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2008-06-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers

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Posted by Frank G 2008-06-29 17:36|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Enough fox holes in each province for an entire division. No Thanks. We prefer to dig our own emplacements.

Posted by GK 2008-06-29 18:04|| 2008-06-29 18:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Good idea. At least some of the many unemployed Iranians will be given something to do, for which they'll be paid... and get to spend all day outside in the fresh air and sunshine, building up their bodies.

Posted by trailing wife in Lackawanna 2008-06-29 18:10|| 2008-06-29 18:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I sincerely doubt we'd bother sending in ground troops, except perhaps to mop up afterwards.

One does wonder whether General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh really believes the scenario he paints. Good try with invoking Vietnam, but that meme is already pretty depleted via Iraq. I give it maybe a 2 out of 10 .....

Posted by lotp 2008-06-29 18:11|| 2008-06-29 18:11|| Front Page Top

#4 tw, I love the PT angle. LOL

Posted by lotp 2008-06-29 18:12|| 2008-06-29 18:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, what this would say is that Iran must be preparing to start something that they fear will cause an invasion of some sort. But in any case, if we were to send troops in there, I don't think the Iranians would have enough infrastructure left to do any kind of organized burial.

If they were going to bury invading troops, they would be digging the graves in the interior, not along the border. Digging graves in border provinces would tend to argue more for preparations for an Iranian invasion of Iraq than one coming from our side.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-29 19:31|| 2008-06-29 19:31|| Front Page Top

#6 "Iran is to dig 320,000 graves"

Iran seems to be digging itself a pretty big hole.

Posted by Bin thinking again 2008-06-29 19:53|| 2008-06-29 19:53|| Front Page Top

#7 We'll only kill that many if they don't surrender. Personally, I think once the 60,000 core fanatics are red mist, the rest will not be so inclined to follow them.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-29 20:13|| 2008-06-29 20:13|| Front Page Top

#8 ABSOLUTELY NO "nation-building" in Iran. We destroy their military, transportation infrastructure, and nuclear capability, mine their ports, and let them ROT. If they try to do anything to block the Straits of Hormuz, then we'll dig a canal through Oman and the UAE, while turning Bandar Abbas and the cliffs around it into industrial-use glass.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-06-29 20:27|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-29 20:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Persian way is deception. They talk nuke but I am betting viral.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-29 20:34|| 2008-06-29 20:34|| Front Page Top

#10 What's next - they go all Albanian and use the holes as foundations for toadstool shaped concrete bunkers?

Posted by Cleaque Sproing2285 2008-06-29 21:06|| 2008-06-29 21:06|| Front Page Top

#11 2008-2012 > IRAN's STRAT PRIORITY is to try and de facto nuclearize and weaponize, PREFERABLY NOT TO ENGGAE IN ANY TYPE OF TOTAL/NATIONWIDE WAR AGZ ISRAEL LET ALONE THE USA. The Militants-Terrs are another matter as many Cells-Groups remain capable of INDEPENDENT ACTION.

To protect NUCLEARIZING IRAN + even PAKIS, etal. THE MILITANTS-TERRS WILL LIKELY HAVE TO CONTIN ENGAGING IN TERROPS AGZ ISRAEL + "MODERATES", + AFGHANI-PAKIS INSURGENT ACTIONS, + ELSEWHERE TO
OFFSET ISRAELI + US, ETC MILTECH SUPERIORITY +
KEEP ISRAEL-US MIL PREOCCUPIED/CONTAINED ANDOR AT BAY [POTUS Obama? = US Withdrawal?]???

IMO Israel must know and be aware of the above - ideally, the best time for any anti-NUCLEAR IRAN CONFLICT is NOW THRU 2010. "ONE YEAR" > The longer after JAN 2009 or Year 2010, the greater the risk that Iran's nucweapsdev WON'T be completely precluded or destroyed, + escalatory lack of political will over time. IOW, AFTER 2010 EVEN IFF IRAN IS MIL DEFEATED AND OCCUPIED > NO WAY TO VERIFY THE LEVEL OF NUCTECH TRANSFER TO THE MILITANTS-TERROR CELLS + GROUPS.

