Posted on 04/29/2006 10:17:44 AM PDT by Mount Athos
"Notably absent on the list is any mention of an attack on US soil."
check again:
"casualties by exploding germ and chemical bombs as well as dirty nuclear bombs across western and Arab cities."
"Western" does not necessarily include the US. It could just mean Europe.
These guys really need to cut back on their recreational drug use.
I am not sure that lower polls means war, I would think that higher polls would mean public support of his actions, a blind obedience sort of thing, while war under an unpopular president would send his polls to the floor if there is no direct confrontation or action.
They speak Farsi. (Most of them) Iranian is a nationality. Ethnicly most are Persian.
The Iranian joint chiefs of staff is headed by a Camel Doctor? ROTFLMAO.
Unfortunately we don't. The MOAB was never put into production, although some of the prototypes were reported to have been deployed to Southwest Asia, but AFAIK, were never used. We do have, or had, other interesting goodies. Various Fuel Air Explosives (although all seem to have been withdrawn from service and destroyed during the time of the Toon.) for relatively soft surface targets, and this little gem, GBU-24 w/BLU-116 Advanced Penetrator Warhead for the buried targets.
I know. I just wanted him to be aware of the bigger and better stuff that we have available now.
President Bush can't be reelected anyway, what does he care about polls, either way? What he may care about is "legacy". He doesn't want to end up like the 'toon, with opportunities not taken being remembered more than his actual accomplishments, (which of course the 'toon didn't have).
Maybe we should pull a Kaiser Soze and take these installations out ourselves before busting a cap in the hoodlums.
Iran is the mouthpiece for other nations. And I put Syrai at the top of that list.
Well said!
Perhaps the impact will be on the American people who can rise up to support an Administration with a spine and a set.
Boy, how true is your tagline!
That pathetic excuse for a Commander in Chief has been responsible for more hate, discontent and deaths through his sheer stupidity and incompetence than any other US President in history.
What I find utterly amazing is how even among conservatives, there seems to be a reluctance to make any mention of Jimmy Carter being responsible for the current Islamofascist regime in Iran being in power. Nobody else pulled the rug out from under the Shah of Iran but Jimmy.
But do we hear this on Fox News? No. The only notable conservative voice that we've heard anything about this from lately has been Michael Reagan, God Bless him.
Now try to imagine if you will, how the Shah (and his son, who would have inherited the Peacock Throne after the Shah's death) would have been a force for stability in the Middle East if the Assahollah Khomeini had died in exile in France (totally appropo too), the radicals had never seized power, and the U.S. and Iran had remained allies to this day. I daresay that even Saddam Hussein would not have been the threat to the region that he evolved into because the Shah was the U.S. bulldog on the block who would have kept Saddam in check. Kuwait would never have been invaded. The Straits of Hormuz would be under the control of a solid friend of the U.S., Israel would not be faced with any threat from Tehran, as the Shah had no quarrel with them, and the entire course of history would have been different.
But because of that one incompetent, ignorant, arrogant SOB Carter, the Middle East descended into the cauldron of terrorism that is threatening to set the whole damn world on fire.
Once again, and never can it be said too many times, "thanks Jimmy Carter, for NOTHING!"
Yes...there are at least five instances that make me ashamed of my country's foreign policy:
1.) Throwing Chiang Kai Shek to the dogs after WWII.
2.) Bay of Pigs
3.) Leaving South Vietnam without support after we pulled out.
4.) Treatment of the Shah of Iran.
5.) Inciting Shiites to rebellion under Saddam Hussein, then turning our backs on them when they did.
Even if it doesn't, it send that all important message: "threaten us, and we might take you seriously."
Total war vs a nation...would it last a week?
That may be what they call it. We should call it "glass parking lot day" (for those un-informed, a glass parking lot is what remains after a nuke blast on the desert countries)
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