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Iran Declares its Nuclear Bad Intentions
As any student in Psychology 101 learns, there is something called "projection" in which an individual "projects" onto another person their own intentions, motivations, and justifications. If I say you are planning to harm me, there’s a strong chance the truth is that I am planning to harm you. On August 1, he was addressing a rally that was carried on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) and his speech was translated by the Middle East Media Research Center for anyone to read. http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD122906 Ahmadinejad was denouncing Israel’s efforts to defend itself against the rain of Iranian-supplied rockets and missiles, and of course, it was their own fault they were under attack. The crowd was chanting "Death to Israel." He proceeded to give his own history lesson to the crowd, but since he does not believe the Holocaust ever happened along with some other extraordinarily paranoid notions, his version is a bit skewed. "They are a bunch of Zionists. Where have they come from? As you know, the rule of hegemony and the web of colonialism strived to establish a base in the heart of the Middle East." "A hundred years ago, they began to devise conspiracies on the basis of a diabolical plan. Bit by bit they (Jews) arrived (in what was then the British protectorate of Palestine) and backed by the devious, deceiving England, they sneaked people in, and placed them in control over the people of Palestine." The real history could fill a book, but suffice it to say that a very small group of European Jews, despairing of ever being accepted in their home countries, rife with anti-Semitism, concluded that Jews should immigrate to Palestine with a view to reestablishing the nation of Israel. The idea began with the publication, in 1896, of Theodor Hertzl’s "The Jewish State." The first Zionist Congress was held in 1897 in Basle, Switzerland. It was never a popular idea, which accounts for why, years later, the Nazis were able to round up and kill six million European Jews. Those who had immigrated bought land from Arabs who largely considered it worthless. It was a desert. After the Holocaust, those Jews who survived concluded that living in Europe was no longer viable and, encouraged by Zionist organizations, they immigrated to Palestine. Did Zionists want to recreate Israel? Yes, of course. It was to be a Jewish nation where Jews would be safe from those who wanted to kill them. They had, however, merely traded one set of murderers for another. When independence was declared in 1948, Israel was immediately attacked by five Arab nations. According to Ahmadinejad, "They claimed that these are people whose forefathers had lived in this land 2,500 years ago, and that they should therefore be the rulers of this land." The word "claimed" gives away his view that Jews had no claim on the area. On the other hand, during the Crusades, both Christians and Muslims had fought over the same land while making their own claims to it. Ahmadinejad’s interpretation, however, is that "They (the Jews) established a regime, aimed at threatening, trespassing, murdering, and pillaging." To put it another way, Israel’s 2% of the Middle East population, living on 1% of its landmass, exists to do terrible things to the 98% of Arabs and Persians living on 99% of it. You have to be really nuts to believe stuff like this. By this time, the crowd was chanting "Death to America." "Everyone knows that this regime (Israel) can do nothing without the orders and backing of America and its intimate friend, England. That’s why we have declared these two regimes are responsible for all the crimes of the insubordinate Zionist regime." We are now in the Twilight Zone of Muslim madness. "Today, Hezbollah in Lebanon is the standard-bearer of the resistance of all the monotheistic peoples, of the seekers of justice, and of the free people." Pardon me, but didn’t Judaism introduce the concept of monotheism while folks in the Middle East were worshipping moon gods and a host of others? And isn’t Hezbollah the wholly owned subsidiary of Iran? Kenneth R. Timmerman is president of Middle East Data Project Inc. and author of "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran". On August 2nd, writing in The Washington Times, Timmerman compared the actions of Hezbollah in Lebanon to the 1936 Spanish Civil War. "Just as Adolf Hitler used Francisco Franco as his proxy in Spain to test new military techniques and equipment on the battlefield, so Iran is using Hezbollah as its proxy to do the same." This is a particularly apt and ominous analogy. Now here is where "projection" is most evident as Ahmadinejad told the crowd, "I declare…that in light of America and England’s behavior, it has become clear that they don’t have what it takes to participate in international forums. They don’t have what it takes to sit in the Security Council, and to have a right of veto. They themselves are guilty and criminal, and they must be placed on trial. "When I see the behavior of America, England, and their other accomplices in recent days, I get the impression that they are preparing even greater crimes. I warn them: Know that the fire of the wrath of the peoples is about to erupt and overflow. "Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter mistake. "If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but then it will be too late." This is the language of a man preparing to use nuclear weapons against Israel, England and America. Waiting for him to do it is not an option. Despite the U.S. Senate’s August vote to end the quarter century ban on offshore drilling, the Democrats could not resist recklessly exploiting the current price at the pumps and oil company profits for political gain while ignoring the most fundamental economics of our national dependence on this energy source. The bill now goes back to the House, which already passed it and where a committee will work out an agreement on the separate versions. On June 29th, House Democrat Leader, Nancy