Time to bomb the crap out of Iran
The USA is considering military action against Iran - the basis of their desire rests with Israel and particular fear that Iran's nuclear program will eventually lead to them having a nuclear war head. Even the staunchest of critics of Iran's government admits there is no realistic expectation of this happening within the next ten years.
Israel however fuels the fire with a simple little quote heard around the world in regards to Ahmadinejad threatening to wipe them (Israel) off the face of the earth. The irony might be lost on much of the free world as Israel already has the means to do this to Iran and, Iran is completely surrounded by the USA's military. Seems foolish - no?
The first question that needs to be asked is why Israel wants the US to engage in war with Iran. The second question that needs to be asked is why the American media refers to Israel and the US together and their desire to wage war on Iran. The third question that should be asked is why Israel wants to and seemingly has the power to drag America into a war that could be pivotal in sparking a full blown world war III.
An excerpt from Wiki in regards to Ahmadinejad's actual quote which has been verified:
Ahmadinejad's phrase was "بايد از صفحه روزگار محو شود" according to the text published on the President's Office's website.[10]
The translation presented by the official Islamic Republic News Agency has been challenged by Arash Norouzi, who says the statement "wiped off the map" was never made and that Ahmadinejad did not refer to the nation or land mass of Israel, but to the "regime occupying Jerusalem". Norouzi translated the original Persian to English, with the result, "the Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."[11] Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History, agrees that Ahmadinejad's statement should be translated as, "the Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e eshghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad).[12] According to Cole, "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to 'wipe Israel off the map' because no such idiom exists in Persian." Instead, "he did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse."[13] The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated the phrase similarly, as "this regime" must be "eliminated from the pages of history."[14]
It seems that as time passes and everything escalates further in the middle east that one should question the motives of everyone involved. I don't agree with a lot of Iran's policies and their human rights record is deplorable. But we shouldn't use this an excuse because if this is factor, then we would have to seriously question why so much trade is done with China. (Apple is the reigning king of child slave labor (my dig for the day))
Yes, it comes down to money. The media uses the fear of a nation, a nation that worships a different god to blindly justify the coming bloodshed.
I have to wonder if human's around the globe were polled tomorrow - how many of them would want to enter one of the greatest and possibly deadliest wars in mankind's history. I'm willing to bet that Iran is no more willing than the rest of us.
Make no mistake though - Israel's thirst for bloodshed, especially when it comes to Iran will drag us all down because China and Russia will most certainly answer if the US invades. Now I just have to hope that my government doesn't consider me a subversive anti semite because I loathe Israel's current administration...it's funny how perception doesn't always represent reality.
