[Aquinasfan]

"Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and Basij should prepare themselves to get even with Zionists and Americans,"

They couldn't beat Iraq, but they are ready to take on the US and Israel? They are delusional.

[xzins]

The US would defeat the Iranian Army in less than 2 weeks.

As long as we think we needed to occupy, we could capture and imprison the current government, and then leave.

Once Iran goes nuclear, though, we would be less willing to pay the necessary price.

Now is the time to take down Iran.

[balk]

Relevant Carrier Groups:
(nearest is Kitty Hawk, Enterprise also in the sphere, but that's it...)


CV-63 Kitty Hawk - Indian Ocean

CVN-65 Enterprise - Sunda Sea

CVN-69 Dwight D. Eisenhower - Norfolk

CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt - Norfolk

CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln - Everett

CVN-73 George Washington - Norfolk

CVN-74 John C. Stennis - EastPac

CVN-75 Harry S. Truman - Norfolk

CVN-76 Ronald Reagan - San Diego

[SE Mom]

whoa..

[redgolum]

Here we go.

God help us, things are going to get interesting.

[SE Mom]

Bill Gertz..usually reliable..

[Vindicator1]

Looks like it's clobberin' time!

[for-q-clinton]

It's not a real threat until the French formally surrender. Until then it's just noise.

[JustDoItAlways]

It seems that a lot of signals are pointing out that we should be ready for a surprise major-scale attack of some kind.

Not that I think the Iranians and North Koreans and Syrians are dumb enough to start a war with us, but it certianly seems that our military forces should be on some kind of alert or preparedness mode.

Pearl Harbour, for example, had enough warnings that a few simple precautions and we could have turned the surprise attack into a surprise counter-attack.

I still think it is extremely unlikely, but a few thermonukes should be warmed up and ready to go cause that is the only reponse we got that doesn't take months to prepare for.

[P-Marlowe]

I suspect this may have something to do with the London bomb plot. If Iran is behind it, then I think we need to just do a couple of hundred flyovers with B52's on Tehran. No troops, no Operation Iranian Freedom, just bomb them back to the Stone Age and then blockade their harbors and shoot anyone trying to cross into Iraq or Afghanistan.

It will probably cost us all about a dollar or two a gallon, but we need to take out their oil fields and every energy producing plant they have. Then let them spend the next 20 years in the dark.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

21:15 Mubarak accuses U.S. of failing to act quickly enough to defuse Lebanon crisis (AP)

[SE Mom]

bttt

[BJClinton]

One Ohio-class in the Indian Ocean would make this a very short war.

[kcvl]

*Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: "The U.S., the Zionists and Malicious European Superpowers Seek to Root Out Islam from the Region"


Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said, at a traditional Shiite celebration marking the birth of 'Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, that "today, it is the duty of entire Islamic society to defend Hizbullah... The Muslim peoples are currently in the grip of two terrible realities: [One is] the ongoing catastrophe in Lebanon and Palestine and the massacre of innocent children and [civilians] at the hands of the Zionist regime, [and the other] is the division [that exists] among the Muslim countries, which is especially [due to the behavior of] some Arab countries that watch [the events] and keep silent. Such behavior is entirely wrong and harmful...

[humblegunner]

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and Basij should prepare themselves to get even with Zionists and Americans

"Get even"???

What, are these guys like 12-year-olds or something?

[stevie_d_64]

Yawn...(again)

I have full confidence that we can and will make short work of whatever it is they (Iran) thinks they are going to do...

If all they have are a bunch of ugly women in black burka garb carrying wooden replica's of AK-47's, and a bunch of prancing yellow scarved sissy-boys in the streets...

I see this going very well for us...

[gidget7]

Check this out:

General Black Jack Pershing

Born September 13th, 1860 near Laclede, MS, died July 15th, 1948 in Washington DC. Highlights of his life include:
1891 Prof. of Military Science and Tactics, Univ. of Nebraska
1898 Serves in Spanish-American War
1901 Awarded rank of Captain
1906 Promoted to rank of Brigaier General
1909 Military Governor of Moro Province, Philippines
1916 Made Major General
1919 Promoted to General of the Armies
1921 Appointed Chief of Staff
1924 Retires from active duty Education West Point

Just before World War 1, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the United States forces in the Philippines by Muslim extremists. So General Pershing captured 50 terrorists and had them tied to posts for executions. He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the now horrified terrorists. Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won't even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, it's meat, it's blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from paradise (and all those virgins) and doomed to hell. The soldiers then soaked their bullets in the pigs blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The solders then dug a whole, dumped in the bodies of the terrorists and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc. Then let the 50th man go. And for the next forty two years, there was not a single Muslim extremist attack anywhere in the world. Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, maybe in Iraq? Maybe in Iran.......Syria?? The question is, where do we find another Black Jack Pershing??

Think about it, if the word got out our military, likewise the military of our allies, all of them, were using this method on our bullets and bombs, that alone could stop these terrorists, and do it fast! May sound silly and too easy to be effective, but it could also work!

[Perdogg]

I wonder if Mike Wallace asked about this.

[tillacum]

What do the Persians think of this arab ruling their country, and what are they trying to do about it?

[Chode]

Iran has WON the Toss, and elected to receive...