Posted on 04/15/2006 9:53:03 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
You gotta feel a little or a lot of empathy for the poor-sap-citizens who sit around and let this *sshole pop off and put all of the people of the country in the eye of some serious glass.
This crisis is beyond serious. Our nukes are not going to be used to send Iran to the 10th century, if they are used at all. Conventional airpower can do great damage, but is our intel adequate to serve up all the targets we need to get on the first try? I don't know. Does anyone? These maniacs have picked the absolute best time to strut. We are involved in a conflict which grows increasingly unpopular and which is stretching our conventional resources. We are unpopular around the world. Our President seems hamstrung by the unpopularity of his policies and the despicable backstabbing done them by Dems and some GOPers. The last thing Bush wants is another conflict and I think Iran knows this. So watch them strut and prance on the stage until they really have a true deliverable nuke or until Israel takes matters into its own hands. Ours, meanwhiler are IMO tied.
My husband and I LOVE your tag line! Did you patent that one? Where can we buy a bumper sticker? My hubby wants to put that one on one of his trucks! :)
China, Russia, India, and Europe don't want us to get into the war with Iran.
Iran has 5% of the world's oil. If we do respond to aggressive ravings from Ahmadinejad, there will probably be a Global shortfall in the amount of oil available. This will probably last about a decade. A decade of a shortfall in oil will lead to a Global Depression. The Straights of Hormuz will probably close, so there won't be much oil coming out of the Persian Gulf.
The United States might be able to survive. A decade is a long time.
Much of Iran is mountainous. Iran does have more military forces than Iraq did. Iraq was sanctioned for many years. Iran probably has some aircraft and missles. Iran has operational control of Hizbollah, and maybe strong influence over the majority Shia' Muslims in Iraq. Tehran is in a valley, I believe. The CIA world fact book probably has more information on Iran. The Iranian intelligence apparatus is probably much more formidable. (Though honestly, with some of the pronouncements coming from Ahmadinejad, sometimes I question that.)
If Ahmadinejad does draw us into the fight, China might decide that now is the time to Take back possession of Taiwan, and while it is being militant, it might also go for Japan. Russia could decide to take parts of Europe.
Russia has resources (oil), both China and the US need oil. If we are drawn into Iran, we probably won't continue with the globalization program of manufacturing goods in China and shipping them across the world. That will have other effects.
We will give then enough rope to hang themselves. We'll wait untill their intentions are obvious to even the brain dead Euros. We;ll eventually get everyone on board , then one morning , before sunrise in Iran ..BANG ..We won't use ground troops , it will be done swiftly and with mind boggling force.
"They really do want to go up in a puff of smoke don't they."
Send em straight to hell, where they belong.
They couldn't defeat Iraq when Iraq had no allies. Wonder what they think they can do now, when Iraq is full of GI's. Still, this crap is tiring and my patience grows short. Soon we will have to shut the mouths of these drooling barking dogs..
He'll be down in that well looking for the twelfth imam and asking "where did I go wrong?"
Sounds more like the Poodle to me. I think we should check the source on this one, sounds alot like the Dems talking points to me.
Not really. They should have struck soon after we invaded Iraq. That was when we were most busy with internal conflict and logistical administration problems. They have actually waited too long. But that is their problem.
We are involved in a conflict which grows increasingly unpopular and which is stretching our conventional resources.
War should never be 'popular'. It should only be necessary. What the moonbats think has been irrelevant since 911.
We are unpopular around the world.
That is a problem with the world. Not with US. At least one half of the worlds population is either Islamic or socialistic. We want to be unpopular to them.
Our President seems hamstrung by the unpopularity of his policies and the despicable backstabbing done them by Dems and some GOPers. The last thing Bush wants is another conflict and I think Iran knows this.
The current Iraq conflict is the same conflict as the coming Iran conflict. Here is the proof.
"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," General Safavi said with a grin.
which one? the ? or the 'dope'?
Either one or both, go ahead and if you make a bumper sticker, please let me know and I will give you my addy and pay for one on my car, truck, 5th wheel and jeep.....
I hope you're right. I would hate to wake up and find out most of North America is without power because the terrorists in Iran denonated a nuclear in our atmosphere and the EM pulse killed all the electrical components in the USA.
We were intrigued by the "plant a lib" one! :) If we have one printed, I promise to send one to ya! You get all the credit my friend! Maybe a freeper has the ability to make these and then FR can sell them and give a portion to FR? Either way - happy day to you today!
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