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US General: We Can Successfully Attack Iran
Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/12/11 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Posted on 12/21/2011 4:59:14 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said Tuesday that the United States can successfully attack Iran, if necessary. His biggest worry is that Iran will "miscalculate our resolve.

Dempsey, speaking to CNN during a worldwide tour, spoke one day after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that the American government will not allow Iran to produce a nuclear weapon. He said that if Iran continues to enrich high-grade uranium, it could produce a nuclear weapon within a year, an estimate formerly given by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

"My biggest worry is they [Iran] will miscalculate our resolve," Dempsey said in Afghanistan. "Any miscalculation could mean that we are drawn into conflict, and that would be a tragedy for the region and the world."

Besides repeating the often-used phrase“ all options are on the table,” General Dempsey went one step further and declared, "I am satisfied that the options that we are developing are evolving to a point that they would be executable if necessary.”

It was the most blatant warning made regarding Iran’s growing nuclear threat.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: attack; bomb; bombiran; economy; iran; itsago; markets; martindempsey; resolve
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When can they get the bomb? One year.

When will we be ready with fully evolved options? Two.

World ends at ten. Details at eleven.

1 posted on 12/21/2011 4:59:20 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

“We Can Successfully Attack Iran”

Certainly we can. Then what? Another sharia law craphole regime?


2 posted on 12/21/2011 5:02:34 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Eleutheria5

FYI - I’ve been doing a unclassified report on IRAQ since 12 DEC 2011 - when most everything that the US Army was producing went to the high side...

Find it here: http://babylonscovertwar.com/page1.html

It has a lot of incidents that point to breaking out of the foundation that IRGC has established since 2005 - alto of things are happening right now in Iraq - that are indicators of future intentions...

Enjoy!


3 posted on 12/21/2011 5:05:30 PM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: Eleutheria5

well if he’s a serving general saying this ‘in school’,
we must be sending a message that setting them up the bomb
is a distinct possible option in Iran’s future.


4 posted on 12/21/2011 5:05:54 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Eleutheria5
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said Tuesday that the United States can successfully attack Iran, if necessary.

Gee...ya think? Was this even a question in anyone's mind?

The issue is not if we can, but if we should and then what the endgame is.

5 posted on 12/21/2011 5:06:47 PM PST by Ethrane ("obsta principiis")
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To: dynachrome

Can we attack Iran—YES, We can attack anyone, but can we win the war? Yes—if we have the resolve, and that will never come with a person like Obama in the White House. He will pace the floor while out men are chewed up. Stay out of the war unless we want to put a whole lot of hurt on these people—take the heat from the leftist MSM and UN. i don’t think the USA has the stomach for such things today. The enemy knows this and will push us as much as they link—we are a blind and impotent giant—a cowardly lion who only picks on little nations—we can beat. Would Americans even tolerate a Draft? I don’t think so.


6 posted on 12/21/2011 5:11:56 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: dynachrome

Certainly we can. Then what? Another sharia law craphole regime?
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who cares?

It will be a sharia craphole without a nuke.


7 posted on 12/21/2011 5:13:09 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Eleutheria5

Its just that extended warfare crap that hurts us.


8 posted on 12/21/2011 5:23:27 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Eleutheria5

No!

Either destroy them from the air or stay out!


9 posted on 12/21/2011 5:28:09 PM PST by wolfman23601
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To: Eleutheria5

I have been hearing that Iran can make the bomb within one year for five years now.

Bet if we invade Iran, they nuke our troops and Russia and China get paid by that for all the investing they did giving the bomb and ICBM systems to Iran.

Then Russia and China invade here.

Just my take on things...


10 posted on 12/21/2011 5:28:28 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“miscalculate our resolve”? LOL! I think they have our “resolve” estimated to the nth degree.


11 posted on 12/21/2011 5:29:42 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Ethrane
The issue is not if we can, but if we should and then what the endgame is.

The endgame is to wait the ten or how many years it takes for the glass to cool.

12 posted on 12/21/2011 5:31:39 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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And FReepers wonder why Ron Paul is getting traction. This perpetual state of war for leftist causes that get nothing for the American people has to stop.


13 posted on 12/21/2011 5:34:24 PM PST by wolfman23601
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To: wolfman23601

Some folks would like to nuke Mecca, or Tehran.

Ron Paul would be more likely to nuke Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.


14 posted on 12/21/2011 5:36:50 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With God Obama can't hurt us. Without God, George Washington couldn't save us.)
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To: BCW

Impressive.


15 posted on 12/21/2011 5:37:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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To: Eleutheria5
His biggest worry is that Iran will "miscalculate our resolve."

We know. We've heard of 0bama too.

16 posted on 12/21/2011 5:55:30 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Eleutheria5

hmmmm....perhaps this is the reason for the troop pull-out of Iraq. Commence invasion pre 2012 election.


17 posted on 12/21/2011 6:05:29 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: TigersEye

Obama will start a war with Iran in late August 2012, in order to get re-elected. He’ll do it in August when everyone is distracted by summer vacation.


18 posted on 12/21/2011 6:10:13 PM PST by atomicweeder
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To: atomicweeder

That might backfire.


19 posted on 12/21/2011 6:18:03 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: EternalVigilance

We will find
sooner or later
if Achmed’ll pray
to a glowing crater


20 posted on 12/21/2011 6:19:52 PM PST by null and void (Day 1064 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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