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2008-06-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Olmert: World must understand cost of nuclear Iran outweighs business benefits

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 FREEREPUBLIC > AHMADINEJAD: BUSH WILL REGRET HIS FAILURE TO ATTACK IRAN.

D *** NG IT, IRAN DEMANDED TO BE ATTACKED!

ION, STARS-N-STRIPES [paraph] > SADRISTS want a IRAQ-SPECIFIC NATIONAL REVIEW = REFERENDUM ON PROPOSED US-IRAQ PACT; + LOOMING PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS THREATEN TO DIVIDE ARAB SUNNIS IN IRAQ.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-04 02:21|| 2008-06-04 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm a hawk, but most people want a measure of stability and that would be of paramount interest to war planners. The key is to turn professionals in the Iranian military, against the Ayatollahs. The US hasn't promoted a coup in over 30 years; the old machinery needs to be reactivated. Defense Intelligence would be concerned that an attack on Iran would enable their leaders to turn it into a Shiite-Sunni matter. The UAE, and the US fleet would be prime targets.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-04 02:31|| 2008-06-04 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Asshole.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-04 04:31|| 2008-06-04 04:31|| Front Page Top

#4 bleh. Iran is so far beyond meaningless chatter. The purpose of sanctions is the same purpose as mommy saying, "If you do that one more time....". If mommy never spanks, then it is little more than "blah, blah, blah."

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-04 04:56|| 2008-06-04 04:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The key is to turn professionals in the Iranian military, against the Ayatollahs.

Cause its worked so well in Venezuela on our back door. Hope is not a strategy. List of countries in the last 20 years that have stung up their oppressors? The only one I can think of is Romania and that was because it was caught up in the fall of the Iron Curtain, otherwise that would have gone pffft too.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-04 09:31|| 2008-06-04 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Asshole.

we agree grom, Olmert is an asshole! >:)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-04 09:37|| 2008-06-04 09:37|| Front Page Top

#7 sorry mods, plz fix when you get a chance..thanks in advance!
Fixed.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-04 09:38|| 2008-06-04 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Something must be done about Iran, but Olmert is so tainted he is the absolute worst person to have forefront in the debate.

Posted by BigEd 2008-06-04 13:20|| 2008-06-04 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 P2k:

The Reagan-Elliot Abrams strategy of democraticization of Latin America, worked and it will work on Venezuela. Bush has a do-nothing approach. The only thing that ever worked on Muslims is: harsh occupation or strong-man regimes. Carter handed Iran to the Islamofascists. One of his senior members - Andrew Young - said that Khomeni was a "saint." And he said that while a move against the US Embassy in Teheran was under study. I think of Muslims as either jihad-robots or human-puppets; you have to dehumanize them, before you can beat them.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-04 13:26|| 2008-06-04 13:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Iran can't use banks outside the country to transfer money for purchases, nor to accept money when it sells oil, rugs and pistachios, and those few other things they have for export. The mullahs have had to significantly reduce payments to Hizb'allah, Hamas, and their other terrorist clients. Even their biggest trading partners, the Germans, have backed off. All because of the machinations of that do-nothing President Bush. Trade sanctions punish only the poor, as we saw with South Africa and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But the threat that anyone who banks with Iran will be forbidden access to American banks and American markets is a threat with great big nasty teeth in it -- and is a big part of the reason the Iranian economy is doing so poorly.

Mommy has shown the size of the paddle she uses to spank, and very few countries or companies want Mommy to spank them. It probably won't cause the peepul to rear up on their hind legs to replace the mullahcracy, but they won't fight hard to protect it when our missiles fly.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-04 14:48|| 2008-06-04 14:48|| Front Page Top

#11 good post - tw. Thanks. I needed a bit of cheer after reading today's news.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-04 17:27|| 2008-06-04 17:27|| Front Page Top

#12 good post - tw. Thanks. I needed a bit of cheer after reading today's news.

I second that Sninert Black9312!

.....and I imagine that TW is and was the sweetest of Moms, but still knows how to work the parts of a "large paddle"!
>:)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-06-04 19:28|| 2008-06-04 19:28|| Front Page Top

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