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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bombers, missiles could end Iran nukes
2010-08-03
Posted by:Ebberong Spoluse5087

#17  Mr. Bill, how hard would it be for Mossad the Israelis to get some Russian isotopes? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-08-03 21:56  

#16  Somebody would figure out where the isotopes came from. Some finger prints are harder to hide than others.
Posted by: Mr. Bill   2010-08-03 21:45  

#15  Vents open in the top of the semi, and large quantities of invisible radioactive isotopes start billowing out. Once done, the truck driver returns and drives away.

They could blame it on all those pork-contaminated radioactive cigarettes they claim to have imported from America.
Posted by: gorb   2010-08-03 20:56  

#14  I agree with old patriot. The second wave should involve Windex. However, I don't expect anything from Oblahblah beyond strong words. And that might be pushing the envelope for him.
Posted by: DMFD   2010-08-03 20:06  

#13  Moose that's absolutely brilliant. Its a shame nobody would ever greenlight such a thing in DC
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar   2010-08-03 19:10  

#12  It's August. Listen for the Guns.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-08-03 15:41  

#11  I agree with Black Charlie. But then, I'm a neocon warmonger...
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-08-03 15:08  

#10  Id be happy with an overt strike on Iranian facilities and power bases asap.. The Iran saga is just too tedious to do anything else with . Once they have been bitch slapped down , the middle east will be a lot quieter .. As soon as the powers that be realise that , the sooner there will be an end
Posted by: Black Charlie   2010-08-03 14:46  

#9  Turning Qom into a radioactive glass bowl would go a long way towards putting an end to Iran's overarching plan to re-establish the Persian Empire, also. Just saying...
Posted by: Old Patriot   2010-08-03 14:28  

#8  I still think the best approach to this would be with the blackest of black ops. In this case, for the Israelis to park a semi truck in some ordinary place upwind of a major support city for the Iranian regime, like Qom.

Vents open in the top of the semi, and large quantities of invisible radioactive isotopes start billowing out. Once done, the truck driver returns and drives away.

A few days later, tens of thousands of people get very sick, long after the truck has been disposed of in a very deep ocean trench. Then the rumor is planted that the government had a nuclear accident, but has not informed the public, because it would expose their nuclear weapons program.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-08-03 14:04  

#7  The bluster offensive begins. Culminates in November retraction.

If it works, fine. Bluster on.

Non-trivial problem: no one takes Barry seriously. Neither does anyone consider him to be dangerous in any but a goody two-shoes lefty junior professorish way.
Posted by: lex   2010-08-03 09:34  

#6  #5 The bluster offensive begins. Culminates in November retraction.

+1
Posted by: Keenster   2010-08-03 07:40  

#5  The bluster offensive begins. Culminates in November retraction.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-08-03 07:01  

#4  He left out the F-22s, armed with SDBs, preceding the B-2s and B-1Bs to take out the air defenses hidden in tunnels.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2010-08-03 05:12  

#3  Can't wait to see the MOP-hole.
Posted by: Q   2010-08-03 01:04  

#2  Versus

NEWS KERALA > MILITARY OFFICIAL: IRAN WARNS IT WILL RETALIATE AGZ ANY US ATTACKS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-08-03 00:51  

#1  "It will be primarily an air attack with covert work to start a 'velvet' revolution so [the] Iranian people can take back their country," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former fighter pilot.

Hey! They stole my idea! :-)
Posted by: gorb   2010-08-03 00:47  

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