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2006-04-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Confident Iran Brands US a ‘Decaying Power’
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Posted by Fred 2006-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 “The United States is a decaying power. Don’t be intimidated by their threats. They don’t have the stamina to do anything,” said the head of Iran’s Guardian Council, a powerful political watchdog.

ah yeah, that's what everyone says. Americans are like my ol' dog. He was really cute and nice and cuddly. He let children pull his tail and jump on his tummy. He welcomed everyone into the house. When the little yappy dogs ran towards him, he tucked his tail and ran behind my legs. So it would always surprised me and everyone else when he responded to really aggressive dogs and bad people....whew! Always stood his ground and he's one mean bastard.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-15 00:31||   2006-04-15 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Some bloggers argue that Iran may produce its first uranium bomb [WW2 LITTLE BOY type?] by end of summer 2006. Radical Iran has made it clear that doesn't care what the US-World thinks, so any post-2008 successor to Dubya, GOP or Dem, will have to deal with Iran's [= North Korea's] post-Dubya surge for power and Empire. MadMoud's rants againt Israel are as much a de facto challenge to the UNO as a world body as against Israel, Washington, and NATO-WEstern democracies. Iran's ambitions as a smaller nation is no different in effect as for China's desires for East Asian and Pacific hegemony - both entail Iran/Chinese-centric regionalism and globalism vv the domination of weaker nations. Everyone in ME and periphery is a future Iranian Muslim-Citizen, just as everyone in East Asia + Oceania + 1/2-plus of CONUS-NORAM is a future Chicom, whether one like it or not. THE USA-ALLIES EITHER STOP IRAN NOW, OR SURRENDER/CONCEDE AND DEAL WID THE BURGEONING REGIONAL AND FUTURE GLOBAL MUSLIM OWG-CALIPHATE.The Russians have said that they may NOT be able to maintain any form of effective geopol military competition or deterrence againt the USA by 2015 or 2020 - this means that any Lefty ventures to destabilize and suborn the USA to OWG and Socialist World Order must occur during prime periods, i.e. NOW, before it becomes too cost-prohibitive for Russia, etal. and ist alleged NORWAY/LOWLANDS-SIZED SMALL ECONOMY to effectively challenge or compete against either America, the West, or nuclearized Global Islam.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-15 01:29||   2006-04-15 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Geez, these clowns aren't even entertaining.

What boring drivel.

Somebody dig up Spiro Agnew and send him over there - they need a new, more imaginative writer.
Posted by  Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut  2006-04-15 02:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-04-15 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 If you poke a bear with a stick long enough, the bear will become annoyed and eat you.
Posted by RWV 2006-04-15 02:26||   2006-04-15 02:26|| Front Page Top

#5 

I guess these Whack Jobs don't watch the Military Channel.

-M
Posted by Manolo 2006-04-15 08:51||   2006-04-15 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Time to turn on the Haliburton Earthquake Machine. A 9.2 would be good. Bunker-busting quake - with nasty nuclear accidents. Devastating damage and loss. Find something else to focus on for a couple of years.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-15 09:16||   2006-04-15 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 joe - your posts are interesting when you take the time to fully communicate your thoughts.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-15 09:27||   2006-04-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#8 They are right when the liberals are in power.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-04-15 09:30||   2006-04-15 09:30|| Front Page Top

#9 "Decaying power"... I like it!

Especially coming from a country milked like a cow by a self-reproducing oligarchy at war with a large part of its people, with crummy infrastructures (remember, the quakes?), with a whopping segment of the population below poverty line, with rampant hard drugs abuse, prostitution and sexual slavery (often managed by the afore-mentioned oligarchy),... The MM's Iran : the success-story of the Middle East!
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-15 11:41||   2006-04-15 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 The question begs: are (1) the M²s on an intimidation/propaganda roll with nothing to back it up, or (2) do they have some plutonium nukes from the Norks?

I worry about #2, but so far I think that it is #1. If they had nukes from the Norks, they would find it almost impossible to not to rattle them.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-04-15 12:13||   2006-04-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 definitely #1
Posted by bk 2006-04-15 14:10||   2006-04-15 14:10|| Front Page Top

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