Posted on 12/15/2005 9:13:11 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Edited on 12/15/2005 9:28:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Lest you get carried away with today's good news from Iraq, consider what's happening next door in Iran. The wild pronouncements of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have gotten sporadic press ever since he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. He subsequently amended himself to say that Israel should simply be extirpated from the Middle East map and moved to some German or Austrian province. Perhaps near the site of an old extermination camp?
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Ahmadinejad was installed by the mullahs. The "election" was completed orchestrated. This guy was never elected... plain and simple. I hope Iranians will take matters into their own hands before Israel strikes. If Israel strikes... people friendly to the U.S. in Iran will turn against us, and the Islamist movement will solidify. Ahmadinejad is a whacko and hopefully he will be dealt with before things break loose.
Trash talk, plain, simple, and obvious.
That statement is not true, of course. Within the next two years, unless Iran's direction makes an unexpected turn, Israel will unleash the Dogs of War. Whatever steps Israel takes, they will be a surprise for all. Iran is planning for the worst, with the idea that it can survive and then eventually destroy Israel. But the truth is, Iran, in just two years, will cease to exist.
For me and mine, death before Shira.
He's also assuming that he and/or his regime will survive an attack. There's nothing stopping us from also taking *him* out, as well as every single mullah in power that we can target (hopefully we have men tracking their movements 24/7 right now). There's also nothing stopping us from simultaneously sending a "free Iranian" division across the Iran-Iraq border and making sure that anything they meet has an advance date with some cruise missiles (I'm oversimplifying, but you get the picture).
Israel needs to strike first and do it soon. It worked back in the early 80s and set back Iraq's nuclear program by at least a decade
Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the maniacal islamics, and N. Korea should be placed on formal notice that any nuclear attack by anybody upon anybody will result in the immediate elimination of their entire populace from the face of the earth. Oh, and the good news will be, that with modern technology, we will still be avble to harvest their remaining natural resources.
I don't think Israel alone has the resources to do this job. Iran's nuke facilities are too numerous, too well defended, and too far from Israel. If Iran's nuke capability is to be destroyed by an outside force, that force will come from the U.S.A.
That said, it is my expectation that by January 2009, Iran will be far less capable of producing nuclear weapons as compared to today. One way or another.
Axis of Evil bump
Perhaps we should start referring to, the "War in Ira*"
I do not agree. Clinton got away with lobbing missiles at Iraq and bombing Serbia.
I believe G.W. Bush will make use of some heavy firepower before he leaves office.
"Ahhhh, what's that glow over there?"
"That is the glow from the bombed nuclear facility. It is the contamination that you see lighting the area."
Mind if I borrow that?
I kinda think they realize that... IMO they will NOT strike at all, but will provide the weapon to terrorists who will do the job for them.
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