Rocky Mountain Straight Talk

Originally published 19 January, 2006.

As all observers can see, with Iran it is going to be a case of who blinks first. They know that we know they are trying to make nuclear weapons, but they also know we can’t prove it. They think they can lie about it right up until they bomb Israel, because by then it will be too late for anyone to stop them.

There is another weird aspect to this standoff: Religious clerics have been known openly to say that, while we value life, they value death. Anyone who doubts that need only look at their eagerness to blow themselves up in order to kill others. If that doesn’t add a new dimension to this explosive situation (no pun intended), I don’t know what would.

Israel cannot and will not let themselves be blown off the map, as Iran’s leader has said they intend to do, and if it comes to life or death, Israel will launch a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. That will bring the wrath of the entire world down upon their heads, because as warlike and aggressive as several other Middle Eastern countries are, Israel is the one hated around the world.

Why? Because Jews live there, and almost all the countries of Europe and the Middle East hate Jews. Why? I can’t explain racial hatred. I never could, but that is the motivation of a great deal of the world’s people, and anyone who denies that just doesn’t know history.

Our president has already sent warplanes to the immediate area. I think they are there because, if Israel is forced to attack, it will be imperative that we attack, also. My reasoning is that Israel must not be made to carry the world’s wrath alone for what is, and long has been, a global problem.

Though Iran could – and eventually would – attack Europe, they would deny that was their intent right up until they dropped their bombs on France or Germany. So, if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, both France and Germany will attack Israel verbally and with UN sanctions right up until Irani bombers turn Paris and Berlin into smoking trash heaps.

A political leader has said we would have to use a nuclear bomb to get through those hardened bunkers, but I have been told that anyone who understands phosphorous knows better than that. I hope that is true, because I don’t want us to be the first to go nuclear in that region.

Retired Air Force General McInerny says we learned how to break through hardened bunkers by failing to break through Saddam’s bunkers. He says we can do it. That’s good because he also says there are a lot of them to break through. We know they learned from the Israelis’ having taken out Saddam’s nuclear reactor in the ‘80s that they must not put the entire facility in one place, as Saddam had done. So, their nuclear facilities are spread all over Iran. McInerny says we should get other Middle Eastern countries to join in the attack, but that sounds like mission impossible to me. Let’s hope I am wrong. If there was ever a time when I wanted to be wrong, this is it.

So, with Osama bin Laden saying he is going to attack us again, with Iran saying they really are not making a bomb, while doing so, with Zarqawi running a terrorist network in Iraq and killing hundreds of Iraqis and some Americans, with Islamists plotting attacks in several of our country’s mosques, what are half of our homegrown political leaders doing? They are putting everything they have into forcing our president to forgo the wiretapping of foreign terrorists’ phone conversations with their fellow conspirators in this country. Why? They are trying to score political points that will help them win the next election. If that allows them to attack us, Oh Well! They can always say it is Bush’s fault.

Does this make sense to anyone but themselves? Is there any way any of them can guarantee they will not be one of those killed in the next terrorist attack on our country? It could be one of their loved ones, but it just doesn’t matter. Politics trumps everything. Iran’s malevolent leader and his obsession with building and using a nuclear bomb is no more than a minor distraction. All that matters is winning elections.

If some funny-looking guy from outer space were to stumble onto our planet and watch both the terrorists with their murderous obsessions and our politicians with their mindless ambition, he would roll his eyes, call his mother ship and say, "Beam me up Scotty, there’s no intelligent life on this planet."

Greetings Gentle Reader,

According to Kenneth Timmerman, author and broadcaster into Iran, Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, believes and has stated that he was brought to power to usher in the end of the world. There is supposed to be a terrible time of chaos, then all Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims will be killed, then the world will end. I’m not sure what is supposed to come next.

It seems he and his fellow leaders are waiting for the 12th Imam, who is hiding at the bottom of a well. They drew up a contract with him, but they weren’t sure how to get him to sign it, so they decided simply to drop it into the well. Theoretically, the Imam was down there, and he signed it. I have not heard whether the contract made it back out of the well.

Ahmadinejad was the guy in charge of the group that took our embassy staff captive back in what I think was 1979. He held them for 444 days. In fact, he turned them loose only because Ronald Reagan was elected president, and he only released them then because he was afraid Reagan would attack Tehran if he didn’t. He knew they had buffaloed Jimmy Carter, but they couldn’t do that with Reagan.

This guy is the one who has said they will wipe Israel off the map. He has also said the holocaust didn’t happen.

He says insane things all the time, but insane people can be very dangerous, and this one has been described as a complete raving lunatic.

Timmerman says Iran has had the equipment to build nuclear bombs for some time. They bought it from that Pakistani bomb builder, A.Q. Khan, who was happily selling it to anyone who had the money to buy it.

Perhaps the most dangerous sign from Iran is that they have redesigned their Shahab 3 missiles so they can carry nuclear warheads. The Israelis are said to have satellites watching them, and if they see Iran arming those missiles, they will attack. As we have discussed before, they have sites spread all over Iran, but does that include missile sites? I don’t know, but this rabid monster in charge is probably too sly to put all his bombs in one basket.

When asked how long it might be before the Iranians could provoke a crisis, Timmerman said it could be as soon as a couple of months. In fact, he has named his book on the subject, "Countdown to Crisis."

Is this likely to happen? It could. Lunatics don’t count the cost, besides, this one has said they could attack Israel, and even though they would suffer attacks in return, they have enough people they could kill all Israelis and still have plenty of Iranians left. That statement is a sign that this man lives in his own little world. It says he doesn’t care how many Iranians die, so long as Israel dies with them.

Now, just in case some Americans are thinking that Israel is expendable and it’s not our place to defend them, the nut also has said he is going to kill all Anglo-Saxons. That means us and all kinds of Europeans. Europe now has so many Muslims in it that it would have its hands full trying to defend itself against Iran. Its own Muslims would turn on the native Europeans and slaughter them. They call them Crusaders, and their mandate is to kill all of them. Jolly thought, huh?

Will all this happen? It not only could, but there is likely to be some kind of confrontation with Iran in the near future. Hopefully it will not be nuclear, but even that cannot be ruled out.

Are 21st century Americans as tough as their World War II grandparents? We may soon find out.