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What Bombing Iran Would Actually Mean
The Atlantic ^ | October 29, 2010 | By Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 10/30/2010 3:46:28 AM PDT by Strategy

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To: LibLieSlayer

Yeah not going to happen with him in charge .

Elections have consequences .Some of our very blue cities will pay an instant hefty price for that vote when the nuclear warheads are incoming.

After that we will find faith and wish we had the American way of life.

Tough times are coming and our leaders are making sure of it.


41 posted on 10/30/2010 11:49:23 PM PDT by Lera
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Or, we could do this a more sneaky way — cyber attacks. The Stuxnet malware virus was specifically designed to harm the Siemen’s control software for Iran's nuclear program. What's not said is over 50 percent of all Iranian computers run on pirated software.

Perhaps we need to mount a cyber attack on Iran's computers that will totally shut them down? Iran has a fairly technological society, but what happens when the computers no longer work or the phones or a host of dependent systems? How do the mullahs cope with being back in the Stone Age communications-wise?

What's not said about the Stuxnet virus is Iran may not have the ability to fix the problem without bringing in outside contractors. If you can't fix the problem without outside aid, how do you know your contractors are fixing your problem? They could be fixing the current one but embedding far more serious code that will emerge after they've been paid and left the country.

Iran has good reason to fear sabotage due to the talent “brain drain” going on within the Iranian IT community. Those who can leave the country and take their skills and abilities with them. What's left are the substandard writers of computer code; code cobbled-up by other substandard programmers.

A comprehensive cyber attack on the Iranian infrastructure would be catastrophic. That's why it should be done before they get close to the bomb.

42 posted on 10/31/2010 3:05:46 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Lera

I think that they are so corrupt and stupid that they the think it is business as usual.

LLS


43 posted on 10/31/2010 7:54:13 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Too bad we can’t get the Iraqians and the Iranis into another nice prolonged war. Get them to slaughter each other mercilessly.


44 posted on 10/31/2010 8:43:28 AM PDT by bigheadfred (wogga la hooga)
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To: bigheadfred

Drag the Saudis in there with them!

LLS


45 posted on 11/01/2010 4:31:01 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I like the way you think. ;-)


46 posted on 11/01/2010 3:04:27 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wogga la hooga)
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Well... you have heard about “Great Minds” thinking alike! :-)

LLS


47 posted on 11/01/2010 8:14:57 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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