If Iran is like Hitler's germany then war must be soon.

Off topic ... but the bleat that Howard and that new conservative Canadian Prime Minister are making over the since withdrawn story of Iran making Jews and Christians wear armbands suggests to me that we (they) are very close to going to war against Iran. :::[SMH] The same pattern of demonisation of Saddam Hussain happended before the US invaded. His sons were rapists, he was a baby killer, and oh yea, people were were sexually humiliated and tortured in henious ways at Abu Ghraib. What I don't understand is why they/we want to go again when they are so bogged down in Iraq? For unfathomable reasons, the world's last sole superpower is rendering itself a laughing stock for foes and friends alike, much like the scorn that the Romans are treated with in the Asterix comics.

Update: ::[Claims not true]

Mind you, well may we laugh; without Getafix, the Druid who could cook up superstrength potion in his cauldron, Asterix would have had no option but to pay tithe to Caesar. We don't have a druid in Australia, just a gnome, and he is in Canada paying tithe to Rome. He is using his position to help demonise Iran to pave the way for Bush to sell a war:

Mr Howard, speaking in Ottawa after a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said the suggestion was further indication Iran was heading down the wrong path.

Mr Howard, speaking in Ottawa after a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said the suggestion was further indication Iran was heading down the wrong path.

"If that (the report) is true, I would find it totally repugnant," Mr Howard told reporters before the report was debunked.

"It obviously echoes the most horrible period of genocide in the world's history and the marking of Jewish people with a mark on their clothing by the Nazis, and anything of that kind, would be totally repugnant to civilised countries.

"If it is the case, it's something that would just further indicate to me the nature of this regime.

"It's a calculated insult, if it's true, not only to Christians but most particularly to Jews."

Mr Howard was joined in the attack on Iran by the US and Canada, who said they had no details on the issue beyond the newspaper report.

Well it's not true. If Iran is expecting an apology from Howard there's a long queue, and we don't like queue jumpers. In my analogy I would have to say New Zealand was more like that Gaulish village holding out to Rome. After they told the US navy to not even think of docking a nuclear warship off their fair shores in the 1980's they had a quiet taste of what it must be like to be Cuba. You don't see the NZ Prime Minister, Helen Clark, having to sidle up to Caesar and sully her country's good name with constructing another raft of lies on which to float another expeditionary war. Their economy has recovered now and is far less dependent on America and her dollar. They are ranked #1 in world environmental performance and, whatever they have been drinking it has not hurt their performance with two NZ teams in the finals of the Super 14 Rugby. Not to take anything away from the Hurricanes but there was that bad call in the 69th minute by referee Jonathan Kaplan whose name will forever be typed in small font on this blog. I blame his clear vendetta against the Waratahs - in the 10 games he has refereed the 'tahs we have never won. I blame that and that fact that we have a gnome and no druids in this country.

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