The first quote is from a 1972 interview (in her heyday, Fallaci was renowned for her pull-no-punches style of questioning) with Palestinian terrorist George Habash, who declared that the goal was to:

…wage war “against Europe and America” and to ensure that henceforth “there would be no peace for the West.” The Arabs, he informed her, would “advance step by step. Millimeter by millimeter. Year after year. Decade after decade. Determined, stubborn, patient. This is our strategy. A strategy that we shall expand throughout the whole planet.”

At the time, Fallaci thought he was referring simply to terrorism. Only later–much later–did she understand that:

…he “also meant the cultural war, the demographic war, the religious war waged by stealing a country from its citizens … In short, the war waged through immigration, fertility, presumed pluriculturalism.”

Cold wars, terrorism wars, demographic wars. As far as the latter goes, Bernhard (and Callimachus) offers an explicit declaration, this time from Algerian President Boumedienne way back in 1974:

One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.

You can’t say the West wasn’t warned. But warnings often only seem important in retrospect. It was the sort of thing few were paying attention to at the time, “typical hyperbole.” Bombast. And perhaps it was, at that.

At least back then the threats were peaceful and reproductive in nature. More recently they took on a more chilling (or rather, a decidedly “hot”) tone–witness this Haaretz article (via Little Green Footballs) that quotes Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran telling former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar at a meeting in 2001 that “Iran must declare war on Israel and the United States until they are completely destroyed,” and that “setting Israel on fire” was the first order of the day.

Unless Khamenei is a man especially given to metaphor, it seems we must take his intent seriously. The Haaretz article concludes with the words, “Khamenei still holds the post of Iranian spiritual leader, and [is] considered to be the powerful man in the country.”

There’s that “spiritual leader” phrase again, one which actually deserves the much-abused designation “Orwellian.” I’ve written about “spiritual leaders” before, here, in a post entitled “Yeah, and Goebbels was the ’spiritual leader’ of the Nazis, too.”

DON’T they GET IT??? This man is not qualified to be leader of the free world, and I must tell you, as of late, the “free world” is not feeling very free.

Dear Mr. Kenny,

I’ve voted for the Democrat candidate in the past six presidential elections. Twice I thought the Democrat candidate was the better choice, the rest of the time I was voting against the Republican candidate because I believed his policies would harm the nation more. I wasn’t wrong.

I’m a well educated (law degree, cum laude) woman. I don’t base my vote on issues emotional issues like abortion or religion. While my political beliefs are closer to the Democratic party’s on education, health care, civil liberties, etc…, I realize that our nation isn’t ready for universal health care, is too frightened to restore our civil liberties and no one wants to pay for or do the hard work required to overhaul our education system. While it would be nice in January to have a president who would address those issues and lay the groundwork for improving our education system, bringing about universal health care, restoring the Constitution, etc…, they’re not the issues that have become significant to me. Nor is the war in Iraq an issue for me. I’ve been against the war from the start, I never believed Iraq had womd and thought an invasion would result in an Iraqi civil war. I was correct. Pulling our troops out now will only result in making the Middle East more unstable. While I want the war to end as soon as possible, I also realize we can’t leave Iraq in a worse position than we found it. A candidate claiming he’ll withdrawal troops soon after taking office, will not get my vote - for one, I’ll consider it a campaign lie and if it isn’t, he has very little knowledge and will be unable to deal with the Middle East and terrorism effectively.

If I channel surf, MSNBC and CNN parade out guests to tell me that I’m going to vote for Senator Obama once I get over my widdle hurt feelings about Senator Clinton not getting the nomination. Wrong. I wasn’t supporting Senator Clinton because I thought it was time for a woman in the White House. I wasn’t supporting her because I became emotionally attached to her. I was supporting her because of my choices once it was down to Senators Obama and Clinton, she had the experience, knowledge and savvy I was looking for in a candidate. That I was closer in agreement with her than McCain on certain issues was an asset.

If Clinton had lost the nomination to Edwards, I would have no problem voting for Edwards over McCain in November. It’s Barack Obama I won’t vote for. I don’t like his policies, that is the ones I’ve been able to get some kind of grasp on. But it seems as soon as I understand his stances on issues, he does the opposite. That isn’t a good sign to me. At least with McCain, I know his views and how he is likely to react to situations and issues.

