> Ahmadinejad knew that, even though incitement of this kind is illegal
> under international law, he would pay no penalty for his words.
> Indeed, for Austrian oil and gas giant OMV, which in April last year
> signed a 22-bn-euro joint natural gas project with Teheran, the
> mullahs’ regime is not only not criminal, but big business.

> Also on Wednesday at OMV’s annual stockholder meeting in Vienna,
> protesters from the Stop the Bomb movement distributed flyers and
> asked questions that didn’t get very far. Queried whether it was
> consistent with OMV’s ethical code to do business with a country that
> “has executed more adolescents than any other state,” CEO Wolfgang
> Ruttenstorfer replied, “We reject the execution of adolescents,
> whether in the USA, China or Iran. We cannot change governments.”

> His animus against America is understandable since, when asked about
> sanctions against Iran, Ruttenstorfer replied that OMV is waiting for
> “political change in the USA.”
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=304E0280-9E07-495...

> And OMV is far from alone in Europe; Switzerland, for instance, is
> going ahead with the huge gas deal signed in Teheran last March by its
> foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey in a headscarfed handshake with
> Ahmadinejad, and Germany is Iran’s biggest European trading partner of
> all. So when you see Ahmadinejad smiling so much, there’s good reason
> for it.

> Meanwhile the “Zionist regime” was indeed celebrating its 60th
> birthday along with President George Bush, who touched down in Israel
> on Wednesday. When a few hours after his arrival an Iranian-made
> Katyusha rocket crashed into a shopping mall in the coastal city of
> Ashkelon, wounding fifteen including four seriously, some of the
> Israeli ministers departed the festivities for the site of the
> attack.

> One of them, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, invited Secretary of State
> Condoleezza Rice—part of Bush’s entourage—to come with him and see the
> damage and the reality of life in southern Israel, but she declined.

> Although one indeed doesn’t want to spoil the mood at a party, Bush
> expressed concern to Olmert about the strategic situation in the
> region and said the crisis in Lebanon “is an Iranian effort to
> destabilize that young democracy.”

> Yet about the Palestinians Bush was optimistic as always; while
> allowing that “Hamas’s stated objective is the destruction of the
> state of Israel,” he added that “the United States will stand strongly
> with Israel, as well as stand strongly with the Palestinians who don’t
> share that vision.”

> It was hard, though, to know who he had in mind as Palestinians not
> only in Hamastan/Gaza but also throughout the West Bank and even in
> Lebanon geared up to mark Israel’s 60th—or, for them, Nakba
> (Catastrophe) Day—in their own way with marches and strikes. And
> Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, the centerpiece of
> Bush’s peace plans and object of his praise, lent his signature to a
> document vowing to continue the “struggle” for all Palestinian
> refugees to return to Israel.

> A document, in other words, touting that very “vision”—Israel’s
> destruction—that Bush insists is only an objective of Hamas. But even
> if Bush attended to any of this—and, since he keeps affirming the
> peacefulness of non-Hamas Palestinians, there is no indication that he
> does—he could have found even worse tidings in Palestinian Media
> Watch’s latest report on Abbas’s Palestinian Authority’s severe anti-
> Americanism.

> If Bush were to take some time out from his busy schedule and leaf
> through it, he could learn that just last March on PA TV a legislator
> from Abbas’s Fatah party called the U.S. “the greatest Satan in the
> world”; that the PA feels comradeship for distant, non-Muslim
> countries like North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela “precisely because
> [they] publicly challenge and express loathing for the U.S.”; or that
> the PA has named schools, streets, and sporting events after Saddam
> Hussein and its media are full of tributes to him.

> He could learn, too, that the PA media lauds terrorist groups fighting
> the U.S. in Iraq; that in April 2007 the speaker of the PA Legislative
> Council implored Allah on PA TV to “take hold of the Americans and
> their allies… Allah, count them and kill them to the last one and
> don’t leave even one”; and that the report concludes by saying “this
> hatred by Palestinian Fatah and its closeness to these enemies of the
> U.S. are not a result of any specific U.S. policy, but are reflective
> of a deep and sincere ideological affinity to those enemies of the
> U.S.”

> Israel’s 60th anniversary is indeed cause for celebration, but when
> looking at the security environment one’s jubilation has to be
> tempered. Whether it’s the European democracies—including the
> descendants of the Nazis—doing brisk trade with the Nazi regime in
> Teheran, the West’s and Israel’s continuing helplessness before
> Hezbollah’s assault on Lebanon and Hamas’s pounding of southern
> Israel, or the U.S. president’s ongoing delusional preoccupation with
> the Palestinian issue and perseverance in coddling and strengthening
> deadly enemies, the situation is hauntingly similar to the bleak
> landscape from which Israel eventually emerged.

> I don't give a fuck what you want, anti-American pissant.

>> I don't give a fuck what you want, anti-American pissant.

> Careful there you Croatian cocksuker. You might insult me enough to
> straighten your traitorous booze guzzling ass out. ;-p

> Which Homeless shelter will I find you hiding out in?

> Leave it to an anti-American asshole like you to make threats against
> free speech...As far as your threat goes... anytime.. Any freaking
> time.

> Why the fuck would I waste my time going up to SoDak? You are a
> punk...

> Again, it is pretty funny that an anti-American bastard like you loves
> to threaten free speech...

> Can't get over that, can you donna?

> You betray America with every sentence....

> > Why the fuck would I waste my time going up to SoDak? You are a
> > punk...

> > Again, it is pretty funny that an anti-American bastard like you loves
> > to threaten free speech...

> > Can't get over that, can you donna?

> > You betray America with every sentence....

> Heh! Heh! I knew you would chickenshit out! Your the treasonous SOB that
> supports America's worst enemy. Your the SOB that praised their murder
> of Rachel Corie.. Your the SOB that applauded the murder of the crew of
> the unarmed ship, The USS Liberty. You have denounced Patriotic Gentile
> Americans. You have encouraged the death of thousands of American young
> soldiers by fighting the ridiculous falseFlag wars of the Nasty of
> Israel. Then you have the guts to live among us and suck up welfare to
> live on.  ;-p By the way..Treasonous Pychobabble isn't free speech. It
> is evidence of your traitorous actions.

>> Why the fuck would I waste my time going up to SoDak? You are a
>> punk...

>> Again, it is pretty funny that an anti-American bastard like you
>> loves
>> to threaten free speech...

>> Can't get over that, can you donna?

>> You betray America with every sentence....

> Heh! Heh! I knew you would chickenshit out! Your the treasonous SOB
> that supports America's worst enemy. Your the SOB that praised their
> murder of Rachel Corie..