News Iran calls for Israel's destruction

[The Smoking Man]

Perhaps somebody else here does but the Jerusalem Post doesn't.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540612710&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Also correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Israel have nuclear weapons which they obtained through a secret weapons program in violation of the UN's nuclear non-proliferation treaty which Israel refused to sign up to?
Whilst on the subject of WMD isn't it also strongly suspected that Israel also has both chemical and biological weapons, produced at the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Nes Ziona?
One of the sources of this information is the 1993 U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment WMD proliferation assessment report which recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities. Another is the 190 litres of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a CWC schedule 2 chemical used in the synthesis of Sarin nerve gas discovered in the cargo of El Al Flight 1862 after it crashed in 1992 en-route to Tel Aviv. Don't other ME countries get bombed for that?
Isn't it surprising there is not a call for UN sanctions or military action against Israel given these facts? Can you say double standards?

It again comes down to the tired old comparison of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The USSR interfered with the region in the Carribean and sent nukes to Cuba.

Since there were two world powers at the time, The USA successfully had them turned back.

Now we have a region with a state that has been armed to the teeth over the years while the region's collective armed forces are comparitively poorly armed. It could not make any similar threats and the USA is preventing silmilar arms being sent to the opposing nations.

In fact, the only places in the region to be armed to the teeth with both legal and illegal weapons have been allies of the USA at one point. (Israel, Afghan rebels while fighting the soviet incursion, Iraq)

Now the USA has found that Israel has been supplying arms technology to China. Is Israel going to make it 3 for 3?

Remember folks ... that wide brush you use that paints a sign ... terrorist ... has magic paint on it which, when viewed in a different light, reads 'Freedom Fighter'.

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

What do Americans say about the ME--to nuke it, to wipe it off the face of the Earth? Or at least a crusade (who said that?).

Oh, I agree. As far as I'm concerned "shock and awe" is to terrorism what "enemy combatant" is to POW, and Britain and America's current preoccupation with invading countries in the ME for the slightest, or falsest, of reasons is tantamount to a crusade comparable to that Ahmadinejad wishes for.

And it is precisely because we hear the "Bush is a terrorist" line so many times that I can't quite see the problem in applying the term to Ahmadinejad. He is supporting terrorist activities after all. Fair's fair, I say.