Iran prepares for U.S invasion as tensions with U.S. rise

theglobeandmail.com ^ | Saturday, February 19, 2005 | By BORZOU DARAGAHI

[F14 Pilot]

Tehran announces mobilization efforts in bid to raise the stakes, analysts say

[F14 Pilot]

IRAN-USA Possible War???

[clee1]

Raise the steaks??? Are they cattle farming? ;)

Poor little sheetheads. Do they really think we are going to invade their third-world sandpit?

We don't need to. A few surgical airstrikes to decapitate their government and the people of Iran will take care of the rest.

[SoDak]

Exactly, there will be no invasion, if theres anything at all it would be just some well placed facility hits.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Iran would respond within 15 minutes..."

"We surrender! We surrender!!!"

[clee1]

I agree. Iran has what Iraq never did: a large, angry majority ripe for revolution.

The mullahs that rule Iran, while theocratic and brutal, are mere babes in arms when compared to the iron-fisted Saddam Hussein. Iran's leadership goes for small-potatoes repression; Saddam killed any potential threat immediately - along with their family and sometimes their whole village.

[j. earl carter]

IRAN-USA Possible War???

I think it is only possible in the wacky world of the Globe and Mail.

[sanchez810]

no, it would not be a good move on our part.

[jaykay]

Prepare for this? How?

[SoDak]

I believe that the population in Iran isn't nearly as splintered as the one in Iraq was. Besides, all the uber-islamofascists from Iran are busy getting blasted in Iraq.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Cool pic, I didn't know sperm whales could fly! /Sarc

Nice pic!

[Petronius]

"I see all the men who went to the front and fought are damaged and ignored and all those who didn't are the ones running the country,"

Sounds familiar ;>)

[jaykay]

Sperm whale, LOL, I was thinking that the B2 looks other-worldly from the side view.

[FBD]

Monsters to Destroy
John Quincy Adams 1821


And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?

Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity.

She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights.

She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.

She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.

She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....

She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

[tongue-tied]

hmmm...cool pic, but I want real explosives.

Blue bombs bounce. hehe

[Cycle watcher]

"But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

Well what does John Quincy say about the monsters coming here, killing three thousand innocent citizens and bragging that they will have the weapons to destroy us, while they are receiving sanctuary and support from several significant countries. I think the context would change, even for him.

[BlackbirdSST]

Well what does John Quincy say about the monsters coming here, killing three thousand innocent citizens and bragging that they will have the weapons to destroy us, while they are receiving sanctuary and support from several significant countries. I think the context would change, even for him.

I suspect he might say, the behemoth fedgov failed miserably in it's few Constitutional functions, one of which was to protect this Nation and it's Citizens from foreign invasion. He might even go so far as to condemn US Citizens for clamouring for a bigger more intrusive fedgov bringing even more incompetence to bear, as he looked to our southern border as he hung his head in shame. He would be shunned today. Blackbird.

[APFel]

"Two for flinching"?

Heh.

APf

[Allegra]

Iran blinked!

Getting paranoid are you, mullahs? Did it finally dawn on you that you're surrounded on two sides?

Better watch your backs in your own yard, too. The younger population wants FREEDOM.