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2005-09-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran warns IAEA of confrontation over referral

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-26 00:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Islamic republic, the general asserted, "has a solid and unbeatable defence potential (and) can retaliate and attack the interests of the enemies in remote places."

I look forward to the upcoming DOD issue playing cards--Mad Mullah edition. This clown will surely rate a spot.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-09-26 01:36|| 2005-09-26 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I find them morbidly fascinating. As transparent as glass, as belligerent as it is possible to be, pre-attack, anyway, and "apparently" supremely confident that they will prevail. Are they insane? I think it's pretty clear they are - they "apparently" believe their own incessant bluff, bluster, and bullshit.

Is this the most dangerous moment freedom has ever faced? Yes, I believe so. Imagine the world with the MM's sitting atop most of the world's oil supply with deliverable nukes - and endless hard currency to buy any and all other forms of terror, with willing ChiComs plus Puttyputz & His Puppet Masters holding triangulation auctions.

We're in a race. Not just with preparing ourselves with high-probability action plans and accumulating and positioning the resources needed to execute them, but with our own failure of will from a thousand subversive cuts - before that moment of truth arrives.

Posted by .com 2005-09-26 03:32|| 2005-09-26 03:32|| Front Page Top

#3 The Iran(t)ian is no different than the two bit thug, Saddam, when he used to go off pre-Gulf War I. Same ole threats, same outcome?

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-26 06:10|| 2005-09-26 06:10|| Front Page Top

#4 As transparent as glass, as belligerent as it is possible to be, pre-attack, anyway, and "apparently" supremely confident that they will prevail. Are they insane?

No, they're making a rational assessment.

Immediately after 9/11, the US was attacked with anthrax. The obvious source of the anthrax particularly since they freaking bragged about it was Saddam's Iraq. Yet we still waited for two years to do anything about it and let the press and a pack of incompetents at the FBI ruin the life of an innocent man rather than admit the obvious.

Our previously announced policy was "if we're hit by WMD, we retaliate with WMD -- nukes". We were hit. We didn't retaliate.

The mullahs saw Saddam call our bluff. They know we won't do squat, regardless of what happens.

They also know they can count on the press and Democrats to play the perfect useful idiots and block any attempt to defend ourselves -- or even retaliate -- against the mullahs. They've seen what a clear and obvious case for war has turned into -- remember, the Democrat base is against Afghanistan, too -- and they know we haven't the will to fight them.

They also know our "allies" are nothing of the sort, and they have nothing to fear from them no matter what happens.

Mark my words -- a mullah could give a speech at this Friday's prayers, announcing a "new sun rising for Islam against the tyrant Crusaders", followed in an hour by a nuke going off in a US city, and we'd spend the next four years trying (and failing) to get a UN resolution considering an investigation into who might have been behind it.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-26 07:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-26 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Basically the mullahs have responded, "I fart in your general direction."

Posted by doc 2005-09-26 09:51|| 2005-09-26 09:51|| Front Page Top

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