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2006-01-20 Home Front: WoT
The Case for Invading Iran
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Posted by tipper 2006-01-20 11:53|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I read this yesterday, and wasn't sure what to make of it - whole lotta smoke and fog blowing around this issue right now.

But I am pretty sure that, even with Iran's recent bile-spewing and saber-rattling, the chances for Congressional authorization and public support for this are about nil.
Posted by Xbalanke 2006-01-20 14:27||   2006-01-20 14:27|| Front Page Top

#2 What he said!
Posted by DanNY 2006-01-20 14:36||   2006-01-20 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I meant the article, not the previous comment.
Posted by DanNY 2006-01-20 14:37||   2006-01-20 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Our military is spread thin at this point. There have got to be other viable and effective alternatives to invasion to neuter Iran.
Posted by Glolugum Thease1214 2006-01-20 14:39||   2006-01-20 14:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll see your case for invading, and raise you an Ohio class.
Posted by splat! 2006-01-20 14:43||   2006-01-20 14:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Too bad about the msm having so throroughly exercised their thought-control agendas on the American public--really, because this editorial is right on target regarding our need to invade Iran pronto.

In retrospect, I should've realized the connection regarding Bin Laden's "truce" offer. "Diamonds sharpen diamonds . . . " Duh, geez, I wunner wut thatz about . . . ("bright, shiny, white things")

Isn't Bin Laden now safely ensconced in Iran at present? And isn't he now a small player compared with the Iranian mullahs? Isn't he now their puppet?

And wouldn't it be a great thing to equate casualties, which would alienate a number of middle-of-the-roader Moslems, with a failure to accept Bin Laden's magnificent offer? I'm mean, it only serves us right. He tried to warn us. He tried to show us the way with his one-sided offer of truce.

And isn't energy-crunched China in play through the auspices of North Korea and Iran?

So, fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentelmen.
Posted by ex-lib 2006-01-20 14:47||   2006-01-20 14:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anyone know the personal history of President Ahmadinejad -- was he educated in the U.S.? He looks familiar. Thanks.
Posted by ex-lib 2006-01-20 15:13||   2006-01-20 15:13|| Front Page Top

#8 he was one of the '79 hostage takers, I doubt he's ever been to the US.
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-01-20 15:30||   2006-01-20 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 He looks familiar because he looks like 98% of the winos you see in line for breakfast at the homeless shelter.
Posted by tu3031 2006-01-20 16:29||   2006-01-20 16:29|| Front Page Top

#10 
Free Kurdistan! Durka-Durka.
Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-01-20 17:14||   2006-01-20 17:14|| Front Page Top

#11 
Flood Iran with guns and let nature take its course.
Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-01-20 17:16||   2006-01-20 17:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Regardless of the article's other conjectures, this one stands on its own legs:

Few have any idea of the degree to which international trade and prosperity relies on free movement of goods between countries. Container cargo is an ideal means of covertly transporting terrorist nuclear weapons. Once the first terrorist nuke is used, international trade will be enormously curtailed for at least several months for security reasons, and the entire world will suffer a simultaneous recession.

It won’t stop there, though. These same security precautions, once implemented, will significantly impede future economic growth – a ballpark estimate of reducing worldwide growth by 20-30% is reasonable. Consider the worldwide and domestic effects over a twenty-year period of a one-quarter across the board reduction in economic growth.

The potential economic damage to America, let alone the globe, is simply prohibitive. The only alternative to pre-emptive airstrikes or an actual invasion is a decap strike against Iran's leadership. This is something that needs to happen right away.
Posted by Zenster 2006-01-20 17:52||   2006-01-20 17:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Well! Reading THAT was cheery! I think I'll go slit my jugulars.....
Posted by Bobby 2006-01-20 21:52||   2006-01-20 21:52|| Front Page Top

#14 The USA and the world either accepts a nuclearized Radical Iran, or it doesn't -why, because both the Iranians and the anti-US agendists want it that way and won't give America nor the world any choice. Where America's enemies are concerned, the WOT and 9-11 for the most part is about tricking and forcing America under anti-American OWG and anti-American American Socialism-Communism - the US DemoLeft's prob is NOT alleged Fascist Amerika waging war around the world vv 9-11, ITS COMMUNIST AMERICA NOT BEING THE FINAL OUTCOME OF THE WOT. When it comes to criticizing Dubya, "FASCIST" = NAZI-HITLERIST; when it comes to achieving the Left's and SOcialism's GLOBAL ambitions, the International- and now Global Proletariat/
Revolution - "FASCIST" = DE-REGULATED COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM, LIMITED SOCIALISM, LIMITED CAPITALISM, LIMITED LAISSEZ FAIRE = LIMITED TOTALITARIANISM,.....................etc Lefty concepts, PC = PDeniable, Hyper-Correct = HyperDeniable, Waffling Policratic Mysteries-Riddles wrapped around Waffling Policratic Enigmas. The MadMullahs and MadMoud must know that neither Russia nor China will ever allow Iran to have any nuke ability capable of destroying Moscow andor Beijing, let alone to challenge their hegemonic ambitions. FOR NOW, the enemy to both Iran and Russia-China is America. WHATEVER SCHEME THE HUMAN MIND CAN COME UP WITH, REST ASSURED THE LEFTIES, COMMIES, GOVERNMENTISTS, and GLOBALISTS, etc, in America andor outside it, will try to manipulate and control. As "The Colonel", LIBYA's M. KHADDAFY, himself argued, in paraphrase - "LIBERALISM is only POPULAR CAPITALISM, where the Government attempts to control some vestiges of Capitalism".
9-11 and the WOT > Lefties, etal. are going for the whole enchilada, not only NATIONALLY BUT GLOBALLY. And for all this trouble, ala Chinese Defense Minster Hitian - AMERICA (1/2 +/-)IS ALREADY DUBBED AS FUTURE CHICOM TERRITORY, with 200M of America's 300M still needing to be "eliminated" for the good of China and the world. 200M + 5-1/2Bilyuhn > even under OWG, and Global Socialism, America and Americans, no doubt including many iff not all the US DemoLeft, WILL STILL END UP BEING PC ELIMINATED, BEING PC "PURGED". RADICAL IRAN IS BUT ONE BATTLEFIELD TO THAT GLORIOUS GLOBAL UTOPIAN, GLOBAL SOCIALIST END [OF THE WORLD].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-20 22:36||   2006-01-20 22:36|| Front Page Top

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