Really? ;-) Hmm. What countries are you figuring to conquer first, Shields Folk? Not Canada, I hope! If so, be advised that we may not look so tough but looks can be deceiving. There are a lot of beaver in those woods.

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I think, bobad, if someone wanted to characterize another country (say...the USA? or Iran? Or North Korea? Or South Korea? Or China? Or Russia?) as a dire threat...and if they were willing to search through every word of every speech on every occasion by the leaders and major spokespersons of that country for any snippet or phrase that would suggest that that country might want to attack someone...

Then they would find it. Big deal. The USA has uttered so many blatant threats against various other countries on so many occasions by now that their clinging to this one verbal straw of Ahmadinejad's, spoken in a speech to a bunch of students, in order to depict his country as being willing to engage in mass suicide in order to strike Israel is simply pathetic.

But people buy it. On the basis of one idle, ill-considered phrase spoken by one politician, people are willing to start planning a pre-emptive war that would end up killing hundreds of thousands of people in all probability.

Well, I bet there are Iranians who buy the exaggerated "Great Satan" rhetoric too. After all, there are some fools everywhere, aren't there?

It is really quite foolish to imagine that Iran would fling some nukes at Israel, because the Israeli and American response would destroy Iran. The Iranians are not a nation of halfwits or lunatics....but American propaganda would wish them to be thought as such, so it can justify launching another unprovoked war.