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Iran can also be wiped off the map

May 9, 2006 1:16PM PDT

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Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."

"Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program," Peres told Reuters, adding that "Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us."

[For a Jerusalem Online video of events click here]

Peres's vehement expressions came the same day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote to US President George W. Bush proposing "new solutions" to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian leader to an American president in 27 years, Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said Monday.


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So the horrible doings in Iraq are not enough,
May 10, 2006 2:21PM PDT

you want to start another war with a better prepared, less softened up opponent? You'll be fighting in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, and you thought you could beat the Viet Namese. They're going to be moving their troops back and forth, and you're not going to know whom you're fighting, plus you'll have even more Muslims from elsewhere on your case.

You're a glutton for punishment Mark.

Rob

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Horrible doings?
May 10, 2006 9:27PM PDT

Like terrorist suicide bombings, IED's, and the use of civilians by the terrorists as pawns in their religious jihad?

BTW, Mark was presenting an article that focused on Israel's stance... the nation that for long has suffered under the terrorist regimes of neighbor nations and Palestine. Israel pretty much told Iran to **** or they'd slap them around like they have in the past.

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Like over 100,000 civilians dead, and now ethnic cleansing,
May 10, 2006 11:28PM PDT

DR. Anyone who honestly believes Iraq is better off now than it was under Saddam (at the time of the invasion, after he'd been largely defanged in Desert Storm -- a war I did support) really needs to examine their priorities. The only logic by which that case can be made also gave rise to New Hampshire's "better dead than red" slogan during the cold war. While that's certainly a valid position for individuals to take for themselves, it's not a choice one nation can morally impose on another.

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again with the lies dk
May 11, 2006 1:17AM PDT

those numbers are wrong as you well know
you keep on retelling it a lie you will beleave.

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The Lancet study
May 11, 2006 8:15AM PDT

has been largely discounted due to its small sample size and the fact that most other independent studies put civilian death toll between 10,000 - 15,000. A general google search of the topic revealed declared anti-Bush and anti-military sites that put the count at 30,000.

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but there wrong as dk
May 11, 2006 8:17AM PDT

and the others who harp on false statements reguarding the war.
if it make our leaders look bad its what they spiel out

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Good Grief, DK...AGAIN????????
May 11, 2006 8:25AM PDT

that number was floated around only a few MONTHS after our arrival in Iraq.....and there's no way you can prove we killed that many in such a short amount of time....and doesn't it enter your pea brain even SLIGHTLY that in the four YEARS we've been there now, that number has NEVER increased?

Give it a rest already...........

TONI

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Hmmm...strange, I didn't see any...
May 10, 2006 10:59PM PDT

...of Marks words in his post. Would you kindly point out what you're talking about?

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you saw that jack :)
May 11, 2006 1:27AM PDT

these educated memebers who ranted about iraq shure didnt lol thank you for showing there obvious bias Happy

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well you see rob this has to do with
May 11, 2006 1:25AM PDT

knowledge
Iran has the stuff has threatened Israel with total wipe out.
where was your outrage over that? ill tell you where NO where.
the Iranians are the people who took our people hostage remember ? jimmy carter the flunky talked to them kissed there asses, remember the mockery of it all.
took a president with balls to get them back as the Iranians new who was in power.
OK so know they are flaunting there obtaining nukes, and you would do what ignore it, have the UN talk, i hope they listen but we all know the useless UN is a waste of time.

so if Israel does it it will be a full job of self protection.

or if a person moved into your town rob constantly swore he would wipe your famially off the earth and you told the cops and your neighbors, what would you do if all people ignored it and you see them getting stronger, would you over look it or strike 1st?

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There are enough nuclear weapons
May 11, 2006 12:17AM PDT

to wipe the world off the map.

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and when Canada's threatened
May 11, 2006 1:28AM PDT

by a rouge country like iran we will see what your stance is.

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True, however
May 11, 2006 4:18AM PDT