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2005-10-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran nuclear videogame too close for comfort

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-25 07:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Juche This" and "Saud Smackdown" mods are in production.

Posted by HaliburtonRatExterminationDivision 2005-10-25 08:17|| 2005-10-25 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 To mooselimbs, satan is a seducer. This is why the MMs call the US the "Great Satan" - because our culture seduces the yoots away from allan. This game is a great example.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-10-25 08:29|| 2005-10-25 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 WHAT ARE YOOTS?? As in " Your Honor,deez 2 yoots!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-10-25 08:55|| 2005-10-25 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Feeling nervous Iran? Gee, I wonder why?

No, that isn't a special forces team over there. Really.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-10-25 11:25|| 2005-10-25 11:25|| Front Page Top

#5 It took me a while, but I finally realized that yoots = youths. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-25 12:25|| 2005-10-25 12:25|| Front Page Top

#6 payback will likely come from the sky, MM's, to avoid the boots on the ground....heads up?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-25 12:26|| 2005-10-25 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Article: Iran has been prickly about the idea of U.S. special forces lurking around inside the Islamic Republic since U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh said in the New Yorker this year that U.S. "Black Ops" had ventured across Iran's borders.

If Hersch said it, I think the Iranians are safe in assuming that it never happened. It would stand to reason, too. What US decisionmaker would take the risk of having one of these guys captured?* Unlike in the movies, these guys don't bite down on cyanide capsules to avoid being captured alive, and they're certainly not expendable to any politician who doesn't want to be impeached.

* Far safer to recruit Iranians to carry out any reconnaisance.

Posted by Elmenter Snineque1852 2005-10-25 12:52|| 2005-10-25 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd be willing to help develope the "Nuclear pre-emptive strike" module.

Posted by Uliling Sninenter7365 2005-10-25 12:58|| 2005-10-25 12:58|| Front Page Top

#9 A commenter on this story over at Brothers Judd had a good idea:

If we had a competent CIA, they would know the exact floorplans for the Iranian facilities, and incorporate them into the game. The mullahs would be freaked out by how well we knew their secrets and any possible anti-regime elements would have a nice how-to guide...

Posted by Mike 2005-10-25 18:30|| 2005-10-25 18:30|| Front Page Top

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