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2006-08-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran Just Feels Insecure, Big Hug Needed and It's Bush's Fault

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Posted by Threatch Unons6270 2006-08-27 07:49|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I haven't been following it, but I imagine Time's circulation numbers have been falling, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-27 09:37|| 2006-08-27 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Big time IIRC.

Posted by lotp 2006-08-27 09:42|| 2006-08-27 09:42|| Front Page Top

#3 What a void of common sense. Although Sunnis and Shiites do unify at times, currently the House of Saud views Iran as its mortal enemy. There is a Shiite majority among all the Persian Gulf oilfields. And the Kurdistan fields are subject to Shiite encirclement. Yesterday, Iran launched a long range missile from a submarine. With US forces out of Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf effectively an Iranian sea, the only thing stopping a total takeover is Iran's lack of technology to hold - versus take - these strategic oil fields.

I would hope that President Bush would not indulge circumstances conducive to a future ICBM threat to the American Homeland. In any case, if Ahmadinejad is still in power by the end of September, he will force Shiite-Sunni unification against Israel. Thousands of accurate missiles will surround Israel, and monopoly oil levers will be applied.

Adding insult to injury, on September 8, Iranian Ayatollah Khatami - permanent puppet to the Guardian Council and temporary mouthpiece of sham Parliamentary reformers - will speak in the National Cathedral of Washington. That is debasing, given the President's speech of Sept. 14, 2001:

"Just three days removed from these events, Americans do not yet have the distance of history. But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing..."

Hopefully, that "hour" will be before the end of September.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-27 10:16|| 2006-08-27 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 a joint news report by Time, Newsweak. What? the NYT couldn't participate? Stocks drop along with credibility. Ask the LA Times, NYT, et al

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-27 10:29|| 2006-08-27 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Superior inlinery.

Posted by 6 2006-08-27 10:35|| 2006-08-27 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Would someone please explain to me the sorts of security concerns that a secular Iran would have --

a) if it gave up sponsoring terrorism?
b) if it gave up persecuting its own people?
c) with Saddam in jug?

There's no other regional power that's going to tangle with them. A democratic, secular Iran would zoom forward economically and wouldn't be challenged by any other military power in the Gulf.

So why do they need a security assurance? Oh right, they're NOT democratic, they DO persecute their own people, and they DO sponsor terrorism around the world.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-08-27 16:24|| 2006-08-27 16:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Iran's intransigence is both deeply unfortunate and perfectly predictable.

If "Iran's intransigence" is so "perfectly predictable" why waste time speculating on how to appease this rogue regime?

... inadequate economic carrots ...

No amount of carrots will work with a regime that abuses the negotiating process to merely buy more time in circumventing possible military intervention against their illicit pursuits.

Iran requires a policy of ALL STICK AND NO CARROT

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-27 17:47|| 2006-08-27 17:47|| Front Page Top

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