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Israeli Jets Prepare For Imminent Strike Against Iran: Iranian TV

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Iranian PressTV reports that Israeli jet fighters have reportedly conducted drills at a military base in Iraq in order to strike targets inside Iran. While the Pentagon has so far denied this development which could easily send oil to $200, we are more curious what Israel has to say, or more specifically do, in response to such allegations.

From PressTV

A considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Asad base in Iraq, reported a source close to prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sader's group.

The aircraft reportedly included F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, and KC-10 jet fighters.

The warplanes carried out their week-long exercises at nights, the same source added.

The drills were reportedly aimed at preparing to strike Iran's air defense systems, disrupt Iran's radars and attack targets deep inside Iran.

Iraqi officials had not been notified of the exercises, which were conducted in collaboration with the US military.

The United States maintains numerous bases in Iraq, and the Baghdad government is not involved in any of the military deployments taking place there.

 

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Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:24 | 1230162 MelvilleSaysNo
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Remember the USS Liberty.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:27 | 1230888 Strider52
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Who could forget it?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:00 | 1230731 Gashole
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Actually we do.  There is a difference between the unintentional but foreseeable deaths of civilians when targeting enemy who are surrounded by civilians and deliberately targeting civilians as Israel's enemies do.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:09 | 1230810 lsbumblebee
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Of course. Your enemies intentionally target civilians, while sweet innocent Zionist Israel unfortunately has to use white phosphorus on densely populated areas.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/03/25/israel-white-phosphorus-use-eviden...

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 15:59 | 1231284 Gashole
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True.

What is also true:  Israel investigated and reprimanded two senior military officers for their decision to use white phosphorous, even though there were few civilian casualties.  Beats the hell out of universal celebrations and passing out of candy by the Palestinians every time they successfully kill Israeli civilians.  

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0201/Israelis-dis...

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 16:23 | 1231415 lsbumblebee
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"Reportedly" reprimanded for what is tantamount to war crimes. I guess that's the most that can be expected of psychotics.

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/07/israeli-children-sign-...

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 17:53 | 1231846 Gashole
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I find those images disturbing.  Also remember these shells are intended for Hezbollah, who by their own words will never accept the existence of israel and call for its destruction.. Today is Yom Hashoah. Holocaust remembrance day. Rumor has it that Israel's nuclear weapons are inscribed in Hebrew with the words "Never Again" 

 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:35 | 1229844 earnulf
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Okay, this is so much DIS-information that it's funny.   There is no KC-10 jet fighter, it's a tanker.   I don't remember selling Isreal F-22's although we might have sold the F-18 to them.     While it's plausable that Isreal/US cooperation could be occuring in Iraq, it would be the stupidist move ever to put Israeli Jets on the tarmac in the open where they could be seen by.....Al-sadr's information network!

Yeah, non-starter unless things start blowing up in Iran tonight.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:37 | 1229846 DK Delta
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how wonderful

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:38 | 1229857 michigan independant
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiadYT-N9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sS3CD1yf1o&feature=related

Do not shoot the messanger, just a few more in the mix on what is percieved as there reality.

 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:39 | 1229877 Midwest Prepper
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The Iranian media ramblings are worth zerohedge time???

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:42 | 1229901 Internet Tough Guy
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Next on ZH: exclusive from Prisonplanet on the UFO Obama connection.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:50 | 1229955 john39
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bloomberg, fox, cnn any better? 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:59 | 1230011 Crabshack
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An attack could easily add 30% to the cost of your drive home.  

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:16 | 1230119 michigan independant
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You better hope not. But yes proxy wars do exist.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:54 | 1229897 Widowmaker
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Israel won't say a word without banker-toy Hank Paulson on the TV with a one page summary.

Dirty racketeering money run through Israel always comes out clean-- mortgages, oil, warfare, etc.

That same Israel that brought the TSA to the United [Police] States to watch children's crotches.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:04 | 1230058 Harlequin001
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and let's not forget that GS and JPM have to be ahead of the game too, that is if they aren't already fixing it...

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:49 | 1229950 Tic tock
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Good excuse to keep the terror network alive

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:52 | 1229957 km4
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Teen joblessness may hit record in summer 2011 http://yhoo.it/lIAGlg

Yup all the part time positions at McD's are now filled ( 62K hired from 1 million applicants )

What can Obama pull next from his bag of hope and change?

