Iran

[konj]

OK, show of hands: Who wants to pay $6 or more per gallon of gas? Anyone...?

Keep in mind there are tens of thousands of Americans, Canadians, British, Australians and other expats living in the Gulf area with their families and quite a few children. I don't think they would be happy to see a mushroom cloud over in Iran.

I am renting a place on the Gulf coast approximately 140 miles across from the Iranian shore. I guess it is too close for comfort. All we can do is ship our families out before the strike and possibly evacuate ourselves later if the worst comes to worst. This is not the first time after all.

In 2003, we kind of had a feeling that US would attack Iraq sometime in March as embassies were going crazy sending out “get the hell out” alerts throughout February.

[Crazyfingers]

Iran

Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

Final destination Iran?

[Starving Steve]

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This is the best news I have read all day. Mr. Arminishod's days may be numbered.

I hope they use a 20 kilotonne conventional device on Iran. I hear that it even comes with a mushroom cloud, once detonated. (I'd love to see it.)

[LargoWinch]

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This is the best news I have read all day. Mr. Arminishod's days may be numbered.

I hope they use a 20 kilotonne conventional device on Iran. I hear that it even comes with a mushroom cloud, once detonated. (I'd love to see it.)

What are you talking about SS?

Why would attacking Iran can possibly be a good thing? :confused: That is unless you are being sarcastic.

[Starving Steve]

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A few 20 kilo-tonne bunker-busters to destroy Iran's nukes would be a good start. Maybe the odd bunker-buster onto govn't office buildings in Tehran, and Mr. Arminishod would be finished. His regime would be in smoking ruins.

In other words, it is time for the US and the world to call Iran's bluff.

President Bush Sr. showed the world what American air-power could do to Iraq. Why not do it again, this time with Iran?

One day of absolute round-the-clock bombing, and the game would be over for Iran. They would have nothing left but their prayer rugs, and the Middle East would have peace and security.... The dollar would benefit too because it would be backed by imperial might and the willingness of America to use that imperial might.

"Peace through strength." "One dollar payable in air-power on demand." "Hang 'em high."

[D-Mack]

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That was a war council in Damascus

• Last Updated: February 28. 2010 11:13PM UAE / February 28. 2010 7:13PM GMT

The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi.

“The timing of the meeting, the way it was undertaken and the ensuing press conference that was held at its conclusion, all point to a strategic coalition being reinforced. This is the build-up of a new front that will spearhead the confrontation with the US-Israeli alliance and whichever Arab countries that may, expressly or implicitly, be affiliated with it.”


The Iranian president said he expects war to break out somewhere between spring and summer of this year. Meanwhile, the Hizbollah chief vowed to strike the Israeli capital, its airports and power stations if Israel dared to attack Beirut’s critical infrastructure.

...

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs....702289930/1006

still a bit of time if Ahmadinejad is right.

[FrankL]

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A few 20 kilo-tonne bunker-busters to destroy Iran's nukes would be a good start. Maybe the odd bunker-buster onto govn't office buildings in Tehran, and Mr. Arminishod would be finished. His regime would be in smoking ruins.

In other words, it is time for the US and the world to call Iran's bluff.

President Bush Sr. showed the world what American air-power could do to Iraq. Why not do it again, this time with Iran?

One day of absolute round-the-clock bombing, and the game would be over for Iran. They would have nothing left but their prayer rugs, and the Middle East would have peace and security.... The dollar would benefit too because it would be backed by imperial might and the willingness of America to use that imperial might.

"Peace through strength." "One dollar payable in air-power on demand." "Hang 'em high."

The cynical part is that the only way for Iran to prevent the military form of imperial US politics affecting them is exactly to develop a nuclear deterrent.

So they need to get bombed because they don't want to get bombed in the first place? Sounds like a loop of some sorts.

[c1ue]

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A few 20 kilo-tonne bunker-busters to destroy Iran's nukes would be a good start. Maybe the odd bunker-buster onto govn't office buildings in Tehran, and Mr. Arminishod would be finished. His regime would be in smoking ruins.

And right after that, the SCUDs start dropping in Saudi Arabian oil fields.

And the SS-xx missiles start hitting tankers.

The good news: the US will pull out of Afghanistan.

The bad news: the US will put all those freed up troops (and more) right back into Iraq as the jihad begins again.

Those who think Ahmedinejad and his clerical backing are a precariously balanced, unpopular regime are quite wrong.

