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2006-10-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by .com 2006-10-02 02:46|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah - just like I'm going to live with these haemorrhoids. Bollocks.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-10-02 04:29|| 2006-10-02 04:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah - just like I'm ever going to live with fucking cockroaches. Bullshit.

US 'must ~~live~~ fuck with nuclear Tehran'

There, fixed that.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-02 05:09|| 2006-10-02 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Israelis act against Iran, the blowback against the US, in Iraq and elsewhere, will be pretty much the same as if the US struck Iran on its own. If Israel strikes Iran, the US might as well also.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-02 05:24|| 2006-10-02 05:24|| Front Page Top

#4 well-sourced sources say.....

Posted by Frank G 2006-10-02 08:12|| 2006-10-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 US must live with millions of dead Isreali's.

The army is particularly concerned about Iran's ability to destabilise an already chaotic Iraq.

You mean it isn't now?

"The conclusion is that America is going to have to live with the bomb unless there's some miracle, such as a major accident, a major defector or an orange revolution,"

Oh lets just hope that the robbers, murderers, and rapist who followed us home don't come to our house. No need to lock the doors or defend ouselves...

Seems to me we should then be expending all our efforts to make the 'miracle' happen.

Even if Iran was attacked, one analyst said, they would start their efforts again with even greater secrecy.

Not if they are too busy enjoying their 72 raisins...

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-10-02 08:19|| 2006-10-02 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6
Ultimately, I believe we are going to have to go after the nest.

Iran Sending Jihadists Into Afghanistan?

Posted by SR-71 2006-10-02 08:31|| 2006-10-02 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 America will have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting.

And who elected them [and the ponies they rode in on] to make such national security decisions?

Posted by Glitle Grenter4308 2006-10-02 08:39|| 2006-10-02 08:39|| Front Page Top

#8 If we are to survive we will have to take them out. Plain and simple, this Iranian leader intends to use these weapons against us when he gets them done. He is not rational and they have only one concern, kill the infadels. Just living with it, means converting to Islam or dieing. We need to hammer the locations we know about and keep beating them until they are no longer a threat.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-10-02 08:44|| 2006-10-02 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Is this another NIE assessment? Why is this published in Australia, instead of the New York Times?

Posted by Bobby 2006-10-02 08:47|| 2006-10-02 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 America will have to learn to live with Nazi Germany, top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting.

Senior operatives and analysts from the intelligence community were almost unanimous in their view that little could be done to stop Nazi Germany from conquering Europe.

Bombing Nazi Germany's military was rejected on the grounds that the intelligence needed for successful air strikes was lacking.

"We only have an imperfect understanding of the extent and location of the German military," said one source with knowledge of last week's meeting near Washington. "Even if we got the order to blow it up, we wouldn't know how to."

The White House's earlier enthusiasm for military strikes if all else failed has cooled after warnings from the Pentagon and intelligence analysts that the risk-to-reward ratio of taking action is too high. At best, 80 per cent of the targets are mapped out and then only sketchily...

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-02 09:25|| 2006-10-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#11 America will have to learn to live with Imperial Japan, top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting.

Senior operatives and analysts from the intelligence community were almost unanimous in their view that little could be done to stop Japan from dominating the Pacific and conquering China, Korea, French Indochina, New Zealand, and Australia.

Bombing Japan itself was rejected on the grounds that the intelligence needed for successful air strikes was lacking.

"We only have an imperfect understanding of the extent and location of the Japanese," said one source with knowledge of last week's meeting near Washington. "Even if we got the order to blow them up, we wouldn't know how to."

The White House's earlier enthusiasm for military strikes if all else failed has cooled after warnings from the Pentagon and intelligence analysts that the risk-to-reward ratio of taking action is too high. At best, 80 per cent of the targets are mapped out and then only sketchily.

And besides, the Japanese are just too darn inscrutable.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-02 09:29|| 2006-10-02 09:29|| Front Page Top

#12 It should be easy to live with a nuclear Teheran. The prevailing winds are such that very little of the fallout would affect America.

Posted by RWV 2006-10-02 09:42|| 2006-10-02 09:42|| Front Page Top

#13 OK, but there is such a thing as exporting. The prospect of Jihadis getting their hands on even a small nuclear device is to horrible to contemplate. Who needs 'fallout' if you can set of a nuke right here? A nuclear Iran is totally unacceptable. Instead of concluding we must learn to 'live' with it, these so-called analysts should be concentrating on how to stop it.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-02 09:55|| 2006-10-02 09:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds to me like these "intelligence" sources and "Pentagon" sources are saying that they haven't been doing their jobs. Even if it is so, I fail to see how terminating the Iranian leadership and pulverizing all known nuclear and missile targets would not be to our advantage with respect to Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan. It will be interesting to see how things change in a month, after the elections. I welcome an unfettered George Bush.

Posted by Darrell 2006-10-02 10:15|| 2006-10-02 10:15|| Front Page Top

#15 The big question is whether a Nuclear Iran will be willing to live with the US or whether Imanutjob will try to bring about the end of days.

Al

Posted by frozen al">frozen al 2006-10-02 10:28|| 2006-10-02 10:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Iran has already vowed that it would destroy Israel given the chance. They are just waiting for the means to do so.

And ole murdering nutjob is quite willing to bring about the 'End of Days' since it would produce the 12th Iman...

I know it takes a long time but are we doing anything to develop the human intel we so desparately need in Iran?

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-10-02 10:34|| 2006-10-02 10:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Sooo, what is it that you DO here?

Posted by newc">newc 2006-10-02 10:50|| 2006-10-02 10:50|| Front Page Top

#18 And who elected them [and the ~~ponies~~ camels they rode in on] to make such national security decisions?

there, fixed that for ya' #7 gg

btw the answer is 'themselves'

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-02 10:52|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-10-02 10:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Lol. Null is void of specifics.

Posted by .com 2006-10-02 14:39|| 2006-10-02 14:39|| Front Page Top

#20 Stage 1: Pre-emptive strike on all known nuclear processing sites and reactors. Air forces destroyed.

Stage 2: All military site of any sort carpet-bombed into itty-bitty rubble. Ditto government buildings and personal compounds of leaders.

Stage 3: Blockade all ports. Nothing in, nothing out. Civ airliners violating airspace destroyed without warning. Enjoy starvation, assholes.

Stage 4: There is no stage 4. Stages 1-3 seem to take care of the immediate problem.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-10-02 14:45|| 2006-10-02 14:45|| Front Page Top

#21 The big question is whether a Nuclear Iran will be willing to live with the US or whether Imanutjob will try to bring about the end of days.

This is not a viable option, frozen al. Iran's leadership is far too unstable to consider their having possession of nuclear weapons even for a single millisecond.

mojo's order of battle works just fine for me.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-02 16:08|| 2006-10-02 16:08|| Front Page Top

#22 Don't forget taking out their refinary and blocking refined imports. Oh and if you can take out their navy as well so they can't block the stright.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-10-02 18:46|| 2006-10-02 18:46|| Front Page Top

#23 I prefer a good proctologist to an anal-st

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-02 23:21|| 2006-10-02 23:21|| Front Page Top

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