From Michael Ledeen:
I’ve just received a call from a usually reliable person saying that there was an assassination attempt in Iran against President Ahmadi Nezhad, who was in a car. His driver and guards were killed, and he is in the hospital, apparently likely to survive. I couldn’t get any details about the intensity of the blue energy waves flowing from his cranium…but if this story is true it suggests that there are powerful folks in Iran who have decided the president is more trouble than he’s worth…and they’d rather go back to the old deception of having someone who can lull the West into a false sense of security.
Developing…
(h/t Ray)
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Iran Focus-News confirms
I believe the current response to this would be: subHaanullaah! Praise be to God.
Too bad he’s going to survive.
What if he lives and decides the Joos did it?
tw: Down, but not out.
Hmm…Mike Ledeen you say?
The famous Pharisaic philosopher who wrote imperishable intellectuals opus such as “Universal Fascism†(1972) whereby he argued that, after all, comrade Benito Mussolini wasn’t such a bad guy
Ledeen, the visionary strategic thinker who has predicted that US marines would “receive the Arabian red-carpet treatment in Tickrit and Mossul, with sensual belly dancers pouring rosewater in crystal cups just for them†[sic]
Ledeen, the treacherous Trotskyite draft dodger who’s readily eager to “fight for Jerusalem’s liberty†till the last disposable American kid dies in the sands of Arabia or the steppes of central Asia…
The man is sharp, decisive, always to the point, and knows what’s good for his country’s national interest- I mean Israel of course
Faster please!
“Blue energy waves flowing from his cranium” ?
Some ancient Yiddish metaphor maybe?
Dr. Vic,
Well, someone’s gotten good at cheeking their meds.
Nice effort, Victorino—and I notice you made sure to include your two trademark words. However, the lack of links is going to cost you, and the degree of difficulty in snarking without linking is going to cost you even mroe.
I’ll give you a 6.1
Iran Focus has confirmation.
Shorter Vic:
It’s always the Jooooooooooos.
Well that Iranfocus article confirms shit if you want my opinion…
It says Ahmadidon’tknowwhati’s cranium was left unharmed- no magic wave detected blue or otherwise
The same article goes to say that the alleged “terrists†are likely to be Sunnis: this confirms the vacuity of Ledeen’s subtly Byzantine “intra-Shiite intestine infightings†theory…but wait a minute, Sunni + Terrist, yeah that makes perfect sense now: they were undercover Saddamist agents: our freedom-loving el Presidente was right after all: Iraq IS the central front in the war on terror…blah blah….faster pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase
Dr. Vic,
Of one thing I can assure you: no one wants your opinion.
Also, you’re a moron. (I figured that was understood, but with morons, you never know)
The Baloch seem to have been active for quite some time. I know they have become active in Pakistan too, conducting attacks and whatnot. Seems like in both Iran and Pakistan they have been relegated to the periphery. I’m not surprised, frankly. Being Sunnis in Iran must hurt.
The Irani media will, of course, not state that Herr President is injured.
I like Dr. de la Vega. Él me gusta; me divierte aunque él no es racional.
Are we taking bets yet on the amount of time it takes before some lefty commentator claims Ledeen himself was behind it?
Or failing that, on how long it will take for Vicky to get tired of ‘Pharisaic’ and move on to ‘Jesuitical’? I mean, if you’re going for the religious sectarian comparison, why not shoot for one which still exists? And indeed, though I can’t quite get a bead on whether you actually are some kind of Buchananite nativist–those types usually find ‘papist conspiracies’ almost as delicious as the Jewish ones.
Or if you just like the way it sounds, but still want an historically flavored and colorful way to call your opponents wicked dogmatic perverters of reason, you can’t go wrong with ‘casuistical’.
On the other hand, of course, both of these alternative adjectives are probably insufficiently Jooish to incite your ire–perhaps you could go with ‘Herodian’ instead, for a while–it has such a nice baby-killing blood libel flair to it, no?
What about Sadduceean? I like Sadduceean.
TW: life. I need to get one.
Second Musilhoon’s proposal, and wish to offer for additional consideration:
Essene! Hyper-cool sounding, and it’s got a Dead Sea Scrolls tie-in to boot.
« Buchananite nativist–those types usually find ‘papist conspiracies’ almost as delicious as the Jewish ones »
Yeah sure dude: your knowledge of Buchanan’s old-school brand of Republican ideology and its relationship to Roman Catholic ethics seems to be similar in many ways to Ledeen’s “expertise†on Persian politics: you should send your CV to Dick Cheney’s recruiters: with judge Fitzgerald arraigning Neocon crooks and other Israeli spies at the speed of light, amateur geopolitics gurus must be in short supply!
As for “Pharisaic†it has nothing to do with (21st century) Jewish culture and/or theology.
This adjective simply means “self-righteously hypocritical†and has a distinct high-brow cachet, unlike say the lower-middle class Sadducees or the troglodyte Essenes.
As most “Neocons†be they gentiles, Jews, Taoists or Martians come from Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Cornell and other elite institutions, I find the appellation quite fitting…
As for the “Company of Jesus†well, it’s still in business, and apart from Georgetown and its phalanx of mid-level State Department bureaucrats, it never had any serious influence over (North) American politics…
I think I understand why Vega tends to rely on copying and pasting his comments. He can’t write for shit.
