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MRS. CLINTON, AHMADINEJAD CANNOT BE DETERRED
By Joel C. Rosenberg

(New York City, April 23, 2008) -- As I was driving down to the CNN studios Tuesday to tape the Glenn Beck Show, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh.

Rush was discussing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's pledge to declare war on Iran if Iran nukes Israel. He played a clip from ABC's Good Morning America in which she said she hoped this tough talk would "deter" the Iranian leadership from attacking Israel.

Rush was already doing a great riff, analyzing Clinton's inability to understand the evil we are facing in Iran. But I shot Rush a quick email reminding him of what he and I had discussed when he interviewed me on Epicenter for The Limbaugh Letter. No one who truly understands Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's eschatology -- or end times theology -- could honestly believe that Ahmadinejad can be deterred. Ahmadinejad believes it is his God-given mission to annihilate the U.S., Israel and Judeo-Christian civilization as we know. To what end? To create the conditions that will bring the Islamic Messiah known as the Mahdi or the "12th Imam" to earth.

Ahmadinejad is not just another power-hungry dictator in the mold of the Soviet or Chinese leaders of yore. He is a Shia Islamic fascist. He believes his life destiny is to kill millions of Jews and Christians and usher in an Islamic caliphate. He believes he is a John-the-Baptist, a forerunner, of the Islamic Messiah. If he dies, he believes he will spend eternity in paradise with 72 virgins. But he doesn't really believe he's going to die. He believes he has been chosen for a divine appointment, and that nothing can stop him. That is what makes him so dangerous. Unfortunately, too many Washington politicians -- Sens. Clinton and Obama included -- do not understand this.

As you'll see from the following excerpts, Rush picked up on this analysis on today's broadcast.

TRANSCRIPT FROM "THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW"

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

RUSH: We have the Hillary comment about nuking Iran from Good Morning America today. Chris Cuomo said, "You said, 'If Iran were to strike Israel, there would be a massive retaliation.' Scary words, Mrs. Clinton. Does 'massive retaliation' mean you go into Iran, you would bomb Iran? Is that what that's supposed to suggest?"

HILLARY: Well, the question was if Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel, what would our response be? And I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran, and I want them to understand that, because it does mean that they have to look very carefully, uh, at their society. Because at whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program, in the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That's like a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, and tragic.

RUSH: I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. Now, here's the problem. Little Mahmoud Ahmadinejad probably has his feelings hurt all to hell today because he's for Mrs. Clinton. He's for Mr. Obama. He thinks that they are allies, and now Mrs. Clinton on Good Morning America today promised to obliterate him and his little country if he took out Israel. Now, there's a story in the LA Times today from Tehran, and the headline is: "Iran Watching US Campaigns with Hope for Detente." Iran is watching US campaign with hope for detente! This is not detente when you promise to obliterate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his country. "If an Iranian woke up in America and glimpsed the front page of a newspaper, he'd be reminded of home: a teetering economy, a restless populace, a tough-talking leader." Give me a break! Are you kidding me? The LA Times just compared Iran to the United States of America. Anyway, "This nation is fascinated by what it calls the Great Satan..." Remember, this is written from Iran.....

RUSH: One more thing on Mrs. Clinton and Iran. You know, we've spoken with the author Joel Rosenberg on this program. He has written a series of thriller novels, and in addition to writing... His thriller novels actually related to current events. [He notes that] Mrs. Clinton thinks that she was Miss Tough Guy by saying to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "Hey, look, pal. You attack Israel, we're going to annihilate you," and she's talking about how she can deter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with this kind of talk. What she doesn't understand is, Ahmadinejad cannot be deterred. All of you people out there who hate religious fanatics, and think religious fanatics have no place in American government and life and you want to compare "religious fanatics" in this country to religious fanatics around the world? The babes at The View do that. A lot of liberals say, "There's no difference in Christians and Islamofascists," and so forth and so on. The libs like to say this. But there is a huge difference, huge. Ahmadinejad cannot be deterred. He believes, and the reason he's out there rattling sabers and promising to do this. He's telling us everything he's going to do. It's just so unpleasant, people don't want to listen to it -- and Obama's naive, too. Obama thinks he can schedule a meeting with Ahmadinejad and talk him out of his intentions! Hillary thinks with big talk she can deter him, but this guy is a religious nutcase who believes that his God-given mission as president of Iran is to annihilate the US and Israel. And why? Because it is those two acts which will usher in the 12th Imam -- the 12th Imam, who's hiding in some well somewhere! He's at the bottom of a well, and when the two great Satans are destroyed (the United States and Israel), then the 12th Imam, who is the Islamic messiah, will make his grand reappearance. Ahmadinejad believes this, and he's out there saying it, and he's writing about it. People want to chalk him up to being some little lunatic, and he is. He's a total lunatic driven by a religious fervor. The point is, he can't be deterred. So when I read stories sitting around hoping for détente? Of course they're hoping for detente. They would love for somebody in this country who is weak and thinks that he can bargain with this kind of evil to be elected.