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Iran's Khamenei and Israel's Casus Belli

Paul1364 Wrote: Aug 20, 2012 7:40 PM

There was a chickenhawk in the late 30s named Winston Churchill, and there was a reasonable, incredibly popular peace loving man name Neville Chamberlain. In 1938 Neville was the most popular man in the world, having signed a peace accord with Germany. In 1939 the slaughter in Europe began, and the gullible peacemakers figured out that their "peace" had precipitated an incredible butchery, that Chamberlain was a mindless dupe. The chickenhawk's dire prophecies all came true.

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Iran's Khamenei and Israel's Casus Belli

Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.

There are precedents for what Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has just done. Khamenei is the top in Tehran who is threatening to wipe Israel off the map. Khamenei said "the fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from the landscape of geography.” He said this to a meeting of Iran-Iraq war veterans. That 1980s war claimed millions of lives and was fought for what? Both Saddam Hussein of Iraq and the mullahs of Iran showed a complete disregard for human lives in that pointless brutal and inconclusive decade-long struggle.

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