The way Ahmadinezhad has been acting lately, he could be targeted by any number of interested parties from both inside and outside the country. In fact, several of us here have already suggested as much. He’s a marked man. It merely remains to be seen who ultimately gets the credit for taking him out. Neither the Israelis nor the Iranians are going to let one crazy lead us all into a conflagration.
By the way, Vic: You don’t know your Essenes from a hole in the ground. And the fries are read. Vite! Vite!
‘Trogolodyte Essenes’?
Ya got a problem with the solar calendar, bitch?
Whew!
That was a close one, Jeff nearly had me there until Dr. Victor Von Doom showed me the light.
I’m glad since now this means the Iranian President can continue his lifelong quest for universal brotherly love and ummm, world peace with nuclear weapons.
I assume that troublemakers has a different connotation in Iran than it does at the 7-11 after midnight?
Excellent point, ahem.
Unless what we’re seeing is akin to Rome-ruled Judea just before the Bar Kokhba Revolt with Ahmadinezhad being today’s Bar Kokhba.
Some (such as R’ Akiva z”l) believed that Simon bar Koziba was the Messiah; he was nicknamed Bar Kokhba: son of a star, from Numbers 24:17:
What if the leadership actually believes Ahmadinezhad is in contact with the Hidden Imam? What if the leadership believes what they are doing will bring the Hidden Imam out of hiding? Remember that when the Revolution took place, religious Iranis believe they were doing it to help usher in the reappearance of the Hidden Imam. They expected him to appear. (In Jewish terms, the Revolution was akin to “hastening the Redemption”.)
The only thing worse than an assassination is an incompetent assassination. Aim for the back of the car damn it!
The blue energy emitting from his cranium is flatulence. He is too tight assed to release the pressure any other way.
Hey, guys, if you attack a convoy, shoot the first AND last cars up first. And bring enough firepower.
Define the zone.
Just saying.
TW: school. “They obviously didn’t go to the right school for this kind of work.”
TMJUtah  Couldn’t have been the JOOOOOOS!
They don’t miss.
Talk about a bad case of “you get what you pay for”. On all sides, over there.
Yeah, what is the deal with all the Essene hating? Plus, Pharisees deserve a far better deal (at least in terms of history) than Vega and his ilk are ready to offer them.
Is this one of those Andropovian “Likely to survives”? One hopes.
You make a great point, richard.
Unless, of course, they’ve seen a prescreening of Munich and gone all wobbly.
TW = short. “Saddam is going to get a short sharp drop.”
Dr. V.,
Ledeen’s daughter served a year in Iraq as part of the CPA and his son is a Marine officer. I don’t think that Ledeen considers either of those two “disposable American kids.” I sure don’t.
Awfully flattering, thanks.
But get real.
« Ledeen’s daughter served a year in Iraq as part of the CPA and his son is a Marine officer »
Hmm…Ms Ledeen, you say? Simone Ledeen?
The same Simone Ledeen who was suspected of embezzlement by the Army corps of engineers? The brilliant lady who handed no-bid contracts to “generous†friends of dad including many Israeli and Saudi construction companies?
See article below for more on her promising career
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2005/08/320224.html
As for Mike Ledeen’s prodigal macho son, he never saw a battlefield in his whole life: see, the Pentagon likes to keep its “key intellectual assets†from harm’s way for one is never too prudent with so many Ayyyrâb terrists roaming around, looking for “soft†targets!
Indymedia, Vic? Take 2 quaaludes and don’t call me in the morning, Doc. We’ll be sure to order you a nice fresh sack of obtuse for Kwanzaa.
I’m sure Dr. Ledeen thoughtfully considers the Idiotmedia take on his daughter before deciding whether to care about her or not. Er, not.
Admitting that you’ve been inhaling deep lungfuls of intellectual mustard gas like Indy Media is not going to convince anyone around here, Vic-bot. Now, toddle off and show the contents of your diaper in someone else’s comments section, okay? I hear Kos is having a slow morning….
TMJUtah  If they’d seen a screening of Munich, Mossad would be in LA. Pissed.
If they announce he’s “stable”, then odds are he’s dead. Like Arafat, who was “stable” for weeks until the stench got too strong for even the French to tolerate.
It can hardly come as a surprise that many Iranians would themselves applaud this. After seeing what went on in the Iraqi elections, many Iranians must want to have some freedom and democracy of their own This is just the kind of chain effect that president Bush hypothesized when he went into Iraq. Freedom is on the march.
Ah, so now even serving military who haven’t been to Iraq are chickenhawks, eh, Vic?
It’s only a matter of time. Remember, according to the left, company commanders are too high-ranked to know what’s going on in Iraq.
Has there been ANY confirmation of this anywhere? Contrary to the conspiracy theories, Ledeen strikes me more as gullible than a member of the massive Zionist plot to take over the world.
This is quite tiresome. I never had anything to do with any contracts or the Army Corps of Engineers during my time at the CPA. As for my brother…he’ll have to get back to you when he returns from war. Thanks for your support.