IRAQ: Ahmadinejad visit stirs passions

Iraqis are nervously awaiting Sunday's visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

According to the National Iraqi News Agency, hundreds of people in the provincial capital of Baqubah protested in the streets and held up placards saying: "Iraq is not for sale."

One Sunni Arab lawmaker, Mohammed Dayni, called for peaceful protests throughout the country.

At Friday prayers in Baghdad, Sunni cleric Sheikh Abdul Karim Samarrai, speaking at Shawaf Mosque, expressed grudging admiration for the controversial leader for coming to Iraq despite the presence of U.S. forces. He scolded the leaders of Arab countries who haven't yet made the trip, or even established full diplomatic ties with Iraq.

"This is a message to the Arab leaders," said Samarrai, who is also a member of parliament. "Where are you? Where are your embassies?"

But most of his scorn was directed at Iraq's neighbor to the east:

We wish this visit to be the way to create prominent relations with Iran to be based on the respecting each other and not interfering with the internal affairs. We wish to get a guarantee from [Ahmadinejad] not to interfere with our internal political affairs and Iraqi security. Everybody knows that Iran has already interfered and spread its roots all over Iraq. There are wanted individuals who killed, kidnapped and destroyed who found safe havens in Iran. I wish that the Iraqi government to rise to the level of demanding the handover of all those wanted people to the Iraqi judiciary and government.

— Borzou Daragahi and Saif Rasheed in Baghdad

Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held talks in 2006. Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images

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ISLAMOFASCIST AND JUDEOFASCIST SYMBIOSIS

The Islamofascists, in perpetual quest of greater wealth and power, rant to incite the impoverished Islamic peoples to violence against the notorious injustices of the powerful Judeofascist land robbers. The Judeofascists, in perpetual quest for greater wealth and power, wail and lobby to incite the American People into providing military protection against this persecution by outraged Islamofascists. To add credibility to these incessant rantings and wailings, intermittent battles are performed. The result is that these clever Islamofascists and Judeofascists do gain great wealth and power, at the expense of the Arab, Persian, and American peoples.

The great sacrifice of the wealth and blood of the American People on behalf Israel is all that perpetuates this destructive symbiotic relationship between the Islamofascists and the Judeofascists. But when, in the normal course of the American Cultural War, the Neo-Cons/Neo-Libs are finally expelled by the Reagan Conservatives and Kennedy Liberals from their positions of power, the economic and military support for the Judeofascists will finally end; and that will end the support for the Islamofascists. The end of the era of Neo-Con/Neo-Lib military intervention in the affairs of the Arab and Persian peoples shall be the start of an era of constructive relations with the American People.

The Judeofascists, who live in a glass house surrounded by Islamofascists, could continue to fight for survival militarily, until nuclear armed Israel finally becomes the site of Holocaust II; or, they could resort to land reparations and diplomacy, to finally win for themselves by just and peaceful means, what they cannot win by unjust and violent means. Shall the World be cheering, and the Diaspora wailing; or, shall the World and the Diaspora be cheering?