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Iran Readying for Conflict with US (must read)
Benador Associates Via Arab News ^ | September 17, 2005 | Amir Taheri

Posted on 09/17/2005 5:19:33 PM PDT by F14 Pilot

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1 posted on 09/17/2005 5:19:36 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
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"Anti-Bush marches in Washington and dozens of other cities with Hollywood figures and other celebrities calling for Bush to be overthrown."

Things have reached a sad state of affairs when our enemies can count on domestic traitors for aid and comfort.

2 posted on 09/17/2005 5:22:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: freedom44

Iran ping


3 posted on 09/17/2005 5:22:37 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: F14 Pilot

Good post.


4 posted on 09/17/2005 5:23:41 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: F14 Pilot

ping


5 posted on 09/17/2005 5:27:23 PM PDT by StatenIsland
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Gee. Looks like the Iranians know how we plan wars, campaigns, operations and battles.

Let's throw in the towel now.

Not.


6 posted on 09/17/2005 5:30:58 PM PDT by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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To: StarCMC

The strategery for Iran is aready in place.
Surround them with democracy and await the revolution.

We just have to hold the Islamofascist at bay till then


7 posted on 09/17/2005 5:31:00 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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a position in which it will either have to surrender or fight.

OK, fight it is.
The Mullahs are still fighting the last crusade.
The bunker is several hundred yards from the mosque?
It will be rubble and the mosque will still stand untouched.
One almost could feel pity on the poor sods but they will
reap what they sow.


8 posted on 09/17/2005 5:31:45 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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If we are already accused of invading a country in order to steal its oil, it would be nice to actually do it for a change.

Iran. Venezuela. Just pick one and take its oil. After all, we've already been convicted and served the sentence in the court of world opinion.

Okay. I don't really mean we should do it, but I am sick of being badmouthed for doing what we have not done, and have no intention of doing.

9 posted on 09/17/2005 5:31:47 PM PDT by Montfort (Check out the 200+ page free preview of The Figurehead by Thomas Larus at lulu.com/larus)
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The mind boggles.

One common thread I've heard in conversations with soldiers who've been to Iraq is that we in the West simply cannot grasp the mindset of people in that part of the world. SImple as it is- it's the only explanation for the idea that Iran can actually contemplate going to war with us.


11 posted on 09/17/2005 5:33:13 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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"Anti-Bush marches in Washington and dozens of other cities with Hollywood figures and other celebrities calling for Bush to be overthrown."

If they call for the overthrow of the elected head of government, it will be alright to shoot them.


12 posted on 09/17/2005 5:33:35 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: F14 Pilot

Looks like they're being fooled by the MSM, too.


13 posted on 09/17/2005 5:33:35 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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Gee, are they going to build a lead shield over their country? Or at least around their nuke reactor?

I wouldn't bother with a conventional ground invasion of Iran, not until we have a six month long air campaign first.

Just think: Iran-the B-52's newest carpet-bombing practice range...

Of course the best thing would be a few well-aimed nuclear missiles...

14 posted on 09/17/2005 5:33:40 PM PDT by Ronzo (Help restore decency in Ameria...hug a Democrat.)
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Interesting, the rumours about Meshed.

In the past few weeks top regime figures, including Khamenehi and Ahmadinejad, have made a series of unscheduled visits to Mash'had, Iran's second largest city. One curious fact revealed during these visits is that a bunker-like structure to house the "supreme guide" is being completed close to the "holy shrine" of Reza, the eighth imam. The complex could also house the top echelon of government, including the president, the Cabinet and members of the Islamic Majlis (Parliament).

The choice of Mash'had is not accidental. The city is located 1,000 km from Tehran and thus as far as possible inside Iran from American fire power in Iraq and the Gulf. The US is also expected to shrink from attacks against the Mash'had bunker for fear of collateral damage to the "holy shrine" of the imam a few hundred yards away.

I wonder what the citizens of Meshed would think of all this.

Certainly, there are a lot of rumours in Iran about the army getting battle ready, in case they get done like Iraq and Afghanistan.

15 posted on 09/17/2005 5:38:13 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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and has convinced itself that it could win

So did the taliban and saddam. It will be the mother of all wars with the holy, supreme whatever crapping in their pants once the US rolls through them.

16 posted on 09/17/2005 5:39:02 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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Iran produces almost nothing of interest for export outside of oil. They are giants only in their own mind (the leadership's that is). This article is nonsensical.


17 posted on 09/17/2005 5:42:50 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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Probably most of Iran's vehement fighters have already blown themselves up after crossing the border into Iraq trying to weaken U.S. resolve.
As Eli Wallach said, "if you're going to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!)


18 posted on 09/17/2005 5:45:21 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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Yes. Let's continue to underestimate the raw horror a free people can cull from their imagination and provoke them into war-- unleashing thousands of nightmares.

That would be the second leg in the axis to fall.


19 posted on 09/17/2005 5:45:35 PM PDT by steveyp
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Incredible though it may sound there are signs that Tehran may be preparing for a military confrontation with the United States, and has convinced itself that it could win.  . . .  The Islamic Republic is a fragile structure in a zone of political earthquakes. Logically, the last thing it should want is war. Nevertheless, former President Muhammad Khatami has warned that Tehran may be boxing itself into a position in which it will either have to surrender or fight.

Not difficult to believe at all.

Islamic Iran is the holy government which sacrificed tens of thousands of children during the the Iran-Iraq War.  Young girls were great at clearing minefields.  Boys made excellent shields during sacrificial human wave attacks, though they often required tethering with rope to discourage their cowardly retreat.

We need the covert services of the free world to provide mucho technical and cash assistance to anyone willing to relieve these mullahs and their revolutionary incubuses of their satanic lives, and return them straight to the hell which spawned them.

20 posted on 09/17/2005 5:46:46 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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