[chance33_98]

Looks like maybe we will be adding a few stars to the ole flag :)

[happygrl]

The Iranians are very nervously observing whether the Marines are facing east or west.

[chance33_98]

Welcome to your Tehran Wal Mart!

Listen to peacenik get her butt kicked on air

[Duckdog]

I was thinking about that the other day. Those leaders in Iran would be thinking "the evil USA has us surrounded".

[rightwingextremist1776]

They better be shaking in their boots! They are without a doubt the epicenter of all of this Islamofascism. Thanks to Jimmy Peanut, where ALL of this started, they have been exporting this new brand of fascism for 20 + years. The appeasement of Islamofascism has given Chamberlin a run for his money. Nobel piece prize my ass.

[Dog Gone]

The Iranians have nothing to worry about yet.

We just don't want any wacky iraqi dictators sneaking off to the border.

[urbanrights]

Axis of Evil is not a slogan, it is a plan!

[firewalk]

bttt

[Lunatic Fringe]

Might as well do it while we are over there- liberate all of the middle east!

[Centurion2000]

Yo mullahs of Iran ? Remember 1979 ??? WE DO.

[Enterprise]

Advice to Iran:

This is pretty simple chums. Quit firing on coalition aircraft; tell the mullahs to take a hike and then institute Democracy; form an alliance with a winner - the United States and its Allies.

[DoctorMichael]

It has been reported elsewhere that Iranian agitators will infiltrate southern Iraq to gin up the locals and conduct Beruit-style attacks on our servicemen.

Time to close the border.

[cynicom]

We need to drop Jimmy Carter into Iran before we invade.

[BlackVeil]

The threat from Iran, in the present war, is most serious and the commentators have not bothered to mention it.

The diversion of troops to the Iranian border will not help the advance towards Baghdad, however, they are needed there because Iran is poised to seize southern Iraq. The uprising in Basra might be good news of locals throwing off Sadaam. Or it might be Iran, activating its agents, having worked out that if we don't control strategic Basra, then they will.

[First_Salute]

Standard op.

Protect against cross-border traffic.

[Beck_isright]

This is logical. We need our right flank protected from possible Iraqi "radical Islamicist" troops hiding in Iran. By sealing the border, the Iraqis become an Iranian problem. Not to mention they are next on the check list. Don't worry you liberal worry warts, North Korea is after we finish the Middle East. That ball is in China's court; do they really want to have a city the size of Shanghai full of fallout?

V

[ez]

Probably making sure that troops don't sneak in from Iran and backdoor us. They may know something about Iranian troop deployment that they are not releasing.

[blam]

Marines line up on Iranian border

By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
(Filed: 26/03/2003)

Royal Marines were deployed to Iraq's border with Iran yesterday in a move that will unnerve Teheran's regime, which fears encirclement by American-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defence said the Royal Marines were merely "securing their area of operations" after seizing at the Faw peninsula.

But with Iranian troops manning positions on the other side of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, British forces face a highly sensitive task.

Tensions were illustrated by a succession of border incidents. A rocket struck an Iranian oil refinery depot in Abadan, just across from Basra, on Friday injuring two people while there were reports on Monday that Iranian forces had fired on British troops on the Faw peninsula.

Iran, part of America's "axis of evil", is formally neutral but fears it could be the next target for attack.

It is torn between publicly denouncing the "imperialist" war on a fellow Muslim country and co-operating tacitly with America and Britain in removing the old enemy, Saddam Hussein.

America has waged war against two of Iran's most hated foes, the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the Ba'athists in Baghdad. But the "Great Satan", as America is known, now has forces on two of Iran's borders.

Neighbouring Arab countries have long feared a war in Iraq could suck in forces from Turkey and Iran.

Western diplomats said Turkish intervention to forestall any Kurdish attempt to seize greater autonomy could encourage Iran to cross the border to support fellow Shi'ites and clear out bases of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq.

The leading Iraqi Shi'ite opposition group, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution, has thousands of fighters in Iran. Some have slipped into Iraqi Kurdistan and many more may cross the border to claim a stake in the future Iraqi government.

[Porterville]

They are there to keep the Iranians from affecting the Shiite uprising. That said, this could be the holly war we've knew would eventually come. One billion Muslims, that's a lot of war, no more than one billion Chinese, I guess.

[unspun]

I'm glad we're protecting Iraq's borders.

How about America's?