[thunderdownunder]

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Well well well - three holes in an argument
Iran is a sovereign state, a moderate state
Iran has wonderful educated populace who have a big voice.
Iran has a right to live in peace and has Never attacked anyone

Steve I highly respect you but on this, you are wrong. This would be a distraction from the corpse rotting elsewhere. They are Innocent on all charges - oh yeah hows that working out in Iraq - got fucked over for nothing found of WoMD as Iran will be - War of any sort hurts. mothers cry over innocent deaths, wives lose husbands and children they love/ husbands lose wives and children they love. Collateral damage my ass. They are people just like you - who love, eat, copulate, kiss, pray, do good deeds, hope, cry, suffer, plan, fail, try, learn, read, laugh, lie, cheat, give and forgive, breathe, bleed and shit - traits you and I share.
Bully Boy nations - small dicks and smaller minds in tall, big muscled bodies just piss me off
I had the "pleasure" in 2006 to see the effects of a conventional 10,000 pound bomb(bunker buster) dropped from a plane to bombing range ground near Nellis AF base in Nevada. At 3 miles distance it made the mountains shed dust and my teeth and bones rattle. It was frightening ,I mean Bowel loosening ,frightening. After that I came to the conclusion that the first country that used a Nuke on another would be a pariah in the World for hundreds of years. Ergo(cogito ergo sum) they are worthless in offence and even less so, in defense.
Talk is cheap - In reality - Really Really Really Cheap if you get my drift. Further to my castigation of your Gung ho approach, I submit that if you want Iran to 'toe the line', the bully boy's only have to ask as an Equal and it would be done. The most amazing things happen when the strong ask for help from the weak and elevate them to the status of equal peers.
I miss Lukester and JF Kennedy - both assassinated for speaking truths
PS: we have our own problems down here - Katrina was a pussy compared to this twisting 2000klm(1500 mile wide) monster - 200 m/hr winds @ 35 nm out from center
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohe...hirgmscol.html - the worse hurricane (we call em cyclones) in 100 years
I live near the island that pokes out and it is expected to hit at-------------the Island (Fraser Island)
http://forecasts.bsch.au.com/stormca..._850#stormcast
currently rated higher than Beaufort scale which goes to 12+ or on another scale
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2/r...e/adt/20PP.GIF - is near the most dangerous ever imagined
convert knots to Miles / Hr @ whats shown as average wind speed - the gusts can be 60% higher
Please pray it fucks off or many are going to suffer- badly

[DToM67]

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A few 20 kilo-tonne bunker-busters to destroy Iran's nukes would be a good start. Maybe the odd bunker-buster onto govn't office buildings in Tehran, and Mr. Arminishod would be finished. His regime would be in smoking ruins.

In other words, it is time for the US and the world to call Iran's bluff.

President Bush Sr. showed the world what American air-power could do to Iraq. Why not do it again, this time with Iran?

One day of absolute round-the-clock bombing, and the game would be over for Iran. They would have nothing left but their prayer rugs, and the Middle East would have peace and security.... The dollar would benefit too because it would be backed by imperial might and the willingness of America to use that imperial might.

"Peace through strength." "One dollar payable in air-power on demand." "Hang 'em high."

Peace through strength? Orwellian bullshit!

Ignorance. Hubris. Delusional.

We again visit one of those WTF? moments with SS. Perhaps only a choice pot-smoker comment is missing?

[KGW]

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You receive what you give. . .And in a most direct way, for the recipient and the giver are not two. Some people never realize this.

[cmalbatros]

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I see this as a US response to China buying less Treasury bills as China gets a lot of its oil from Iran and also Irans willingness to sell it for anything but US dollars.

[GRG55]

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And right after that, the SCUDs start dropping in Saudi Arabian oil fields.

And the SS-xx missiles start hitting tankers.

The good news: the US will pull out of Afghanistan.

The bad news: the US will put all those freed up troops (and more) right back into Iraq as the jihad begins again.

Those who think Ahmedinejad and his clerical backing are a precariously balanced, unpopular regime are quite wrong.

Tehran is more likely to target Tel Aviv than Saudi Arabia.* And a few years ago, when I was living in the region, I remember US military analysts publicly expressing surprise [alarm?] at the capabilities of Iran's Chinese supplied surface-to-ship missile capability after monitoring an extensive Iranian military exercise.

The regime is deeply unpopular [this goes back a decade at least], and has evolved into a quasi military junta/police state to maintain public order...and to further the economic benefits to the Republican Guard of a grossly corrupted economy. Nevertheless, if Iran is threatened or attacked, the Iranian people will close ranks behind their government, however unpopular it may be domestically.

* Iran will need Saudi Arabia to broker any sort of dialogue with the USA in the event of a conflict, and Saudi King Abdulla has repeatedly refused to support any sort of military action against Iran by the USA or Israel.

[sishya]

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I miss Lukester and JF Kennedy - both assassinated for speaking truths

True : "Lukester" and "Symbols" were hated in this forum only because they had a different view and would not join the Party Line.

[Ponce]

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In many ways the Middle East of yesterday is not the Middle East of today, why do you think that the Zionist state of Israel is waiting for the US support?

More of our boys, and girls, will give their live for the state of Israel for nothing........Iran is of no danger to anyone and as far as I know their army has been active only for defence purposes and not like the state of Israel that keeps on flexing their muscles by attacking others.

Any attack on Iran will open the doors for WWIII....... :mad: