will absorb her one day, it's the one certainty on this planet today I would say. Israel is just too small and politically isolated in the region to survive. I would hazard a guess by saying if I was alive in 200 years time, a map of the world would show Palestine, not Israel.

[jdobbin]

The only real reason for most lefties to go to war is after it's too late.

Righties haven't been so good at the war thing. Bad war = Iraq.