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Rumsfeld knows nothing about Middle East, Iraq: Iran
2004-02-24
Iran denied Tuesday it was allowing militants to cross its border into Iraq, saying allegations to the contrary from US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld only showed he was "incapable of understanding Iraq or the Middle East", a foreign news agency reported.
That’s very "unhelpful" of them.
’Iran has always worked towards security and stability in Iraq, which is important for security in the region as a whole,’ foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
Then his lips fell off...
’The Islamic Republic of Iran will not allow any group to use its border to enter Iraq, and we will act against anything illegal,’ he added.
"ken u han be mi ips? ’anks."
Asefi said it was ’surprising that the American defence minister is so incapable of understanding Iraq or the region.’
Well, he sure knew what button to push.
Posted by:Steve

#19  Hey, I'm over here. And keep me out of it, okay?
Posted by: chainey   2004-2-24 4:24:20 PM  

#18  Would the real muck4doo please stand up?
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2004-2-24 3:24:36 PM  

#17  that in not funny.
Posted by: muck4doo   2004-2-24 2:28:23 PM  

#16  "chainneys the dangrus 1"

You're cracking me up, Shipman! Have four words ever symbolized so much collective bufoonery?
Posted by: SteveS   2004-2-24 2:12:04 PM  

#15  As far as I'm concerned, there's only one thing I want Rummy to know about the Middle East -- who's next in line for regime change.
Posted by: Tibor   2004-2-24 1:33:56 PM  

#14  islam is the religion of dogs and puke. allah is the crap you scrape off the bottom of your shoe after you stepped in a pile of dogshit.
Posted by: Danny   2004-2-24 1:24:55 PM  

#13  Ya the GI's helping to rebuild at their own jeopardy, handing out clothing to kids wearing gunnie sacks, giving food. What does Rumsfeld or the US Armed Forces know of being human. Allah's religion is what they need. Bombings, killing, maiming. Ya that's the ticket.
Posted by: dataman1   2004-2-24 12:31:34 PM  

#12  "Iran has always worked towards security and stability in Iraq, which is important for security in the region as a whole," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.

He misspelled influence and control.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-2-24 12:02:51 PM  

#11  michael chainneys the dangrus 1
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-24 12:02:37 PM  

#10  #8 LOL! The "idiot" gets your shorts all in a bunch, eh? Wotta maroon.

Momsie and Popsie apologize to Fred & RB. We told the new Nanny that Michael was not to go "out" without his meds. He's very excitable -- and special, too.
Posted by: .com   2004-2-24 10:33:48 AM  

#9  Asefi understands perfectly, as do the rest of the world's thugs.
They know that SecDef Rumsfeld, as the able head of the finest military on the planet of the globe's only hyperpower, means business when he speaks for the United States of America.
The "idiots" are the bad guys that continue to do their evil anyway (Ahem!) in spite of Rummy's heads up that they are surely doomed.
Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro   2004-2-24 9:54:57 AM  

#8  "#2 Hamid Reza Asefi appears to be incapable of understanding Donald Rumsfeld or the United States. That is a potentially lethal form of ignorance." Understanding the idiot Rumsfeld is a potentially lethal form of ignorance for the world.
Posted by: Michael   2004-2-24 9:50:27 AM  

#7  "ken u han be mi ips? ’anks."
Steve, just really read this--ROFL!
Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro   2004-2-24 9:35:15 AM  

#6  Well, I guess we should be modifying the ol' adage to, "what Rumsfeld doesn't know, can hurt you".
Posted by: B   2004-2-24 9:28:01 AM  

#5  Yeah JT, No "sea of fire" or "dying at the gates of the city" needed. As my granpappy blue collar redneck said, (after smacking me on the back of the head) "Always mean what you say".
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2004-2-24 9:26:14 AM  

#4  The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi is rumoured to be traveling around with several sets of back-up underwear in his handbag, since learning of the comments made by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier.
Posted by: Evert Visser   2004-2-24 9:03:33 AM  

#3  I am so in love with Rummy!
All he has to do to let these killers know that they're in real trouble is to use to the word "unhelpful."
Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro   2004-2-24 8:54:59 AM  

#2  Hamid Reza Asefi appears to be incapable of understanding Donald Rumsfeld or the United States.

That is a potentially lethal form of ignorance.
Posted by: Mike   2004-2-24 8:51:30 AM  

#1  I understand it pretty well. A bunch of Turban wearing bomb throwing anarchists whose main source of idealogoy is an anti world religion.
Posted by: dataman1   2004-2-24 8:47:02 AM  

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