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2005-08-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's revolution is in its infancy - but it may have just found its Stalin

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Posted by DanNY 2005-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Telegraph makes the mistake thinking that we would allow this to become a protracted war. (I don't think they understand our revolution isn't over either, it is renewed every generation.) We can react in much more suddenly, violently, harshly and brutally than anyone outside of ourselves can even fathom. We will not try and pacify Iran. Iran is not Iraq, after 20 plus years of "death to America" well will utterly destroy Iraq, there will be no Marshal plan, there will be no making our former enemies friends, there will be no Iran to make 'friends" with. This is totally outside of the UN's abilities to deal with. Our military is spread too thin for us to even consider going toe to toe with Iran without a New conscript army and long military build up. That will not happen. I can only suggest that all other nations stay out of our way when I comes time for the rubber to meet the road.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-14 01:35|| 2005-08-14 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Boy oh boy, preview is your friend. Never mind.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-14 02:20|| 2005-08-14 02:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Sock Puppet 0â Doom
Maybe you should wait for the results of the 2008 elections before commiting yourself?

Posted by gromgoru 2005-08-14 09:19|| 2005-08-14 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The 2008 elections will possibly be too late. The MMs are gearing up their push for nukes. The US is spread thin in the military dept. The EUniks are a paper tiger, and Iranian MMs HAVE to get the US out of Iraq for their own survival. The MMs are seizing on the opportunity because the have to for survival of their system. It also helps to be crazy.

These are the givens, how we deal with the threat is the issue. The threat will not go away.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-08-14 16:23|| 2005-08-14 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The 2008 election will be to late. Anyone with a reasonably functional brain knows that our intelligence on Iran is sparse. Making decisions on the assessments of our intelligence agencies as the sole source of information is a huge mistake. This was writ large in Iraq.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-14 19:12|| 2005-08-14 19:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I also believe 2008 will be too late, both because for Iran and NK per se, within a narrow scope dev nukes is truly their only claim to "great power" status, plus Dubya is a man of action and a moralist - Dubya will want written, unbreakable commitments and actions from these nations iff they wish to avoid any US mil action. Since I believe Dubya also knows its the Commmies whom are ultim behind 9-11 and the Radic Islamists, Dubya knows it'll be more dangerous for America to back down from any mil or nuke confrontation with the Islamists, andor ags Russia-China over Radical Islam. No matter the risk to US-Allied forces, Dubya must defeat the Rogues before their LR nuke capabilities get to strong, and the Rogues know this - IOW, unless these regimes can be internally imploded despite their level of anti-US support received from Moscow-Beijing, AMERICA AND AMERICANS MUST BE WILLING TO ACCEPT SOME FORM OF LIMITED NUKE WAR LEVEL OF "ACCEPTABLE [COLLATERAL] CASUALTIES" AGS ITS MILFORS, GOVT., ANDOR CITIES. AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE NO FEAR BECAUSE AMERICA'S ENEMIES NO LONGER CARE ABOUT CO-EXISTENCE OR COMPETITION WITH AMERICA - THEY WANT AMERICA DEFEATED AND DESTROYED! THESE GUYS WANT AMERICA'S HEAD, BE IT THEY CUT IT OFF, ANDOR WE AMERICANS DO IT OURSELVES AND GIVE IT TO THEM, BY ANY EACH ALL AND EVERY MEANS NECESSARY!? * The GOP-Right are belabeled and criticized by the DemoLeft as "FASCISTS" - the Clinton-led Dems are both depending on these GOP "FASCISTS" while promo themselves as the PC antithesis to Fascism, which is COMMUNIST SOCIALISM, i.e. COMMUNISM - you know, Lefty SECULAR MORALISM where one doesn't have to believe in God to tell the truth, to say what they truly stand for!? Bill O'Reilly: "... the Panzers of [Left]Liberals/Marxists". The Lefties and Commies believe they can win because they lie to everybody, includ their own, includ to themselves.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-08-14 22:53|| 2005-08-14 22:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Is your caps lock key broken?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-08-14 23:42|| 2005-08-14 23:42|| Front Page Top

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