DOLLAR DON’T WHEN U.S. EXITS IRAQ NIP & TUCK STRETCH More and more people agree: America should get out. Plastic surgery has Why it always loses value What will we leave behind? gone mainstream february 2007 THE PHILADELPHIA www.thetrumpet.com TRUMPET MMoralityorality WWarar America applies the cut-and-run strategy on its most desperate battlefront THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET FEBRUARY 2007 Vol. 18, No. 2 Circ. 288,000 3 10 14 22 WORLD SOCIETY 8 Shady Business Partners COVER STORY Our worst enemies supply some 22 “As in the Days of Noah” of our most valuable resources. Conservative doesn’t mean what it used to. GERMANY 10 A Troubled Democracy 26 Nip & Tuck Values In a nation accustomed to Cosmetic surgery has gone totalitarianism, America tried mainstream. to instill democracy. 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He made did use it; but Hitler … tried to develop [atomic weapons] only that statement on Headline News Nov. 17, 2006, during after embarking on the world conflict. an interview with Glen Beck. “Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is first trying to de- FMr. Netanyahu is right, humanly speaking, when he says velop nuclear weapons and then going about his mad fantasy they cannot be deterred. of global conflict. So he has to be stopped. I think when So what happens when suicidal REUTERS you have something as fanatic terrorists get nuclear devices or and as dangerous as this, the atomic bombs? (And they will get question now is not whether he them.) If they cannot be deterred, should be stopped, but how’s he then our cities are going to be going to be stopped?” (emphasis destroyed. mine throughout). Mr. Netanyahu said, “Iran is There was a fundamentally dan- [Nazi] Germany, and this is 1938”— gerous change in this world with which was one year before World the creation of nuclear weapons. War ii. He is saying we are danger- But that pathology was multiplied ously close to World War iii! Only a 10,000 times over when many peo- few years or even months away. ple could access nuclear technology. Iran is the king of Middle East It became still more dangerous when terrorists. The dangerous Iranian Iran introduced the world to orga- president, Mahmoud Ahmadine- nized, suicidal, state-sponsored ter- jad, will provide terrorists with rorism. The problem will multiply nuclear weapons—it’s only a matter in danger yet again when Iran gets of when. Many people have com- the nuclear bomb—a scenario that pared him to Adolf Hitler, who led could happen at almost any time. Germany into World War ii, when So somebody must stop Iran, or more than 60 million people were this number-one sponsor of terror- killed. That is a pittance compared AFTERMATH Onlookers gaze at the remnants of a bus ism is going to put nuclear weapons to how many would be killed in a in Baghdad, destroyed after a suicide bomber blew into the hands of terrorists. And nuclear World War iii! himself up inside it, killing 3 people and wounding 16. America is their primary target. Here is what Mr. Netanyahu Imagine Ahmadinejad with said of President Ahmadinejad’s religious beliefs: “[Israel is] nuclear weapons! Imagine the unparalleled, mind-staggering just the first weigh station en route to you [America]. So there danger hanging over this world like a pall of black doom! is this fundamental fanaticism that is there. It’s a messianic President Bush was humiliated in America’s November cult. It’s a religious messianic cult that believes in the Apoca- elections because of the Iraq war. So you will not see the Unit- lypse, and they believe they have to expedite the Apocalypse ed States ever launch another preemptive war—like the one to bring the collapse of the West. … If the lunatics escape from needed to take out Iran’s nuclear weapons program. We lack the asylum, that’s one thing. But if they can get their hands the will to do so. on a nuclear weapon, that’s another. And this is that kind of Will the nation called Israel today take out Iran’s nuclear cult. It’s the cult of the Mahdi, a holy man that disappeared a capability? It just lost a war with the tiny Hezbollah arm of the thousand years ago. And the president of Iran believes that he’s Iranian army. So the Jewish nation also lacks the will to deal supposed to—he was put here on Earth to bring this holy man with Iran and its hordes of terrorists. back in a great religious war between the true Muslim believ- No current nuclear power in the world is suicidal, but the ers and the infidels. And millions will die in this Apocalypse, Iranian leaders are. That is why you can’t stop their terrorism and the Muslim believers will go to heaven. That’s dangerous, unless you stop their “messianic cult of death”—which would if they have nuclear weapons to realize this fantasy. And that probably mean destroying Iran. is where the world is coming to. Benjamin Netanyahu said this in his conclusion on cnn: “Now, people said that of Hitler in the 1930s.