IN YOUR FACE U.S.A!
STRAIT OF HORMUZ MADE OUR DAY!
TRY TO CONTROL IT AND YOU WILL PAY!
WE’RE NOT SCARED, GET OUT OF OUR WAY!
HOLY BIBLE, WE DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY!
SO A KINGDOM OF IRON & CLAY, IS TO SOON GO AWAY!
Daniel 2:41-44 – And wherea s
thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
[42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
[44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Janu
ary 8, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The collapse of the once mighty Soviet Union’s economy, and its sudden demise as an equal world power with the United States, left the Middle East
nations with little choice but to fear the U.S.A. as the world’s number one power. So they continued to have little fear of any other Islamic nation in the Middle East, with the exception of megalomaniac Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The Iraq-Iran War, and the inability of Iraq to defeat
the new Islamic Republic of Iran, caused the Arab nations to see a new nation worthy of respect in the Middle East. When the forces of Saddam were crushed by the Western Alliance, which included Saudi Arabia and Syria, it left the door open for Iran to rise to the top of the heap in military might in the Middle East. Now, the moderate Islamic nations are assuming the belly-up position of a dog in the pack before its leader, in order to be allowed to continue in the pack and feed on the prey it brings down.
The leader in a pack of dogs is not always the most powerful or the largest – it is usually the most vicious and cunning.
The article from DEBKAfile, which follows, makes six points I consider to be valid, and worth considering.
DEBKAfile: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ harassment of US warships in Strait of Hormuz carried 5 tough messages for Bush
January 7, 2008, 9:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military and Iranian sources stress that the near-shooting incident Sunday, Jan. 6, in which 5 IRGC speedboats made threatening passes against three US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, was timed precisely by Tehran for the eve of President George W.
Bush’s Middle East tour.
1. It was an “in your face” gesture by the IRGC to show the US president they were not scared by being declared a global terrorist organization, a step Bush took last year.
The elite Iranian corps was also intent on proving that Iran was the boss of the Strait of Hormuz, the crude oil outlet for Persian Gulf producers – not the US Navy.
2. A reminder that Iran is able to block the strait at will and throw the world’s oil traffic in disarray.
3. It is important for the Islamic Republic to show its neighbors on the US president’s itinerary that Iran is the region’s leading power, not the US, and that no deals or issues can be finalized without Tehran’s say-so.
4. The Iranian speedboats were also a warning to the nations hosting Bush not to risk signing any military pacts that may be directed against
Iran.
5. Tehran has been all ears to pick up every nuance from the White House ahead of the Bush tour. In an interview aired by Israeli television Sunday, Bush said that Iran “was a threat and is a threat” and the US has never given up its military option.
Israeli officials have also leaked a plan to show the visiting president intelligence data to refute the US National Intelligence Estimate’s claim that Iran gave up its nuclear arms program in 2003.
Over the weekend, supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s senior adviser Ali Larijani went from Cairo to Damascus to discuss the Lebanese crisis. This was meant as a signal to Washington that the problem was susceptible to diplomatic engagement.
But when the Iranians heard the Bush interview, they decided to show muscle instead and launched the naval incident in the Strait of Hormuz.
6. While possibly a coincidence, the naval provocation occurred at the same time as al Qaeda’s American spokesman called on the region’s Muslim to greet the visiting US president with bombs. The two events have combined to add fuel to the climate in the region preparing to welcome President Bush.
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