Dear Theo:

While George Bush and John Kerry were battling each other for the presidency Ronald Reagan suddenly passed away, dying quietly at his Bel Air home on a sad June day from Alzheimer’s Disease. The nation would spend the next seven days mourning the loss of this great man and celebrating his epic achievements as the President who restored America to greatness, defeated the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.

Like most admirers of the Gipper I have struggled to make sense of his terrible disease; struggled to reconcile his pitiable end with his victorious life, a life that bore signs of Divine favor and predestined greatness.

As Reagan was a providential man and one of humanity’s great benefactors, liberating millions from communist tyranny and ending the specter of nuclear war, surely his life above all men deserved a better and happier end. So why did it end as it did? Why did he end his days with a terrible disease causing heartaches and tears to his family and friends and saddening the nation that loved him? Why did it consume his memory and end his days as the Great Communicator when the God who can count the hairs on our head could have healed his brain and made it good again?

Was Reagan’s illness then the work of mindless chance-the chaotic, random, unguided play of adversity and blind forces callously striking him down without just cause? Does Reagan’s disease justify a belief in atheism, or anti-theism? The belief that God is a fiction created by man to give his life solace and meaning? The belief that man alone is an intelligent being the ultimate measurer and judge of all things with no higher power transcending the world dispensing justice, mercy and grace?

After Reagan became the first U.S. President to survive being hit by a gunman’s bullet missing death by a hair, was he wrong to believe that his life belonged to God and what remained of it was in His good care? In short, was Reagan merely a fortunate man, the beneficiary of lucky chance, luckily becoming President when he did and defeating the Soviet Union? Then unluckily succumbing to a cruel disease that wasted his brain and memory? Not on your life! As the sun rises and sets in the infinite sky showing order, measure, harmony and design so the rising and setting of this man’s life was no less measured and designed. I believe and hope to prove that as Reagan was a providential man so was his Alzheimer’s a providential disease, a disease that was a prophetic sign with meaning for our stumbling nation in these troubling times of conflict and war.

But before I attempt to unravel the mystery of Reagan’s death and wasting disease I must say a few words about his singular life especially the day when he became President, that new morning in America when his revolution was born and the nightmare of the 60s and 70s was over.

Little did the Gipper know as he placed his hand on his King James Bible swearing before Almighty God to defend and protect our country that minutes later would see an end to the hostage crisis with Iran with our diplomats coming home in peace.

Indeed, Theo, on the 444th day of that galling crisis without a single shot fired from rifle or gun Iran released all 52 captives from bondage unharmed. How oracular! How emblematic! How prophetic of things to come! Didn’t this auspicious day of freedom for the 52 prefigure the peaceful end of the Soviet Union, an Evil Empire that would fall mostly due to Reagan’s destructive plans? And did not the day of Reagan’s election 77 days before foreshadow the great day of his inauguration? For that day oddly fell on November 4th one year from the day when the hostage crisis began, a day when the 40th President-to-be carried 44 of 50 states in an historic landslide victory (note 1).

But more amazing still was the mathematics of that day: as “number confirms truth,” as St. Augustine said, the triplet number 4-4-4 when multiplied by 4, the number of the day America was born, gives us the number 1776, the number of the year of our great revolution. As Reagan advanced our revolutionary destiny, and the spirit that was kindled in 1776, by freeing millions held hostage behind the Iron Curtain it all symbolically and joyously began on the portentous day when 52 Americans were finally set free after 14 months of criminal captivity (see note 2).

But the mystery of Ronald Reagan and the trinity of fours doesn't end here, Theo. As the birthday of Reagan’s victorious revolution started with this triplet number so too did it mysteriously reappear at the end of his days. For on the tearful June day when the Gipper died he returned to life for one last time as the Great Communicator delivering oracles and ominous signs about our mission in Iraq and the crisis in the Middle East; signs about the war we are waging and our conflict with Iran related to the day when his presidency began on the triplet number 4-4-4.

For 37 years to the day before Reagan died, 444 months in the past, Israel began the 67 War with a preemptive strike on Egypt’s air force in what was to be one of the great military victories of history (see note 3). Indeed, in six short days Israel defeated the forces of 9 Arab states backed by the Soviets, captured East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and dramatically increased the size of its territories by a factor of 3. This was a glorious day for Reagan to die on; but did it have any meaning for our country, Israel and the war in the Middle East? Or was it a mere coincidence without any significance at all? Now if that is all I had to say about Reagan’s last day on earth, that it corresponded to the first day of his presidency by way of the 67 War and the number 4-4-4, it would be little more than an interesting coincidence, a curious fact for the trivia books. For between a hostage crisis that peacefully ends without loss of life and a full blown war where thousands died and suffered there is no special meaning illuminating Reagan’s death other than a number to connect them.

