ABC's Martha Raddatz reported yesterday that David Kay, the former UN weapons inspector, estimates the Iranians are a couple of months away from exploding their own nuclear bomb.
What if you were an Israeli, confronting that reality? What if you were an Israeli confronting that reality in light of this event in Tehran on Friday? Excerpt:
Iranians chanted "Death to Israel" on Friday as Islamist students unveiled a book mocking the Holocaust in an Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day annual parade to show solidarity with the Palestinians.And in Gaza City, the Islamist Hamas movement that has ruled the impoverished Palestinian territory since June 2007 marked the day by calling for more suicide attacks on Israel.
The book "Holocaust," published by members of Iran's Islamist Basij militia, features dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary.
Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi attended the official launch of the book in Tehran's Palestine Square.
The cover shows a Jew with a crooked nose and dressed in traditional garb drawing outlines of dead bodies on the ground.
Inside, bearded Jews are shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a counter that reads the number 5,999,999.
Another illustration depicts Jewish prisoners entering a furnace in a Nazi extermination camp and leaving from the other side as gun-wielding "terrorists."
Yet another shows a patient draped in an Israeli flag and on life support breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the extermination chambers.
Iran does not recognise the Jewish state, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attracted international condemnation by repeatedly predicting Israel is doomed to disappear and branding the Holocaust a "myth."
What lovely people.
What terrible decisions await the Israelis -- as well as the Americans.
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Insane Kitten,
There is *some* daydreaming and magical thinking involved in *any* election, I'll grant you.
But there has been much *more* involved in this election than in any other I can remember.
And most of that daydreaming and magical thinking has been on the part of Obama supporters.
What makes that especially galling to me is that is has been those who now support Obama most strongly who were strongest in their (justified) condemnation of George W. Bush for daydreaming and magical thinking the past eight years with regard to Iraq and other things.
It is the rankest hypocrisy that I have ever witnessed in politics, and that's saying a lot.
Either Obama's supporters and Bush's critics never really meant what they said or they have absolutely no integrity at all, since, in supporting Obama, they seem eager to make the same mistake themselves that they fault others for having made in supporting Bush.
I did not support Bush and -- and especially after seeing the mess that Bush has made -- I'll be damned if I'll sip one solitary ounce of Reverend Lightworker's Soul-Tonic and Medicinal Brew -- i.e., in the vernacular, his "kool-aid."
I keep checking the comments for substantiation that Iran is a couple of months away from exploding a nuclear weapon.
If there is no such information, I think this talk about nuking Iran reveals something deeply wrong. It should desist. Fantasies about mass murder are not good.
Mark, I heard Martha Raddatz report that on ABC -- she was speaking live from Tehran, wearing a pink scarf, FWIW. But like you, I couldn't find it on the ABC website. I found the report so shocking that I very nearly came in to blog on it right away. Mohamed ElBaradei has said Iran is disturbingly close, though not as close as Kay allegedly did.
For the record, I oppose war with Iran as a colossal potential blunder for the US. Still, if the Israelis manage to take out Iran's nuclear capability, I'll say a prayer of thanksgiving, and pray that God continues to bless and protect Israel.
Rod - Googling just now still turns up no references to this report other than to trails that lead back to here. While TV is ephemeral, a lot of people, including a lot of bloggers of every persuasion, are watching at any given time, so interesting stuff - and this, if true, would be a bit too interesting - generally gets blogged a bunch of times, even if most of the bloggers are pretty obscure. I think you may have simply misheard.
Rod thanks. I also think I misunderstood part of what you were saying in a rather horrific way.
Sorry!
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