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Just what do we believe about “Imadinnerjacket” anyway?

By: emptybucket (Diary)  |  August 17th, 2012 at 05:01 PM  | 

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Article after article on the Net about Ahmadinejad spouting off about either wiping Israel off the map or some variation thereof. This is the same man that US officials identified as involved in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis that lead to Operation Eagle Claw. For those too young to remember politics from 1979-1980 please do a search on Iran Hostage Crisis and/or President Carter. I would type it all in here but it’s a bit off point so will continue on.

Today Drudge has placed a picture of “Imadinnerjacket” front and center with the headline “Ahmadinejad-Israel will be destroyed”. I didn’t even click on the hypelink. Why read yet one more article about this looney toon. Is the current administration going to do anything, anything to protect Israel from this guy?

Does Obama and his minions even agree that Iran is a threat to Israel. The media is so hell bent on protecting everything and all things Obama that article after article about a supposed major threat to the Middle East is simply that…an article about Iran being a threat to the Middle East.

Is the United States every going to get serious about Ahmadinejad? Does the current administration know something we don’t, such as all the guy does is spout rhetoric, or is there a real threat?

As an American citizen I’d like to know! As someone who Prays for the Peace of Israel, I’d like to know just where Obama really stands. Sure we can get into a conversation about sanctions and whether or not they work. My point is that I’ve yet to get the feeling that anyone in this Administration even thinks Imadinnerjacket is a threat.  He is a terrorist for gosh sake.

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  • emptybucket

    also feel it would be a mistake to enter conflict with Iran at this time. Am very concerned about what is going on behind the scenes in both Syria and Iran. The media cannot be depended on to present the whole picture.

    Also recognized that the real power, the clerics, in Iran are the ones to watch. I often wonder why they don’t shut Ahmadinejad up?

    Iran is the Big Prize and I never feel that this White House has a clue one way or the other about the Middle East.

  • checkmate2012

    I think if you say my description fast enough it sounds more like your Ahmadinejad than your “Imadinnerjacket

  • Viet71

    I support Israel, financially and otherwise.

    If Iran were a real threat to the U.S. or any friendly, I’d say, send in the marines and the 101st.

    Ahmadinejad is a blowhard who has no real power. He is simply the political face of Iran.

    Be assured what’s going on in Syria ultimately has to do with Iran. Be assured also that Iran is the Big Prize in the M.E. for both U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

  • acat

    Ahmadinejad is not the final say, he answers to a non-elected religious council who decide which candidates get to be on the ballot, among other things.

    Ahmadinejad is using the fear of an enemy outside – us – like a boogeyman, to keep the Iranian people grumbling but in line. That’s SOP in the region.

    I believe they are a threat to Israel.. but I don’t believe they are an existential one… at this time, anyway.

    I do have a question for you, Viet71, since you’ve obviously put some thought into this. Usually, our policy in the ME has been to work with/through the Saudis.

    Do you see that changing, now that the Muslim Brotherhood are on the rise? Another way, can the House of Saud and the various other dictatorships act as an anti-Brotherhood pole in the region? I don’t see the Saudis doing very well in that role ..

    Mew

  • Viet71

    American intelligence has taken over the M-Brotherhood.

    Sorry to say. Worry more more about your perceived friends than your perceived enemies.

  • Viet71

    Answer is, he’s a useful tool.

  • acat

    that’s easy for me.

    I see much more of a natural affinity for Israel than the House of Saud, but realistically we are in competitions, of various sorts, with the lot of ‘em…

    Mew

  • acat

    Ahmadinejad is not the true ruler of Iran, he’s a useful puppet who could be gone quite quickly and with no mourning if the Ayatollahs thought he’d outlived his usefulness.

    His job is to keep the Ayatollahs in power, and he’s doing that in the most common way in the ME… rally the people against an external threat. Me and my brother and our cousin against the outsider….

    The point being, finding the nuggets of truth to the anti-Israeli anti-U.S. noise is tricky ..

    My assumption is that the CIA and NSA folks have access to intel that we don’t, but also operate under institutional biases that we don’t … we’re working with more blind spots, but they’re operating with blinders too…

    I will say this. The timing of the movie ‘Argo’ seems curious to me.

    Mew

  • Viet71

    But also he’s projecting Iran’s purported foreign policy.

    He is the face of Iran.

    We need to read him correctly. He’s feisty but not aggressive.

  • emptybucket

    comments. I have this deep deep knot in my gut telling me that although Ahmadinejad is viewed as a puppet and that the Iranian cleric is in the background telling him/or allowing him to spout all that destroyed Israel rhetoric – - – that there is something truly evil going on behind the scenes everytime a new rant is made by Ahmadinejad.

    I guess that was one of the thoughts I was trying to express. Why does he have to be in the spotlight so much condemning Israel? He was a terrorist and is a terrorist and will be a terrorist tomorrow.

    There is nothing, nothing, nothing coming out of the White House that makes me freel like his administration has a handle and just how evil this guy is And that he has support in the Middle East countries. He isn’t just a lone wolf. I never want to be able to say in the future, “I knew he would bomb Israel”.

    American attention is so focused on the upcoming election right now, anything could happen. I would like to have the feeling that the president has a teeny inkling to what is going on in the Middle East.