Pelosi, attacked the bill to permit offshore drilling. "This bill is bad for the environment of coastal states. By revoking the ban on drilling for oil and natural gas, it will subject many sensitive coastal areas to harm." As proof, she cited an oil spill that had occurred decades ago in California off of Santa Barbara. There is no evidence of any long-term damage. The same holds true for the famed accident in Alaska. In the real world, accidents happen. In the real world, Nature makes the necessary corrections. Instead, Rep. Pelosi said, "Democrats have a New Direction for America. We will energize America with farmers fueling our energy independence." This is so stupid as to defy belief. This suggests that somehow American farmers can grow enough corn—without using a lot of oil and gas in the process—to reduce our use of gasoline. "The populist rant that this (oil prices) is the fault of ‘rapacious’ oil companies is a glib and false response," wrote Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report, in the August 7th edition, "and it’s especially unattractive when it comes from Democrats, who have systematically blocked attempts to increase domestic oil productions. Oil prices, in fact, are determined by a complex, and increasingly competitive, global market." "The roots of our predicament," wrote Zuckerman, "don’t lie in the boardrooms of Big Oil but at our own back door." He noted that, "Two thirds of our petroleum consumption is for transportation." While 3 out of 4 Americans commute to work via their automobiles, part of the price factor reflects the fact that "Last year, for the first time ever, Asia consumed more oil than North America. China is already the second-largest importer of oil." Part of the answer to gas prices is the simple equation of supply and demand, and America has the potential to increase domestic production by more than two million barrels a day, but only if we permit oil companies to drill for it and to expand and build new refineries.
Sen. Reid, like his colleague, Rep. Pelosi, is pushing the Democrat plan, the "Clean Edge Act" which is filled with notions of alternative sources of energy and the reduction of U.S. consumption of oil to six million barrels a day by 2020. I call it the "Corn Edge Act." It is bunk. It is worse than bunk. It is a refusal to deal with the every day realities of oil consumption by Americans and, increasingly, but nations coming out of their Third World status to join the rest of the world in the consumption of oil. The environmentalists have been blathering about global warming for decades now for the sole purpose of forcing America and other industrialized nations to reduce energy consumption in anticipation of a climate change that is not happening. I do not care how many phony computer models they produce, there is solid science that demonstrates global warming is not occurring. Yet Rep. Pelosi has joined with some thirty House Democrats to sponsor the "Safe Climate Act of 2006" charging that, "For decades, Big Oil and other polluting industries have undermined and obstructed the voices of scientists on global warming…The Bush Administration and the Republican leadership in Congress are willing partners in this dance of lies, muzzling government scientists or attacking their credibility when they refuse to remain silent." In short, this is legislation that throws out the First Amendment protection of free speech in order to insure there is no real scientific debate over the validity of global warming occurs. The notion of "polluting industries" is a lie and the worst kind of political bombast. The Earth itself is a polluter, emitting tons of gases every minute and not just from its hundreds of active volcanoes. Ever since the passage of the Clean Air Act, America has had decades of increasingly clean air, but the Democrats are not interested in science or facts. Every time you hear the words "alternative energy" you should keep in mind that they come with a price too. One of those prices is their failure to produce a sufficient amount of energy to be viable without government subsidies. Remove those subsidies from ethanol and it would cease to be manufactured. Ethanol produces less energy per gallon than gasoline. While Democrats cry out against Republicans for their support of Big Oil, ethanol is a big, political gift to the farm states where corn is grown. I like corn, but I don’t want to waste it to fill my gas tank and pay extra for the privilege. The only alternative energy I like is nuclear energy and it does not emit any pollutants! America is decades behind other industrialized nations in authorizing the building of nuclear plants to produce the increasing amount of electricity we need. Or would you prefer acres and acres of "wind farms" which are highly dependent on whether the wind is blowing. While environmentalists decry offshore drilling rigs no one will ever see, they love the notion of filling up these same shores with these monstrous machines. We have national elections coming in November. If you vote to put Democrats in control of the House and Senate, you are voting to increase the price of gasoline and natural gas. It’s just that simple. Enjoy these weekly commentaries? You can have a new collection of them when you purchase Alan Caruba’s new book, “Right Answers.” Just published! To learn more, click here. Or help the Center with a donation. If you prefer, you can send a check to The Caruba Organization, 28 West Third Street, Suite 1321, South Orange, NJ 07079. Thank you.
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At what point do Americans and the rest of the world begin to take Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seriously? He is making no secret of his plans to acquire and use nuclear weapons against Israel, England and America. 
Democrats, however, continue to demagogue the issue of oil. After ExxonMobilCorporation announced its profits in late July, the Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid, called the company’s profits "shocking" and part of the Republican Party’s "backhand to the American people."