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2007-03-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2007-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let him come. Just don't let him go back.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-17 00:19|| 2007-03-17 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Put him up at the Roach Motel.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-17 00:32|| 2007-03-17 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep a fire team at the airport ready to hit anything coming out of the plane uninvited.

Posted by mojo 2007-03-17 01:13|| 2007-03-17 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Insist on an "Insepction" of his airplane when he lands. I'm sure the engineers know a way or two to discreetly sabotage it without anyone noticing. They could probably time it so he goes down right in the middle of the Atlantic. No recovery of the aircraft possible there I think.

Posted by Charles 2007-03-17 05:21|| 2007-03-17 05:21|| Front Page Top

#5 a few gallons of Holy Water in his tanks might help.

Posted by RD 2007-03-17 07:09|| 2007-03-17 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Dear Rantburgians, permit me, if you will to propose the following facts:

1 - Ahmadinejad has repeatedly claimed holy fire was going to be brought to bear on the enemies of Allan.
2 - He has repeatedly offered a time-table starting about now for this fire to be made manifest.
3 - He is clearly doing his bit to immanentize his eschaton and has clearly seen himself as a kind of John the Baptist heralding the emergence of the Twelfth Imam.
4 - Given the right circumstances, i.e. grandstanding to top the Sunni massacre of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, and his death cult ideology, it seems reasonable to believe he would seek personal "martyrdom". Certainly, the possibility could not credibly be ruled out.

Continue to indulge me with the following scenario:

Ahmadinejad addresses the United Nations and before the cameras of the world uses the key word that is the signal to his followers. In the last seconds of his life he sees a halo rise above his audience in the General Assembly followed by his gruesome death. Would it be shrapnel from the blast wave, over-pressure, building collapse or the fireball itself that kills him? I doubt many would think to ask as infrared pictures of the crater became visible through the smoke. And with over a hundred thousand dead and rising Iran's announcement of its nuclear weapons capability would be swiftly denied by all the usual traitors. Perhaps on that day even France could force itself to feign sympathy before reminding us of Hiroshima and the "red Indians" and of course the Great Satan George W. Bush.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-17 09:25|| 2007-03-17 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 That's the kind of scenario that was suggested in comments yesterday, but it's also quite possible that the extra load left on the plane is just hostages to prevent a planned crash of the plane or a coup in his absence. Given Iran's record with plane problems, I'd be bringing all the mechanics with me if I were him.

Posted by Harcourt Unoth4089 2007-03-17 13:18|| 2007-03-17 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 If that happened Bush would have no choice but to incinerate every major city and military installation in Iran as retaliation.

Posted by Mac 2007-03-17 18:09|| 2007-03-17 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Can't we start a windex drive? I mean wouldn't be the rantburg thing to do to help with the future clean up. After all if they do something funny they will need all the windex they can get.

Posted by bruce 2007-03-17 18:43|| 2007-03-17 18:43|| Front Page Top

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