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2005-10-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by DanNY 2005-10-09 12:40|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Threats are useless to those who do not respect them through overuse. After all of these years of threatening the US and Israel and everybody else, on a weekly basis, the concept of the threat in Iran has become vitiated to the point where it has lost its seriousness.

As an alternative, a sense of fear and respect must be regained among the belligerent. The best such way would be something along the lines of the "You have just been assassinated" calling card. Sent from a non-existent terrorist organization by a hundred different means, to a thousand or more of Iran's top leadership, all arriving about the same time. It would obviously be the work of the US, but would have plausible deniability.

Its unstated message would be to say that in the circumstance of war, each of the lives of these thousand government and religious leaders would be forfeit, that their names are on a death list. It would even take them weeks to discover the scope of who the cards were sent to.

It would rattle their leadership to its bones.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-09 13:48|| 2005-10-09 13:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Similar to the calls on Saddam officials' private cell phones ... heh. I like it.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-09 14:04|| 2005-10-09 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Permit me to correct a minor error in the headline:

"Only ~~threat~~ use of force will tame Tehran"

The best such way would be something along the lines of the "You have just been assassinated" calling card.

While I agree in principle, my own vote is for lobbing in a few ~~dozen~~ cruise missiles during a full session of their council of mullahs and the revolutionary guard.

The total annihilation of Iran's corrupt and hostile leadership would serve notice to other proliferators that there are severe consequences involved with disregarding regional peace and stability.

Similar treatment of the statehouse in Khartoum might have gone a long way towards averting the last half of Darfur's genocide.

One more time, there are no sovereign rights for nations that seek to propagate genocide, intolerance and oppression. They are fair game for those who can eliminate them.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-09 14:39|| 2005-10-09 14:39|| Front Page Top

#4 .50 Caliber cards?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-09 14:47|| 2005-10-09 14:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Jack Straw will have to go if things are to change . But even that will not solved the problem.

The Military of England in no match for Iran even in a proxy fight in southern Iraq. Not enough men or money has been invested in it. No support exists at home for what needs to be done. The British, Scotch and Welch soilders there have been doing "peace keeping" that is about all they are equiped and authorised to do.

To regain control they will have to kill lots of Iraqi's, that isn't going to happen. In short are truly screwed. The EU lovers in the UK government. They have got what they want. I big knife in the back of Iraq and the US. They now will amplify the din of: "It was a grave mistake." "More time should have been given." "It is an illegal war." "The UN didn't approve." "We need to be more aligned with the EU."

We are screwed and unscrewing ourselves will be hard and cost many lives.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-10-09 15:59|| 2005-10-09 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Zensters idea has promise only make it a "work accident" instead of cruise missiles.

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-09 16:39|| 2005-10-09 16:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Tater's tots need to be toasted to a crisp, and the "man" himself strung up from a light pole. It's best done by an Iraqi military force, with US "help" only in the background. That should be followed by closing all of Iran's offices in Iraq, and the closing of their common border. Then there should be "sightings" of about 50 US submarines in the Persian Gulf - the same half-dozen subs popping up at various places over and over. If Tehran still doesn't get the message, THEN send the tommahawks flying.

It can all be done in four-six months, if done with determination. But one thing is beyond negotiation: tater needs to be squashed like the bug he is.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-10-09 17:11|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-10-09 17:11|| Front Page Top

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