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2007-02-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-19 21:27|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The BBC's Tehran correspondent France Harrison says the news that there are now two possible triggers for an attack is a concern to Iranians.

Good.

but ordinary people are now becoming a little worried

Even better.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-19 21:58|| 2007-02-19 21:58|| Front Page Top

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Hosea 8:7 [King James Version]

Normally I'd use a Jewish translation, but most of you would find this more familiar.

Let's have a competition. Who can find the most casus belli in Iran's behavior toward the US?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-02-19 22:10|| 2007-02-19 22:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Its called Contingency Planning. That being said, BBC versus SALON's Joe Conason > TWO TRIGGERS FOR ANTI-US INTERNATIONAL WAR, versus IRAQ-KATRINA as TWO TRIGGERS FOR [DUBYA-CAUSED] ANTI-AMER AMER AUTHORITARIANISM [ read - Socialism]??? Move along boyz, once again the WOT is about Radical Islam and only Radical Islam.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-19 22:18|| 2007-02-19 22:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Long range B2 stealth bombers would drop so-called "bunker-busting" bombs in an effort to penetrate the Natanz site, which is buried some 25m (27 yards) underground.

Pie-crust.

For some time now, the usual media suspects have been harping that Iranian nuclear facilities were so cunningly concealed and deeply buried that even nuclear weapons cannot reach them. This subterranean Persian invincibility is an article of faith among lefty bloggers. If the Beeb's figure is accurate, they are very badly mistaken. Normally, media scare stories don't give actual figures, apparently for good reason if their agenda is to facilitate Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons.

As such, the Fortress Persia myth supercedes such previous bogey-men as Saddam's battle-hardened million man army (1991), the invincible Pashtun mountain man, Slayer of Empires (2001), the brutal Afghan winter (2001-02), Fallujah as Stalingrad on the Euphrates (2004) and (as we speak) the futility of trying to secure Baghdad.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-19 23:31|| 2007-02-19 23:31|| Front Page Top

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