http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060414/wl_afp/mideastiran
"The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a
permanent threat," firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the
gathering of regime officials, visiting Palestinian militant leaders
and foreign sympathizers.

"Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is on the road to
being eliminated," said Ahmadinejad, whose regime does not recognize
Israel and who drew international condemnation last year when he said
Israel should be "wiped off the map." ...

"If there is serious doubt over the Holocaust, there is no doubt over
the catastrophe and Holocaust being faced by the Palestinians," said
the president, who had previously dismissed as a "myth" the killing
of an estimated six million Jews by the Nazis and their allies during
World War II.

"I tell the governments who support Zionism to ... let the migrants
(Jews) return to their countries of origin. If you think you owe them
something, give them some of your land," he said.

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Ahmadinejad: Israel Will Soon Be Eliminated by One Storm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives met with Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and
Hizbullah members in Teheran on Friday in a conference aimed at raising
funds for the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.

Opening the conference, Ahmadinejad fired a series of verbal shots at
Israel, saying it was a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that
will "soon" be liberated, and questioning the validity of the Nazi
Holocaust against Jews in World War II.

"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward
annihiliation," Ahmadinejad said. "The Zionist regime is a rotten,
dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm," he said.

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http://www.coxandforkum.com/

Apparently some on the left are mobilizing to prevent military action
against the U.S.-hating, terrorist-sponsoring, genocide-threatening,
Nuke-seeking, Holocaust-denying, homosexual-executing theocrats of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.

From Little Green Footballs:
Moonbats Launch Preemptive Anti-War Petition
Mama Moonbat: Let Iran Get Nukes

And at The Huffington Post, Bill Scher advises the left to start
Reframing The Iran Debate. This is a must-read for seeing how far the
"anti-war" left will go to evade the reality what kind of regime is
confronting us. Excerpts:

So far, the neoconservatives have done a good job of re-running their
Iraq playbook and framing discussion on Iran, by laying out these
premises:
1. Iran is close to getting nukes.
2. Iran's President is crazy and irrational and committed to wiping
Israel off the map. He can't be reasoned with.
3. Bush is trying real super hard to get the UN to do something about
it, but if they won't...

If we are to have any hope of preventing a senseless war with Iran, we
cannot accept this frame. If all of the above points are reported as
fact and accepted by Americans across the ideological spectrum,
anti-war arguments will be seen as knee-jerk, immature and reckless,
and not get a fair hearing. In turn, Democrats in Congress will get
steamrolled again.

How can we reframe the discussion? Our arguments should flow from the
following framework:

1. Iran presently has a strong, rational incentive to get nukes. ...
2. Iran has acted rationally and can be reasoned with. ...
3. There is plenty of time to negotiate. ...


UPDATE -- April 14: Ahmadinejad reminds us who we're dealing with. From
CNN: Iran president: Israel a threat to Islamic nations.

Iran's president said on Friday that the existence of the "Zionist
regime", Iran's term for Israel, was a threat to the Islamic world,
days after declaring Iran had become a nuclear power by enriching
uranium.
But the tone of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to a conference on the
Palestinian issue was slightly more moderate than fiery rhetoric last
year, when Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted him as telling a
conference: "Israel must be wiped off the map."

"The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to an imposition of
an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and
Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its
threat," Ahmadinejad said on Friday.