Posted on 08/23/2006 5:25:06 AM PDT by nuconvert
btt
"I survived 8/22" ...
I wish I had't sold my house for beer money. Oh well, at least I don't have to pay a mortgage, and I still have 3 cases of beer left under the bridge.
Guess I'll change my shoes.
D@&*! The college bills, too.
I guess Apocalypalooza 2006 bombed out.....or not, as the case may be.
Yesterday on Howie Carr's show(WRKO Boston)... Col. David Hunt said that we should 'talk'... with the Iranians. It literally made my skin crawl to hear a man of his background promote appeasement.
I'm afraid all the people who are being sarcastic and smug about Aug. 22 being over, aren't heeding the advice and warning in the last paragraph.
The Iranian regime would like people to be lulled into a false sense of security. And it seems to be working.
Folks don't doubt the seriousness of the situation,
but the hysteria mentality is excellent fodder for a healthy dose of battlefield humor.
what a disappointment!
Now hold on, I agree with the idea, just not the message. We should "talk" to the Irainians. We should calmly tell them that play time is over. At the slightest indication of talk-back, we should put some cruise missiles into the factories that are making roadside bombs, to kill American service men, and close the border Iraqi border w/ Iran. We, should once again "talk" to them and reiterate that playtime is over.
At that point, we should play it by ear. I am sure that as the Iranians hop around, mad as hell, because we blew up their factories, they'll give us a multitude of opportunities to refocus the discussion.
Rove's "Universal-All-Encompassing/ Hurricane/Flood/Fire/Tsunami/Terrorist-Plot/Anti-Fitzmas machine" is out for maintenance?
(sigh) Laundry, lawn, and that project deadline next week...
I don't care how many fatwas they sent, the 22nd came, and the 22nd went...
Although I insisted that nothing of importance would happen on 8/22, I think it would be wise to look at what DID happen on that day from the POV of the Iranians. My take on this as follows:
8/22 was not intended to be a day of worldwide destruction, but the opening shot in a germinating plan of attack against the West. Given the wargaming Iran has been undertaking, the most critical event of the day was the takeover of the Romanian oil platform. This maneuver was nothing less than a low-risk exercise which tested the Iranian military's ability to confront a foreign power and divest them of their oil facility. THAT WAS THE OPENING SHOT. This should not be lost on anyone watching from a safe distance. In conjunction with the testing of a short range missile, plus the continued objection to any sort of suspension of its nuclear program, if we step back from the 8/22 hysteria, we will find that Iran, indeed, may have planted the first seed of their worldwide jihad.
And my firm belief, reinforced by the actions on 8/22, are that Iran's bellicose rhetoric against Israel is a clever feint - that Ahmadinejad has his sites firmly set on Saudi Arabia and their vast oil industry. The purpose of the nuclear program is not to drop a nuclear bomb on Israel, but to facilitate a conventional takeover of not only Mecca and Medina, but especially the Saudi oil fields - which would make Iran a virtual economic superpower almost overnight, controlling almost 40% of the world oil supply while holding a nuclear gun to the head of Europe and daring them to do something about it.
Guess we'll just have to wait until next year, huh?
[not that i'm looking forward to the "party". i'd rather skip the whole bloody deal]
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