Posted on 08/10/2010 12:01:36 PM PDT by honestabe010
In a morbid show of bravado, Iran has dug mass graves for US troops should the United States decide to implement Adm. Mike Mullen's contingency plan to strike Iran, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guard said.
Adm. Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that the US military has a contingency plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a military strike is probably a bad idea.
Gen. Hossein Kan'ani Moghadam, who was the Guard's deputy commander during the 1980s, said graves have been dug in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, where Iran buried Iraqi soldiers killed during the ruinous 1980-88 war between the Islamic republic and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime.
"The mass graves that used to be for burying Saddam's soldiers have now been prepared again for US soldiers, and this is the reason for digging this big number of graves," Moghadam told The Associated Press Television News late Monday. He did not say how many were prepared.
Footage obtained by APTN showed a large number of empty, freshly dug graves in a desert region of Khuzestan. The digging of the graves was first reported earlier this week by Iran's semi-official news agency Fars.
Moghadam repeated warnings that Iran will retaliate against US bases in the Gulf if there is an attack on Iran. The US Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters is based just across the Gulf from Iran in Bahrain.
If US forces attack, "Iran will have no choice but to strike the American bases in the region," he said. "The heavy costs of such a war will not be just on the Islamic Republic of Iran. America and other countries should accept that this would be the start of an extensive war in the region."...
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The longer we wait, the stronger they get, the greater the damage they can do and the larger the mess to unwind..
And then there is the potential of this thing escalating.
This bud should have been nipped when Carter was there.
Where does it say that the contingency plan involves ground troops? Iran is a semi-modern state that runs on gasoline. Bomb the refineries. Blockade the coasts. Cut rail and road traffic to the outside. Stand back and use the USAF to bomb strategic and tactical targets. Let Iran die a slow death. Send in the tanks to mop up what is left.
Iran - N. Korea...
Both should be made into parking lots, IMO
He who shouts loudest before a fight usually loses.
Getting ready to bury their dead after the Israeli attack.
Well now! I extend a hearty “thank you” to Amadnutjob for digging mass graves so that, in the event a U.S. invasion is required, our troops won’t have to waste time with digging graves for Iranian dead. However, Amadnutjob, I’m thinking that an actual invasion probably won’t be required. I’m guessing that long before that Israel will turn Iran into a glass parking lot.
A certified nut case....
The only digging they are doing is “digging in” Incoming!!!!
Someone once asked Gene Roddenberry why there were no muslims in the Star Trek series.
“Because Star Trek occurs in the future”
That’s fantastic!!!
Um, I’m thinking, aint gonna happen.
Start digging graves in Iraq and place a package of Oscar Myer Bacon in each one.
Let them know they exist
In a war with Iran, it will be a video game for us, a war for them.
Nuke ‘em all, nuke ‘em all.
The Shia, the Sunni and all,
NUKE ‘EM ALL
Is this Iran’s version of shovel ready jobs?
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