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They are communists, suppress freedom of the press and religion, and abuse their people with illegal land seizures and taxation. They are also growing a military far larger than they need for self-defense. The question that the Western world is asking: Why?

A recent Pentagon annual report on China again called on the Chinese to explain these actions (here). The military build-up will soon be a destabilizing force in the region as this growing giant will be able to throw its muscle around. There is also quickly coming a point where Chinese military strength will be too great for the US to respond to a Taiwan invasion.
Perhaps that is the goal. Keep an eye out for the Chinese.

Should we laugh or cry? The EU can’t even get the “bold” new offer out the door before Iran rejects it with derision. Ahmadinejad said today (here):

“They say they want to offer us incentives,” Ahmadinejad said. “We tell them: Keep the incentives as a gift for yourself. We have no hope of anything good from you.”

Separately, a Foreign Ministry spokesman playfully suggested that Iran was in a better position to make offers than the Europeans. “We are prepared to offer economic incentives to Europe in return for recognizing our right” to peaceful nuclear power, said spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, according to state radio. “Iran’s 70 million population market is a good incentive for Europe.”

How many times does Iran have to say “no” before the EU and the rest of the world gets it? It appears we are dealing with people that are willing to believe anything but what Iran actually says. Exactly how much clearer does Iran need to make it before the EU will stop the “bold” new proposals and get on with sanctions and military action?

Isn’t it great to see the EU grovel at the feet of an Islamic Hitler? They spent two years trying to offer a “deal” to Iran, only to have it completely rejected. They won’t agree to sanctions and instead want to offer more concessions?!

EU pledges ‘bold’ nuclear offer for Iran

Are these people lunatics? Ahmadinejad has only said a thousand times that he will not give up the right to process uranium. Proving that the EU is living in a alternate universe, they retreat and prepare to offer security agreements and possibly a light-water reactor.

Every day that diplomacy grinds on, is a day closer Iran comes to getting their bomb.

How can history repeat itself not twelve years later? Anyone remember this with North Korea?

On October 21, 1994, the United States and North Korea signed an agreement-the Agreed Framework-calling upon Pyongyang to freeze operation and construction of nuclear reactors suspected of being part of a covert nuclear weapons program in exchange for two proliferation-resistant nuclear power reactors. The agreement also called upon the United States to supply North Korea with fuel oil pending construction of the reactors. An international consortium called the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was formed to implement the agreement.

Some day these nations are going to have to grow a spine and shake off their effeminate liberalism/socialism. Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later. The consequences of their inaction might be the destruction of a civilization.

Congrats to the socialist dictator Chavez for managing to reverse democracy in his country and now get blacklisted from arms sales by the United States. The State Department said:

U.S. sales and licenses for the export of defense articles and services to Venezuela, including the re-transfer of defense articles, will not be permitted. In addition, amendments to existing foreign military sales cases will not be allowed for Venezuela.

As we have stated in the past, due to our concerns regarding Venezuela’s multi-billion dollar arms acquisition program, we have closely scrutinized all arms transfers to Venezuela.
The not fully cooperating designation will end all commercial arms sales and retransfers to Venezuela.

As if that wasn’t enough, Venezuelan General Alberto Muller Rojas says they’ll consider selling F-16 fighters to Iran. Let’s hope the CIA and Pentagon are making plans for these guys.

Ok, ask yourself a simple question: Why would Iran want a missile capable of traveling 5,000 KM? What possible use could that be? Iran already has missiles that can cover 1,500 KM (easily covering any regional threat).

An ex-Israeli army chief said today (here):

“Iran already has surface-to-surface missiles capable of being equipped with nuclear warheads with a 1,500 (930 miles) kilometer range but it will in the future have missiles with a range of 5,000 kilometers, which will threaten the whole of Europe,” Aharon Zeevi told a conference in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Iranian President Mahmoud “Ahmadinejad is promising the end of history in two or three years’ time and I suggest that we believe him,”

So while the EU presents another “incentive” package to the Iranian Hitler, Iran is acquiring the means to present a nuke to the EU. How is it that the EU can be so blind to the threat building?

So the BBC reports (here) that dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela had a few choice comments for the United States.

Mr Chavez, on a two-day trip to the UK, called for a socialist new world order and said nations were cowards for not standing up to the “American empire”.

The BBC also notes that he was received with “a rapturous welcome in north London”. Some Brits loving a dictator eh?

Pulling out the Ted Kennedy talking points, Chavez continued:

Mr Chavez said the US “doesn’t know what to do” in Iraq, which he called “the Vietnam of the 21st Century”.

