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2006-03-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran to stage massive Gulf military maneuver
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Posted by Steve 2006-03-29 12:48|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Black Hats...Keep telling yourself that the US forces are no different than Sadaam's Iraqui conscripts he threw into the meat grider in the 80s.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-03-29 12:59||   2006-03-29 12:59|| Front Page Top

#2 How do you implement a naval strategy with 1,500 different kind of vessels?
Posted by 3dc 2006-03-29 13:04||   2006-03-29 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 How do you implement a naval strategy with 1,500 different kind of vessels?

By working on stuff they can all do, like sink.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats  2006-03-29 13:08||   2006-03-29 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe they're rehearsing their version of Dunkirk?
Posted by tu3031 2006-03-29 13:09||   2006-03-29 13:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Iran to stage massive Gulf military maneuver

fyi: sun dried camel dung floats
Posted by RD 2006-03-29 13:29||   2006-03-29 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Pray for just one stray.
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-29 13:35||   2006-03-29 13:35|| Front Page Top

#7 It is most likely a mine-laying drill, accompanied by a submarine and surface ship exercise. After the "exercise" concludes, we will have to re-map every square inch they covered, looking for magnetic signatures, radioactive materials, cables, nets, and other obstructions and weapons they planted.

Fair is fair, we might even leave a few of our own.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-29 13:39||   2006-03-29 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Reminds me of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" scene in which Indiana Jones is confronted by a man wielding a scimitar with fancy moves.
Posted by Darrell 2006-03-29 13:46||   2006-03-29 13:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh God, send me a tsumani!
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-03-29 13:49||   2006-03-29 13:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Nah...you guys got it all wrong. They are planning to stage massive Gulf military Manure. They just translated incorrectly.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-03-29 14:04||   2006-03-29 14:04|| Front Page Top

#11 wow is this the big one????? thrilling stuff!!
Posted by ShepUK 2006-03-29 15:09||   2006-03-29 15:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Steve: Nice of them to give our intel people warning.

They kind of have to, don't they? Otherwise, we might think they're gearing up for an invasion of Iraq, and take appropriate counter-measures. Heck, they might be prepping for an invasion, anyway - a surprise attack, on the assumption that US forces are overstretched - politically*, if not militarily. It might even be a good idea, if they can coordinate with Iraqi Shiites to stage a mass insurrection. This would be the equivalent of the Tet Offensive, but unlike in South Vietnam, the ruling government (or at least the Shiite portion) would be anti-American, and participate in the attack against US forces. We might find ourselves allying with Arab Sunnis to push back the Iranians - or fighting both Arab Sunnis and Shiites simultaneously.

* The media's success at destroying home front support for foreign wars is going to embolden Uncle Sam's adversaries across the globe.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-29 17:33|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-29 17:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Whoops - unless they're lying, only 17,000 troops involved. Not the kind of force you would associate with an invasion.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-29 17:45|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-29 17:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Can we send in the mine-finding dolphins? Pretty please??
Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-29 17:47||   2006-03-29 17:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Zhang Fei: I would guess that the 17k are in addition to the 1+ or 2 Corps the Iranians have had deployed on the Iraq border for some time.

However, that being said, any push into southern Iraq against the British forces would get snicker-snacked by the US heavy armored brigade currently in Kuwait. Not my first choice of somebody charging up my flank.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-29 20:20||   2006-03-29 20:20|| Front Page Top

#16 Anybody know what we have in the Gulf right now?

Regardless, I'm kinda' half suspecting/half hoping they actually try something against one of our ships over there (purely by accident, of course). I suspect the temptation will be too much for some of the diehards and they'll try somethin'.

I look forward to seeing the oil slick that's left of those 1500 boats afterwards...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2006-03-29 23:34|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2006-03-29 23:34|| Front Page Top

#17 TW... I much prefer the sharks with the brain implants.
Posted by 3dc 2006-03-29 23:43||   2006-03-29 23:43|| Front Page Top

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