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Iran puts Revolutionary Guards in charge of Gulf defense
Iht ^
| 09.16.08
Posted on 09/16/2008 5:35:26 PM PDT by Perdogg
Iran announced on Tuesday that it has put the Revolutionary Guards in charge of defending the country's Gulf waters, in what appeared to be a hardening of its stance in the vital oil route.
U.S. commanders in the Gulf have said in the past that they found Guards ships more confrontational than the regular Iranian Navy, which until the new order was responsible for Iranian defenses in the Gulf.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: energy; geopolitics; hormuz; idiotalert; iran; stuckonstupid
Bring it on Bitches!!!
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:35:26 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: FlingWingFlyer; F15Eagle; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SolidWood; SJackson; Munz; Quix; GOPJ; Flavius
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:36:32 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Robert Byrd - Ex community organizer)
To: Perdogg
So this means we’ll be taking down their most veteran targets first...? cool.
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:36:41 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Perdogg
Good news....concentrate the loonies in one spot....
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:37:03 PM PDT
by
pointsal
To: Perdogg
Wonder if they are as “good” as Iraq’s were.......
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:37:31 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: yldstrk
Yeah isn’t the word vaunted supposed to preceed Republican Guard whenever they are mentioned? I mean Iraq’s “Vaunted Republican Guard” were such fierce fighters after all.
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:39:27 PM PDT
by
marlon
To: Perdogg
...good, less collateral damage
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:42:57 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Perdogg
Good.
They can die first.
To: yldstrk
Well, considering that the Iraqis and Iranians fought each other for eight years and neither side came out victors yet the US kicked Sadam’s military in, what, 2.7 seconds … bring it on Iran. ;-)
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:46:01 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Obama IS running against Palin)
To: Perdogg
Hey, I want the “Elite” Republican Guards.
You know, just like the ones in Iraq that the US military ran into the ground in about 37 minutes.
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:50:07 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: Perdogg
10 little, 9 little, 8 little gun boats,
7 little, 6 little, 5 little gun boats........
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posted on
09/16/2008 5:58:05 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(Some day it'll all make sense.......................maybe.)
To: Perdogg
To: Thunder90
One wonders if the US has to render aid and pick up survivors after we sink them. One wonders what the rules of engagement say.
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posted on
09/16/2008 6:15:06 PM PDT
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
To: Perdogg
If a war does break out with Iran, I think we should concentrate on the Revolutionary Guards, and leave the regular military alone.
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posted on
09/16/2008 6:23:17 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(I'll tell you a little secret: we're smarter and more competent than the Left.)
To: popdonnelly
Ken Timmermann told Christian radio station WAVA that the US should leave the IRGC alone and target the leadership.
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posted on
09/16/2008 6:27:35 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Robert Byrd - Ex community organizer)
To: Perdogg
Somehow I think a fight between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the USMC would be a very one-sided affair (and I don’t need to say who would prevail!).
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posted on
09/16/2008 6:31:34 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: Perdogg
Somehow I think a fight between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the USMC would be a very one-sided affair (and I don’t need to say who would prevail!).
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posted on
09/16/2008 6:33:17 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: Perdogg
I thought the Revolutionary Guard had the primary responsibility for defending the mullahs.
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posted on
09/16/2008 6:55:30 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(I'll tell you a little secret: we're smarter and more competent than the Left.)
To: Perdogg
I’m sure they will photoshop a bunch of WW2 ships claiming the Iranian fleet is performing war games.
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posted on
09/16/2008 7:01:30 PM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: popdonnelly
If a war does break out with Iran, I think we should concentrate on the Revolutionary Guards, and leave the regular military alone.I think that's exactly the reason why the Revolutionary Guards were singled out by US as terrorists. They are the actual forces of the Islamic Regime in Iran.
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posted on
09/17/2008 12:28:49 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
(McCain/Palin 2008)
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