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2006-04-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2006-04-14 16:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Daylight come and we drop the bomb"

Posted by Oztralian 2006-04-14 16:08|| 2006-04-14 16:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Mohamed ElBaradei...The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief must give a report at the end of April on Iranian compliance with the Security Council demand. In Tehran he said that after three years of investigations Iran's activities were "still hazy and not very clear".

If Mo see's his shadow, does that mean six more weeks of winter?

Posted by tu3031 2006-04-14 16:13|| 2006-04-14 16:13|| Front Page Top

#3 This being true, why do they need the weapon?
Build villages so 44,000 people don't die when you have an earthquake.

Posted by plainslow 2006-04-14 16:14|| 2006-04-14 16:14|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, the funny part about this is that many of the dumbshits actually believe what they are saying.

It's like nobody among their leaders ever read Jane's ships or armies of the world.

"Ha ha! We are not frightened of your aircraft carrier!" (What do you mean, they have more than one?)

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-14 16:24|| 2006-04-14 16:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Bush is playing his cards close to his chest. Condi is spouting out the required State pablum. The military is not saying much, and neither is Rummy. Everything is just MSM wild speculation or Iranian bluster.

I would imagine, and it is my fervent hope that most everything is prepositioned and ready to go. The sites will have to be taken out AND the MM regime decapitated. The stakes are too high for Israel (they would lose everything), for us, and like it or not, for the rest of the ME oil consuming nations, INCLUDING the Chicoms.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-04-14 16:31|| 2006-04-14 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 My biggest fear is he is right. Our military can demolish them. But thier people are just canon fodder to them. They would extend it out, and with our press constantely pounding on the reasons for attaching we would back off. It was my biggest fear in the Iraq war, and I'm not convinced we will finnish there.

Posted by plainslow 2006-04-14 16:48|| 2006-04-14 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I have a real hinky feeling about this. I think Show Time is coming up real soon...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-04-14 16:56|| 2006-04-14 16:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Not till after the summer.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-14 16:57|| 2006-04-14 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Hoo-kay.

Thanks for the invite.

Don't mind if we pick the time, doya'? :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-04-14 17:11|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-04-14 17:11|| Front Page Top

#10 My biggest worry: that we'll stomp all over their nuclear toys and set back their plans by a couple of years-- but without taking out the Mad Mullahs.

That would be a horrible mistake.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-04-14 17:14|| 2006-04-14 17:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Goes down after November mid-term elections. Open wide AhMad, bend over and spread em.

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-14 17:18|| 2006-04-14 17:18|| Front Page Top

#12 General Yahya Rahim Safavi, what's your cross-street?

Posted by HammerHead 2006-04-14 17:48|| 2006-04-14 17:48|| Front Page Top

#13 he's already GPS - equipped - they scan for empty frontal lobes

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-14 17:57|| 2006-04-14 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 I think Show Time is coming up real soon...

And I think the US will blow its wad early and nothing will come of it. Cheers.

Posted by Chavirt Thrinelet3532 2006-04-14 18:03|| 2006-04-14 18:03|| Front Page Top

#15 and you also post under a generated name, how courageous! Showtime's ineveitable. Hopefully the Persian/Kurds/etc. people will take the chance to take back the then smouldering hole they call a country

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-14 18:12|| 2006-04-14 18:12|| Front Page Top

#16 you also post under a generated name

There. I used my real name. Happy?

Posted by Granwyth Hulatberi 2006-04-14 18:31|| 2006-04-14 18:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Exactly what you would expect someone named Granwyth Hulatberi to say.

Posted by Snins Jans1496 2006-04-14 18:36|| 2006-04-14 18:36|| Front Page Top

#18 The quoted general seems to assume the US would send in troops rather than simply bomb the snot out of everything we vet as a proper target.

I think any kind of actual invasion is very unlikely. In fact I think, the first strike might be against the Mullahs. We just need assets in country to tell us when, and planes nearby enough to hit when the call comes in.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-04-14 18:37|| 2006-04-14 18:37|| Front Page Top

#19 Exactly what you would expect someone named Granwyth Hulatberi to say.

