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Iedereen die niet achter het bombarderen van Iran staat, is vergelijkbaar met Hitlers-helpers in de vorige eeuw. Dat meent neocon Norman Pothoretz, adviseur van de gedoodverfde Republikeinse presidentskandidaat Giuliani. Een van de scenario’s is dat Israel met goedkeuring van de VS Iran aanvalt en Iran reageert met een tegenaanval. Bush zal dan Israel zogenaamd ‘helpen’. Gisteren zei Bush volgens FoxNews dat hij Iran zal aanvallen als dat land Israel aanvalt.
Norman Podhoretz, who is also a foreign policy adviser to Rudy Giuliani, repeated his claim last night that there is “only one terrible choice” left with Iran, which is to “bomb” their “facilities” and “retard” their nuclear program.
When Newsweek’s Fareed Zackaria asserted that deterrence was a viable option, Podhoretz repeatedly accused him of “an irresponsible complacency” that “is comparable to the denial in the early ’30s of the intentions of Hitler.”
PODHORETZ: First, I want to say that I think the attitude expressed by Fareed Zakaria represents an irresponsible complacency that I think is comparable to the denial in the early ’30s of the intentions of Hitler that led to what Churchill called an unnecessary war involving millions and millions of deaths that might have been averted if the West had acted early enough. [..]
Let me respond to that. You know, similar arguments were made about Hitler in the early ’30s, and it appalls me that this kind of attitude can still prevail after what we should have learned from the words of despots.
After Zakaria suggested that “we do not need to launch a third unilateral invasion” to “contain the problem of Iran,” Podhoretz reacted incredulously, muttering “God help us if we follow that counsel.”
Instead of resorting to “calling names” like Podhoretz, Zakaria responded to the substance of his argument, pointing out that “the idea that” Iran is “not going to be deterred by Israel’s 200 nuclear weapons, including a second strike capacity on submarines, is just fantasy.”
Zakaria then noted that “in the early 1980s, Norman Podhoretz and the neoconservatives” made similarly alarmist claims that proved to be completely wrong:
Look, in the early 1980s, Norman Podhoretz and the neoconservatives believed the Soviet Union was going to take over the world and Finlandize Europe. When Reagan started talking to the Soviets, started talking to Gorbachev, Mr. Podhoretz excoriated him, called it the “Reagan road to detente” and such.It turned out he was wrong. It turned out that the Soviets were not that powerful, and that history was on our side, and that things were going to work out as long as we kept our cool.
Podhoretz would like nothing better than to bomb Iran, even though he believes it may “unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world.” Furthermore, he is “certain” President Bush will do it before he leaves office, to which he says “thank God.”
oktober 31st, 2007 at 9:55 am
Why doesn’t anybody just step up and call this moron batshit crazy to his face? Bush is much closer to Hitler in every way than a guy without a nuclear weapon, who can’t poosible get even one together in less than 5 years, and who has no program to deliver a nuclear strike. Pod-man is just nuts, and should be locked up, for our protection.
oktober 31st, 2007 at 9:55 am
How does this jackass keep getting airtime to spew his filthy, bloodthirsty propaganda???
Again, there is NO EVIDENCE that Iran is actively seeking development of nuclear weapons. ZERO.
We have to shout the truth from the rooftops as loudly and as often as possible, lest Podhoretz and his ilk succeed in selling the latest Big Lie, and we become unwilling accomplices to the murder of more millions of innocents.
oktober 31st, 2007 at 9:56 am
How does he get on the cable TV when he was wrong about IRAQ???
America is ffffed and it all starts with the corporate media
and by corporate media, I mean Republican propaganda TV / Cable / ISP / Phone / etc. media outlets of the USA
oktober 31st, 2007 at 9:57 am
Jesus H. Christ!!! That bloody insane warmongering old bastard ought to shut the *bleep* up.
oktober 31st, 2007 at 9:58 am
Anybody who has wet dreams over the thought of ‘anti-Americanism all over the world’ is a nutcase. Why does anybody listen to this lunatic? I would think that even Republicans would want to distance themselves as much as possible from this wacko.
oktober 31st, 2007 at 9:59 am
Why doesn’t anybody just step up and call this moron batshit crazy to his face? Comment by Lefty Patriot..
I believe the correct term is Batsh!t Insane!
I would ask why the media even has this idiot on the airwaves, but then I am reminded as to what the media has done for the last 7 years and I have my answer
oktober 31st, 2007 at 10:00 am
Bombing Iran isn’t an ‘if’ question, it’s a ‘when’ question:
Secret Move to Upgrade Air Base
The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to military sources. The improvement of the B1 Spirit jet infrastructure coincides with an ‘urgent operational need’ request for
“urgent operational need” request for £44m to fit racks to the long-range aircraft. -TheHerald
oktober 31st, 2007 at 10:02 am
OK, so, what happens after we bomb Iran? Does anyone really believe it ends there?
oktober 31st, 2007 at 10:02 am
Isn’t this Podhoretz another one of those ’smart’ Jews that AEI. was talking about?
oktober 31st, 2007 at 10:03 am
OK, so, what happens after we bomb Iran? Does anyone really believe it ends there?
Comment by Chris L
The Rapture-Ready crowd does.