But what brings meaning to that day and transforms his death into a truly prophetic event is one huge amazing fact that has gone unnoticed till this day: for apart from the convergence of Reagan’s death with the 444th month from Israel’s war this emotional day of sadness and grace also fell on the 444th day of the Iraq War. Incredible as it is, Theo, from the opening strike of “Shock and Awe,” on March 19, 2003, to the moment Reagan died from his disease was 444 days-exactly and precisely corresponding to the duration of the hostage crisis of 22 years before (see note 4).

In other words, we now have more than just the 67 War to connect the start of Reagan’s presidency with the last moments of his life; we now have more than just the number 4-4-4 we have the 444th day of another Mid East war in a new world struggle after the fall of Soviet Communism.

THE WAR OF DIVERSION AND VIRTUAL BONDAGE

Now as Reagan ominously died 444 days into the Iraq War and this was measured in days not months like the period of the hostage crisis of two decades before it relates to that ordeal in a highly analogous and meaningful way with a message of warning to the President and nation: for the man who became President in the final moments of a hostage crisis with Iran lasting 444 days quietly dies 444 days into a grueling war fought in post-Saddam Iraq where an influential, insidious, murderous Iran is covertly attacking and killing our troops with local and foreign forces. As number confirms truth, Theo, “bringing to light the hidden things of darkness,” the hidden painful difficult truth that this triplet number brings to light is that America once again has been taken captive, taken captive by our cunning enemies in fascist Iran in a new and more dangerous hostage dilemma that is leading to a regional crisis for American power and the peace and security of the Middle East. What the incredible convergence of this triplet number reveals is that our troops in Iraq are bound, chained and shackled, fighting and dying in a war of diversion and virtual bondage; a war largely engineered by the devils in Iran as they advance with relative impunity their menacing plans of becoming a regional power and nuclear armed state.

We must awaken from slumber and see the truth, Theo, see it with unflinching eyes before it‘s too late: the day that Ronald Reagan died was a prophetic warning to the nation about Iran, about our Iranian captivity in Iraq and how Iran is winning the U.S. war in that country and the battle for influence and power in the strategically vital Middle East (see note 5). This is the message of Reagan’s death and we better pay heed before it’s too late and Iran gets the bomb and uses it to advance its evil plans.

Against all rhyme and reason through five successive administrations, from Carter to Bush II, we’ve been enabling the rise of terrorist Iran, assisting it in its terrible journey from weakness into a regional power practically every step along the way: from the revolution’s infancy to the present day, from deserting the Shah to ridding Iraq of Saddam to the Iraq elections of 2005 when a pro-Iran alliance of Shiite extremists aided by Iran stole the election and was the unwanted victor. In short, Iran has been playing us for fools riding on the back of U.S. foreign policy to nuclear and regional victory. And unless we put a stop to this and stop it soon the world’s most dangerous regime will have the world’s most terrible weapons increasing the risk of nuclear war and making the job of defeating it more difficult and deadly.

THE THREE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISES

The sign of the triplet number 4-4-4 falling on Reagan’s inauguration then doubly on the day of his death signify that we are now in a third hostage crisis with Iran: the first under Jimmy Carter, the second under Reagan and the third and most dangerous, under George W. Bush.

Indeed, the first crisis began on the 4th day of November, 1979 under Jimmy Carter. The second Iran-Contra in 1985 was in the 4th year of Reagan’s presidency (see note 6) and, to complete the trinity of shame, the third began on January 30, 2005, ten days into Bush’s 4th year. This was the day of the first Iraq election, Theo, where due to Iranian corruption, meddling and funds-unopposed by the administration (see note 7)-a pro-Iran alliance of intransigent Shiite bigots took control of Iraq’s new state. Moreover, and quite ominously, January 30, 2005 was the 37th anniversary of the Tet Offensive 444 months in the past (see note 8)-giving us the same triplet number that marked the duration of the hostage crisis-a powerful warning of virtual captivity and possible defeat to come; the sign of an American army held captive by Iran’s political and militant allies in Iraq; the sign of a new and more terrible Vietnam to come as the Tet Offensive was the turning point in the Vietnam War.

