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Sounds similar to Khrushtchev's "We will bury you"...

Also, why doesn't anyone points to the fact that the Iranian president would hardly be the one with the finger on the big red nuclear switch if Iran got the bomb ? The President currently hardly is the most powerful person in Iran...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 01:58:20 PM EST
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"the Iranian president would hardly be the one with the finger on the big red nuclear switch"

That is right. He is more or less a figure head and mouthpiece for the mullahs.

Apparently Ahmadinejad did not say Israel will be wiped off the map and Khrushchev did say "We will bury you . . ." Neither leader had enough internal support to do much damage. All part of the purpose of the U.N. so that countries could say what they want as long as they did not toss missiles.

by BJ Lange (langebj@gmail.com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 02:08:10 PM EST
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"We will bury you" being an idiomatic expression in French as well as in Russian, it means "we will survive longer" rather than implying any active participation in a violent process leading to the burial... Very similar.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 04:46:37 PM EST
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Interesting. I guess it didn't quite work out for Khrushchev and the Party. Of course he was slamming his shoe on the table for emphasis so you knew he trying to be threatening.
by BJ Lange (langebj@gmail.com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 05:19:07 PM EST
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That was apparently a cultural misunderstanding as well.  I forget  the precise story, and I'm meant to be asleep ...
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 05:44:12 PM EST
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Sounds similar to Khrushtchev's "We will bury you"...

You have missed the point entirely.

The US installed a puppet government in Iran in 1953. It was this government that Khomeini was referring to...it was there, and it was gone. Iran didn't get wiped off the map. The regime was replaced.

And this is exactly what he predicts will happen with the regime in Jerusalem. Not that Israel will get wiped off the map, (there is no such slang term used in the language) but that there will be a regime change in Jerusalem.

I am getting the impression that the problems of the world are greatly exacerbated by people's expectations that they should be able to read every person's statements with the dictionary of a certain mental midget sitting in the White House.

Did anyone take "This is not a game" as a sig line yet?

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 06:43:50 AM EST
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It is similar in that a quote was -perhaps wilfully - misunderstood to imply threat of direct aggression where there wasn't any. I miss the point of how I have missed the point.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 10:55:18 AM EST
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Then I ask permission to be humbled by your excellent response.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 03:42:11 AM EST
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