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2008-06-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Commander: Iran's Revolution Guards to counter any attack

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: IRGC

#1 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that 'the Iranian threat must be stopped by all possible means,'

Great. Let's start with your resignation.

Posted by gorb 2008-06-22 03:55|| 2008-06-22 03:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Has the Revolutionary Guard done anything in the last 20 years? Besides roughing up its own citizens I mean? They don't really strike me as a salty, "crack" outfit.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-22 10:07|| 2008-06-22 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 they sure bark loud for a little dog.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-22 11:07|| 2008-06-22 11:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Jafari asserted that Iran's army is able to instantly respond to any act of aggression.

I don't doubt it. The question is resond how? Wetting yourself, for example, is an act of little operational utility.

Posted by SteveS 2008-06-22 11:14|| 2008-06-22 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 The IRGC response will initially be dying in large numbers.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-22 11:43|| 2008-06-22 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Bluster and the Big Lie, and more bluster... there are a number of traits coming out of Iran that mirror the Germans pre-WWII. The difference is that the Iranians aren't actually Germans, so that formidable Teutonic nature is replaced by......(clue, they fought the Iraqi Army to a draw through the use of suicide troops)
Imagine how that would work on an actually competent military like the Israeli's or the USMC.
Call their bluff, look them dead in they eyes and call BS. Reagan did it and they folded like the clowns they really are.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2008-06-22 12:43|| 2008-06-22 12:43|| Front Page Top

#7 they fought the Iraqi Army to a draw through the use of suicide troops

Do I remember correctly that many of those suicide "troops" were children that they had duped into suicide missions by hanging a plastic "key to gates of paradise" around their necks?

Posted by gorb 2008-06-22 14:43|| 2008-06-22 14:43|| Front Page Top

#8 The plastic "keys to paradise" was Ahmadinejad's idea. Goes to show what special type of evil he is to send 12 years to certain death. And our government is going to let him get access to hundreds of nuclear weapons.

Posted by ed 2008-06-22 15:41|| 2008-06-22 15:41|| Front Page Top

#9 TOPIX > WILL WASHINGTON BOMB IRAN?; + REGIME CHANGE IN AMERICA:IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN AND ASIA [Mccain-Obama]. MCCAIN POTUS ADMIN viewed as more problematic for Japan, i.e. is believes to prefer RUSSIA over CHINA [read- dislikes Asians] + expected to continue WAR IN IRAQ, + must undoubtedly make a MAJOR DECISION ON HOW TO HANDLE IRAN AT SAME TIME THAT IRAN CONTINS WID ITS NUCPROGS. However, any feasible, anticipated actions of a future Mccain POTUS Admin should NOT mean that JAPAN-ASIA should automatically support a POTUS Barack Obama.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-22 22:50|| 2008-06-22 22:50|| Front Page Top

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