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2007-06-25 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-06-25 20:03|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: IRGC

#1 Shoot their copters down, cut them off! Don't allow any return! Shoot them all like rabid dogs!

At least that, damn.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-25 20:18|| 2007-06-25 20:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Now we know why the third Carrier Group is 'speeding' to the area. If we hear of a rumored 4th group movement to the Theater, grab the popcorn...It's ON!!

Posted by smn 2007-06-25 20:29|| 2007-06-25 20:29|| Front Page Top

#3 yeah we been hearing it's on for too long, let armidewhatshis name take his pkace as a human shield first

Posted by sinse 2007-06-25 20:30|| 2007-06-25 20:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Why would they have to come in. I thought "we've lost" Ask Harry.

Posted by plainslow 2007-06-25 20:33|| 2007-06-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Two points. First of all, the Iranians are probably doing recce into Iraq in hopes of probing defenses, and generally seeing what they can get away with. It might be to our advantage to let these small groups enter and leave, assuming they do little harm, to advise their command that the front is wide open for invasion.

Assuming, of course, that if too large an element enters Iraq, we can swat it like a fly. Gives us magnificent causus belli.

The other point is that the fourth carrier group is planned for the region, but is intended to stay in the Red Sea, watching the back of the other three groups from attacks coming from the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. It can help also insure that friendly ships passing through the Suez Canal are not molested.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-25 21:05|| 2007-06-25 21:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I have long considered it one of Iran's tactical goals to make a quick incursion into southern Iraq, with the idea that the Iraqi Shiites will support their invasion. They also figure that it will tie down the US divisions in Iraq, so that they cannot attack Iran.

Their primary target would be to occupy Basra, to control Iraq's oil resources, but I would not put it past them to even think they could occupy Najaf.

Typically, they would try to use the Iraqi inhabitants as shields, seeing them as expendable. They would also expect a significant fifth column to rise up and create chaos through the region and in Baghdad.

The Iranian army on the northern border would be in a defensive posture.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-25 21:38|| 2007-06-25 21:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Lure them, trap them and kill them. See Sitting Bull for directions. I'm not sure why the Iranian navy was allowed to snatch British personnel out of Iraqi waters. The answer is to kill a bunch of them. How can the Iranians complain?

Posted by Super Hose 2007-06-25 21:38|| 2007-06-25 21:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Even better is if actually Iraqi forces make pink sand with the next batch of geraniums.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-06-25 22:13|| 2007-06-25 22:13|| Front Page Top

#9 lost vacation party?

Posted by Grampaw Jeng4631 2007-06-25 22:18|| 2007-06-25 22:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think our current Congress would view a direct ICBM attack on DC as causus belli

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-06-25 23:08|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-06-25 23:08|| Front Page Top

#11 any other confirming reports from other sources?

Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-25 23:08|| 2007-06-25 23:08|| Front Page Top

#12 What would be the purpose of the probe?

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-25 23:11|| 2007-06-25 23:11|| Front Page Top

#13 The purpose of the probe is to gain confidence and experience. Why do you think they are attacking the British in the south? Not only is the population sympathetic to Iran, due to tribal roots, but the British have proven themselves to be incapable of fighting back. If I was the Iraqi theater commander, I would order the probe crushed and the dropping of bodies with notes attached to them in Persian warning them if they tried such nonsense again, we would drop the bodies over Tehran and after 24 hours the bombing of Iran would start.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-25 23:16|| 2007-06-25 23:16|| Front Page Top

#14 If they do invade then the question becomes...

Will our political leaders fight? or Run?

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-06-25 23:47|| 2007-06-25 23:47|| Front Page Top

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