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2004-09-27 Israel-Palestine

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Posted by tipper 2004-09-27 21:21|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This has been obvious for a while. Like it or not, Iran is a real country that knows how to hide stuff. It must be brought down from within and we must be willing to exploit any instability that might erupt there. Otherwise, we'll have to incinerate them someday, though the Israelis can do that as well.

Kerry wants to sell them reactors.

Posted by JAB 2004-09-27 9:38:29 PM|| 2004-09-27 9:38:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Rats, Israelis can do it, should be a piece of cake for them.

Posted by Fawad 2004-09-27 9:55:45 PM|| 2004-09-27 9:55:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bombing won't do it. Sure we can destroy the reactors and known research and enrichment facilities, but bet the US and Isreal don't know where most of the facilities are hidden.

Posted by ed 2004-09-27 10:01:00 PM|| 2004-09-27 10:01:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok then a lot fo bombing will improve the chances of hitting something worthwile. Just keep the press out of it, or another reporter may catch it where the sun dont shine

Posted by Fawad 2004-09-27 10:03:05 PM|| 2004-09-27 10:03:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't worry about it Rantburgers, Israel is in the process of self-destruction.

Posted by 007 2004-09-27 10:12:59 PM|| 2004-09-27 10:12:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Haha I see the Arabs have accepted my advice and started smoking Hashish as evidenced by comment # 5. Smoke some more 007 and you will be able to see the 72 virgins too.

Posted by Fawad 2004-09-27 10:15:49 PM|| 2004-09-27 10:15:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Israel can't get at Iran's nukes".

This remainds me of the old sequence:

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink ...... but you can sure as hell make him wish he had ..."

In my book, Iran has had a long-overdue ass-kicking coming ever since November 1979. The nukes are just an excuse to bring that hammer down, as far as I'm convcerned (it's "Hammer time"!).

Opening scenario: US TLAM's take out every radar dish, radio transmitter, bridge, airport, parked aircraft, and C3 building on our traget list.

Scene 2 - Isreal brings the "wrath of god" down on everything standing within 100 km of Iran's nuke activity center.

Third scene - A succession of about six Arclight strikes carpet bomb all land routes into and out of the region,to mnake sure that no commuters escaped the wrath of god. Also, to take out any journalists headed out to survey the carnage - let them write from the first-person standpoint.

Closing scene - US sends another wave of Tomahawks to level anything that the first three sequences missed.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2004-09-27 11:03:23 PM|| 2004-09-27 11:03:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Does anyone here honestly doubt that we have had a KH-11 parked over Iran for the last year? We have satellites that use ground-penetrating radar to search for water and oil deposits. Do you really think these remote probes cannot detect rebar and airspace buried in earth? Every nuclear science production facility gives off tremendous amounts of detectable waste heat and requires huge infrastructure augments like high tension energy feeds, observable transportation corridors and massive environmental control systems.

If Iran has buried some of their labs deep inside of mountains, we may only be able to collapse their entrances. Everything else is going to pulverized into rubble or smaller.

I said this a long time ago. DO NOT think that we have shared all of our intelligence with Israel. America DOES NOT need to tip its true capabilities to ANYBODY, not even Israel. We probably have information on Israeli facilities that Israel hasn't even told us about.

Although some of the Iranian sites are undoubtly hardened, I doubt they will be able to resist the sort of firepower we can unleash upon them. FAE bombs could be used to suck the air out of underground bunkers. Our cruise missiles can play "follow-the-leader" where a second missile flies through the hole a previous one made.

WE WILL neutralize Iran's nuclear capabilities. It WILL NOT require nuclear weapons to do so. I doubt it will even take any boots on the ground to do it. Of equal importance is that we kill every single nuclear scientist and technician foolish enough to be on site when we arrive. Air raid shelters will not protect them, nor any perimeter defenses.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-27 11:34:18 PM|| 2004-09-27 11:34:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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