On Nov 23, 11:23 pm, "Heinrich" <Heinr...@Ruhrgasnet.de> wrote:
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http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/23/true-colours--israelis-show-grac...
The bozo that wrote that article also advocated nuking Iran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Coren
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In September 2006, Coren published an article in the Toronto Sun,
supporting the use of tactical nuclear strikes against Iran.[7] This
position was later retracted
(I e-mailed the bozo[as did many others] about that statement. That's
why the statement was retracted)
(the man hides behind his Catholicism, while advocating the
destruction of innocents)
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Here is the original article with comments:
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.ca/2009/06/remeber-when-michael-coren-advocated.html
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We Should Nuke Iran
Toronto Sun
Saturday, September 2, 2006
By MICHAEL COREN
"It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding
of history, politics and the nature of fascism that something
revolutionary has to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we
are to preserve world peace.
Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the
Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to
destroy Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal.
It is, sadly, the only response that this repugnant and acutely
dangerous political entity will understand.
The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran's
missiles and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by
men with the highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the
Tehran regime. They are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.
Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom
to those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a
limited nuclear attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of
lives.
The spasm of reaction from many will be that this is barbaric and
unacceptable. Yet a better response would be to ask if there is any
sensible alternative.
Diplomacy, kindness and compromise have failed and the Iranian
leadership is still obsessed with all-out war against anybody it
considers an enemy.
Its motives are beyond question, its capability equally so. It is
spending billions of dollars on a whole range of anti-ship, anti-
aircraft and anti-personnel missiles, rockets and ballistic weapons:
The Shahab 3ER missile, with a range of more than 2,000 km, and the
BM25 and accompanying launchers, which are so powerful that they can
hit targets in Europe. Raad missiles with a range of 350km. The Misaq
anti-aircraft missile, which can be fired from the shoulder. The Fajar
3 radar-evading missile and the Ajdar underwater missile, which
travels at an extraordinarily high speed and is almost impossible to
intercept. The Zaltal and the Fatah 110 rocket, the Scud B and Scud C
and the BM25 with a range of 3,500 kms.
Iran is also developing enormous propellant ballistic missiles and
began a space program almost a decade ago that will enable it to bomb
the United States. It is also assumed in intelligence circles that
Tehran has Russian Kh55 cruise missiles stolen from Ukraine which are
now being copied in large numbers by Iranian scientists.
Comparisons to the Nazis in the 1930s are unfair -- to the Nazis.
Hitler had the French army, the largest in Europe, on his border and
millions of Soviet infantry just a few hours march away. Iran has no
aggressive enemies in the region.
Its fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controls a brutal police
state, finances international terror and provokes bloody wars in
foreign countries. It is unimaginably wealthy because of its oil
revenues and is committed, in its leader's words, to "rolling back 300
years of Western ascendancy" and wiping another nation, Israel, from
the face of the earth.
A conventional attack would be insufficient because Iran and its
allies seem only to listen to power and threat. Better limited pain
now than universal suffering in five years.
The usual suspects will complain. The post-Christian churches, the
Marxists, the fellow travelers and fifth columnists. But then, the
same sort of people moaned and condemned in 1938. They were clearly
wrong then.
They would be just as wrong now."
POSTSCRIPT:
One year later, in the October 20th, 2007 edition of the Toronto Sun,
Michael Coren gave a qualified retraction of his call for nuclear
attack on Iran:
"A little over a year ago I wrote a column in this newspaper that
caused a major controversy. I advocated a tactical nuclear strike on
Iran's nuclear facilities. I did not, of course, call for all-out
nuclear war, but I did support what would be a massively destructive
campaign against the Tehran regime's military ambitions. Thirteen
months later I feel obliged to say that I wish I had never written
such an article. I was wrong."
Mr. Coren WAS wrong. He continues to be wrong on many, many of his
conservative opinions. He is an extremist in his political and social
views. Shame on the Toronto Sun for continuing to carry his radical
opinions!
posted by leftdog at Thursday, June 18, 2009 | Permalink
4 comments
Hey, let's be careful about condemning viewpoints for being
"radical".
Radical means fundamental or to the root. Not so bad, eh?
Besides, surely you don't believe the truth is *always* "somewhere in
the middle", as the hoary cliche goes. Sometimes the truth or the best
option is at an "extreme." (The world is round; the world is flat; the
world is oblong?)
Coren's column was wrong for advocating great violence and destruction
against innocent civilians, not because it was "radical".
Posted by Stimpson | 1:15 PM, June 18, 2009
Iran has one Ahmadinejad; Canada has two: Stephen Kang Ahmadinejad and
Michael Kodos Ahmadinejad.
Posted by Skinny Dipper | 1:56 PM, June 18, 2009
The Toronto Sun used to advertise itself as the "Little Newspaper that
Grew". Then along came Coren and others and circulation declined and
continues to decline.
Coren has a program on Crossroads TV and that whole operation is under
investigaton because of a Ponzi scheme. People wonder where the
Huntley Street regulars are, they've been off the air pending
investigation. And that's the type of station that would host Coren.
Definitely not CBC or CTV; not even Global for pity's sake!
Coren is on CFRB Toronto,a station in 6th place is listenership and
one that skews to older men for its audience.
Coren is a liability, the male version of Typhoid Mary, a runty little
pig of a so-called man.
Posted by Torontonian | 5:03 PM, June 18, 2009
I think Mike's trying too hard to be Canada's Rush Limbaugh; but he
gets extra irony points for being an immigrant who thinks he can
change Canada, while all the time hating immigrants who who want to
celebrate their heritage.
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