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2012-01-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2012-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 maybe we should add some steel too our reply by sinking a few of their shipd pre emptively

Posted by chris 2012-01-05 08:22|| 2012-01-05 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 We should have sunk every last damn ship involved in this exercise/ threat.
Preemptively.
And if their planes start taking off, shoot them down. Missiles? Start taking out every bridge and dam in Iran, until they stop.
Sooner or later we will have to do this.
Every day they grow stronger.

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2012-01-05 16:58|| 2012-01-05 16:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Every day they grow stronger

Do they, Mikey? The CIA Factbook has their average fertility rate at 1.88 children per woman vs. 2.97 for Egypt, and the Iranian median age a full two and a half years older.

In the short term they are certainly a threat, and a good deal of rubble should be bounced (or military and military support stuff Lemony Snicketed, or both), to discourage nuclear ambitions and thoughts of spreading the revolution, but at the rate things are going the Kurds are going to inherit that particular corner of the earth, if David Goldman is reading the trends correctly.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-01-05 19:35|| 2012-01-05 19:35|| Front Page Top

#4 WAFF > IRAN [Parliament] PREPARES BILL TO BAN FOREIGN WARSHIPS FROM GULF.

No foreign vessels may enter unless they have the permission/consent of Tehran = Iranian Navy.

IMO as a matter of law, once approved Iran's action will only affect future time - THE REAL CRUX FOR IRAN IS THE PRESENCE OF THE US FIFTH FLEET IN BAHRAIN NOW, + THEN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-05 21:05|| 2012-01-05 21:05|| Front Page Top

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