The mullahs must go!
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By Carol Devine-Molin
web posted November 22, 2004
The Islamo-fascist regime of Iran is the next stop in this global
war on terror. Why? Because if Iran acquires nuclear weaponry,
Iran's ruling class of radical clerics -- the mullahs -- will
undoubtedly target America and Israel.
Since 1979 -- when the Ayatollah Khomeini and his minions
ousted the Shah -- Iranian leadership has forged alliances with a
number of Islamic terrorist groups, most notably, the PLO and
other Palestinian organizations. In the past few years, we've also
heard that Iran has been aiding and harboring al-Qaida
members. As scholar Michael Ledeen indicated in his book "The
War Against the Terror Masters", "Iran is the mother of modern
Islamic terrorism" -- It's the premier terror state. Ledeen also
underscored that, "Khomeini created one of the most dangerous
international terrorist groups, Hezbollah, and Assad (Hafez al-
Assad of Syria) supported it with many of the same favors."
Hezbollah -- which is thoroughly enmeshed with the regimes of
Iran and Syria -- is the model for terrorists as surrogates
working hand-in-glove with terror sponsoring regimes. And,
when enacting death and mayhem, there's nothing like the use of
surrogates to help a terror state maintain plausible deniability.
In short, the web of terror seeks to destroy western civilization:
America is the Big-Kahuna of the west, and Israel is the out-post
of the west in the Islamic world. Vicious anti-Americanism has
been endemic to this Iranian regime, with rhetoric such as "Death
to America" and "America, the Great Satan" typically bandied
about by hard-line fundamentalists. Although America has been
dubbed the "Great Satan" by Iranian clerics, Israel is known as
the "Little Satan." Moreover, the Iranian regime would like
nothing better than to wipe Israel from the face of the earth and
strike out against America in any way possible.
Now, let's address the situation at hand: Members of the Bush
administration are very concerned regarding Iran's nuclear
ambitions. As noted in the November 21, 2004 edition of the
New York Times, "President Bush increased the administration's
pressure on Iran on Saturday, saying there were indications that
the country was speeding forward in its production of a key
ingredient for nuclear weapons fuel, a move he said was ‘a very
serious matter' that undercut Iran's denials that it was seeking to
build weapons. On the first day here (Antiago, Chile) of the
annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders, his first summit meeting
since winning re-election, Mr. Bush also tried to re-establish a
unified front against the other nuclear challenge facing his second
term: North Korea."
The mullahs are apparently determined to get hold of a nuclear
weapon by 2005. Given the tense circumstances and lack of
hard intelligence, it's natural for rumors to crop up. Last week,
Secretary of State Colin Powell briefly alluded to an unverified
intelligence source that suggested Iran is getting ready to fit a
nuclear weapon on a missile. According to John Loftus -- a
former Justice Department prosecutor and current Fox News
contributor -- the prevailing scuttlebutt is that North Korea
recently sold one of its nukes to Iran. And others are claiming
that there are numerous underground nuclear facilities in Iran,
some located under residential communities. Now, this could be
pure drivel, in whole or in part. Or it could be largely true.
However, the US obviously needs to obtain accurate intelligence
on the Iranian circumstances. Our lives depend upon it! And, this
brings me to the Porter Goss shakeup at the CIA.
It's encouraging that the new CIA Director Porter Goss has
quickly sought to reform/rebuild the dysfunctional and inept CIA,
which is also rife with Clintonista liberals who have lashed out at
President Bush with various leaks to the press, scathing reports
on Iraq, and a book critical of the Bush administration by a
senior CIA analyst entitled "Imperial Hubris" -- Heaven knows
what else they've done behind the scenes. The dirty tricks of the
Left-leaning crowd are downright abhorrent and, when
confronted, they refuse to be held accountable. Democrats are
ranting that President Bush would be better served by keeping
"dissident voices" at the CIA. Understandably, the Democrats
want to keep their backstabbing troublemakers in place. In
response, Republicans maintain that the bottom line is this: The
CIA has been doing a really lousy job for years. Human
intelligence and covert activates have fallen by the wayside,
leaving us vulnerable even in the aftermath of 9/11. And the
CIA's claim of a "slam dunk" on WMDs in Iraq again
demonstrates the agency's ineptitude. In short, the CIA is going
to require an enormous amount of work in order to bring it up to
snuff as a reliable intelligence agency. There's got to be a select
group of new recruits - untainted by the CIA bureaucracy -- that
can be trained correctly and apart from the CIA incompetents.
Regarding Iran, it's "gaming the system", ignoring the Europeans
and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and buying time so
that it can continue its efforts to build or acquire nuclear
weaponry and delivery capacity. This Iranian regime refuses to
relinquish its nuclear ambitions, and there's the rub. Ultimately, it
will be up to the US and Israel to bomb Iran's underground
nuclear facilities and aid the Iranian people in their quest to
overthrow the fanatical mullahs. And that's the unvarnished truth.
Carol Devine-Molin is a regular contributor to several online
magazines.
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