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2007-01-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Treasury terror official plans Iran announcement

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-08 19:16|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 :-) the Kim treatment. Expect seething

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 19:20|| 2007-01-08 19:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems to have worked really well with Norks.

Posted by phil_b 2007-01-08 20:08|| 2007-01-08 20:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Based on recent speculations, comments + articles on the Net zabout Radical Islam's links wid world Mafias or "Mafia-style" activities/orgs, dare to find the new "RFK vs MAFIA" which led to DALLAS = AMER HIROSHIMA(S) agz Dubya??? Iff the 12th Imam/Mahdi does NOT "appear" this Spring, Moud + Mullahs will likely suffer deep humiliation and ideo-political discreditment - Radical Iran must give up its support for Terror, OR ATTACK.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-08 20:28|| 2007-01-08 20:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting how a plan comes together, huh?

1) Squeeze the Iranians financially. They have lots of money but there's all sorts of things we do can around the edges to make life uncomfortable.

2) Squeeze their oil industry. Financing for new projects and infrastructure, spare parts, maintenance (insha'llan!), key imports. We can meddle with all of that.

3) Squeeze them politically/ diplomatically. Harder to do with friends [cough] like the Euros, IAEA and UN, but we can make life harder for them.

4) Squeeze them in their internal public opinion. The Mad Mullahs aren't well loved, and we ought to be working that quietly, continuously. Expect setbacks, keep going forward.

5) Rattle the saber. Is that a carrier air battle group over there? No, it's two carrier air battle groups! Gorsh, whatever could they be doing?

Bush could conceivably have his cake and eat it too -- depose the Mad Mullahs without bombing/invasion. Wouldn't that be sweet?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-01-08 20:34|| 2007-01-08 20:34|| Front Page Top

#5 "whatever could they be doing?" Lol!

Deposing the Mullahs without bombing would be much then less fun than deposing them via bombing. Plus, Bush gets 30 days before he needs Congressional consent. If done right, a lot could be done in that time frame.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-08 21:52|| 2007-01-08 21:52|| Front Page Top

#6 SW-

I thought the same thing, more or less, after reading the Spengler article earlier today.

Posted by eltoroverde 2007-01-08 22:00|| 2007-01-08 22:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Iran is immune to western sanctions. China is their largest trading partner and would gladly accept their entire oil exports. The Chinese would gladly sell Iranian consumers any goods they require.

All sanctions do is delay war until the Iranians have a nice stockpile of nukes on top of their North Korean ballistic missiles.

Posted by ed 2007-01-08 22:22|| 2007-01-08 22:22|| Front Page Top

#8 really, Ed? How would they do that? By shipping? Trains or roads through Pak or Afghanistan? Air? just how would that happen?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 22:26|| 2007-01-08 22:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Do you recommend sinking Chinese ships, the same ones that bring consumer goods into the US? How about the second largest importer of Iranian oil and gas, the Indians?

Posted by ed 2007-01-08 22:31|| 2007-01-08 22:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually Japan could still be number 2. They have been cutting drastically back on Iranian oil due to expectations of war. Still want to sink, Chinese, Indian and Japanese shipping?

Posted by ed 2007-01-08 22:38|| 2007-01-08 22:38|| Front Page Top

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