As it was the President’s noble plan to build an American type democracy in Iraq with a liberal constitution that would limit the role of Islam and protect the rights of minorities and women-an Arab city on a hill-the election of a pro-Iran Islamo-centric regime based on the Koran was a Tet-like setback and defeat of this plan. This I call the Tet Election of Iraq fought with ballots at the voting booth, not with bullets and bombs in the field; an election that marked the real beginning of our new captivity by Iran-a captivity which continuing today became evident to all when the Iraqi government with great warmth and fanfare rolled out the carpet of friendship and peace to Islamonazi leader Ahmadinejad on his unprecedented state visit to Iraq (see note 9).

My God, Theo, when I look at the Middle East I shutter at what’s happening with fear: just as Hitler in the 1930s became the great statesman of Europe, the diplomat of the decade, for defying the Versailles Treaty and restoring defeated Germany to a continental power so is something similar happening with Iran today. Indeed, in defying the world community with its covert nuclear weapon’s program-violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty at every turn-and massively funding global terrorism, Iran is growing in stature in the Middle East with Ahmadinejad, invited and feted everywhere, emerging as the region’s great diplomat and statesman (see The Rise of Nuclear Iran).

Imagine Theo if this were the Vietnam War and South Vietnamese voters, influenced by Hanoi, voted into power a pro-Hanoi government of anti-U.S. Communists. Then imagine this government inviting Ho Chi Menh to a state visit of friendship and peace while his troops and guerrillas were killing our soldiers in the field. Would defending the South against the North make any sense when its government was no longer an ally in fighting Communism? Of course not! Our troops would be hostages in Vietnam, and America would be the laughing stock of the world.

And that’s precisely where we are today in Iraq, Theo. We are defending a democratically elected government of pro-Iranian Shiite extremists while their allies in Iran kill and maim our troops through their surrogates while forging the chains of Iraq‘s political and economic subservience. Before the entire world evil Iran commits acts of war and terror against us and what do we do? Do we bring the war on terror directly to Iran, directly to the center of radical Shiite terror, and rid the world of its regime? No! Instead we impose sanctions, freeze assets, blacklist banks and brand Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group (see note 10). We try every measure that failed with Saddam hoping against hope that it will succeed with the more pigheaded mullahs. These are not the actions of a superpower, Theo, but of a weak and feckless state turning its cheek when evil strikes and inviting more and worse attacks-inaction that reinforce Khomeine’s view that America is a helpless giant “that can do nothing,” to stop Iran. Is it any wonder that we are losing the respect of moderate Arab states and Iraq‘s Shiite government? that a credibility and security gap is opening in the Middle East? that the President is ignored and rebuffed when he urges the formation of an anti-Iran coalition so vital to the security and peace of the region (see note 11)? What state that rules by force will join its fortunes to a falling star that refuses to defend its interests and honor when attacted? Not the Saudis, not the Egyptians, not the rulers of Jordan or Kuwait. Iran is perceived as the winning horse of the region and our allies shaking in fear are understandably bowing to them.

Sadly, Theo, the Shiite leaders of Iraq’s elected government are no friends to America, no friends to freedom, no friends to human rights and liberal ideals. They may be allies in the war against al Qaida and the powerful Mahdi Army (rivals of SCIRI/Badr Corps in a factional struggle for power), but not in the struggle with Hamas, Hezbollah and the terror masters of Iran who they cringingly fear like other frightened Arab states. Iraq’s Shiite leaders are part of the problem in the Middle East and are practically useless for advancing the cause of freedom, civilization and peace in the region.

In short, Theo, on the 37th anniversary of the Tet Offensive the voters of Iraq, heavily influenced by Iran, went on the political offensive to peacefully defeat their Liberator-in-Chief and his American dream for their Moslem country. But our tenacious President held fast to his dreams. Unwilling to admit defeat he spun the election into a triumph for freedom and used the defense of Iraq’s young democracy to justify continuing the war. Indeed, as the President moved deeper and deeper into unreality (see The Sign of Tim Johnson), hoping against experience and 1000 years of sectarian strife that a liberal state of reconciliation would emerge in Iraq-an inspirational model for the region-the stage was set for our virtual captivity and the fall of our preeminence in the region. The decision to continue the war in Iraq and not bring it to Iran-the principle source of Iraq’s destabilizing violence-is proving to be a colossal strategic blunder; a blunder that is costing us dearly as resurgent Iran intimidating the region builds the ultimate weapon of terror and death for its arsenal of blood.

