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2006-05-20 Home Front: WoT

WaPo notes ~~Acts of War by Iran~~ fear of MM

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Posted by Glavick Phinese7130 2006-05-20 12:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good old WaPo, trying to dictate US foreign policy by making everything sound like we're totally incapable of waging war against someone like the MMs. These jerkwads know nothing about modern warfare or the capabilities of the United States, just that "we're vulnerable". One strike against the United States forces and Iran CEASES TO EXIST, even restricting ourselves to conventional warfare. What a waste of oxygen.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-05-20 18:16|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-20 18:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Good old WaPo, trying to dictate US foreign policy by making everything sound like we're totally incapable of waging war against someone like the MMs. These jerkwads know nothing about modern warfare or the capabilities of the United States, just that "we're vulnerable". One strike against the United States forces and Iran CEASES TO EXIST, even restricting ourselves to conventional warfare. What a waste of oxygen.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-05-20 18:16|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-20 18:16|| Front Page Top

#3 A vast tableau of American facilities around the world -- as well as the streets of U.S. cities -- could be targets for retaliation by Iran's terrorist agents and surrogates.

In other words it would not be any worse then it is right now...

... only their ability to wage war and terrorists attacks would be reduced.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-20 18:30|| 2006-05-20 18:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Here we go again.

Without the MM's doling out piles of cash, many of the terrorists would bail and much of the remainder would be reduced to throwing rocks. Terrorism costs money - for people, travel, agents, bribes, arms, UN subversion, the works.

I guess the MM's are about half of the problem, with the Saudis stirring up the lion's share of the rest.

You can dismantle the MM network and: reduce the militia power in Iraq dramatically, dry up the deadly modern weapons flow into Iraq, reduce stolen elections in Iraq, cut the legs from under Syria and Hezbollah, cut Paleo terr funding and arms assistance, etc, etc, by doing what should come easily and naturally: removing the threat of the MM's.

Their nuke program and inability to STFU about it are, ironically, Godsends. They demand to be whacked for it and "misunderestimate" the US with a level of arrogance that is truly unique. Were it not so, had they any sense at all, any notion of what makes America tick, any perspective on just WTF happened in Afghanistan and Iraq and why, they would have stayed off the radar screen, developed their nukes on the sly and gone on bleeding us in all those other ways forever.

They're idjits, thank Gawd.

So is WaPo for constantly using the "fear" angle in their tripe. They think it's dispiriting and scary. For Jacksonians, it just pisses us off.

Posted by random styling 2006-05-20 18:48|| 2006-05-20 18:48|| Front Page Top

#5 amen RS - WaPo thinks they're scaring off the American public. I think they're doing the Admin's job in preparing the public for war with Iran

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-20 19:28|| 2006-05-20 19:28|| Front Page Top

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