Cant Keep Quiet!

The current administration and their GOP and Fix Noise lackeys are spending a log of time lately telling us how Iran is the next Iraq. I have to ask, though, is Iraq our biggest threat?

Hardly.

First off, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not the supreme ruler of Iran. According to Iran's constitution, Ahmadinejad is responsible for the implementation of the Constitution. He can exercise executive powers as long as they are not in relation to those matters directly related to the Supreme Leader.

One thing that Ahmadinejad doesn't have control over is Iran's armed forces, nor does he control the military intelligence and security operations. He can't declare war.

The Supreme Leader has the final say in all matters. He controls the armed forces, military intelligence and security operations. He is the only one that can declare war.

The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khamenei does not claim that the Holocaust never occurred. Through his top foreign advisor, Khamenei has said that the Holocaust was genocide and a historical reality.

Ahmadinejad may be a scary, crazy president, but he's not the Supreme Leader of Iran. He's only slightly better than a figure head of that country.

Pakistan, on the other hand, has a president that does rule that country. His name (in case you haven't watched the news the past couple of days) is Pervez Musharraf.

Musharraf is a scary, crazy president.

Iran may be investigating and trying to develop nuclear energy (according to their Supreme Leader the oil won't last forever and Iran needs other energy sources) but we have no evidence that Iran is doing more than develop nuclear energy. They definitely don't have nuclear weapons at this time. Even our government has to admit that fact.

Pakistan, on the other hand, has nuclear weapons. The country is also very unstable. This was true even before Musharraf declared martial law this weekend.

Many of the tribal leaders in Pakistan supported the Taliban. Musharraf has been battling insurgents its largest province, Balochistan, ever since he took over Pakistan in 1999. Musharraf himself took over power in 1999 through a military coup.

Yesterday, November 3, 2007, Musharraf declared a state of emergency. His actions show that this "state of emergency" is in effect martial law. Musharraf's "state of emergency"

suspending the country’s Constitution, firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court and filling the streets of this capital city with police officers.

The move appeared to be an effort by General Musharraf to reassert his fading power in the face of growing opposition from the country’s Supreme Court, political parties and hard-line Islamists. Pakistan’s Supreme Court had been expected to rule within days on the legality of General Musharraf’s re-election last month as the country’s president.

Independent and international news stations in Pakistan have gone silent. Police officers surrounded the Pakistan Supreme Court and forced the justices to take an oath to abide by a “provisional constitutional order” that has replace the country’s existing Constitution. Those who did not take the oath were dismissed.

So who should we really fear? A president that is not the Supreme Leader of a country that does not have nuclear weapons? Or a president who is the supreme leader of a country that does have nuclear weapons? A president who can't declare martial law? Or one who can and has all in an effort to ensure that he stays in power?

I know which one scares me more.

Pakistani Sets Emergency Rule