 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:53 | 1229961 jc125d
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Shot in the face and buried at sea. Does anyone else smell bullshit?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:13 | 1230094 IQ 101
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It seems that the world is awash in bullshit today,

Iran v Isreal, Osama Bin Ladin, Ghaddafi escapes and declares war

on Italy?

What are we being distracted from, Solar events are popping large,

the comet Elenin is of dubious trajectory,

B.B. king of America ? Something large is afoot.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:13 | 1230095 JohnG
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Yep.  A shot to the face would make "facial recognition" impossible, a DNA match takes quite a while, at least 24 hours.  So say's my dad who did this work identifying virii for the CDC for 34 years.

Electrophoresis takes time.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:19 | 1230133 SheepDog-One
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Shot in the face would not make recognition impossible at all. For instance, Saddams 2 sons were shot multiple times in the face, photos came out they were eaily recognizable.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:11 | 1230100 TSA gropee
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It's all BS.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:54 | 1229968 johngaltfla
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Just more woo-woo. PressTV also claimed IAF jets landed in Saudi last year too, remember?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:52 | 1229971 I am Jobe
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Let the Global War begin. Thanks USA, you fucking idiots such as Susan Rice and Hitlary who are clueless. Folks time to move out of the USA I say.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:12 | 1230090 Abitdodgie
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But the problem is where do you go?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:17 | 1230135 avonaltendorf
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Australia. Enter as a tourist, marry a local.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:50 | 1230688 falak pema
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their kangaroos pretty?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 11:56 | 1230008 slaughterer
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Oil prices actualy creeping down on this news. 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:07 | 1230057 ivana
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this is just warming up. checking of responses worldwide.
its too sonn in my opinion

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:04 | 1230038 JW n FL
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It is not an attack!

 

Iran has WON!!! a "Pimp My Nuke Factory" contest that Israel had going!

 

They are going to get an all New Facility! it will be a whole new place when Israel is done!

 

Congrats Iran!!!

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:04 | 1230055 Midwest Prepper
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+ 100

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:04 | 1230424 redpill
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The Bushehr plant is cobbled together from a bunch of old parts meshed with some newer ones.  It's a meltdown waiting to happen.  The biggest favor Israel could have done for Iran is to blow the thing up before they got the fuel in it.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:06 | 1230048 Midwest Prepper
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Whether this is true or fiction doesn't matter.  It is a development that will be used as fodder by terrorists (or those launching false flag attacks) to create a lot of headlines with terror attacks, distracting the sheeple from the economic bloodbath they are unleashing.  Gerald Celente and Marc Faber were / are right:  when it gets too dicey, they take you to war.  This will be much better than Libya for American flag manufacturers... Brace yourselves.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:06 | 1230069 Drag Racer
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ah, they got the F-22 look-alikes from Russia...

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/03-03-2011/117080-sukhoi_pak_f...

 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:18 | 1230137 michigan independant
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Malwarebytes blocked the link. I do trust Mal so should you so do not link to it from Drags link. Drag update your program please. 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:27 | 1230173 Drag Racer
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relax man, its a disinfo site not a virus distributor. Malwarebytes is good but not perfect.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:04 | 1230778 michigan independant
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I jumped the gun,  I have paroused there site before at times in the past also. Still be carefull out there. Thanks for the feedback.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:07 | 1230073 bankruptcylawyer
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DON'T WORRY, sooner or later israel WILL BOMB The nuclear reactors  

SAUDI ARABIA AND THE OTHER GULF STATES, NOT TO MENTION MILLIONS OF POOR AMERICANS PAYING TOO MUCH FOR HIGH GAS PRICES ...you can thank us later for doing some of the dirty work. 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:14 | 1230104 nah
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attack iran attack syria attack libya attack iraq attack bahrain attack cuba attack venezuela attack china attack lebanon attack pakistan attack mexico attack yemen attack palestine attack russia attack afghanistan attack somalia ATTACK JESUS ATTACK

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:16 | 1230132 monopoly
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And the sheeples watch American Idol, Desperate Housewives, and Survivor. What planet am I on?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:32 | 1230220 I am Jobe
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Is there anything more important than these shows sheeples watch and drool over. O you forgot the summer wear season at Macy's and got to use the charge card and buy buy buy crap

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:17 | 1230138 israhole
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Now we learn the real reason we decimated Iraq, so Israel can use it as it pleases. AIPAC pushes Americans to war for Israel's benefit.  Ever wonder why all our conflicts are in Israel's back yard?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:40 | 1230624 Fiat Money
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amen.  as the US economy continues to get trashed further by the bernanke/geithner/gs/jpm Fed (and bought off, bribed, & extorted US con-gress);  and as other "crisis" start to heat up to red hot, the  aipac COMMENTS TRASHING TROLLS come out in force...  

