--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 1/23/07 11:09:32 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> I don't get why when Ahmadinejad says the US and Israel will be
> destroyed, invariably someone misquotes him as saying Iran will
> destroy them. He has not said that-- at least I haven't read it
> anywhere. I take his speech as referring to the possibiity of
karmic
> retribution coming to both countries, not that Iran will be that
agent
> of karmic retribution.
>
>
>
> Then he needs to state clearly that it is his belief that the
destruction of
> Israel and the United States will be an act of God and Iran will
have
> nothing to do with it, while he makes his nuclear weapons.
Otherwise it clearly
> comes off as a threat. When you are on the receiving end of such
a threat, by a
> hostile country that sponsors terrorism and one that is hell bent
on making
> their own nuclear weapons,to take it as a "possibility" that
maybe he just
> means your Karma is going to catch up with you would be
absolutely foolish and
> suicidal.
>
When I hear talk that that vis a vis Iran and USA relations, it
sounds so much like the elephant being afraid of the mouse.
