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The Case For Invading Iran
Winds of Change ^ | January 19, 2006 | Thomas Holsinger

Posted on 01/19/2006 10:06:39 AM PST by Thud

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1 posted on 01/19/2006 10:06:43 AM PST by Thud
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To: Dog Gone; Shermy; Gophack; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Dark Wing

ping


2 posted on 01/19/2006 10:07:16 AM PST by Thud
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To: Thud

The Case For Invading Iran

with what army?


3 posted on 01/19/2006 10:08:52 AM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Thud

Fool me twice ...


4 posted on 01/19/2006 10:10:40 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Flavius

Thomas Holsinger is leading the charge....


5 posted on 01/19/2006 10:11:01 AM PST by dakine
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To: Thud
I've been thinking about Bin Laden's offer of truce and how it relates to Iran.

If we turn down his offer of truce (which we certainly ought to do), and then in the months to come, we attack Iran (which we certainly ought to do), then world opinion may be easily swayed that we are an aggressive, imperial power which is looking to profit from war and has no interest in peace.

I fear that we will be in an awkward place. If the UN were worth anything at all, it would take the lead on Iran. But I don't expect that to happen!

6 posted on 01/19/2006 10:11:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Thud

Never send an infantryman to do an ICBM warhead's job.


7 posted on 01/19/2006 10:12:32 AM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (MORE COWBELL! MORE COWBELL! (CLANK-CLANK-CLANK))
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To: ClearCase_guy

"we attack Iran (which we certainly ought to do)"

You're ready to roll?


8 posted on 01/19/2006 10:13:34 AM PST by dakine
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

I think this time..lets just send some big nukes.....a couple ought to get their attention....


9 posted on 01/19/2006 10:14:59 AM PST by Youngman442002
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To: Thud

Yeah, lets set a precedent that we invade and occuppy ALL the wacko regimes that are going to aquire this going on a century old technology. //first time i have ever noted sarcasm///


10 posted on 01/19/2006 10:16:44 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: Thud

maybe you should wait for hillary to become prez, then at least the trouble will land in the right hands. let the dems then endure all the anti-war activities.


11 posted on 01/19/2006 10:17:16 AM PST by seppel
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To: dakine
Imperial Japan took the city of Nanking and murdered 300,000 civilians. The world did nothing.
Nazi Germany took Austria through "peaceful" means which included assassination of Austrian politicians. The world did nothing.
Nazi Germany took the Sudatenland. The world did nothing.

The Mullahs of Iran will have a nuclear weapon very soon. The question is: Do we fight Iran before they launch or after?

Yeah, I'm ready to roll.

12 posted on 01/19/2006 10:17:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Thud

Not going to happen. As much as I despise the Mullahs, the people CHOSE them with their 1979 Revolution. They need to deal with it in the same way we dealt with our own Civil War back in the day.


13 posted on 01/19/2006 10:19:16 AM PST by Windsong (Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
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To: Thud

I don't think we should invade Iran. We need to bomb their nukes to smithereens, take out Abajaheedin and his fanatical pals, and help the Iranians help themselves.


14 posted on 01/19/2006 10:19:22 AM PST by cloud8
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To: When do we get liberated?
Weapons, smeapons. Let's establish the precedent right here right now that we do not tolerate wacko regimes, period. And off them all. Remember "we make no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them"? It is a war, silly.

You might as well object in WW II, "oh great, now we are going to take on all the fascists in the world." Well yeah, that's sort of the whole point.

15 posted on 01/19/2006 10:20:14 AM PST by JasonC
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To: JasonC

Actually WW2 was a declared war between the Allies and the Tri partite pact. Never was a "war on fascism"


16 posted on 01/19/2006 10:24:58 AM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: Thud

Fighting against Iran would be a piece of cake compared to the battle we'd have to fight against the Deans and Schumers and Kennedys at home.


17 posted on 01/19/2006 10:26:32 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: DoctorZIn

ping


18 posted on 01/19/2006 10:27:20 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
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To: Thud

I agree with the author. We must invade this year. If the Iranians counterattack with a nuke, that should not slow us down, but rather make the need for invasion and overthrow even more important to accomplish.


19 posted on 01/19/2006 10:36:45 AM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nonsense. Those that will believe it, already do. Those that don't, won't change their minds.


20 posted on 01/19/2006 10:37:58 AM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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