THE PROPHET JEREMIAH AND THE NUMBER 444

Not by unplanned chance or accident did Reagan die that June 5th day, Theo; and the recurrence of the rare, strange triplet number 444 incontrovertibly proves it. In fact, and quite amazingly, there is Scriptural support for this phenomenon coming from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, an heroic man who spoke truth to power and was put in chains for his audacity. As if speaking to us across the ages about the day Reagan died and the captivity of our troops in Iraq Jeremiah, chapter 24 verse 1-on the Babylonian Captivity (see note 12)-uses the term “hegaluth” which is Hebrew for “the captivity” when prophesying about the coming defeat of the Jews and their bondage in Babylon (present day Iraq). What is relevant about this word to this inquiry, and completely mind boggling, is that in the Hebrew language where letters are numbers and used in counting and mathematics “hegaluth” has a numeric value of 444 (see note 13).

THE 11-4 TRAP

Theo, before I move on to the most difficult and sensitive part of this letter, the prophetic meaning of Ronald Reagan’s disease, one final word about Iraq and the Iran Hostage Crisis of 28 years ago. As this crisis began on November 4, 1979 or the date 11-4 (the date of the upcoming election) when both these numbers are combined to form the single number 114 it gives us the number of the Iraq War Resolution, H. J. Res. 114, passed by Congress on October 10, 2002 authorizing the President to use military force for removing Saddam Hussein from power. I will have more to say about this number in my letter on the Columbia disaster. Suffice it to say that this was a forewarning that military intervention in Iraq could become an 11-4 trap for our troops and a boon to Iran as indeed was the case when the hostage crisis of 1979 was skillfully exploited by Khomeine to consolidate his grip on power. What happened 28 years ago foreshadowed the crisis that is looming today where America must choose between the use of military force to bring down the mullahs or letting them build the bomb allow them to have the capability of holding the oil rich Persian Gulf hostage to nuclear blackmail and to nuke Israel in a deadly first strike-which they have threatened to do. But let us move on to the third part of this letter:

THE MYSTERY OF REAGAN’S DISEASE

As we have seen, Theo, the amazing day of Reagan’s death was not a mindless chance event driven by blind unguided forces, but a synchronized convergence of meaningful numbers, dates and events that relate to our time and history and especially to the gathering threat of Iran‘s growing power in the Middle East due to our bondage in Iraq. For that day was doubly connected and linked to the triplet number 444 a number which signifies bondage and liberty, oppression and freedom, of hostages seized and hostages freed, of an army held in captivity to a flawed foreign policy, and a President released from a fatal disease on the day that he died.

But why did Reagan have this disease, Theo? As both you and I clearly see a powerful interaction between Reagan and the Deity why then did he die from Alzheimer’s? Why was he afflicted with a progressive disease which consuming his brain and memory reduced him in time to complete incoherency? Why did the Deity chose Alzheimer’s over some less malign disease that could have kept his mind and communication skills in tact? A disease that would have been less distressing to his family, friends and good, dear wife?

Or better still, why did the Gipper have to die from disease at all? As all who live must die with many passing into the night from the ravages of time why couldn’t the greatest President of our lifetime be one of them? Surely if he had died peacefully in his sleep on that same June day dying of simple old age it would have done nothing to diminish the prophetic meaning of that day. For that day would have fallen on the anniversary of the Six Day War and the 444th day of the Iraq War all the same. Why then did Reagan die of Alzheimer’s?

Could it be that this disease added something significant to that day? like another layer of meaning which the events of the Iraq War and Six Day War, together with the number 4-4-4, could not provide? I believe that it did, Theo. I believe that Reagan’s life taken as a whole from start to finish, from his birth into poverty to his success in films and politics to his disease and mournful end, are pieces of one cloth woven together with golden strands sown by the hand of God. In short, I believe and will show in what follows that this providential man died a providential death from a providential disease, not the product of luckless chance as many believe, but as rich in meaning for our time as the June 5th day on which he died.

For the day that the reaper came for the Gipper was extraordinary in more ways than one: apart from the double convergence of 4-4-4 linked to events in the Middle East, the day Reagan died corresponds most remarkably to the day ten years before when he went public with his disease; to the day when in a beautifully written letter full of sadness and faith he told us of his malady and coming mental darkness. For both days fell on the last day of the week, on the 5th day of the month and in a year that ends in the number 4-the most significant number in Reagan’s life (see note 14).

