Posted on 02/23/2007 5:31:04 PM PST by blam
As impressive as the carrier fleet can be, it doesn't compare to the influence our presence in Iraq has in stabilizing the region. if we were to pull out, one would have to ask, "At what cost would it take to reenter the region? Would we have to land by sea and where, assuming we would no longer have any friends? Those who said it was all about oil were right, since the region can, at their choice, destroy the world economy."
I'm sorry to have to say so but even if everything goes bad in Iraq, we STILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN A PRESENCE, AT WHATEVER THE COST.
I think the task forces are there to react only...
What needs to be done with Iran, the demonrats will torpedo!
Israel is calm before the storm.
Yup. GWB said very deliberately "we're not going to attack Iran". We will react with overwhelming force if attacked though.
A hell of a lot readier than if we wait a couple more years so that Iran can get stronger with Russian ordinance and other "help".....including more Russian "advisors".
Someday, we will have to clean up Russia too. That has been coming for a long time.
(But, shhhhhhhhhhh, it's a secret. We don't want the Iranians to know what we're up t . . . . )
Never mind!! The Brits blabbed the whole secret that we were . . . . . . uh, going to wish Ahmanutjob "Happy Birthday!" (Yeah, that's it!)
Thanks a lot, blabbermouths!!!
I'm not so sure. I think most of the baby boomers are getting a little too old.
It's a JOKE!!!!!
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/BMD_Watch_Trident_Subs_Will_Fight_Terror.html
know some guys working on this one right now
:o)
Why wait? I wouldn't. Let's just say they did fire on us and then annihilate their primitive a**e* -- well, at least seize the oil and otherwise annihilate their government, command and control, nuke sites, army, navy, air force, heavy industry, infrastructure (airports, bridges, electrical, water, sewage, radio and television), and any centers of resistance... All by air. The population we should spare and give it a chance to take its revenge on the mullahs. However, if it stupidly decided to side with the mullahs, then we could really take the gloves off.
Yes, I'm sick of dealing with these backward f'n cavemen.
He's got no more political capital to lose, so he'll go for it.
When he leaves office he will shoulder the responsibility for the "world hating us" and give the new admin a reason to be conciliatory and present a new face to the world.
Israel seeks US green light for Iran attack: report
(AFP)
24 February 2007
LONDON - Israel is seeking permission from the United States to fly its jets over Iraq to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph newspaper said on Saturday, citing sources.
A senior Israeli defence official told the conservative British broadsheet in a dispatch from Tel Aviv that negotiations were taking place for the US-led coalition in Iraq to provide an “air corridor” over Iraq if the Jewish state decided on unilateral action.
“We are planning for every eventuality, and sorting out issues such as these are crucial,” the official said.
“If we don’t sort these issues out we could have a situation where American and Israeli war planes start shooting at each other.”
Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has in the past called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a report Thursday saying that Iran had not halted, and in fact had expanded, its uranium enrichment programme, defying a United Nations Security Council demand to stop by this week.
The United States, France and Britain have called for tougher Security Council sanctions on Tehran, while Germany, China and Russia have taken softer stances. Iran denies US charges that it seeks nuclear weapons.
An Israeli officer involved in the military planning told The Daily Telegraph: “One of the last issues we have to sort out is how we actually get to the targets in Iran. The only way to do this is to fly through US-controlled air space in Iraq.”
A senior Israeli security official who works on the strategic committee set up to deal with the Iran threat, chaired by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said: “The amount of effort we are putting into this single issue is unprecedented in the history of the State of Israel,” the newspaper reported.
Israel has refused to rule out pre-emptive military action against Iran. Israeli warplanes in 1981 destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad after suspecting Iraq of aiming to build nuclear weapons.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/February/middleeast_February392.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
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And The Plot Thickens,,,Interesting...
Now What's Gunna Happen ??...
(popcorn time)
LOL! The French would likely agree.
One can only hope. The only thing worse than a war with Iran now, is a war with Iran later.
Erasmus was from Rotterdam.
Had a thought : attack from the caspian sea thru afghanistan. It sounds crazy, yes? And yet NOBODY, not even the iranins, have considered such a seaborne invasion route. Oriental philosophy, attack from the unexpected direction.
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