[SIDENET]

Can't they wait until AFTER the holidays?

I don't think that this is too much to ask.

[NonValueAdded]

The timing’s a little whacked, don’tcha think? If he wanted to get away with it, why not wait 3 more months when President Obama would come over and talk to him or President McCain would be blocked by Congress from doing anything? The only plausible reason he’d attack in November is if he actually wanted a response from the US and figured Bush would do it on the way out the door.

[Scythian]

A very frightening scenario indeed .... but honestly, it’s only going to get worse, turn the tide now or be destroyed, we need to play “real hard ball” now.

[penowa]

I suspect we’ll know they have nuclear weapons when we wake up one morning to find that Israel is no longer there. Even then, I doubt that we will have any meaningful response.

[444Flyer]

Ping.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Figured the headline was referring to the next Civil War on the Wednesay after Obama’s election.

[livius]

We’re not going to do anything to Iran unless it strikes us first, and Iran knows that, so it’s perfectly free to posture as much as it wants.

Once it gets strong enough, it may strike - but then again, maybe not. If Osama Obama gets elected, we’ll probably be the United Muslims States of Iran within a couple of years anyway, so it’s to Iran’s best interests to sit back and wait.

If McCain, by some fluke, gets elected, they’ll resume their posturing for as long as they need to.

[ShadowAce]

Ping?

[G8 Diplomat]

Setting the stage for a coming apocalyptic war that will usher in the Islamic Messiah known as the Mahdi or the "Twelfth Imam,"

All Muslims (not just Nutjob) believe the Mahdi will appear in the end times and kill all the infidels and convert the world to Islam. The 12th imam thing is a strictly Shi'a interpretation; they believe the Mahdi will be the 12th imam (while Sunnis believe he will be someone else). Muslims believe the world will end in the year 2076, and terrorism will only increase as that year draws nearer, as they want to "pave the way" for the Mahdi's coming. Iranian nukes are only the beginning of a coming, ugly confrontation with Islam.

For now though, if Israel strikes Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, & Syria will respond with a barrage of Scud-D's, Qassams, and Katyusha rockets (notice that name...it's Russian), and Shihab and Ashura lift off their launchpads and slam into Tel Aviv. If this happens before November and the voters know Bush supported Israel's strike on Iran, that will kill the GOP in the election.

Or, if no one acts and Iran gets the bomb, they'll nuke Israel anyway. Then they'll fire some nuke-tipped ICBMs across the Gulf right into the Saudi oilfields and oil will shoot up to $200+/barrel and gas prices will hit double digits. The Saudis, with either nukes bought from Pakistan or made with the enriched uranium we promised them (depending on how far into the future this happens), may respond by dropping some nukes of their own on Iran. And then there's Hormuz--Iran will try to shut it down, and then US warships will be there to stop them.

And remember hearing about wheat rust killing off a good portion of Iran's crops? Disrupting a country's food supply messes everything up. Wheat rust is easy to weaponize. All it takes is a US soldier next door in Iraq waving his burlap bag into the air....

And interestingly enough Iran may be starting its own bioweapons program.

IRI has got to be the biggest thorn in the world's side. Thanks Jimmy Carter.

[Yo-Yo]

WAR IN NOVEMBER?

No, no, no! Eeevil Republicans always stage an October surprise.

[wolfcreek]

“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that the United States and Israel would soon be “annihilated,”

This *problem* isn’t going away. I say, “Let’s Roll” it ain’t gettin any cheaper.

[Cementjungle]

Ahmadinejad vowed that the United States and Israel would soon be "annihilated," language he had not used so explicitly since October 2005...

Er... it seems that he says stuff like this every day... if he ever STOPS saying stuff like this then I would start to be concerned.

[NY Attitude]

Why fool around and give them time to prepare a stronger defense. Do it now and get it over with.

[xJones]

Last month in Rome, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that the United States and Israel would soon be "annihilated," language he had not used so explicitly since October 2005 when he promised to wipe Israel "off the map" and urged Muslims to "envision a world without the United States."

Holy Shiite, that means a lot of dead U.S. muslims also.

This week, his regime authorized a new series of Iranian war games. He ordered the digging of 320,000 graves to bury the enemies of Islam.

Only 320,000 graves to bury the enemies of Islam? What an optimist.

He is calling for the unification of the Islamic world politically and economically, including the creation of a single currency.

That will be a miracle, since his Shiites only comprise 10% of the Muslim world and the different Sunni sects comprise the rest - except for the Sufis whom the other two major muslim groups also hate.

That's the one thing that can always be counted on in Middle Eastern muslim speeches - exaggeration to the max for the illiterate/ignorant crowd appeal. Nasser of Egypt was a master of that sort of oratory.

[RightWhale]

About 113 wars going on already, probably still going on in Nov.

[tet68]

Tens of thousands of suicide bomber cells could be activated in the region — especially in Iraq and Israel — and perhaps even in Western Europe and the U.S. and Canada.

This in itself is cause for war.
Strike now, Strike Hard, continue to Strike until Islamic Iran is no more.

[Allegra]

Goodness...how many times has Nutjob predicted the Mahdi was going to come back and the world was going to end?

I distinctly remember an evening in the summer of 2006 in Baghdad where we went to all this trouble to throw an End of the World party based on Nutjob's predictions and...NOTHING. No bright lights, no big noises, no little weirdo crawling out of some well...nothing.

Oh, well...at least the party was fun. ;-)

[Convert from ECUSA]

Looks like we’re getting closer to Ezekiel 38-39. That wicked little Haman runt in Iran is just asking for the smackdown of all smackdowns, and I don’t think it’ll be via US or Israeli military power, but by Someone many times more powerful.

[Eye of Unk]

Absolutely nothing is sacred, I would even go so far as to make Iran think we are weak and that we cannot do any action because we fear other nations replies especially China and the Olympics.

Personally I would execute several deep black missions as soon as the Olympics start.

[nmh]

WOW!

Perhaps Christians will be leaving soon?

Hope He comes SOON!!!!