Indeed, Theo, by a designing God and not by chance it was the 44th week of the year that Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and made his disease known to the world; by design not chance he died on the 22nd week of the year a decade later. As number confirms truth and 22 is half 44 what could better symbolize the terrible effects of a disease that left the Gipper with half a functioning brain when he died?

But an even stronger sign of supernatural intervention is that the total number of months separating Reagan’s moving letter from his death and moving funeral are 115. What is extraordinary about this number is that it corresponds to November 5th or 11-5 the month and day the letter was published-prefiguring and pinpointing with uncanny precision the very month and day of Reagan’s death 115 months later (see note 15).

But there is more to indicate divine intervention in Reagan’s disease: if we count the number of days from the date the letter was issued to Reagan’s next birthday, when he turned 84, we get a total of 93 days, a number that corresponds to the age at which he died (see note 16).

There is more that I can add to this extraordinary complex of numeric marvels, Theo. But suffice it to say that as the Deity, anciently called the Great Mathematician, uses number to reveal His will and direct us to truth, this clearly indicates that Reagan’s Alzheimer’s was intelligently guided, ordered and designed and is no more meaningless, mindless and random in its cause than Reagan’s escape from an assassin’s bullet and his subsequent epoch making life as one of our three great liberator Presidents (see note 17).

By now it should be clear to you, Theo, that as Reagan’s astonishing life was supernaturally guided so too were his death and fatal disease. It should be clear that as the day Reagan died had oracular meaning for the war of diversion and bondage in Iraq and the deepening crisis that it’s causing for U.S. power in the region so did his disease add meaning to his death making its message more specific and significant. But specifically significant of what?

Before I attempt to answer this question it is important for you to know that the 40th President died on the 16th day of the 40th month of Bush’s presidency, and that as 16 is 4 squared, or 4x4, together with the number 40 we get another triple four sign signifying that Reagan’s death by Alzheimer’s had a special, specific focused meaning for the President and his policies.

Construed differently, and perhaps more convincingly, as the 40th President died in the 40th month of Bush’s presidency and 40+40=80 this became the age of the President’s father when Reagan was laid to rest 7 days after his death (see note 18). As the elder Bush belongs to the realist school of foreign policy this is a sign from the Deity urging us to face the ugly reality about Iraq, the predicament that we are in and the ruinous policies of the son to our strategic and security interests in the Middle East as Iran rushes ahead to build the bomb, grows in power and the region advances toward catastrophe.

Now since Alzheimer’s is a disease that destroys and deadens the brain, damaging the victim’s memory and reducing him to incoherency, do you see where this is going, Theo? Do you see what this means? Indeed, Reagan’s disease which ended his life on the 444th day of the Iraq War on the 40th month of George Bush’s presidency during a fierce presidential race with a Vietnam vet-who signified the destructive 60s and the Vietnam disaster-is a symbol of thoughtlessness, incoherency and weakness. As the Alzheimer’s victim loses touch with reality Reagan’s disease signifies a senseless, confused, inept foreign policy, a policy divorced from reality and forged by a President who being more concerned with nation building in Iraq (see note 19) than with the necessity to confront and defeat Iran has lost his historical memory of our failure in Vietnam, and the march of events leading up to World War II (see note 21). We must never forget that a winnable war was lost in Indochina, Theo, and that World War II was a preventable catastrophe or could have been greatly minimized as the historical record shows. For Reagan’s disease warns us that the past could happen again and is in fact happening now with our chief adversary Iran profoundly and frighteningly gaining in prestige; making progress in evil due to our ongoing blunders and overlong, senseless “occupation” of pro-Iran Iraq.