Again, isn’t it great to see the world follow the Democrat talking points? Here’s Teddy in his 2004 Brookings speech:

We have lost the respect of other nations in the world. Where do we go to get our respect back? How do we re-establish the working relationships we need with other countries to win the war on terrorism and advance the ideals we share? How can we possibly expect President Bush to do that? He’s the problem, not the solution. Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam, and this country needs a new President.

I could do a whole blog on this guy. Why do you think the haters of America, the haters of freedom, the haters of democracy, the haters of Capitalism, all quote Democrats like Kennedy?

How can America fight against our enemies when we are subverted by members of our own Senate? I think there is such a word for this: Sedition.

Sedition is a deprecated term of law to refer to covert conduct such as speech and organization that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often included subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.

When will Americans say enough? Look around at the world and take note of those that are now emboldened against the United States.

Say what they want to minimize the obvious, it is reported today (here) that the UN found traces of highly enriched uranium on equipment in Iran.

One of the diplomats told The Associated Press that the samples came from equipment that can be used in uranium-enriching centrifuges at a former research center at Lavizan-Shian. The center is believed to have been the repository of equipment bought by the Iranian military that could be used in a nuclear weapons program.

The United States alleges Iran had conducted high-explosive tests that could have a bearing on developing nuclear weapons at the site.

The State Department said in 2004 that Lavizan’s buildings had been dismantled and topsoil had been removed in attempts to hide nuclear weapons-related experiments. The agency subsequently confirmed that the site had been razed.

Isn’t that just lovely? Highly enriched uranium on equipment bought by the Iranian military. And yeah, everyone goes around removing topsoil when they have nothing to hide.

But let’s not rush to judgment right? Let’s take our time, be cautious, make sure. The United States, Israel, and the Western world need to take out this threat while they still can. Iran is just following the North Korean playbook of building reactors for civilian power when in reality they are researching nuclear weapons.

The United States made one mistake with North Korea, will they make a bigger mistake with a religious zealot on a mission from Allah to rid the world of Israel and the United States? Will Liberalism so infect our Nation’s leaders that they will be rendered impotent?

Stay tuned. This game is only in the first quarter.

Talk about hypocrisy, the Iranian Hitler ™ recently lectured George Bush about his Christianity but again today made war cries against Israel calling it “a tyrannical regime that one day will be destroyed.” Can anyone really believe these guys in Iran don’t want a nuke?

Parading through a third world country today, Ahmadinejad was greeted like a hero when he gave a speech to some university students (see here).

My favorite quote:

I loved him, he was very charismatic,” said a first-year economics student who identified herself as Deslina. “If it comes to that, they should go to war. If I could, I would fight the United States.

Those of us who understand what we are facing in the world have to stand up and be heard.

Timed perfectly to impact the UN vote, Iranian President Ahmadinejad wrote an 18 page letter to President Bush (read here). A key point, that Liberals in America will easily dismiss, is that this was primarily a religious letter.

Another disturbing aspect to the letter is that Ahmadinejad writes like he’s reading from Ted Kennedy’s talking points. You can almost hear Kennedy, Feinstein, and the rest of the America-haters dictating such gems as:

Hundreds of billions of dollars spent from the treasury of one country and certain other countries and tens of thousands of young men and women — as occupation troops — put in harms way, taken away from family and loved ones, their hands stained with the blood of others, subjected to so much psychological pressure that everyday some commit suicide and those returning home suffer depression, become sickly and grapple with all sorts of ailments; while some are killed and their bodies handed to their families.

Sounds like Cindy Sheehan as well?

There are prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that have not been tried, have no legal representation, their families cannot see them and are obviously kept in a strange land outside their own country. There is no international monitoring of their conditions and fate. No one knows whether they are prisoners, POWs, accused or criminals.

European investigators have confirmed the existence of secret prisons in Europe too. I could not correlate the abduction of a person, and him or her being kept in secret prisons, with the provisions of any judicial system. For that matter, I fail to understand how such actions correspond to the values outlined in the beginning of this letter, i.e. the teachings of Jesus Christ (Peace Be Upon Him), human rights and liberal values.

I guess he does watch CSPAN and CNN.

Lies were told in the Iraqi matter. What was the result? I have no doubt that telling lies is reprehensible in any culture, and you do not like to be lied to

Isn’t it great to see sworn enemies of Israel and the West parrot the very words of U.S. Senators and Congressmen? Makes me sick.

Take a few moments looking at the map and you’ll realize the strategic importance of Iran. Bordered by Iraq to the West and Afghanistan to the East, Iran is right in the middle of what the United States is doing in the Middle East.

You can also see the problems this poses to our policies in the region. The ability of Iran to influence and undermine her neighbors is known and documented. Imagine an emboldened and nuclear Iran?

Iran is a headache quickly becoming a migraine.