Iran Successfully Fires Multiple-warhead Missile

Associated Press ^

[Flavius Josephus]

The Honorable Curt Weldon is not a FORMER congressman.

[Sam's Army]

Disinformation to attempt deterrance.

[Conservative Canuck]

Oh, yeah, and a couple of Boomers in the Indian Ocean. :-)

[Conservative Canuck]

Ooops. Sorry, Congressman Weldon.

[LibWhacker]

Chill, everybody... The President can't do anything because the American people aren't behind him. And the American people won't be behind him until half our cities are smoldering ruins, if then, because he's a liar and always exaggerates these "threats." So what alternative does he have? He can't do anything. He's a lame duck. </tiresome liberal MSM BS>

How about we nuke 'em first?

[Conservative Canuck]

MIRVs (Multiple Independant Re-entry Vehicles) are completely different animals: they're warheads attached to ICBMs, which actually leave the atmosphere. I agree, that's way ahead of their capabilities now.

We're talking MITWs here (Multiple Targetable Independant Warheads), which can be attached to conventional missiles; which seems to be what they're doing.

[Conservative Canuck]

See Post #26. And what has he got to lose? ;-)

[cccp_hater]

Does anyone hear really think that the US or Israel is willing to attack Iran and risk a full on invasion of Iraq by Iranian troops (there bigger next door neighbor)? If so I would love to bet that this won't happen for at least another year (or until Iraq has stable governance).

[cccp_hater]

I should have done a better job spell checking (hear is here).

[Conservative Canuck]

Hear, hear! :-)

[Conservative Canuck]

Dyslexic moment. MITW: Multiple Independantely Targetable Warheads.

[Conservative Canuck]

Yeah. And we saw what happened to Saddam's 'elite Revolutionary Guards.' Bwaa ha ha ha ha ha!

[Captain Rhino]

I have no doubt that, when the situation really demands urgent military action, THIS president will act first and ask Congressional permission afterwards. Congress is not the Commander in Chief, he is.

He is not the stupid cowboy the Left and the Euroweenies like to portray him as. However, he is a man who first and foremost relies on his own judgement to delegate to experts and then to render the big decisions in a timely manner so that they can be properly executed by the military. The Iraq intelligence miscues will make the scrub and interpretation of the Iran atomic program data subject to a very rigorous review. But if the capacity and intent (= threat) is there and unambiguous and the NCA supports action, he will act.

And not by feeble Carter/Clinton half measures either.

[Conservative Canuck]

Right you are. And he doesn't need permission from Congress, either. Sure, to declare and fund a War, yes. But my point is that wouldn't be required, with all the assets already in the neighborhood, as it were. :-)

[Marine_Uncle]

" I hope they continue to believe it!"
Yea. Know what you mean.

[Billthedrill]

That is absolutely correct. However, it is fairly well-known that the Iranians are working hard on a re-entry vehicle that was originally (and unsuccessfully) intended for the Shahab-4, which proved to have neither the range or the lifting capacity for an ICBM. There were third-stage stability issues IIRC. I would not expect a MIRV to be ready for testing for a couple of years yet and this one wasn't that if the story is correct.

We're safe enough in North America for quite awhile but Europe is emphatically not.

[Conservative Canuck]

We might be fairly safe in North America, but what about all the U.S. bases, economic assets, etc... they COULD reach? :-0

[Conservative Canuck]

True enough. Let's hope the Russians don't GIVE them one.

[RinaseaofDs]

It was one thing for them to get their hands on 'a nuke'. So much more different for them to put their 'nuke' on a MIRV ICBM.

Not good. Wonder what they are talking about in the Knesset tonight?

[Conservative Canuck]

What kind of bagels to order for breakfast? ;-)