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2008-08-26 Iraq
Iran: US air base being built near Iranian border
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Posted by Fred 2008-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 TOPIX > GEORGIAN CONFLICT MAY CAUSE US TO RETHINK ITS GLOBAL STRATEGY + ISRAEL REPEATS WARNING IT WILL NOT ACCEPT A NUCLEAR IRAN.

*BIGNEWS NETWORK > JIHAD AND GENTLE RESISTANCE IN THE WILD WEST [China + UIGHURS].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-26 02:40||   2008-08-26 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Well that is under 7 minutes from Tehran on afterburner but we're not that obvious. Or are we?
Posted by Halliburton Global Logistics 2008-08-26 02:48||   2008-08-26 02:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Subtlety doesn't seem to work.
Posted by gorb 2008-08-26 03:03||   2008-08-26 03:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Someone should tell them it's no where near the Iranian border, it's almost in the geographic center of Kurdistan.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-26 06:19||   2008-08-26 06:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought the same theater of operations was near Iran...
Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-26 08:44||   2008-08-26 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Beached aircraft carriers? Most likely a support and observation location, too easy to target for surface to surface missile targeting. Our carriers in the Gulf are just about as close with delivery ordnance, and a moving target.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-26 09:23||   2008-08-26 09:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Why would we build near the border? That just makes security more difficult and doesn't add anything to our capabilities.

I mean, fer crissake, we fly bombers out of the continental US to hit targets in Iraq and Afghanistan -- why would we need to snuggle up to the Iranian border?!
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2008-08-26 10:34||   2008-08-26 10:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe it's for small radioactivity-monitoring planes to monitor the rubble yet-to-come.
Posted by Darrell 2008-08-26 10:41||   2008-08-26 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Rob (#7) - land is too expensive in CONUS for additional golf courses. :)
Posted by GORT  2008-08-26 10:44||   2008-08-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 All kinds of uses. Remember just off the bat that US bases have 100 foot towers giving us an observation view of 50 miles in all directions. From an airbase in that location, we could launch a fleet of Reaper UAVs.

It also makes a good landing site for any damaged aircraft, or just those that need, ahem, rapid refueling and rearmament.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-26 10:51||   2008-08-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#11 It also gives the Iranians something to watch while more intersting activities are conducted elsewhere in the region.
Posted by AzCat 2008-08-26 11:47||   2008-08-26 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 
in a town called Halabja


site of Saddam's chemical attack against the Kurds
Posted by lotp 2008-08-26 12:45||   2008-08-26 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems from what I've seen since we started operations in Iraq that we would be foolish to have bases anyplace in Iraq OUTSIDE of Kurdistan. If Yon and Totten are to be believed, those folks LOVE us and really want us to stay. I don't think you can say that about much of the rest of Iraq, and certainly not to the same extent.
Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-26 13:30||   2008-08-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Too bad they don't have a port.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-26 14:31||   2008-08-26 14:31|| Front Page Top

#15 A U.S. base in Kurdistan would make the Kurds a lot more comfortable dealing with the rest of Iraq. I think the weather is nicer than the rest of the country, too.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-08-26 14:41||   2008-08-26 14:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Too bad they don't have a port.

No port, not much oil, and Turks, Iranians, and their fellow Iraqis would mostly like to erase them. Yep, good place for the US to stick around. At least we're likely to be welcome.
Posted by AzCat 2008-08-26 16:33||   2008-08-26 16:33|| Front Page Top

#17 I know nothing about what I'm thinking... but, could this be used as the jumping off point to keep Afghan supplied? Just in case......
Posted by Sherry">Sherry  2008-08-26 19:17||   2008-08-26 19:17|| Front Page Top

#18 Kind of reminds me of Denang, except you have PKK instead of VC.
Posted by JitterBug 2008-08-26 20:21||   2008-08-26 20:21|| Front Page Top

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