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| Iranian military chief warnes US of divine wrath |
| 2004-05-30 |
| An Iranian military chief has invoked historical facts to say that Iraq’s occupiers, riding roughshod over Shi’ite sanctities, will be struck down by the divine wrath. "History has shown that the haughty and ignorant bullies, who are unaware of divine blessing to holy graves, will be struck down by the divine wrath and Muslim nations," said head of the Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps, Rahim Safavi. With all the earthquakes, freak storms and a fricken meteorite hitting Iran, you would think they would lay off the divine wrath stuff. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #13 `The majority of Iran's population is said to be born after 1979, thus all these years of radical Shi'ite Muslim neo-slavery has produced an Iranian generation more than willing to overthown the mullahs ...if outside assistance is there. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-30 8:39:06 PM |
| #12 I know some Zoroastrian Iranians (one of my college professors and a coworker) - I don't see them fitting in well in a "loyal to the mullahs" army. Too many worries on where their loyalty would lie when it comes time to put the bayonet to the civil dissent |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-30 7:49:33 PM |
| #11 #1 Calling this brownshirt a "military chief" is wrong in so many ways. It also makes me laugh because many of Iran's top military commanders aren't even Moslems, they are Zoarastrians. Different god, different smiting. If they are Zoarastrians I'll bet they are awfully quite ones. Some how I don't think being a non Muslim in Mullahland is agood way not to attract attention |
| Posted by: cheaderhead 2004-05-30 7:34:46 PM |
| #10 Don't know, Jack. I lost mine a couple moves ago. Actually I think my wife gave it to Goodwill. There are probably a few SAC guys out there who still have theirs and might be able to help. I suspect though, it's like the patch we had that proclaimed "Southeast Asian War Games - 2nd Place" you had to be there to appreciate the humor. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-30 7:19:36 PM |
| #9 Slightly OT; RWV, Where can I get one of those ball caps. Jack Bross |
| Posted by: Jack Bross 2004-05-30 5:31:14 PM |
| #8 Having a putative government that spends billions on building nuclear weapons while letting their own citizens die by the thousands in substandard mud huts as they are laid low by earthquakes that would have killed a hundred elsewhere seems more like an actual form of "divine wrath" to me. Living under totaliarian rule in a society that has changed very little in the last 500 years and being subject to the knout, the chopping block and death squads seems more like an actual form of "divine wrath" to me. Finally, when over half of your population is subject to Besides, our wrath could make mincemeat out of their wrath before the devil can get his shoes on. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-30 5:26:10 PM |
| #7 "These guys bluster so much, how are we supposed to separate truth from hyperbole and know when they are serious?" One thing I don't think we've figured out yet, is that you can't win against these jackasses just by beating them on the battlefield; to win, you have to make them STFU. And that, in turn, means (unfortunately for our Westernized sensibilities) killing a shitload of them. Faster, please... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-05-30 5:12:59 PM |
| #6 Actually what this reminded me of was a ball cap that made the rounds in the late 70's. The cap featured a B-52 turning away from a mushroom cloud and bore the logo "It's Miller time!" |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-30 5:08:27 PM |
| #5 These guys bluster so much, how are we supposed to separate truth from hyperbole and know when they are serious? The childlike boasting and over-the-top threats are reminiscent of an elementary school playground and are more appropriate for whipping the locals into a frenzy than of something that is put out for the serious consideration of people who could vaporize you and your holy places with the only consequence being they might feel bad about it later. (Sorry for the run-on sentence, but fools bring that out in me.) |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-30 5:05:45 PM |
| #4 Wotta buncha self-centered, living-on-another-planet maroons. You clowns start some bad shit with us, you'll learn what wrath is. TS is right; you'd think they would figure out where the "divine wrath" is landing lately, and do some serious thinking. You'd be wrong. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-30 5:00:31 PM |
| #3 however, Common sense and humility are in short supply where muslims hold totalitarian rule |
| Posted by: Comment Top 2004-05-30 4:28:36 PM |
| #2 With all the earthquakes, freak storms and a fricken meteorite hitting Iran, you would think they would lay off the divine wrath stuff. and with all the above, you'd think they would have the humility, not to mention the common sense, to see precisely where that "Wrath" is falling. |
| Posted by: Annie Moose 2004-05-30 4:26:41 PM |
| #1 Calling this brownshirt a "military chief" is wrong in so many ways. It also makes me laugh because many of Iran's top military commanders aren't even Moslems, they are Zoarastrians. Different god, different smiting. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-05-30 4:16:52 PM |