Gingrich sees Iran threat to U.S. like Nazi Germany

In the midst of Democrat accusations of Bush lies and leftist phobias about Supreme Court nominations and the leftist witch hunt to find a Bush Administration illegality under every rock that can be found, Iran (one of the axis of evil) is quietly perpetuating a rogue nation terrorist agenda. Newt Gingrich (who is contemplating a 2008 run for the Presidency) views Islamofascist Iran as 21st Century Nazis. Nazi Germany used the blitzkrieg to quickly subdue France (you know the guys who always call for a bail out), Eastern Europe and then Western Europe. Then using "Master Race" theory exterminated 12 million people of which 6 million were Jews. Islamofascists using surprise technological weaponry (EMP or Nukes) could attempt their goals, including extermination as the "Final Solution," for Mohammedan world domination.


A note on Gingrich: the liberals should appreciate him because he left office due to infidelity. Or there might be a lack of appreciation. Gingrich did not try to retain his office for the so-called greater good of the nation. Rather he left office demonstrating accountability unlike one Democrat I know who lied then was impeached then Senatorially exonerated for the ... O let's see, yeah the greater good of the nation.
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By Joseph Farah
Posted: November 20, 200510:50 p.m. Eastern
WorldNetDaily
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – The threat posed to the national security of the United States byIran was likened only to the one posed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s, by formerHouse Speaker Newt Gingrich, who suggested Tehran could be planning for apre-emptive nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack on America that would turn athird or more of the country "back to a 19th century level of development."

Gingrich made the stunning statements, which echo warning of othercongressional leaders and national security experts, in testimony before asubcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committeelast week.He said the "extraordinary challenge that the current regime in Iranposes to the safety of the United States" requires "extraordinary measures tomeet it."

"Not since the failure of the League of Nations in the 1930s to confront theaggression of the dictatorships in Japan, Italy and Germany have we seen thewillful avoidance of reality which is now underway with regard to Iran," saidGingrich.

"There are lessons to be learned from the 1930s and those lessonsapply directly to the current government of Iran."Gingrich pointed with alarm at a report first published in G2 Bulletin thatIran had tested the firing of ballistic missiles from a merchant ship in whichwarheads were detonated in midair over the Caspian Sea rather than at a land orsea target. National security experts and scientists commissioned by Congress tostudy the threat of electromagnetic pulse attacks on the U.S. concluded that Iran was preparing for just such a scenario. So does Gingrich.

"In short, a country with a track record of carrying out its murderousideology may soon have the capability to deliver on its publicly declared andunambiguously stated intentions to inflict mortal harm on the United States on amassive scale," warned Gingrich last Tuesday at the hearing of the FederalFinancial Management, Government Information and International SecuritySubcommittee chaired by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

"A nuclear tippedintermediate-range Iranian missile launched from a merchant ship off the coastof the United States could do just that. That, or Iran could simply supply itsterrorist handmaidens with a small scale nuclear device to use against U.S.targets here at home or abroad."

The threat is compounded by recent disclosures by the International AtomicEnergy Agency that Iran is in "non-compliance" with its treaty obligationsagainst developing nuclear weapons.Gingrich concluded that: Iran is the most dangerous regime in the world and the "single most urgent threat to American national security."

The threat can only be understood in the context of "The Long War Against the Irreconcilable Wing of Islam, which is a worldwide war in which the UnitedStates and its allies are unavoidably engaged, and in which the U.S. has activecampaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan."

The U.S. cannot be held hostage or rendered impotent by delays ofinternational bureaucracies in dealing with the threat posed by Iran.One key to preventing or degrading the Iranian nuclear threat is persuading Russia to stop helping Tehran.

The U.S. has no option but to seek regime change in Iran.

Gingrich said there are reasons to believe Iran "is testing the capability tolaunch a surprise attack on the United States from a merchant ship of ourcoasts."

"An attack by a single Iranian nuclear missile could have a catastrophic impact on the United States by causing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) over aportion of the country," he said. "Such an attack could quickly turn a third ormore of the United States back to a 19th century level of development. Electrical transformers and switching stations would fall. Without electricity,hospitals would fails, water and sewage services would fail, gas stations wouldbe unable to provide petroleum, trucks would not be able to distribute foodsupplies, and essential services would rapidly disintegrate."

Gingrich said "this is not idle speculation, but taken from the consensusfindings of nine distinguished scientists who authored the Report of theCommission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse(EMP) Attack, which was delivered to the Congress on June 22, 2004, the same daythe 9-11 commission report was published."

Gingrich pointed out that such a sneak attack – especially if launched from amerchant ship at sea – could have the added benefit of deniability by Iran.

"Contemplating an EMP threat makes more troubling reports that certain Iranianmissile tests resulted in missiles that have detonated in flight at or nearapogee, which the Iranian press has reported as successful events," explained Gingrich.

"Normally, it would be expected that the ability to target specificlocations would be the standard for success for ballistic tests. However, if theability to launch an EMP attack was being tested, detonation at apogee would bethe measure of testing success. As noted by the EMP commission, a country withlimited nuclear capabilities and few choices as to delivery platforms has only afew options to deliver a deadly blow. An EMP attack would be on such strategy."

Today, Iranian lawmakers approved a bill requiring the government to blockinspections of atomic facilities if the International Atomic Energy Agencyrefers Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.When the bill becomes law, it will strengthen the government's hand inresisting international pressure to permanently abandon uranium enrichment, aprocess that can produce fuel for either nuclear reactors or nuclear bombs.

Iran resumed uranium-reprocessing activities a step before enrichment at itsIsfahan Uranium Conversion Facility in August.Last week, WND and G2 Bulletin reported most of the U.S. civilian population,military bases and nuclear-weapons assembly plants are within range of missileattacks by terrorists or rogue nations using merchant ships as launchingplatforms – an increasing concern by counter-terrorism and national security experts.

G2 Bulletin and WND first reported the shocking findings of the U.S. EMPcommission that rogue nations, such as Iran and North Korea, have the capabilityof launching an undetected, catastrophic EMP attack on the U.S. – and areactively developing plans.

"These electromagnetic pulses propagate from the burst point of the nuclearweapon to the line of sight on the Earth's horizon, potentially covering a vastgeographic region in doing so simultaneously, moreover, at the speed of light,"said Dr. Lowell Wood, acting chairman of the commission appointed by Congress tostudy the threat.

"For example, a nuclear weapon detonated at an altitude of 400kilometers over the central United States would cover, with its primary electromagnetic pulse, the entire continent of the United States and parts ofCanada and Mexico."

The commission, in its work over a period of several years, found that EMP isone of a small number of threats that has the potential to hold American societyseriously at risk and that might also result in the defeat of U.S. militaryforces.

"The electromagnetic field pulses produced by weapons designed and deployedwith the intent to produce EMP have a high likelihood of damaging electricalpower systems, electronics and information systems upon which any reasonablyadvanced society, most specifically including our own, depend vitally," Wood said.

"Their effects on systems and infrastructures dependent on electricity andelectronics could be sufficiently ruinous as to qualify as catastrophic to theAmerican nation.

"The commission concluded in its report to Congress earlier this year:
"EMP is one of a small number of threats that may hold at risk the continued existenceof today's U.S. civil society.''

Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com.