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2010-11-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2010-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Groovy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-11-07 02:00|| 2010-11-07 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Any other time before 'Jimmy', the seizure of one's embassy would have been a casus belli. Iran has been at war with the US whether we want to acknowledge it or not since that event.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-11-07 09:15|| 2010-11-07 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The only thing Lindsey Graham is getting is a primary opponent when he is up again.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-11-07 10:03|| 2010-11-07 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 [Iran Press TV] is not the best source of accurate information. Graham being the Rino that he is would hardly be the person to make such a uncompromising move. Now if it was a Republican suggesting something like this Graham and McCain would be all over them. He would say it however in the hopes of rallying his base but never deliver.

Posted by Dale 2010-11-07 10:28|| 2010-11-07 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, he did say it.

Asked about Graham's tough proposal, MacKay told a later panel: "No question there would be a negative reaction to that course of action. Although I know that has perhaps provoked some of the hottest discussions in the hallways."

In other news:

"Donât take the American senatorâs remark too seriously. He wanted to joke," Mottaki told reporters in Tehran when asked to react to Grahamâs remarks made in Halifax, Canada on Saturday.

Mottaki said the United States had "not achieved" anything through such "threats."

"You (US) did not achieve anything by carrying out your threats in Afghanistan and Iraq. US statesmen must learn from the past and analyse their policies and move towards correcting them," Mottaki said.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/senator+joked+when+talking+with+Iran+Iranian+Foreign+Minister/3791154/story.html#ixzz14cnEDDdJ

Posted by KBK 2010-11-07 14:08|| 2010-11-07 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 GRAHAM is gener correct = A LIMITED-SCOPE/SCALE AIR +/or COMMANDO CAMPAIGN WILL DELAY, BUT NOT STOP IRAN OR ANY OTHER AMBITIOUS ["Rogue"]STATE FROM ACQUIRING = DEV NUCWEAPS.

The US-Allies can hope for internal "Regime Change" in the aftermath of a limited strike on Iran, but Iran is countering that by officially denying that it desires Nucweaps [Energy -only] while proliferat Nuke-WMD Techs to their various Militant Proxies + Aligned.

Again, RADICAL MULLAHS = IFF ISLAM/ISLAMISM DOESN'T RULE THE LAND + WORLD, NO ONE WILL, via

* Wilful inducement, overt or covert, of "Great Power(s)" mil conforntationism.
* "VICTORY, or MUTUAL DESTRUCTION/ANNIHILATION".
* Stated desire to DETONATE NUKES = NUKES-WMDS ON THEIR OWN SOIL + AGZ THEIR OPEN PEOPLE TO DEFEAT A US, US-ISRAELI, or FOREIGN INVASION.

AKA [defensive] "NUCLEARIZED PEOPLE'S WAR".

IOW, "WORLD PEACE" = US-UNO-WORLD tolerating + allowing Iran, etc. to dev NUCWEAPS + become a POTENT GREAT POWER, which OOOOOOOOPPSIES inversely means NO "WORLD PEACE" DUE TO REGIONAL, INTERNAT MILITANT GROUPS ALSO POSSESS NUCWEAPS = NUKES-WMDS [ NUclear Militancy-Terrorism].

OOOOOOOOPPPPPPSIES.....

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-07 18:32|| NA 2010-11-07 18:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not digging that, Lindsey. We have over 100,000 boots on the ground in Iraq with another 20k contractors and civilians. That would be an operational planners nightmare.

Posted by anymouse 2010-11-07 22:59|| 2010-11-07 22:59|| Front Page Top

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