THE DEATH OF BOBBY KENNEDY

Theo, if John Kerry hadn’t run for the presidency that year and there were no candidate to remind us of Vietnam (see The Sign of John Kerry) Reagan’s death would have been warning enough, and not just because of his ominous disease. For the Six Day War wasn’t the only anniversary of note to fall on that day. For on that day 36 year’s before Democratic presidential hopeful Bobby Kennedy was gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan in a Los Angeles hotel for his support of Jewish Israel. Bobby Kennedy is a complex figure signifying Iraq, the Middle East and the Vietnam War, Theo. For this Kennedy was an anti-war candidate vigorously campaigning to bring an end to the war his brother began. Indeed, while campaigning in the city where his murdered brother won his party’s nomination, in a state that was governed by Reagan, Kennedy was shot in the head by a Palestinian madman who by an astonishing but meaningful twist of fate was born on March 19, 1944, fifty-nine years to the day when the war in Iraq began. Once again we’ve connected the dots, Theo, and completed another trinity with a third event on Reagan’s death related to the terrible, tragic, troublesome Middle East. Once again the signs point to the war in Iraq warning of a new and more terrible Vietnam ahead, a worse and more costly defeat, because of our refusal to face terrorist Iran and break its growing power.

As Reagan was a tower of strength in a predatory world of communists, fascists and autocratic thugs his succumbing to an enfeebling brain disease while we were fighting a war against terror in the Middle East mirrored our growing weakness and regional impotency due to a ruinous Iraq first policy (see note 22). Recall the great man that Reagan was and look how pathetically he ended his days, tragically ending it in forgetfulness and mental oblivion. Then look at what’s happening to America today in the Middle East due to a brain dead foreign policy that is alienating our Arab friends, empowering Iran and raising the hopes of our enemies that we are finished as a superpower and will soon be defeated (see note 23). Do you not see the analogy, Theo? The demise of Ronald Reagan, his death by brain disease, is a metaphor of America; it’s a symbol of our great country from the President on down losing its mind and memory, forgetting the horrors of Vietnam and Nazi Germany in its war with Islamofascism and radical, implacable, expansionary Iran.

Reagan’s death by Alzheimer’s was a sacrifice ordained by Almighty God and made on the alter of our nation’s security; his Alzheimer’s was a sacrificial disease designed to jog our memory and force us to remember, to help us recall the terrible past so as not to repeat its lessons and reap the whirlwind. Warning us of the dangers of forgetfulness, of who we are and what we did or failed to do as a nation, Reagan, who would come to forget everything, said in his stirring farewell address: “I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could ultimately result in an erosion of the American spirit.” The eradication of Reagan’s memory from Alzheimer’s was a dire warning to America about forgetfulness and loss of memory; a warning that this is happening now, happening today, happening to us in time of war with a bitter desperate, bloodthirsty enemy committed to suicide martyrdom as the highest religious ideal and test of faith; an enemy hell bent on eradicating our nation, reducing us to naught and replacing us as the world’s superpower. The impossible dream of madmen to be sure but in pursuit thereof millions could die as this regime’s thirst for blood and power are unquenchable.

As the 444th day of the Iraq War synchronized with the 37th anniversary of the Six Day War-translating into 444 months of historical time-Ronald Reagan’s timely death on this prophetic day signaled the way ahead for our nation in dealing with a resurgent, defiant, rising Iran. For as Israel preemptively struck its Arab enemies on that day, crushing their armies with its power, and we preemptively struck Saddam Hussein quickly defeating his mad regime so does stopping Iran from becoming a menacing nuclear power require a new preemptive war-not striking the mullahs as Israel struck Egypt-but striking them boldly as we hit Hussein, striking for regime change.

In short, Theo, we must break the chains that bind us to Iraq and end our military captivity; we must end our servitude to a pro-Iran state-the allies of enemies sworn to our destruction-and after Iraq and Afghanistan complete our mission in the Middle East by defeating fascist Iran. This I believe is the Will of Heaven, and the last great wish of Ronald Reagan.

Now if you think that my view of Reagan’s death is flawed and that my approach for dealing with Iran too severe; if you think that after 28 years of kidnapping and killing Americans, of failed diplomacy, embargoes, sanctions and threats that deterrence or regime change from within will suffice in curbing or toppling them, then read on my friend, read about the mother of all ominous signs, the ultimate sign that appeared in the sky directing us to crush this evil regime and expunge it from the earth. Read about the Columbia Shuttle Disaster.

6.The Iran-Contra arms for hostages deal began in late August of 1985 when Israel mediated the transfer of hundreds of TOW missiles to Iran for the U.S.

Ironically, it was the anti-Western crimes of Mr. Maliki’s Islamic al-Dawa Party, the leading Shia faction in the pro-Iranian United Iraqi Alliance, that started the Iran-Contra arms for hostages affair in the 1980s. For this sordid business began when Hezbollah kidnapped several dozen Europeans and seven U.S. citizens in revenge for the Kuwaiti authority arrest of 17 al-Dawa Party members for the terrorist bombings of U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. It is more than just ironic that Iraq’s current Prime Minister should come from al-Dawa, the principle cause of Iran-Contra. It is another telling sign confirming our Iranian captivity in Iraq; a sign of our senseless servitude to an anti-Western government of Shiite extremists whose world view is closer to Iran‘s evil plans than Washington‘s vision of the good.