IOW, 2008-2010 > EITHER ISRAEL MIL PREEMPTS ASAP < ONE YEAR [Summer 2009], OR THE MILITANTS-TERRS DO SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC TO INDUCE A UNILATER ISRAEL ANDOR US MIL RESPONSE AGZ IRAN.

* ISRAEL JOINING NATO + BASING USGMD-TMD INSIDE ISRAEL > NO WAR??? 2008-2010 > STILL LEAVES NUCLEAR IRAN ERGO STILL LEAVES NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORORISM ERGO NUCLEAR JIHAD???

More concisely, NUCLEAR IRAN [Islamist Bloc] + NON-IRANIAN CONTROLLED INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM.

And now you know, VIRGINIA, why the US DEMS may criticize Dubya for his handling of Iran + Iraq-WOT, and ditto criticize MCCAIN for being pro-Dubya = "Warmonger/Lover", WHILE SIMUL SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH DESIRING DUBYA OR A POTUS MCCAIN TO DE FACTO ATTACK IRAN.

It is GEOPOL CONUNDRUMS like these that show why A MILITARY DRAFT OR EXPANSATORY US MILFORS LEVELS are better even though we all know the Lefties and Govtists will domestically exploit the former to their ideo's advantage.

"REVOLT OF THE GENERALS/ADMIRALS" > better to have a DRAFT ARMY BEFORE A NUCLEAR WAR = NUCLEAR TERROR EVENT(S), NOT AFTERWARDS AS PER UNKNOWN FACTORS. Better to have TOO MUCH and redux after victory, than to have TOO LITTLE AND BE TOO WEAK TO EFFEC RESPOND/RECOVER VV THE UNKNOWN. MORE DIFFICULT TO TAKE DOWN A HEAVY OBESE PERSON THAN A PAPER-THIN ONE e.g. "BIGGER IS BETTER" mil adage.

* ACHILLLES To AGAMMEMNON IN "TROY" > BE CAREFUL, KING, TO "WIN AN EMPIRE" YOU MUST "WIN" FIRST.

versus:

ODYSEUSS > YOU KNOW WE CAN'T DEFEAT PRIAM, HECTOR, AND THE TROJANS WIDOUT ACHILLES. WITHOUT ACHILLES, WE ARE JUST SENDING OUR OWN MEN TO THEIR DESTRUCTION WITH NO HOPE OF VICTORY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-29 21:07|| 2008-06-29 21:07|| Front Page Top

#12 If your postings would become coherent, I might actually read one.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-29 21:10|| 2008-06-29 21:10|| Front Page Top

#13 If Israel takes out Iran in the fall... what happens to the nukes in Pakiwakiland? Will they, somehow, fall from Khan's loving hands to Osama's?

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-29 21:37|| 2008-06-29 21:37|| Front Page Top

#14 INTERFAX > BOLTON: NATO SHOULD ADMIT UKRAINE, GEORGIA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, AND ISRAEL; + IRAN SAYS BUSHESHR NPP WILL BE UP AND RUNNING IN ORCTOBER [2008].

Also from INTERFAX > RUSSIA, UKRAINE READY TO ENRICH URANIUM + AZERI ARMY TROOPS READY TO LIBERATE OCCUPIED TERRITORY.

*KOMMERSANT > UKRAINE WANTS TO MOVE [unilater] [Russian]BLACK SEA FLEET TO SYRIA.

* REGNUM > ANALYSIS: WAR IN TRANSCAUCASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA [Multi-Region/Areas + predomin or heavily Muslim]. Russia facing perceived US-Western led wilful anti-Russ separation from former southern SSR's [Muslim], + growing Iranian influence in same.

* TOPIX > ARMENIA IN THE IRAN, KURD ISLAMIC CROSSFIRE + ISLAMISM: RUSSIA AND ASIA UNDR SIEGE.

Gaaawd, its Raining and a Monday to boot.

Again, from North Africa to the ME + Asia, many Third World including Muslim nations are desirous to dev their own national nucprogs.

All things equal, IRAN + MILITANTS-TERR > MUST SEE LT ODDS OF PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION + WEAPNZ IS IN THEIR FAVOR, vv MUSLIM-SPECIFIC NATION(S) OR NOT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-29 22:48|| 2008-06-29 22:48|| Front Page Top

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