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2008-06-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian Military Force 100% Action - seems they think they are ready to take us on.

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Posted by 3dc 2008-06-01 14:26|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Cool music. That alone will defeat the Infidels. But isn't cool music unislamic? I guess you get a pass if you have weapons.

Posted by gorb 2008-06-01 14:46|| 2008-06-01 14:46|| Front Page Top

#2 nice array of marginal assets which would be lost in the first hour of conflict with the US

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-01 14:55|| 2008-06-01 14:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Throughout the ME they are in denial about the US military. Even the Iranians, whose cities have been rattled by the vibrations from B-52 strikes across the border in Iraq, just don't get it.

In retrospect, I wonder if for years now, we shouldn't have been broadcasting what they would call propaganda, but is just the truth. We could show them, the typical Iranian and the expert, how pitiful their forces are compared to ours.

We could compare and contrast, US, Russia, China, even the EU, with Iran. We could show them game films from Gulf War I and II.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-01 16:19|| 2008-06-01 16:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Just an extension of primitive warfare. Puffing oneself up, posturing, to cow an opponent. Unfortunately for the practitioners, it's fatal when dealing with someone who operates in modern warfare, which is approached pretty much on the lines of a cold practical engineering exercise. There's no doubt that the word has gotten across the border, just by the examination of behaviors of the players already in the game, that to take the Americans head on is certain death. That the Americans are badass, made all the so by un-Geneva Convention behavior of all its opponents.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-01 17:07|| 2008-06-01 17:07|| Front Page Top

#5 What Prokopius2k said. Definitely a Middle Eastern cultural thingy. The Arabs carry on like that before attacking Israel, too, and then to their bewilderment lose, because they believed every word they invented. Honestly, Anonymoose, I don't think broadcasting real information can help them discern reality, because it's only real to them when they've been conquered. Sending in more squirrel spies might help, though. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-01 17:43|| 2008-06-01 17:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry, Procopius2k. Clearly, I'm confused by the complicated spelling of your nym today.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-01 17:44|| 2008-06-01 17:44|| Front Page Top

#7 The Mississippi National Guard could take out that bunch of rabble in a weekend.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-06-01 18:03|| 2008-06-01 18:03|| Front Page Top

#8 tw: I think that the Iranians as a group have a heck of a lot more brains than the Arabs. Their problem is a lot more ignorance than stupidity. The typical educated Iranian-on-the-street just doesn't grasp that nukes are anything more than a big bomb.

This is why such a broadcast channel as I suggested should have also been heavy with nuclear nightmare films of all varieties.

The irony is that we do have a satellite channel being broadcast to Iran, but it is mostly dissidents and arguers, which is not terribly persuasive.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-01 18:04|| 2008-06-01 18:04|| Front Page Top

#9 They have absolutely no chance against Gods Army.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-06-01 18:40|| 2008-06-01 18:40|| Front Page Top

#10 What they do have, is an abundance of patience. To win, all they have to do is wait through 4 years of an Obama administration, and we won't have any army or nukes, or bombs, probably not any guns. His policy is to decimate the greatest fighting force on this planet.

Posted by Sherry 2008-06-01 19:03|| 2008-06-01 19:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Compare wid TOPIX > NUCLEAR SYRIA, WHY NOT?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-01 22:24|| 2008-06-01 22:24|| Front Page Top

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