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Iran: More gunboat diplomacy

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by jgmacg, Oct 25, 2007.

  1. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    One word: Draft.
     
  2. andyouare?

    andyouare? Guest

    Seriouly, though, I read this story in the Washington Post and I felt a little better. A little.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502840.html?hpid=topnews

    Lots of fun reading on how an attack would send the oil industry, and thus our economy, into a crisis.
     
  3. BBJones

    BBJones Guest

    I'm curious how you figured that. In GWI, Iraq supposedly had the world's fourth-strongest military, with the vaunted Republican Guard leading the way. The entire thing folded like those "Oh-eee-Oh, Yo-oh" guys at the end the Wizard of Oz. It did so again in '03. I suspect Iran -- with the oddly similar-sound Revolutionary guard playing offensive line -- would do much the same. They hate their leadership there. They're in the military out of obligation and fear. If someone throws a bucket of water on Ahmadinejad, I imagine the Iranian soldiers will quickly hand over the broomstick and bow.

    But, as in Iraq, it's not the soliders with the government-issue uniforms and rifles we should be worried about.

    Fenian_Bastard, as has been said in other forms, it's not the guy with 2,000 nukes aimed at me I'm afraid of. It's the guy with one.
     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    So if Iran knows we know they know we know they we know they know we know they know we're planning a pree-emptive attack, who fires the first shot?
     
  5. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    In a perfect world? No one.

    This day and age? Bush.
     
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