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:18 | 1230141 mynhair
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So when does the hidden nuke go off?

Tue, 05/03/2011 - 00:23 | 1232885 StychoKiller
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Pleeze let it be D.C. Pleeze let it be while Congress is in session...

Tue, 05/03/2011 - 03:45 | 1233092 BlackholeDivestment
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I had an interesting dream about this a few years back.

I saw myself and this ''person/from Heaven'' in an actual local hang out that you could see D.C. from, off in the distance. We were among the local people, everyone was just sitting as usual and this strom came upon the city. The storm began to turn destructive but the people were not moved. Then the storm became massive, the people were still not moved. Then this massive pillar of fire came in the middle of the storm and it started to head right for us. The people were still not move. The whole time I wanted to tell them they should move, or at least feel affected enough to consider being moved. It came time where this destructive pillar (which looked pretty much like the one in the movie where Heston plays Moses escaping Egypt) was obviously going to destroy the people that were never going to be moved. The person in my dream stood up at that point and shouted ''make straight the way of the Lord'' at the same time I did. Just as we shouted I realized that any false move, or hesitation that kept you from perfectly moving away, would be lethal. I felt like I knew what Lot felt and I woke up at that point.

From what I see upon this generation, the storm clouds are here, the people are still never going to be moved and there is no doubt that what I saw is happening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbCsvb3LnsE

It is not possible to get people to realize the deadly storm has risen as a result of not being moved. We are witnessing the reward of failure coming to pass and the people among the nations will see this come upon them. What happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.

Don't wish for the storm to come upon you or anyone. Just fear not, stand fast and do no harm and when you are inspired to rise with a shout and to be moved and risen away ...it will not be a choice, you will be compelled.

Iran etc... all part of the storm that is rising from the sands of the Middle East, like a Vegas Whirlwind with zero interest for labor, and there is nothing but a black hole from the betting spree/arms that failed to produce anything but demand destruction.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:31 | 1230196 I am Jobe
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WSar bitchezz and don't stop now. Ask America to deploy, America needs more debt.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:39 | 1230271 sbenard
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Is this the news that sent June crude oil to $114.83 so far today?

It's only going to get worse. The news media isn't covering most of the story in the Middle East. The reunification of Hamas and Fatah, the reopening of the Egyptian border (for arms shipments) to Gaza, the Israeli Knesset considering annexing the West Bank, the Sept plan to have the UN recognize a Palestinian state. All this in the past few days.

If the Palestinians unilaterally declare a state, and the UN recognizes it, we'll see crude oil at $300 within six months, rationing of gas soon after that. And six months after that, we'll see food rationing in the US that hasn't been seen in most Americans' lifetimes, as the impact of crude shortages impact farm production. Last week, Reuters reported that corn and other grains in storage are at the lowest levels in... drum roll please... 80 years!

Got food? I hope so because you may soon need it!

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:43 | 1230291 I am Jobe
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Sheeples are busy watching American Fucking Idol and waiting for the next IPHONE. Most of them haven't got a clue about what is about to happen in 6 months or less.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:43 | 1230272 mophead
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Just buy the fkn dip.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 12:42 | 1230285 sbenard
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Wars and rumors of wars! This one is in the "rumors" category!

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:39 | 1230396 Use of Weapons
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http://www.naveur-navaf.navy.mil/article214center.html

6th Fleet is all over this one.

Ahem.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=333729154405&topic=14250

Please tell your military about facebook privacy & general "how not to get /raided".

http://doni.daps.dla.mil/Directives/01000%20Military%20Personnel%20Suppo...

All of this is public domain - I'm left wondering why Iran's writers aren't more sophisticated at front-running a story.

Anyhow - if you fancy reading the actual PQS for cyber warfare for EIDWS, here is is:

http://eidws.info/_media/43365.pdf

Pass / fail? Seems a little 'light' for me. I'm not really into spies, but the exam is heavy on explanation, less code than I imagined. Btw, the publically available Navy destination is https://wwwa.nko.navy.mil/portal/home/

Childish, but amusing.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:06 | 1230420 blunderdog
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If only I had an oz of silver for every time in the past decade the US/Israel was going to attack Iran...

