Vanish from the Page of Time

Kevin Barrett just issued another challenge to those who have
published and promoted the lie that supposedly the President of Iran
has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Please see the Press
Release below.

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Barrett to Kind: Retract "Wiped off the Map" Lie!

For Immediate Release - July 8, 2008

Contact: 
Dr. Kevin Barrett; 608-583-2132, kbarrett@merr.com 
Rolf Lindgren; 608-279-5889, rolfusaugustusadolphus@yahoo.com 
www.barrettforcongress.us

Kevin Barrett, the peace candidate for Congress who is challenging
pro-war Democratic incumbent Ron Kind in Wisconsin's District 3, has
written to Kind demanding that he retract his false and libelous
statement that Iran's president has called for Israel to be "wiped off
the map."

Below is Barrett's letter to Kind.

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Dear Congressman Kind,

I am writing to ask you to retract a libelous, potentially murderous,
and arguably criminal falsehood you uttered on the Ben Merens show on
Wisconsin Public Radio Tuesday.  You claimed, as many war
propagandists have, that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has
called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."  The false
attribution of such a statement to Ahmedinejad is the Big Lie that is
being used to promote a US war on Iran, just as Big Lies about WMDs and
Iraqi links to al-Qaida were used to launch our catastrophic invasion
of Iraq.

It is now well-known and widely accepted among scholars and informed
people everywhere that the quote attributed to the Iranian President is
based on a misattribution and mistransation. In short, every word of
this alleged statement is a lie. The "wiped off the map" lie is an act
of war propaganda whose knowing transmission arguably constitutes a war
crime. The quote is not from Ahmedinejad, and it does not include the
words "Israel," "wiped," "wiped off," or "map." Let's go over this word
by word.

First, the statement in question is not Ahmedinejad's, but a quote from
Ayatollah Khomeni that is often cited by many Iranians, not just their
President. When Ahmedinejad spoke the words in question, he was merely
quoting Khomeni, not making his own statement. Attributing this
statement to Ahmedinejad, rather than Khomeni, is a lie.

So what did Ahmedinejad say that Khomeni had said?  The Iranian
President's exact words were:  "Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een
(this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem)
bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad
(vanish from)." In English: "The Imam (Khomeni) said this regime
occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."

Congressman Kind, the United States government and virtually every
other government on earth except Israel's have repeatedly called for
Israel to withdraw from all of the territories it invaded and occupied
in 1967 -- and that includes Jerusalem. In fact, the UN, with US
support, has repeatedly ordered Israel to withdraw from Jerusalem and
the other Occupied Territories. Khomeni's call for regime change in
Jerusalem is supported, for all intents and purposes, by everyone on
earth except the Israelis and their unregistered American agents.

Congressman, you have repeatedly voted for the catastrophic war in Iraq
that has killed many of your young constituents as well as a million
Iraqis -- not to mention our economy. You have voted against your own
party's attempts to set a time limit on this insane war. You say that
by repeatedly voting for the war, you are voting to help our troops by
providing them with bullets and armor. In fact, you are voting to kill
and maim them by leaving them in harm's way. Now you are repeating a
Big Lie designed to spread that insane, catastrophic war to Iran. If
war with Iran comes, with its promise of the complete destruction of
our economy, $10-per-gallon gasoline, the murder of huge numbers of
Iranians and young Americans, and the possibility of a nuclear exchange
with Iran's Russian and Chinese backers, your transmission of the
"wiped off the map" Big Lie could be used as evidence against you in
eventual Nuremburg II war crimes tribunals. I urge you to immediately
and publicly retract your statement, and issue a correction explaining
that Khomeni, not Ahmedinejad, is the source of the quote calling for
regime change in Jerusalem, not for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

Sincerely

Dr. Kevin Barrett, Arabist-Islamologist
Ph.D., African Langages (Arabic), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Candidate for Congress, Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District

PS: Here is an in-depth article examining the Khomeni-Ahmedinejad quote: http://www.mujca.com/iranrumor.htm  

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