Netenyahoo...Rumsfeld...Merkel

[RPankn]

Who will be next to parrot this meme? My bet is Hellary.

Merkel likens Iranian president to Hitler

Staff and agencies
04 February, 2006

MUNICH - Chancellor Angela Merkel likened hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler on Saturday, saying the world must act now to stop him before his country developed a nuclear bomb.

"We want, we must prevent Iran from developing its nuclear program further," Merkel told top policymakers from around the world in a speech to the annual Munich security conference.

Referring to the rise of Hitler in the 1930s, Merkel added: "Now we see that there were times when we could have acted differently. For that reason Germany is obliged ... to make clear (to Iran) what is permissible and what isn‘t." [Who the hell is this puppet of the 4th Reich to compare anyone to Hitler and tell anyone what's permissible?]

Europe and the United States suspect Iran of planning to build nuclear weapons. Tehran says its nuclear program is purely for civilian energy purposes.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is expected to vote to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council U.N. Security Council later on Saturday over suspicions it is seeking atomic bombs.

Merkel, speaking to an audience that included U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, had particularly harsh words for Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

"Iran has blatantly crossed the red line," Merkel said. "I say it as German chancellor. A president that questions Israel‘s right to exist, a president that denies the Holocaust, cannot expect to receive any tolerance from Germany." [What about those who oppose Israel's right to exist because they are opposed to oppressive, fascist theocracies and apartheid as a system of government? What about those who are opposed to puppet leaders who sound like the flunky they are by quoting debunked, deliberate mistranslations?]

Merkel said Iran was a threat to Europe as well as Israel. But she also made clear that diplomacy rather than military action was the way to deal with the threat.

"Diplomatic avenues need to be exhausted. We need to keep our nerves, go step by step," she said.

In a question-and-answer session after Merkel‘s speech, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country would end snap IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities and step up its uranium enrichment program if reported to the U.N. Security Council.

U.S. and EU leaders, aware that Russia, China and developing states on the IAEA board want to avoid a showdown with Iran, the world‘s No. 4 oil exporter, have said that reporting Tehran will not finish off diplomacy or trigger early sanctions.

Rumsfeld, speaking after Merkel, voiced his support for a diplomatic solution, but said Iran‘s nuclear program posed a grave threat.

"The Iranian regime is today the world‘s leading state sponsor of terrorism," he said. "The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran."


www.localnewsleader.com/brocktown/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=136628

[RPankn]

More Zionazi pornography from Rumsfeld.

Posted on Sat, Feb. 04, 2006

Rumsfeld: Iran regime sponsors terrorism

DAVID RISING
Associated Press

MUNICH, Germany - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld urged America's allies to increase their military spending to prevent the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire."

He also urged the world to work for a "diplomatic solution" to halt Iran's nuclear program.

"The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism," he said in prepared remarks. "The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran."

Rumsfeld was in Munich to address a defense conference focused on the relationship between America and its European allies.

The remarks came as the U.N. nuclear agency was meeting in Vienna, Austria to vote on a U.S.-backed proposal to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over concerns Tehran may be developing nuclear weapons.

Rumsfeld said terrorists hope to use Iraq as the "central front" in their war, turning it into a training and recruitment area like they had done in Afghanistan under the Taliban. He warned "a war has been declared on all of our nations" and said their "futures depend on determination and unity in the face of the terrorist threat." [Projection.]

"We could choose to pretend, as some suggest, that the enemy is not at our doorstep. We could choose to believe, as some contend, that the threat is exaggerated. [What about those that suggest the threat is fictional?]

"But those who would follow such a course must ask: what if they are wrong? What if at this moment, the enemy is counting on being underestimated, counting on being dismissed, and counting on our preoccupation," Rumsfeld said.

Rumsfeld was to follow German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the opening speeches on the second day of 42nd annual Munich security conference. In the past defense experts and policy-makers have used the prestigious gathering in southern Germany for frank exchanges.

Rumsfeld said violent extremism is a danger faced as much in Europe as in the United States.

"The struggle ahead promises to be a long war that will cause us all to recalibrate our strategies, perhaps further adjust our institutions, and certainly work closely together," he said.

He said Islamic militants are on the move and have to be checked.

"They seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re-establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent," he said. "They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire." [If this isn't the clearest example of a Zionazi projecting their New World Order.]

Likening the war on terror to the Cold War, Rumsfeld said the battle could be won if nations persevered. He invoked Merkel's own experience - growing up in Communist East Germany to become chancellor of a unified Germany.

"Freedom prevailed because our free nations showed resolve when retreat would have been easier, and showed courage when concession seemed simpler," he said.

But he pointed out that the United States spends 3.7 percent of its Gross Domestic Product on national defense while 19 of the 25 other NATO nations spend less than 2 percent of their GDP on defense.
He did not name countries, but Germany, which spends 1.4 percent of its GDP on defense, and others have been under pressure to step up their funding.

"It may be easier for all of us to use our scarce tax dollars to meet urgent needs we all have at home," Rumsfeld said. "But unless we invest in our defense and security, our homelands will be at risk."


www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/13790928.htm

[Moses]

1. Isn't it interesting that Merkel is on the same page as the Iran-Contra crowd?
2. Rumsfeld sounds like Hitler.