(by guest blogger Macker, of Macker's World)

tick...tick...tick....

The clock is ticking. And soon, it will stop. And when it does, so will your time in History. See that ashheap over there? See who's on it? Yes, those are all your bretheren regimes: the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan.

One must wonder, then, why all of a sudden there are riots going on all over the Middle East for cartoons published five months ago, not only by Jyllands-Posten in Denmark, but in Egypt shortly thereafter. Spearheaded not only by your governments, but by a Danish imam who got upset when the newspaper wouldn't back down...and stoked the fires by inserting your own anti-Muslim photos to the mix!

We are told by you that Islam forbids illustration of Mohammed, and yet
there exist numerous historical depictions of said prophet dating back
to the Middle Ages...some of which come from the Persians themselves! And yet you gripe about our attempts at illustration? Talk about a double standard.

What it all boils down to is quite simple, really. You, Syria, are afraid Saddam's own words will tell us where he shipped his WMD's prior to the 2003 invasion. And you, Iran, know full well that either we or the Israelis, or for that matter, both of us, are about to shut down your nuclear ambitions. Is that why you're hurrying your preparations for a test?

All of you need that diversion from what's about to happen. And sadly,
those demonstrations are divering your subjects quite nicely. But they
don't fool us. The clock is ticking. And when it stops, you will end up
on the ashheap of History. Whether your ash is radioactive or not
depends entirely on you.

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