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2004-12-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bush getting ready to put the screws to Iran!
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-12-08 2:10:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Unfortunately, I think that this is just PR "mumble" for public consumption, and what has been, and is, being executed and planned has long been underway, and is not available for public scruitiny, thankfully.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-12-08 9:21:56 AM||   2004-12-08 9:21:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 A limited U.S. air strike on Iran’s far-flung nuclear facilities would cause worldwide outrage.

The wests worst nightmare, a nuclear middle east under sway of Islamists is coming to pass before our eyes - and worldwide outrage is a concern?
Guess who is on the Islamist target list after Tel Aviv gets smoked?
To parphrase JFK, we need to say that any nuke going off anywhere will be veiwed as an attack on the US by Iran and North Korea.
Back to the days of MAD.
Posted by JerseyMike 2004-12-08 9:26:51 AM||   2004-12-08 9:26:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I take that back to the days of MAD line back, there would be nothing mutual about it.
Posted by JerseyMike 2004-12-08 9:28:21 AM||   2004-12-08 9:28:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 European allies favor diplomacy to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

...should read, "European free riders favor diplomatic smokescreens to curb America's military hegemony."
Posted by lex 2004-12-08 10:10:01 AM||   2004-12-08 10:10:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Screw the "human rights community", they're mostly a bunch of self-satisfied assholes. We have to do more to help tyhe people of Iran...
Posted by mojo  2004-12-08 10:34:29 AM||   2004-12-08 10:34:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 


Iranians try to blend in here with the American populous, but, like the "Blues Bros.", they never forget, "They are on a mission from God"


Allah Akhbar, BABY!
Posted by BigEd 2004-12-08 1:20:35 PM||   2004-12-08 1:20:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Right on, Anonymoose!

I have 2 hopes, being an uninformed non-progressive civilian:

1) The Stae Dept has just now noticed Iran is a country somehwere in the M.E. and thinks that's quite lovely -- and hasn't had / won't have time to interfere or screw anything up.

2) Enough "someones" in the CIA involved with the Iran desk are on the job and we have some working relationships with the Persian people which are (or will be very soon) sufficient to allow us to help them topple / take over from the Mad Mullahs in conjunction with a full-scale decap / de-nuke / de-missile strike.

This situation, all by itself, is Tenet's legacy. No one will remember the "slam dunk" BS he fed Bush if Iran goes nuclear and hits Israel, as Rafsanjani has promised repeatedly.
Posted by .com 2004-12-08 1:47:18 PM||   2004-12-08 1:47:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope they use wood screws.
Posted by Capt America  2004-12-08 6:39:36 PM||   2004-12-08 6:39:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Dubya should work to promo the pro-democracy ideals of regional, historical leaders like ATATURK and others. Our target is the anti-democratic, anti-reform Mullahs and the Radicals, not the people of these societies. Dedicated ISLAMOPHILISTS, like FRANCOPHILISTS, have gotta know under OWG Communism-centric Russia-China will prefer to destroy them than tolerate anti-Communist, anti-MOscow/Beijing Islam - to help siborn and destroy America only means a quicker death for independent Islam, et al. CHIRAC mus be either very stupid or naive, or he's the Euro-equivalent of the anti-American American, Communism/Socialism = Capitalism, Leftism = Rightism, FASCIST = FASCISTA,...........etc. Billary Clinton, an anti-French Frenchman and closet but super-PC traitor and killer of France, the EU, and all democratic Europe!
Posted by JosephMendiola  2004-12-08 9:11:51 PM|| [http://n/a]  2004-12-08 9:11:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 However, with the U.S. military now stretched thin by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the new campaign may be intended not to build support for military action against Iran, but to pressure Iran to change its behavior so military action isn’t necessary.

As long as the mullahs remain in control in Iran, the possibility of inducing the desired behavior change is slim to none. The logical course of action then, is to get the Persian public to do the job themselves, with help from us wherever needed, be it overt or not. GWB, Dr. Rice, and the rest of the administration should know this, and should all be making plans accordingly.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-08 11:33:28 PM||   2004-12-08 11:33:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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