7. Washington Post reporter David Ignatius wrote (8-30-07) that Iran covertly sent thousands of Iranians into Iraq to fraudulently vote in the election and spent $11 million per week on media and political operations in support of the pro-Iranian Shiite candidates that eventually came to power. A secret CIA plan to counter Iranian influence and support moderate Shiite and Sunni candidates was killed by Nancy Pelosi and Condolezza Rice on grounds that it would be an unethical manipulation of the election. This foolish decision by Pelosi and Rice was perhaps the war’s Walter Cronkite moment ensuring an Iranian political triumph in the U.S. war in Iraq.

8. From the Tet Offensive in 1968 to the first Iraq election 37 years later was exactly 444 months. Moreover, on this same date in 1933 72 years before Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany setting the stage for the greatest catastrophe in human history.

9. This visit, starting March 2 and lasting several days, was productive of gas, oil, electrical and other agreements with Iran, with Ahmadinejad granting Iraq a one billion dollar interest free loan. This visit furthered Iraq along the path of economic subservience to Iran and was an Iraqi slap in the face to U.S. efforts to isolate Iran and punish it economically. In fact, Iraq’s economic ties with Iran may be in violation of UN sanctions.

What was astonishing and most revealing about Ahmadinejad’s Baghdad visit was the minimal security he needed in contrast to the heavy security blanket used by Bush, Cheney and other U.S. officials when visiting Iraq. As Diane West said: “Iranian supplied bombs and rockets endanger U.S. Presidents, not Iranian ones.” This shows the extent of Iran’s responsibility for the violence plaguing the country making Ahmadinejad‘s visit all the more grating.

10. In 2007 the Treasury Department blacklisted Iran’s Bank Melli for funneling money to terrorists groups and financing its illegal uranium enrichment program. Shortly thereafter Iraq’s government permitted Iran to open a branch of Bank Melli in Baghdad thus hurting America’s efforts to fight and win the war on terror and stop Iran‘s nuclear program.

Furthermore, according to Asian Times writer Paul McGlynn (4-1-2008) as of March 20, 2008 the Bush administration ordered the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury to issue an advisory to the international banking community charging all Iranian banks with money laundering practices and the funding of terrorist groups. This act of economic and financial warfare is an attempt to shut Iran out of the international financial system and cripple its economy. As justified as this is and as damaging as it may prove it will not be enough to stop the martyr mad apocalyptic mullahs.

11. Bush’s trip last January to the Middle East was a victory for Iran and showed the world just how impotent and marginalized the U.S. is in the region. For the President failed in his mission to persuade Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE to join the U.S. in a military and economic alliance to contain and isolate Iran in the region. In his pro-democracy speech given at Abu Dhabi Bush’s warning about Iran “seeking to intimidate its neighbors with ballistic missiles and bellicose rhetoric” was heard by Arab leaders who were already cowering before Iran because of America’s failure to stop its missile deployment and nuclear weapons programs.

12. According to Jeremiah 10,000 Jewish leaders were held hostage by Babylon when the defeated Jewish people were forced into exile and taken captive.

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He= 5

Gimel= 3

Lamed= 30

Vau= 6

Tav= 400

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14. Reagan issued his Alzheimer’s letter on Saturday November 5, 1994; he died on Saturday June 5, 2004. When Reagan learned about his illness I can imagine him turning to his tearful wife kissing her brow and saying: ‘Don’t worry, honey. I’m in God’s hands and there’s a good reason for this.’

As for the number 4 being Reagan’s most significant number or signature number consider the following: Reagan was the 4th and final member of a family of two parents and two sons; he married Nancy, the love of his life, on March 4, 1953; he read Whittaker Chamber’s “Witness” in the 4th decade of his life; in the 64th year of the 20th century (the cube number of 4 or 4x4x4) he gave his famous speech “A Time For Choosing” (a title composed of 4 words) supporting Barry Goldwater‘s presidential bid, instantly making him a leader in the Conservative movement. Reagan was elected President on the 4th day of November and was sworn in as 40th President on the 444th and final day of the Iran Hostage Crisis. Moreover, his historic meeting with Gorbachev at Reykjavik on October 11, 1986, the turning point of the Cold War, started on the last day of the 40th week of the year-the number of his presidency.

