You’re a voice in the wilderness, Mr. Giraldi. Everybody knows that the inhuman Iranians are dedicated to the eradication of Israel. That’s why our bestest-bestest friend Israel collaborates with terrorist organizations to assassinate Iranian scientists.

http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/08/10354553-israel-teams-with-terror-group-to-kill-irans-nuclear-scientists-us-officials-tell-nbc-news

Anyone who ever doubted the wisdom of George Washington need look no further than our byzantine involvement with Israel for proof that our greatest President knew what the hell he was talking about when he warned:

“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. ”

PG, a couple of months ago, someone posted in response to one of Larison’s blogs a link to an article that had appeared in antiwar.com back in 2007 which completely eviscerates the false claim that Ahmahdinejad had threatened to “wipe Israel off the map.”
http://antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025

I was aware of the disputed translation, but I missed the article when it appeared. I highly recommend the article to anyone who has any doubts.

Old Saw,

do you wonder why no neocon cites George Washington as his favorite Founding Father? You find a lot of neocon fans of Alexander Hamilton but none of GW that I know of.

“do you wonder why no neocon cites George Washington as his favorite Founding Father?”

He’s too American?

Apparently David Sanger has a son in the Israeli Defense Force. How can he be objective? How can it be all the news that fit to print? How have we let this small group of dual interest elites dictate our foreign policy?

“Disputes between the United States and Israel are inevitable, according to experts, given the radically different stakes of a nuclear Iran for a distant superpower and for a neighbor whose very existence the leaders in Tehran have pledged to eradicate.”

Would anyone like to comment on what evidence exists to support the contention that the leaders of Iran are pledged to eradicate the existence of Israel?

Come join a discussion on this article here (an Iranian friend will be on hand to add his viewpoint):

http://www.wedialog.org/conversations/1036?selected=1419#post_1419

“In fact, Iran has attacked no one since the seventeenth century.”

Well, they’re obviously trying to lure us into a false sense of security!

“In fact, Iran has attacked no one since the seventeenth century.”

Well, they’re obviously trying to lure us into a false sense of security!”””

LOL. Well, if that was their intention, they obviously failed since they have lured us into a false sense of insecurity. No, wait, it is not the Iranians who were doing that but the Israelis and their supporters in the U.S., specifically the neocons.

I don’t know how accurate that claim is about Iran not attacking anyone since the 17th century. I was recently reading an account about Georgia in Wikipedia and came across the following:
“In 1783, Russia and the eastern Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, which recognized the bond of Orthodox Christianity between Russian and Georgian people and promised eastern Georgia protection.[23] However, despite this commitment to defend Georgia, Russia rendered no assistance when the Turks and Persians invaded in 1785 and in 1795, completely devastating Tbilisi and massacring its inhabitants. ”

That is the latter part of the 18th century but still 20-30 years before the British invaded Washington, D.C. and burned the White House..

“Would anyone like to comment on what evidence exists to support the contention that the leaders of Iran are pledged to eradicate the existence of Israel?”

tcolgan, see my earlier post re the faulty translation of Ahmadinejad’s speech given in Farsi back in 2006. The article that appeared in antiwar.com back in 2007 was written by someone fluent in Farsi, and he completely eviscerates the fraudulent claim about Iran’s intention “to wipe Israel off the map,” which has gained widespread acceptance in the U.S. despite the lack of evidence to back it up.