The main reason I will be voting for Senator McCain in November is that I’m disgusted with the DNC. Plain and simple. I’ve watched Karl Rove manipulate the national elections in 2000 and 2004. I was appalled then and I’m appalled now to watch Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, etc… pull the same manipulations during this primary season. I’ve had enough. I will not vote for any political party that lets one small faction take over and manipulate the direction of the party and which candidate will be chosen.

I’m not emotionally attached to Senator Clinton. I did not work for her campaign. I am a Michigan voter who is disgusted that the votes in my state were manipulated by the DNC to nominate a candidate who couldn’t be bothered to have his name on the primary ballot. I’m disgusted by the machinations of the DNC and will not support it. Affirming my decision to vote for Senator McCain is that the candidate the DNC has chosen to manipulate the system for is a man who is unqualified, has in recent weeks reversed his stance on issue after issue and over the past twenty years has been associated with more unsavory characters than I can remember and I have a good memory. Whether his associations were because he believed in the unsavory characters’ messages or was using them for his own personal and career gain, is irrelevant to me.

I will vote for Senator McCain, a candidate who I may disagree with on several issues but who I know has the ability to govern this nation and not continue the downward spiral we’ve been in for the past eight years. Senator Obama may claim he has a completely different political ideology than the current President, but the only difference I discern between Karl Rove’s boy who is currently occupying the Oval Office and Senator Obama is that the senator is a better public speaker. Both men are puppets for a small faction within a political party, neither have the sense, knowledge or experience to govern this nation.

I’m one of Senator Clinton’s 18 million who won’t be voting for Senator Obama. My reasons have nothing to do with sexism, racism, being overly emotionally invested in a candidate, etc… I’m fed up with manipulative, underhanded, back room deals to elect the president of the United States. This presidential election, the Republican party will be rewarded for being less dirty than the Democratic Party by my vote. Which I find difficult to believe, but that is how I will vote in November. No threats that poor children won’t have access to health care, Roe v. Wade will be overturned, women will continue to make less money than men, minimum wage won’t be increased, the Iraq war will last 100 years, etc… will sway my vote. I don’t think Senator Obama will do anything for health care, I don’t trust him to put anyone competent on the United States Supreme Court (especially when he attends a church for twenty years and claims he didn’t know the pastor’s views), increase wages, resolve our trade issues and do anything in the Middle East other than get us further entangled in hostilities there.

Email me after the election - I’ll send you a photo of my punch card, it will be a vote for McCain.

Monet

I don’t buy it. Check the article.As I read it, it was Obama who said it. You can’t even trust snopes on their extremely liberal interpretations. Read it yourself. The column may be a satire but the information Obama said is in quotations. The columnist is not going to quote himself.

http://azconservative.org/Semmens118.htm.

The troops are young. Women of childbearing age are young.

Obama’s voters are… wait for it… young.

There’s no sweeter revenge than a McCain presidency. It’s like a surgical strike on everyone who voted for the empty suit. “Voted for Obama? You have to stay in Iraq now. Too bad, so sad. Young woman who didn’t vote for Hillary? You’re about to find out what it’s like to have a back alley abortion :)”

We’ll become Democrats again the day AFTER election day, just as soon as Waffles and Brazile Nut are buried.

I think the problem though is that most people don’t take this blog seriously, or its posters. You have Larry and Susan pushing the Whitey tape on anyone who’s buying, and then having to retreat with their tails between their legs when it turns out not to exist.

You have a quarter of the posters here saying Obama is too liberal, a quarter saying he’s too conservative, a quarter who are incapable of discussing anything without bringing race into it, and the rest are either trolls or completely crazy.

You have Larry and his sad attempts at using youth slang in his posts (see the one today about Obama’s “peeps” for example).

The only reason Hillary Clinton hasn’t thrown you all under the fastest bus she can find is because she doesn’t want people to know that it exists. An expose of this site would hit the media like the Jeremiah Wright tapes.

Ah, the deadenders slogan of choice.

I hate to break it to you, but that one turned out to be a lie. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/stance.asp

But don’t let that stop you from spreading it! I don’t.

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yeah, I “appeared” to get only at C on this test, but that’s because my score was a 75 out of 100, but really, that’s only because other people got higher grades, and that’s why I got a C. Otherwise it would have been an A. That’s ’cause I’m so great I should always get A’s!

what baloney.