Posted on 07/18/2006 8:15:39 PM PDT by FARS
"The only question will be if our nukes get to Iran first or Israel's. I wonder if we have an Ohio class within range. Two dozen Tridents full of fun and old Mahadi-12 is gonna have to stay in that well for another thousand years."
my friend, there's ALWAYS an OHIO or Fast Attack with nuclear armed Tomahawks in range of anyplace on this planet 24x7.
USS Hammerhead SSN 663 (DECOM)...out.
From the Energy Information Administration:
"The top sources of US crude oil imports for May were Canada (1.877 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.576 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (1.457 million barrels per day), Venezuela (1.169 million barrels per day), and Nigeria (1.075 million barrels per day). The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were Iraq (0.666 million barrels per day), Angola (0.356 million barrels per day), Algeria (0.350 million barrels per day), Russia (0.255 million barrels per day), and Ecuador (0.239 million barrels per day)."
US domestic production is 4.21 million barrels per day.
Well, if they are going to blow up the world today, they've only got 2 hour and 15 minutes. It's 8:45 p.m. in Tehran.
If it's 8:45, then they have 3 hours and 15 minutes. :)
They could be trying to rattle the (oil) markets to shake the money tree some more. Rush just said earlier that oil futures dipped below $73.
"" I still would like to know what Bush meant when he said, "...stop this sh$t...It's over." "
One could hope that he means that the pretense about some sort of "rights" of Hezbolla terrorists, and states that let the operate, is OVER.
But then, Condi still has all the RINOs, liberals, permanent government types in her shop plus all the nervous-nelly Senators that don't have Bush's gonads; so it will be a contest as to how long Bush can hold out - how long we can let Israel do what it has to do - before the Roman U.S. Senate will confirm its status as a living appendage of the LameStreamMedia.
Look, no one is going to argue with the projected/expected/can-be-expected/probable/near-ready
still-developing/onward-marching Iranian desire to have nukes. That goes without saying.
The rest is strategy, not means, and the strategy, even with an insane mullah, considers what is the value of something and "a nuke" has used 100% of its value as soon as it is used, because that use, whether they mean it to be or not, is an end-game event, in which the resources we have, in any circumstances, are sufficient to and will be brought together to END THE GAME at its sources.
Can they hurt us? Yes. Can they defeat or detroy us? No. And anytime they think they can they will only find their annihilation; and I think they know that.
That math is from The Abyss. :)
" Why would Iran want to do this?"
Not Iran as a country, Iran as the vehicle for Ahmadi-Nejad and his vision of being the representative of the 12th Imam on earth and becoming the "leader" of the Moslem world by wiping out Israel and thus meriting the position and admiration.
Yeah, 50KT was in '86 payload :)
FYI there are some VERY capable people working on that and more as we speak. Way above my station.
I would rather that the sands of the Arabian Peninsula are glowing than the fields of Illinois.
I don't sense that this guy is calling the shots. He's just a puppet for the uneducated and illiterate @sshole clerics over there.
"I wonder if we have an Ohio class within range."
I'll just bet we might.
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad has declared he will make an announcement - earliest on Wednesday July 19th, 2006 or in the next few days"
Well, the civilized world is waiting with baited breath...and the muslim world is waiting with fetid breath...
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