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Is a U.S.-Iran War Inevitable?
TIME ^ | Robert Baer, former CIA field officer

Posted on 03/29/2007 11:44:39 AM PDT by maquiladora

You wouldn't be wrong to wonder if Iran hasn't lost its mind seizing the fifteen British marines and sailors, and in so doing, handing Bush a causus belli even he couldn't have imagined.

But then again you'd be missing the grim fatalism that has settled over Iran of late, the resigned belief that a war with the U.S. is all but inevitable.

(...snip...)

I called up an Arab Gulf security official and asked him what he thought about it all. He said the view from his side of the Gulf is that if Iran does not soon release the Brits, a war between the U.S. and Iran is in the cards. "I for one am taking all the cash I can out of my ATM," he said before he hanging up.

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1 posted on 03/29/2007 11:44:39 AM PDT by maquiladora
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To: jeffers; Dog

ping


2 posted on 03/29/2007 11:46:14 AM PDT by jhpigott
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To: maquiladora

Iran has been at war with the US since 1979.


3 posted on 03/29/2007 11:46:28 AM PDT by AU72
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To: maquiladora
Is a U.S.-Iran War Inevitable?

Not at all. So long as we cravenly give into their every demand, there won't be a war.

4 posted on 03/29/2007 11:47:42 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: maquiladora

Unless we surrender first...


5 posted on 03/29/2007 11:48:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: maquiladora

bookmark and bttt


6 posted on 03/29/2007 11:48:22 AM PDT by Chena
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To: maquiladora
It's a casus belli for GB.
7 posted on 03/29/2007 11:48:25 AM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz; Repeal the Treaty)
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To: maquiladora
Absolutely not.But an Iranian-Israeli war is.And knowing the Israelis it will be over in hours and will render parts of Iran unfit as tourist destinations for about 10,000 years.
8 posted on 03/29/2007 11:48:35 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: maquiladora

I was struck by:

>Add this to the rest of the bad news coming out of the Gulf, and things look pretty grim. The "surge", despite what some claim, has barely made a dent in the violence in Iraq.<

With nary a fact or a figure to back it up. Bias, what Bias?


9 posted on 03/29/2007 11:48:53 AM PDT by NoBullZone
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To: maquiladora

Here's a quick summary: It's all Bush's fault. ;-)


10 posted on 03/29/2007 11:48:57 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: maquiladora

Hopefully, yes.


11 posted on 03/29/2007 11:49:30 AM PDT by pissant (Gimme a beer, wench.)
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To: maquiladora
causus casus belli

May as well get that out of the way.

12 posted on 03/29/2007 11:49:37 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: maquiladora
I think Iran thinks Bush is a Jimmy Carter...
13 posted on 03/29/2007 11:49:38 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: maquiladora

So Time finds a way to blame the US no matter what. Shocking.


14 posted on 03/29/2007 11:50:18 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: maquiladora

According to Rosie O'Donnell it is.


15 posted on 03/29/2007 11:50:30 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: maquiladora
Our Arab allies are jumping ship, apparently as fast as they can.

Of course Democratic Congresscritters had nothing to do with that, did they?

16 posted on 03/29/2007 11:50:40 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: maquiladora

War with Iran is inevitable. Since 1979 war has been looming... it's only going to be a lot hotter. We should have defeated and toppled the Islamic Republic in it's infancy. The longer we wait the worse the war will be.


17 posted on 03/29/2007 11:50:52 AM PDT by SolidWood (Islam is an insanity cult that makes everyone act Arab)
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To: maquiladora

... and a time for every purpose under Heaven.

Let's Roll!


18 posted on 03/29/2007 11:50:54 AM PDT by Lexington Green (Every American killed by a Mexican truck is a homicide committed by our leaders..)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Israel's war to get their own prisoners back last summer didn't go very well did it? How would a war with Iran be faster?


19 posted on 03/29/2007 11:52:17 AM PDT by sissyjane (Fred!!)
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To: maquiladora

As long as the Iranian people let their Armegghedon obsessed apocolyptic little Mahdi devotee call the shots I'd say war with the West is inevitable. Soon. Ahmadinejihad has been prophesying, that's what it amounts to, about war with the US and Israel this Spring. It's what he wants and unless his people stop him it's what he'll get.


20 posted on 03/29/2007 11:52:20 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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