Do the words "Oil for Food" ring a bell?
Posted on 01/12/2007 9:33:40 PM PST by do the dhue
Edited on 01/13/2007 3:46:43 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON - An order from President Bush authorized a series of U.S. raids against Iranians in Iraq as part of a broad military offensive, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
Bush issued the order several months ago, Rice told The New York Times as she prepared to visit the Middle East. She said the president acted "after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity" among Iranians in Iraq "and increasing lethality in what they were producing."
Five Iranians were detained by U.S.-led forces this week after a raid on an Iranian government liaison office in northern Iraq, a move that has frayed even further the relations between the two countries. The United States accuses Iran of helping provide roadside bombs that have killed American troops in Iraq, and a bitter standoff already exists over Tehran's nuclear program.
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Every fanatical jihadist, either Sunni, Shi'ite, Iranian, Saudi, Al-Qaida, homegrown Iraqi's, Syrian, Hezballah and on & on are abusing Iraq in their inter-Islamic power plays. While all of these killers target our troops when they are not slaughtering each other.
Do the words "Oil for Food" ring a bell?
Or a flat oug act of war in 1898
You know that looks an awful like a certain hag that sometimes hangs out around the Bush Ranch.
GOOD!
Well, I would hope so. He is the boss, after all.
Sign up a thousand Caterpillar D9's (I'm sure some grey beard drivers would be willing to volunteer for a couple months in the Army as specialists for this mission), ship them by train to a few ports, put them on a few big ships, take them to the nearest big port to Mecca, get off, drive to Mecca, and level the damn place ... Then come back, and return to their normal work. The drivers would each get a special medal from the President.
Do it all quite up front, just like any other one time bit engineering task.
Micro-managing.Should be the local area commanders call.Oh the political ramifications,Its a war and its not being fought like one.
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It does doesn't it!!!
This kinda ties in withe the plot of a book I'm reading right now: "Wildfire", about a nuclear MAD type strategy. It goes like this, the U.S. gov't has issued to all the Arab countries a list of Arab cities that WILL be nuked if a nuclear or Bio weapon of mass destruction goes off in our country. Mecca is NOT on that list. Mecca is on list B if it ever happens a second time.
I'm wondering if this idea has anything to do with our "luck" in not being struck in the five years since Sept 11 2001 ?
Why? Were they causing global warming?
Why in God's name did they wait so long?
Well no kidding. Things were much simpler in the ole days of WWII. Just put some force to bear, and, voila. Done. Folks have no idea what real war is. There hasn't been 'real' war since WWII when we incinerated cities and whole populations. I guarantee we bring that back things would change real quick.
Ya know I've been advocating that for quite some time. Exactly the idea. Publish a list of cities and towns, and, say, next terrorist attack, one of those on the list goes up in smoke. At random. The bigger the attack, the bigger the city. Call it 'proportional'. After the first one or two, they'd probably figure out we mean business and it'd all be over.
"Publish a list of cities and towns, and, say, next terrorist attack, one of those on the list goes up in smoke."
Exactly....and we should start with Tehran. You're absolutely right. Time to play hard ball.
If our troops are in "hot pursuit" of the Iranian pukes, do they get to follow them back into Iran?
Imagine that, those little fellers were hiding right over those nuclear facilities. I guess we shouldn't have used those nuclear powered sledgehammers to swat those pesky nats, huh. :)
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