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'Die Welt': Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela
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| Monday May 16, 2011
| BENJAMIN WEINTHAL,
Posted on 05/16/2011 5:48:11 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: CatoRenasci
Where is the Monroe Doctrine when we need it?
To: driftdiver
I checked Google earth. Its 1800 km from Venz to the southern tip of the US. The above article says those NK weapons have ranges of 2500 -3500KM.
That's just lovely. If it's 1800 km from Venezuela to the US, then 3500 km has got to put pretty much the whole East Coast in range, right?
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:32:18 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Ok, you read this, you can take your bifocals off again)
To: Bigtigermike
No problem, let’s go bomb Libya.
To: verum ago; Bigtigermike
What worries me isnt Iran or Venezuelas current technology Exactly. Once the bases are built, nothing exists to prevent a better class of missiles from being based there.
In any case, its a provocation. A real attack would probably come in a container ship, maybe several container ships simultaneously. They are building these bases to rub our noses in it.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:34:17 PM PDT
by
marron
To: AmericanInTokyo
My take? He will let this fester and fester for months, and then pull a Cuban missile crisis in the final days of the reelection campaign. Idiots who know nothing and are easily "flipped" will whoop and holler and yell "USA!" That would piss off the Hispanics voters. Obama does nothing OTOH Columbia ....
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:35:58 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Obamanomics: Introducing the new "Fun Size" American Dollar.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
How convenient for Obama to "WAG THE DOG" in mid October 2012 sur de la frontera in Venezuela when the charges by his GOP opponent of being soft on national security start to stick and tank his numbers. You may well be right.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:38:21 PM PDT
by
marron
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Thanks Bigtigermike.
Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm-- Khatam al-Anbia -- owned by the Revolutionary Guards visited Paraguaná in February.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:45:25 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Bigtigermike
Thank god Chavez is a peaceful man of the people or this would be concerning. :)
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:45:57 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: Bigtigermike
....and just the ability to threaten our Allies in the region can do enough to destabilize all of South America...right in our back yardDo we have any. I thought 0 had pissed them all off already.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:50:11 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(How much longer can the charade last?)
To: verum ago
Yeah 3500 km goes all the way up to the very southern tip of Maine. over to the eastern great lakes and down to eastern texas.
I’m using google earth’s rulers function. You place one point in Venz and then you can swing the other end of the line anywhere you want and it tells you the distance.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:50:55 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Tzimisce
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:51:23 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
( Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
To: Bigtigermike
Paraguaná Peninsula Pretty much indefensible from an attack by sea.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:51:23 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Obamanomics: Introducing the new "Fun Size" American Dollar.)
To: Diogenesis
If Republicans don’t use pics such as this one uing the campaign, they are idiots. ESPECIALLY with the high gas prices.
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posted on
05/16/2011 6:56:10 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
To: driftdiver
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, both U.S. territories with strategic military importance, are just 500 miles from Venezuela. With these missiles, Iran poses a threat to the approaches to the Panama Canal and to world trade.
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posted on
05/16/2011 7:02:33 PM PDT
by
cll
(I am the warrant and the sanction)
To: Bigtigermike
Well, I hope the US keeps it mouth shut and allows them to dump a pile of cash into it...then blow it to hell a few days before it’s operational.
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posted on
05/16/2011 7:06:01 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
Iran is building a training course for future US Navy Seal teams eh? That they are...
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posted on
05/16/2011 7:23:10 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Osama bin SEALed - http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html)
To: driftdiver
Just a suggestion...put your head in the toilet and flush 10 times. After that..if you don’t have a clear thought then get in tough and I can have a Saturday Night Special ready to send to you to blow you stupid brains out.
To: Bigtigermike
Iranian Missiles in Venzuela.....”the clandestine agreement between Venezuela and Iran would mean the Chavez government would fire rocket at Irans enemies should the Islamic Republic face military strikes.”
Well this does sound like a pre-lude to a Cuban Missle Crisis type event. Few people, apart from FR, realiz how close we came...just a finger away.
And what does Barry have to say about this?...nothing I suppose.
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posted on
05/16/2011 7:39:26 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Tzimisce
Think of it this way. Our new President in 2013 will have a purpose for all those spare nukes we have lying around that we thought we would never use.
To: Bean Counter
“Premier Hussein” could very well be staging this by allowing it to go far enough so he can come in at the last moment as a hero...pulling a Ben-Laden type hero event.
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posted on
05/16/2011 7:42:19 PM PDT
by
caww
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