My parents were mean and had an evil sense of humor.

Posted by Granwyth Hulatberi 2006-04-14 18:46|| 2006-04-14 18:46|| Front Page Top

#20 What's the catch?

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-04-14 18:54|| 2006-04-14 18:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Granwyth Hulatberi? You work for the Yes Men?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-04-14 19:32|| 2006-04-14 19:32|| Front Page Top

#22 WIll say again the RINO, agenda-less, Lefties/Commies-for-Fascism-for-Communism Dems have nuthin' and no one for 2008, and the anti-Bush-GOP MSM and Hollyweird isn't cutting it despite all the PC anti-Bush/America rants and Left-centric Reality- and Alternatism-themed shows. WILL SAY AGAIN THAT ITS HIGHLY DOUBTFUL HILLARY WILL RUN FOR POTUS OR WILL WANT TO BE POTUS AS LONG AS THE VARIOUS ROGUE CRISES REMAIN UNRESOLVED, i.e. aren't over. wid 2-3/4 years left in Dubya's term, IRAN andor NORTH KOREA, to include TAIWAN, will prob be the last Rogues Dubya and his boyz get to effectively deal with - Africa, etal. world states will be left to Dubya's REPUBLICAN successor. NEW 9-11's AND EAST-WEST GEOPOL CONFRONTATION IS ALL THE WEAK-AND GETTIN-WEAKER DEMOLEFT HAVE RIGHT NOW, WID OR WIDOUT THE CLINTONS, and whatever the Dems desire or need to do to forcibly usurp GOP pre-eminence HAS TO OCCUR NOW, NOW LATER, espec iff they expect Hillary to win the Presidency. WITHOUT NEW 9-11's OR EAST-WEST CONFRONTATION OVER IRAN-NORTH KOREA-TAIWAN, ITS DOUBTFUL THAT EVEN GORE, KERRY, OR DEAN, wid Hillary as VEEP?, WILL WIN IN 2008. NOt just new 9-11/s/Amer Hiroshimas, but new 9-11's/Amer Hiroshimas which destroy the credibility, iff not existence, of the GOP and its major candidates as a potent organized force and Party. The DemoLefties for 2008 need catasrophic events which are violent, NPE-minimum casualty-heavy, PC/PDeniable, AND ABOVE ALL SHORT LEAD TIMES TO CAMPAIGN FOR ELEX.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-14 20:27|| 2006-04-14 20:27|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm not sure he's wrong, as mad as his comments make me. Ultimately I'm not sure we have the will for an all out bloody war. What I see is that we have a bunch of fools in this country that don't understand what a military and political achievement it's been for our troops to take control of an entire nation, begin retraining of that nation's military and rebuilding of the country, while being attacked by outside terrorists and rebels from Sadam's regime. We've only had 2367 deaths in that time period and the amount of Iraqi civilian deaths although much higher pales in comparison with past wars. History is going to look back at those figures in awe.

What concerns me is that I don't think we would see the same thing in Iran. We can't just take out the nuke sites. At the very least there would be retaliation and large increase of US casualties in Iraq which would lead to more of our cowardly politicians voting to turn tail and run. I think it could overwhelm Bush at this point in time. It's also possible it would lead to the overthrow of more or less friendly Arab leaders, an attack on Israel and a much wider war then just Iran. Even in the best case scenerio, where our only concern is Iran, it will not be an easy nut to crack. I have no doubt we could obliterate the mullahs and their military, but with the differences in terrain, the amount of money that Iran is pouring into their military, and Iran having been able to observe our military in action and get some idea of how we operate, our casualties would be a lot higher. If people in this country can't handle under 2400 deaths in 3 years how are they going to handle 10 times that amount in a much shorter period of time? All of this doesn't even take into consideration the international response which would not be particularly in our favor.

I do think it's going to have to be done, but I think it's going to take some sort of open action by Iran against Israel, or our forces, or another attack on this country by terrorists before we'll see it and by the time it actually comes to pass it'll be whole lot bloodier then it might have been.

Posted by BillH 2006-04-14 22:58|| 2006-04-14 22:58|| Front Page Top

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