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2006-05-31 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran plans for US Invasion
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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-31 12:41|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Satellite photos reveal Iranians practicing secret maneuvers in case of war with US.
Posted by doc 2006-05-31 15:07||   2006-05-31 15:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Venezuela or Iran? Maybe a coin toss...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-05-31 15:17||   2006-05-31 15:17|| Front Page Top

#3 We should adopt the plan I thought Saddam was adopting. THat is gear up for invasion so they get all tense, and then back down. Then gear up again, then back down.

Each gear up can be done with communications and wargames, at least initially. The more it looks to the Iranian people as if the Mullahs' are paranoid the better so actual troop movements near the border are out. Then eventually they'll no longer respond to our false moves....
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-05-31 15:25||   2006-05-31 15:25|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 We should adopt the plan I thought Saddam was adopting.

Had Saddam adopted that plan.... we'd still be sitting in Kuwait. He indeed missed a golden opportunity. Using it against Iran would be very wise.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-31 15:28||   2006-05-31 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5  The shift in focus to guerrilla warfare against an occupying army in the aftermath of a successful invasion...

I hate to spoil any surprise endings, but one way to defeat this fiendishly clever plan is to not invade. Just blow everything to hell and go home. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

A country without gasoline and electricity is a country without a uranium enrichment program.
Posted by SteveS 2006-05-31 15:44||   2006-05-31 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 But be sure to air-drop plenty of rope after the dance so the real festivities can begin.
Posted by Chang Ominesing2659 2006-05-31 15:47||   2006-05-31 15:47|| Front Page Top

#7 But be sure to air-drop plenty of rope after the dance so the real festivities can begin.

Good idea. Along with the rope can come leaflets explaining how we "Will stop spanking all of you as soon as you mail the heads of the following list of troublemakers. Please use the enclosed priority express, self-addressed, stamped, one-cubic-foot mailing cartons. Don't forget to enclose a note with your name and address so we know where to send the $10,000 reward."
Posted by grb 2006-05-31 16:02||   2006-05-31 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Lol, grb. We did need a tough-minded detail man - thanks! Excellent ideas.
Posted by Chang Ominesing2659 2006-05-31 16:07||   2006-05-31 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Iranian Defense Plan for US Invasion
  • Change into clean underwear.
  • Bend over.
  • Kiss ass good-bye.
    • Posted by Dar">Dar  2006-05-31 16:13||   2006-05-31 16:13|| Front Page Top

    #10 Any invasion will be at 15,000 feet or above, assholes, with no feet on the ground other than those already there....yes, you are paranoid, and yes, we have troops in place.
    Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-05-31 16:49||   2006-05-31 16:49|| Front Page Top

    #11 How do you "plan" for an invasion - of bombs and missiles?

    Why would we waste our time actually going there? We're busy next door. Decapitate the thugs leadership and let nature the people's desire for freedom take its course.
    Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-05-31 16:50|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-05-31 16:50|| Front Page Top

    #12  the Revolutionary Guard is moving away from a joint command with the ordinary army and taking a more prominent role in controlling Iran's often porous borders, even as it makes each of Iran's border provinces autonomous in the event of war.
    Maybe we won't have to do anything.
    Posted by 6 2006-05-31 17:01||   2006-05-31 17:01|| Front Page Top

    #13 Yes, tyrannies depend on centralized command structures with all authority held at the top and granted only to a small loyal and dependent cadre of martinets. Competency is not a consideration, in fact, it's a drawback because its existence threatens the current despots by presenting a possible alternative.
    Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-05-31 20:30||   2006-05-31 20:30|| Front Page Top

    #14 IOW, Iran will try to sink or destroy one or more high-profile US-Allied targets before retreating back into the mountains to conduct asymmetric
    "People's War of Resistance" - wid US milfors and bases already in Central Asia and on all other flanks, Iran cannot expect too much reinforcements from other sympathetic pro-Radics Muslim nations or groups short of de facto Sino-Russian mil intervention in defense = protection of Iran. ALso keep in mind that parallel or follow-on NORTH KOREA = TAIWAN = NORTH-TAIWAN scenarios are still very much possible while US-Allied milfors are preoccupied in Iran-ME, war scenarios or contingencies which both the USDOD and Amer's enemes are well aware of against the other. RADICAL ISLAM IS LOSING THE WOT ALL AROUND THE WORLD - DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE ACTIONS, RIGHT, SO AMERICANS SHOULD NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE PROPENSITY OF THE SPETZLAMISTS TO ATTACK FIRST, BE IT AMERICA OR ELSEWHERE, SOLELY OR IN COMBIN, AND TO INCLUDE AGAINST AGAINST NEUTRAL REGIONS. The WOT > WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD, hence the whole world, allied enemy andor neutral, is a legit battlefield.
    Posted by Those Phinegum7471 2006-05-31 21:09||   2006-05-31 21:09|| Front Page Top

    #15 Sorry - forgot to post my name as I haven't had my Mickey D's or Wendy's coffee yet.
    Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-31 21:11||   2006-05-31 21:11|| Front Page Top

    #16 Okay, can I get a vote? How many people here didn't know that Those Phinegum7471 was really Joe?

    Get those hands up. No?? Yeah you in the back can go to the Boy's room. Anyone else?????


    Didn't think so. ;^)
    Posted by AlanC">AlanC  2006-05-31 21:32||   2006-05-31 21:32|| Front Page Top

    #17 :-) - Alan
    Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-05-31 21:34||   2006-05-31 21:34|| Front Page Top

    #18 I'm with Barbara.
    Fly-over and drop country.
    Posted by Gene the Moron 2006-05-31 21:54||   2006-05-31 21:54|| Front Page Top

    #19 Thanks for the update, Joe. Never would have figured out it was you ;-)
    Posted by xbalanke 2006-05-31 22:11||   2006-05-31 22:11|| Front Page Top

    #20 I hate to spoil any surprise endings, but one way to defeat this fiendishly clever plan is to not invade. Just blow everything to hell and go home. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

    I do believe this approach is rather well-covered by the overarching Army motto of:

    "We break things."
    Posted by Zenster 2006-05-31 22:11||   2006-05-31 22:11|| Front Page Top

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