15. November 5, 1994 to June 5, 2004 is exactly 9 years and 7 months or 115 months to the day. Moreover, if I count up the date of Reagan’s death as single digits and taking the product multiply it by the first two numbers (6-5 or 65) we get the number 1105 or November 5, hence: 6+5+2+4=17x65=1105.

16. From November 5, 1994 to February 6, 1995 is 93 days. Just as remarkable and very moving and beautiful is that the number of days that separated Reagan’s death from his last wedding anniversary on March 4, 2004 also numbered 93. But even more extraordinary is that from Reagan’s 93rd birthday on February 6, 2004 to his death was exactly 120 days: 120 = 40+40+40 adding to the triple 4 phenomenon converging on this date. This is another indication that the Deity was overshadowing Reagan’s death and using it as an vehicle to warn America about the gravity of the situation in the Middle East and the perilous but avoidable consequences ahead caused by our foolish policies in Iraq and dangerous weakness toward Iran.

17. The three great liberators were Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Reagan.

18. On June 12, 2004 the day George H. W. Bush turned 80 Ronald Reagan was laid to rest. If the elder Bush had beaten Reagan in the 1980 primaries and went on to defeat Jimmy Carter it is unlikely that he would have achieved Reagan’s feat of ending the Cold War. Nevertheless, Bush’s superb diplomatic skills and realism were needed in the aftermath of the Reagan years to complete the job his former boss began and set in motion. It is remarkable, meaningful and touchingly symbolic that the body of Ronald Reagan was laid to rest on President Bush’s 80th birthday as if to honor the accomplishment of his successor in presiding over the death of the Soviet Empire. Amazingly, and not by chance, in 1991, the year the Soviet Union fell, Reagan himself, when Bush was President, was 80 years old.

19. In a New York Times article Richard Pearle rightly said that as soon as Baghdad fell “Iraq should have been handed over to the Iraqis for nation building” rather than the administration doing it themselves. This, of course, is wisdom in hindsight but it‘s still not too late to realize the futility of this well-meaning project. The war on terror should not directly be a war for democratic nation building but for demoralizing and defeating the enemy and destroying his belief in the historic mission of Islam: that it is destined by God and history to become the unifying religion of humanity, and that those who take up the sword in its cause are certain to prevail.

21. As Reagan was laid to rest 7 days after his death on the birthday of George H. W. Bush (the last World War II vet in history to serve as President) so 7 days before his death on May 29 George W. Bush dedicated the National World War II Memorial in Washington. This is another sign of the cataclysmic mistakes that his son is making in Iraq, mistakes that could have destructive global consequences if they continue.

22. As the “freedom deficit” in the Middle East was believed by the administration to be the primary cause of 9/11 and jihadist terror against our country the invasion of Iraq was principally seen as a war for democratizing the region as an antidote to jihadism. This put the cart before the horse. Democracy must first defeat Islamic imperialism, the belief in Islam’s global destiny, the soul and substance of Jihadism, before Moslems will accept democratic principles as God’s chosen system of government for mankind.

23. “Brain dead” are harsh words to use but mild compared to words like “certifiably insane” used by Washington Times columnist Diane West in her Town Hall column “Iran’s Betrayal Leaves U.S. Suffering Pulp Fiction.” Insanity is a U.S. administration fighting against Islamofascism while supporting a sectarian Shiite government that is complicit with our Jihadist enemies in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza. Look at it this way: the democratically elected Maliki government-despised by the Arab Sunni world-is allied to the mullahs and Hezbollah. The mullahs work relentlessly to Lebanize Iraq and destroy its young democracy while Hezbollah works to do the same in Lebanon.

Combine this with Maliki’s support for Hamas and its war of annihilation against democratic Israel and what we have is a U.S. backed government of Islamofascist thugs wearing democratic masks. In truth, the Maliki government’s regard for democracy is no higher than Hitler’s when he was voted Chancellor of Germany, which ironically occurred on January 30, 1933, 72 years to the day when Iraq held its first democratic election.

In short, terms like “brain dead” and “insane” don’t begin to describe the administration’s Iraq policy-a policy that is profoundly empowering Iran at enormous expense to our national security by allowing it to become the nuclear armed hegemon of the Middle East.