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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (876709)

7/31/2015 12:49:53 PM

From: Brumar89

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Of course Death to America DOES mean they want to kill America.

"Death to America" - a big mystery to liberals. Who knows what it means.

To sane people Death to America (chanted by a political leadership for 36 years) + developing nuclear weapons + developing ballistic missiles = Damn right, they want to kill us.

... When Kerry appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday to defend the Iran nuclear agreement, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) [ My rep ] asked him about Tehran’s policy in the light of the “death to America” chants common at events presided over by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hasan Rouhani.

“It is the policy of the ayatollah – if you can answer for him – that Iran wants to destroy the United States?” Poe asked Kerry. “Is that still their policy, as far as you know?”

[Kerry:] “I don’t believe they’ve said that. I think they’ve said ‘Death to America’ in their chants, but I have not seen this specific.”

“Well, I kind of take that to mean that they want us dead,” Poe said. “That would seem like that would be their policy. He said that. That – you don’t think that’s their policy?” …

“I think they have a policy of opposition to us and of great enmity, but I have no specific knowledge of a plan by Iran to actually destroy us,” Kerry replied.

Well there are two options.

1. Iran's leaders keep saying things they don't mean... which means we probably shouldn't trust them not to go nuclear despite the deal

2. They do mean what they say... in which case we know why they want the nukes

So does Iran have a "Death to America" policy? Here you go, John.

In response to a question by a parliamentarian on how long this battle will continue, Khamenei said,“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.”

Sounds like a policy.

In case this is at all confusing, here's a Death to America mural in Tehran. (from Ali Abbas.)

Those are falling bombs and skulls.

Is there an actual plan? No of course not. It's all just hypothetical stuff. Metaphors. Words to appease the "hardliners". Just ask the Revolutionary Guard.

“America, with its strategic ignorance, does not have a full understanding of the power of the Islamic Republic,” Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami said in a televised interview. “We have recognized America’s military strategy, and have arranged our abilities, and have identified centers in America [for attack] that will create a shock.”

“We will conduct such a blow in which they [America] will be destroyed from within,” Salami said.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259641/kerry-irans-death-america-doesnt-mean-they-want-daniel-greenfield

Just because Hitler says he wants Jews out of Germany and Europe doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean he has an actual plan to get rid of them or will do so. Germany is a modern civilized country. They'd never commit atrocities. Why their economy was crushed during and after the Great War, all they probably want is to build up their infrastructure. We shouldn't get excited about a little rhetoric. The last thing a country which went through the Great War wants is more war and bloodshed.