[Salem]

  Bush, putting da' squeeze on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mad Mullahs.

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AMERICA AT WAR
At Salem the Soldier's Homepage ~
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links...  by backhoe
Translated Pre-War IRAQ Documents  by jveritas
Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....  by PsyOp
"PLAES DO NOT TOCH THE WAR"  by AnnaZ
The Clash of Ideologies - A Review

"...It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]

"...That the totalitarian force pitted against freedom wears a religious makes this civil war among mankind all the more difficult to engage. Loving freedom as we do, it seems reprehensible to deliberate against a religion. But this is no ordinary religion as it demands absolute obedience of all to their religion at the cost of freedom itself." [FReeper Backtothestreets]

[Salem]

  I forgot. I read this at LittleGreenFootballs first.

[Fred Nerks]

We want to have them entirely surrounded.

[BlueDragon]

"...the largest U.S. Naval armada in the Persian Gulf since 2003, came floating up unannounced..."

Unannounced? Ha. My own SBD's arrive unannounced.

The fact that one carrier group was going to be replacing another on-station, was broadcast long beforehand, by no less than the U.S. Government, itself. So the group there previously , hung around for a while after their relief group arrived. Like we thought they wouldn't???

The Iranians have a fair idea of what we have, and what we're capable of, at least more of a 'fair idea' than Saddam did, in his infantile fantasies of what would happen to his military.
I think they're betting that if we don't actually put boots on the ground [which would be hell for THEM, and for us most likely, too] we wouldn't be able to stop them (from gaining nuclear weapon capabilities), for very long.

If we bombed the crap out of them, and didn't follow through, and make it REALLY stick...how long would it take them to come roaring back? Five years? Ten? Maybe twenty? Even twenty, aint 'very' long, in the wider span of historical perspective, now is it?

This present predicament the world has worked itself into, has no easy solution that I can see.

Bomb bomb Bomb
bombbom-Iran

might be a catchy tune, but what happens after the band stops playing? Who cleans up all the spilled drinks, the overturned tables, and the discarded party hats? Who sets things right, so that the next day can be productive, and peaceful?

Until we see some sort of way towards how we are going to be able to deal with the repurcussions, then I just caN'T get in the mood to 'paar-tAY(!)' regardless of how many here, seem to think this would all be such great fun.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related FR thread:

Bush Sanctions "Black Operations" Against Iran