Re: Ahmadinejad Continues to Yap
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Israel has threatened Iran over its nukes because Iran has pledged to wipe Israel off the map. You cannot wipe ISrael off the map by conventional means, so that means you have to use Nuclear weapons to do this. Israel has never said it wants to destroy Iran, its Iran who has said this. Dinijaad reacting in defense? LOL... Since when did Israel say its going to destroy Iran.
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Like i said, Israel has threatened to attack, Iran has every reason to be prepared and on the defensive.
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Israel has nuclear weapons for defensive purposes. It is surrounded by hostile Arab neighbours who have threatened to destroy it if they have the means and the military capability to do so. USA can be a source of economic benefit for so long. If USA aid stops, Israel would have to make a choice between a strong economy and a strong military. Having nuclear weapons gives them this edge. If Arab and Muslim countries attack Israel in order to destroy it, Israel can launch nuclear weapons against those arab states. Its called Mutually Assured Destruction. The Arabs have a larger army, they have larger population +300 million plus as compared to only 5 million Israelis, that means they can sustain more casualties where as Israel cannot. Even the loss of 10,000 troops on the battlefield would be catastropic for Israel, where as Arabs could lose 100,000 men and still field huge armies.
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Everyone of these excuses can easily be turned around and used by Iran. Isolation and fear of attack from neigbours or hostile forces does not apply to israel only. It doesnt really fly.
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In view of this, the Arab large conventional, economic, population advantages is negated by the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons.
Look at Libya, it disarmed and now its being accepted in the world community. Same thing goes for South Africa, Brazil, Argentina. They all had nuclear programs and now they disarmed. Iran has no need for nukes.
Pakistan has rivalry with India, thats why Pakistan needs nuclear weapons to main a strategic balance of power. Iran's enemies is the WEST and USA. They can make Iran into a cinder in less than 5 minutes. Iran is not a global power and thus cannot engage global powers with Nuclear weapons. China can, Russia can, Brazil can, not Iran.
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..and your point is..? iran could care less..
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President Ahmadinijaad was elected on a fraud election. All the liberals and reformists were not allowed to run. This is a democracy? Don't you understand the basic concept of a democracy. Where anyone who can run should be allowed to run and let the people decide.
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Actually they were allowed to run a full campaign. Where do u get your sources from?
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You say that only savages want destruction of humanity, then why is Iran making statements that Israel should be wiped off the map and the holocaust is a myth. Obviously the only way to wipe it off the map is to fire Nuclear Weapons on it and kill all the people who live there. As for the fatwa, it can change as time progresses. The iranian fatwa has ZERO credibility with me.
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Because unlike israel, they are not busy wiping out a whole nation already. They are repeatedly asking the europeans to clean up their mess, so obviously they have no plans of cleaning up the europeans crap for them. Wiping israel of the map is a typical flowery iranian lingo, maybe dismantling 'israel' into palestine is a better translation.
what he thinks about the holocaust is irrelevant here. Alot of historians, professors think it has become a myth in that it has been over exaggerated. Its nothing new and has been debated over for quite a while now. if i were you, i would stop putting 2 and 2 together and making 11.
As for the fatwa, no it cant be changed with time. Once given it cannot be retracted. As for its credibility with you, im really sorry but your not really that significant in the iranian scheme of things. For the iranians however, it is different. whatever the fatwa says, goes. It is a matter of faith.
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As for Saadam, he was making nuclear weapons, Israel took out his facility in 1981, he fired chemical weapons on Iran and the Kurds. If he had the means and the capability to make nuclear weapons, he would have done so. You cannot tell me that a person like Saadam is a rational person. Is he the face of Islam, Arabs and Muslims, Saadam??? Thats like saying that the face of Germans is Hitler.
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whether saddam was a sane or insane, making nukes or not, it doesnt change the fact about Israel and her willingness to attack pre-emptively based on suspicion. All the more reason for Iran to be wary of her behaivour. Iran only talks, israel is crazy enough to carry it out.