From a Charles Krauthammer Op-Ed piece in the National Post:
".....The President of a country about to go nuclear is a confirmed believer in the coming apocalypse. Like Judaism and Christianity, Shiite Islam has its own version of the messianic return....the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam. the more devout believers pray at the Jamkaran Mosque that houses a well from which, some believe, he will emerge"
(ASIDE - I thought heavenly visitations came from the other direction... 8O )
"Iranian journalist......reported Ahmadinejad as saying.....that the Imam will appear within two years.......(Ahmadinejad)..........gave US$17 million of government funds to the shrine...............he said publically that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the twelfth Amam...........So a holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes the end is....(near)......This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person."
".....After his speech to the UN, Ahmadinjad was caught on videotape telling a cleric that during his speech an aura, a halo, appeared aroud his head right on the podium of the General Assembly. "I felt the atmosphere suddenly change. And for those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink.....it seemed as if a hand was holding them there, and it opened their eyes to recieve the message from the Islamic Republic".....Negotiations to deny this certifable lunatic genocidal weapons have been going nowhere....."
Warm up them ground attack fighters, Israel.
Please.