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2006-04-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2006-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Rightists-Fascists do the chest- and drum beatings - meanwhile, Purge/Holocaust-happy Commies are quiet as crickets and winds on a clear night, ala Ollie Stone's PLATOON. FNC's Mary Kellogg interviewed an Iranian? diplomat-official this AM, and whom said that Iran's oil will be gone in 20-25 years - roughly ditto the same timeline the Russians have given for their own domestic reserves.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-19 01:08|| 2006-04-19 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 What's with this latest crop of dictators? They are more archtypical then the comic book fiends.
Ahmadinejad, Kimmy, Chavez classic super villains.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-19 01:41|| 2006-04-19 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's see them fend off this:

Posted by DMFD 2006-04-19 01:52|| 2006-04-19 01:52|| Front Page Top

#4 You might have a point 3dc. Are they taking their cues from old DC/Marvel comic villians? To listen to them you expect them to be meeting with Solomon Grundy in a helmet-shaped building in a swamp like on "Superfriends".

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2006-04-19 07:50|| 2006-04-19 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 We need a photo here from the Monty Python sketch of the knight with his arms and legs chopped off, still spouting belligerancy to his opponent.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-04-19 11:18|| 2006-04-19 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 The Black knight...

Script

"I'll bite your legs off!"

"What are you going to do, bleed on me?"

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-19 13:13|| 2006-04-19 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 I dunno. It's all so very much Pinky and The Brain to me.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-19 19:28|| 2006-04-19 19:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Dunno. This guy's not smart enough to be Pinky and his ego's too big to be Brain.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-04-19 19:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-04-19 19:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I hate to stir up bad memories, but wasn't the Iranian army the one that fought to a standstill against Saddam in a war that was eventually called on account of neither side being able to field enough players? The same Saddam whose army was steamrolled by Coalition forces in an engagement that set a new record for yards gained on the ground?

Here's a hint: the coming dust-up is going to be an air campaign. Unless, of course, those armor thrusts and special ops aren't simply a diversion. Hope you have lots of spare parts for the Shah's leftover Tomcats and the MiGs you poached from Saddam. Remember, a country without electric power is a country without a uranium enrichment program.

Posted by SteveS 2006-04-19 20:34|| 2006-04-19 20:34|| Front Page Top

#10 middle of the dread Iranian Summer, a country without power is a country without air conditioning, and tempers grow short...the mood to hang a mullah grows long...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-19 22:32|| 2006-04-19 22:32|| Front Page Top

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