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2007-05-13 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Saudis sponsor covert action against Iran?

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Posted by ryuge 2007-05-13 07:22|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 This has been thought out for a while.

Go here http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/bg1982.cfm

for the most lucid policy analysis of taking on Iran and their so-called "oil weapon". Bush isn't running again and he is probably getting more immune to public opinion - so why not set the temperature a little higher and boil out these turds.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-05-13 09:26|| 2007-05-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 $300M isn't enough. It just shows that the Saudis want to pester Iran, not destabilize it enough for political change. If they were willing to kick in $3B, they would see some real fireworks.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-13 10:02|| 2007-05-13 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Where is Charlie Wilson when you need him?

Posted by Sherebmanper Scourge of the Platypi1150">Sherebmanper Scourge of the Platypi1150 2007-05-13 11:16|| 2007-05-13 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 It is being paid by Saudi Arabia and other concerned Gulf states, for whom the combination of a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq and a nuclear-armed Iran means trouble.

However, the dhemmirats are too busy trying to get elected to be concerned with Iraq. They are persuing the usual MO by declaring defeat and going home. There is no moralty left in the dhemmirat party. Co-conspirators, the left-wing media is eventually going to screw themselves.

If the dhemmirats forced a pull out, as they are trying, they would then own the "ugly baby." They are playing to the far left in the party (which so far as I can tell is most of the party). Any pullout would only embolden our enemies abroad and those sleepers that are in the U.S. Our credibility would be worth less than whale shit for decades to come.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-13 11:26|| 2007-05-13 11:26|| Front Page Top

#5 there is nothing to be trusted here. Recent undertones suggest this could be a source of much duplicity...on guard for dominoes betrayed.

Posted by Spiny Gl 2511 2007-05-13 16:58|| 2007-05-13 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, and did anyone notice that the USS Eisenhower has been relieved of duty by Nimitz and is headed back home? All that talk by the Russians of an imminent attack by three US carrier groups was bunkola.

Posted by Spats Elminemp1591 2007-05-13 19:53|| 2007-05-13 19:53|| Front Page Top

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