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To: Mariner; Shadow44

I concur with Mariner. Iran is likely one of those rare situations that can be solved with airpower alone. Their air force is no match for us, so we would have air dominance early on day one, killing everything that flies and taking out the ground-based air defense stuff. Then we can destroy the nuke facilities. After that it depends on goals. One option would be to destroy just the Revolutionary Guard and whatever mullahs we can get and then see how the Iranian regular military handles things from there. The other option is to crush their entire military as well as the Guard, and a third is to just keep going until their infrastructure is so ruined that they literally have to choose between nationhood and having a nuke program.


43 posted on 09/16/2007 1:14:38 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Support Scouting: Raising boys to be strong men and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Look I’m all for the end of the Islamic Republic, but to Code Pink and the Rats this just screams Christmas Bombings in Cambodia, which would make the similarities to Vietnam even “more clear”. The treasonous Rats will make anything we do to Iran a holocaust.


45 posted on 09/16/2007 1:18:26 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Mr. Silverback
Iran could be hobbled overnight. Hit their refineries (they have nine), major military installations, and nuke development facilities.

If we really wanted to inflict pain, we could take out a few critical dams...

77 posted on 09/16/2007 4:19:54 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Mr. Silverback
The population of Iran is not our enemy. Rather, it is the leadership that is the problem. Take out their ability to strike at other nations and break their leadership and allow the Iranian people to reclaim their nation.
97 posted on 09/18/2007 2:34:38 AM PDT by TennTuxedo
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