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"Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan
CBS news ^ | April 29, 2008

Posted on 04/29/2008 5:11:34 PM PDT by Perdogg

A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what one officer called the "increasingly hostile role" Iran is playing in Iraq - smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: coldwar2; iran; iraq; israel; maritime; oil; persiangulf; usmilitary; usn; worldwariii
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To: FreeAtlanta; Williams; Names Ash Housewares

“That said, can you imagine what we would do if Mexico was sending invaders over our borders with weapons and toxic chemicals?”

Don’t think they aren’t! And don’t forget the MS-13 are on terrorist payroll.


61 posted on 04/30/2008 9:12:24 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: counterpunch; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; Grampa Dave; gonzo; FARS; ...
We will attack Iran after the Iraqi elections on October 1st and before the presidential election on November 4th.


62 posted on 04/30/2008 9:23:34 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Perdogg

CBS news reports Iran ends oil transactions in $ and pegs all oil transactions to € and Yen.


63 posted on 04/30/2008 10:04:40 AM PDT by Cage Rattler
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To: PhilDragoo

as good an estimate as any other


64 posted on 04/30/2008 10:54:00 AM PDT by FARS (Good Thoughts (lead to ) Good Words (which combine into) Good Deeds)
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To: o_zarkman44
Not drilling for oil domestically is a very costly miscalculation of national security.

Not as costly as depleting our supply when we can still buy oil on the free market. I'd rather deplete our enemies' supply of oil and keep ours in reserve.

Why use your own finite resource when you can buy someone else's? In the end, once it's gone, it's gone, and I'd rather have the last reserves rather than have to beg someone else to sell me their last reserves.
65 posted on 04/30/2008 11:22:48 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Perdogg
We need a Patton on the iranian border. He would start a war with them and make it look like they started it. Then Patton would be in Tehran in less then 24 hours.
66 posted on 04/30/2008 11:28:37 AM PDT by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: mamelukesabre

Your post is beyond fiction. Delusion springs to mind.


67 posted on 04/30/2008 1:36:41 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Obadiah
>"we’ve done this before, sending a carrier to the Gulf. I know it sends a message, is that message getting diminished because it is now seen as a bluff."

New Moon 5 May 2008. tick .... tick....tock!

68 posted on 04/30/2008 2:21:41 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (If you're not following Jesus, just who are you following, and where are they leading you?)
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To: Cobra64

LMAO


69 posted on 04/30/2008 2:25:28 PM PDT by Gator113 (McCain will be the best democrat President this country has ever elected.)
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To: bill1952
Right. It'll never happen. It's impossible. Keep dreaming kiddo. The more fools there are that think it's impossible, the more POSSIBLE it becomes. Just like the mortgage meltdown we just had. Oil will never be $120/barrel right?

Who's delusional?

70 posted on 04/30/2008 3:27:55 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
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To: mamelukesabre

Who’s delusional?

YOU!


71 posted on 04/30/2008 3:29:05 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: PhilDragoo

OH! I so hope you are right!


72 posted on 04/30/2008 5:54:09 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Operation Chaos is now on an operational pause...awaiting marching orders.)
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To: maquiladora

“... the carrier overlap is only going to last for the next 2 days “

Lots can happen in 48 hours.


73 posted on 04/30/2008 6:29:01 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG... "May Day May Day" for Iranian Pres. Imanutjob?)
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To: Domestic Church; maquiladora
“... the carrier overlap is only going to last for the next 2 days “

Lots can happen in 48 hours.

What normally happens in that 48 hours is a turnover of certain types of weapons from one carrier to the other.

74 posted on 04/30/2008 7:36:34 PM PDT by Doofer (Carl Cameron Is A Weasel)
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To: Perdogg
The USA is winning in Iraq. Mookie Al Sadr is defeated, the Shiite Militias are on the run. The iranian plan of undermining the democratically elected Iraqui government has failed, and Maliki may have become an Iraqi patriot.

All this is bad news for Iran's Revolutionary Guard who saw a hegemony including Syria disolve with last Septembers Israeli strike against a nuclear reactor that was proven to have N. Korean and Iranian staff support. North Korea was brought up short, and to the "disarmament" table. The Iranians will take years to recoup in Syria.The Iranians have nothing they can do now but attack US soldiers with their own military inside of Iraq.

If Iran does not pull back on its illegal activity, then we can indeed expect a limited operation to destroy the supply lines which have brought ordnance and Iranian personnel into Iraq.The intelligence data of Iranian involvement is quite irrefutable and has been gathered for a long time, including de-briefings of Iranian officers apprehended inside of Iraq.

The threat of force seems to be the only thing that gets Iran's attention, and Iran's reaction has been to attempt to provoke military incidents or conflict at times and places of Iran's chosing.

Now Iran knows that the military response is coming, and the waiting is actually driving them quite crazy, mistakes are being made by the Iranians as a consequence.

Interesting US strategy.This whole thing has the mark of Dick Cheny upon it, and thank goodness we have him!

75 posted on 04/30/2008 8:09:16 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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To: All

GOD am I sick of the middle east stuff. I thought they were freaky back in grade school but I never imagined we would have to hear about all their BS everyday.


76 posted on 04/30/2008 10:06:55 PM PDT by modest proposal (I am embarrassed for the USA that Obama has come this far. It is truly shameful.)
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To: frankiep

The problem with Iraq is that we are trying to “nation build”. We could send Iran back 50 years in about 10 minutes if we wished. We don’t need to occupy, just punish.


77 posted on 05/01/2008 7:18:37 AM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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