57% Back a Hit on Iran if Defiance Persists

LA Times ^ | January 27, 2006 | Greg Miller

[M. Espinola]

In The Land of Jihad

Members of the Iranian Police Forces sing national anthem during a police festival in Azadi (Freedom) sport complex in Tehran, Iran, January 26th, 2006. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

Members of Iran's Special Police Forces stand near a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a police festival in Azadi (Freedom) sport complex in Tehran, Iran, January 26th, 2006. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

With her Islamic veil, an Iranian woman shoots, during police graduation day, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006. Iran said Thursday it had information that the United States, Britain and Israel had a role in two deadly military plane crashes in the last two months.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A ship loads with oil at the Lavan oil refinery on the Iranian island of Lavan. Iran, which faces the threat of UN sanctions over its nuclear policy, produces far less oil than it used to but, buoyed by the stubbornly high price of the barrel, remains a key player in world oil markets.(AFP/Bedhouz Mehri)

Iranian Interior Minister, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, delivers his speech at the police seminar, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006. Iran claimed Thursday it had information that the United States, Britain and Israel had a role in two deadly military plane crashes in the last two months. 'The information we have says that the U.S, Britain and Israel's intelligence agents intended to create insecurity in Iran,' Pourmohammadi told reporters on the sidelines of a police seminar. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Members of the Iran's Police Special Forces perform during a police festival in Azadi (freedom) sport complex in Tehran, Iran January 26th, 2006. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

[msnimje]

Persists? Why wait?

[son of caesar]

iran is like a drunk driver approaching a sobriety checkpoint. i just hope our idiots in some capacity of power have a plan that seizes the oil fields concurrent with the first strikes.

[M. Espinola]

Supposedly there are contingency plans to prevent Iran's fanatical leadership from firing waves of missiles at other Persian Gulf area oil fields, plans to stop Tehran's jihadists from sabotaging their oil infrastructure, and also offensive measures which will neutralize Iran's nuclear weapons plants, air force, their naval forces & long range missile systems from launching waves of missiles against Israel or other nations within range of any of their known missile systems.

The air attacks against Saddam's military installations, much of which carried out with precision high-tech weapons, were practice for Iran, a desperate jihad instigating OPEC member state, a rogue nation surrounded.

Maybe the bearded rat should consider swimming lessons for his future attempted & temporary escape into the Caspian.

[gotribe]

I'm sure they do. Just as in our invasion of Iraq, the first order of business was to send the Seals and GROM to secure the oil loading platforms and land-based oil pumping stations.

[M. Espinola]

We won't be waiting too much longer. The enemy only have themselves to blame for their upcoming defeat.

[Joe Boucher]

Most striking thing here is this is coming from the L.A.Times,(piece of crap liberal rag that it is.

[stuartcr]

Polls always seem legitimate, when they say what people want to hear.

[M. Espinola]

Absolutely correct in addition Saddam's desert based scuds were captured thus preventing any broadening of the war with attacks against Israel, Kuwait or other regional nations. Once the all clear was leaked (or strongly suspected) oil prices, which had climbed considerably, began crashing quickly, triggered by major fund selling.

Just pray all goes as well against Tehran's mentally unstable jihadist leadership who desire all out war so their "Mahdi" can return to bring "further justice and peace". If there was ever a collection of thugs begging for it, Ahmadinejad & his terrorist cohorts are the ones.

Check this out:

Neo-Nazis' passports may be frozen
Jan 26, 2006
ASSOCIATED PRESS

A senior German security official proposed Wednesday temporarily pulling the passports of neo-Nazis intending to participate in an Iranian conference on the Holocaust.

Guenther Beckstein, the interior minister of Bavaria, suggested that local authorities temporarily revoke the passports of right-wing extremists known to have expressed interest in participating in the conference in an effort to prevent them from traveling.

"It would massively damage Germany's image if German citizens (took part) in Iran to deny the Holocaust or the right of Israel to exist," said Beckstein, a member of the conservative Christian Social Union, sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.

He called on the German government to take a stand on the issue, after the Iranian foreign ministry indicated some Germans had expressed interest in attending.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the conference earlier this month, the latest step in his campaign against Israel. He has already called the Nazis' World War II slaughter of European Jews a "myth" and said the Jewish state should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the United States.

© Iranian.ws

[Larry Lucido]

Newsflash: 100% of critics who said Iran was a bigger threat than Iraq now say never mind, Iran isn't a threat either.

[M. Espinola]

The Left will sellout to anyone as we witnessed with Saddam.

[M. Espinola]

Since the poll was taken by the LA-Times/Bloomberg, maybe the true percentile is far higher in favour of removing the Iranian nuclear threat.

[M. Espinola]

Maybe the radical hippies who signed up and went to Iraq before as "human chains" will do the same. We could use additional visible targets above ground.

[ovrtaxt]

57% Back a Hit on Iran if Defiance Persists

[nathanbedford]

A good post. You raise all of the collateral issues which a company what at first seems to be a simple matter of taking out some nuclear facilities with their power.

I remember posting along these lines before the invasion of Iraq, expressing concern for the disposition of oil, the lodgment of military basis, the raising up of Iraqi military forces, et cetera and the salutary effects an Americanized Iraq would have on the geopolitics of the region and ultimately for the war against terrorism.

Of course, the administration did not attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq along these lines of real politik but rather cast the war as an extension of democracy once no weapons of mass destruction were acknowledged to have been found. In today's climate, which has only intensified after an invasion of Iraq in which no weapons of mass distraction were found, the administration knows that it has absolutely no chance of carrying the Security Council, the Democrat party, world opinion, or even the Republican Party, if military action against Iran is implicated as a war for oil -and that is a very great pity.

But you are absolutely correct, any military action against Iran motivated by a real need to protect the United States against nuclear action by unbalanced religious fanatics, must also consider the implications for the worldwide distribution of petroleum and a predictable economic collapse should that supply be interdicted.

Despite the transitory poll numbers which currently seem to favor a strike, we all know that support will evaporate as soon as casualties, or prices at the pump, climb.

[Joe Boucher]

WEll you know the Times base is Liberal L.A., and not much effort was made to include red flyover anything.

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah, but EVERY poll taken AFTER President Bush decided to do it preemptively would show under 39% approval rating.

Heck, if Iran actually nuked Israel and tried but just missed nuking the USA, I'll bet that 75% of the Democrats in the country would be whining about 'Bush & Haliburton's illegal war for Iranian oil'.

[SouthernFreebird]

Yeah, until we get there, then it just another quagmire to fill the papers with.

[highlander_UW]

The DUmmies must be foaming at the mouth over this sort of poll.