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:37 | 1230608 Fiat Money
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yes, any reference to the Holomodor (Stalin's first real post-Civil War purge, conducted in part by, hmm?  the "Red Wolf of the Kremlin"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich  ), Armenian Holocaust,  Irish Great Famine, (or even the recent wiping out of Tamils in Sri Lanka)  MUST BE CENSORED IMMEDIATELY!,  VERBOTTEN!  because the _____ holocaust industry MAINTAINS strict PATENT and COPYRIGHT infringement laws!  if you so much as mention any other victims of democide,  genocide by govt. mass-murder (as Rudy Rummel calls it) the past, bloody century (or this one).   

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 13:55 | 1230697 Missiondweller
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I'm not sure we should lend much credibility to the Sadr as a news source.

 

 

This guy is a Bin Laden wannabe.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:32 | 1230903 AldoHux_IV
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The final stages of before the shit hits the fan-- thanks to the nobel peace prize winner.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:42 | 1230940 Strategery
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What I am seeing is that America, for the first time, is getting past it's belief in the world of Walter Chronchite and Howward K Smith, good journalists but probably wholly at the mercy of those who would disseminate 'news' in their time. Today, the public seems aware that truth and news are no longer one in the same. What you get is someone's attempt to create a 'truth' that fits their agenda. If news was ever innocent, that innocence has long since died. It is very difficult to sort fact from fiction, especially in a world where your government is on the cutting edge of propaganda. It gets to the point where you must consider the credibility of the proponent of information, and find sites that provide information that the mainstream media will not provide. Aka, it's presumed to be bull$@!! until proven otherwise.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 15:14 | 1231084 Hannibal
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"OBL KILLED!".... the big (lie) distraction?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 22:41 | 1232667 nathan1234
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Followed by a nuke briefcase bomb i guess as OBL's henchmen's answer. To start the next war in the Middle East.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 22:42 | 1232668 nathan1234
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Followed by a nuke briefcase bomb i guess as OBL's henchmen's answer. To start the next war in the Middle East.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 15:58 | 1231311 Lord Koos
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Reporting "news" from Iranian state television?  feh

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 16:09 | 1231332 Rhea
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Oh my dear chumbawamba, that was just an earthquake ;)

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 16:21 | 1231390 Bansters-in-my-...
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Fuck Israel...!!! The Rothschilds playground. If you do not know the Israeli/Rothschild connection,you should DEFINATELY ,google it on up. Fuck the delusional puppet ,Benji NuttyYahoo...The fucking Sach of shit.

The chosen people....

Ya for me to shit on their fucking heads.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 18:36 | 1232029 Gashole
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Kish mir in tuchas, tateleh.

?? ??????

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 16:23 | 1231413 Bansters-in-my-...
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"The United States maintains numerous bases in Iraq, and the Baghdad".

And damn near every other fucking country in the world.

The United Snakes of America.

The Imperialist fucking pigdogs.

Seems to be another "Tool" of the Rothschilds banking clan

You know...the Oppenheimers,and Kohns and the Rockefellers,and such.

FUCK YOU USA...!!!Goverment(banksters) 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 20:30 | 1232349 MarcusAurelius
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"Sudden debt" I still love your icon. It is priceless. A true rant. Well I have to admire Amadinajads stance as he pulls no punches in telling the world Israel should be wiped off the map. Maybe....maybe not. His mistake is giving them a reason to attack. Giving them a reason to openly defend their actions to the rest of the world. Israel has little to no choice. If it allows Iran to continue developing nuclear capacity it knows it is a matter of time before Iran will use it against them. It can't afford a direct hit from a nuclear device. The country is too small to survive such an attack and so it is (and has been in the position) of strike first or pay the consequences later. I know what I would do if it was kill or be killed.  

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 20:28 | 1232350 I dont belong here
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Would war with Iran cause the dollar to go up or down, and why?

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 20:43 | 1232384 SignalSoldier
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I just re-deployed from Mosul (Fob Marez) via al-Asad six months ago and the place was a fucking ghost town. Then again, that was six months ago. I'm just a simple soldier but I'd say you could launch a shit-ton of aircraft from al-Asad, that place is fucking huge.

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 20:53 | 1232412 Zero Govt
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Isreal are foreign policy 'experts' ...look how well they're 'working' in Palestine ...60 years of 'success' there, and it's going to 'work' real well in Iran too.. that old adage of how being a violent dysfunctional thug always brings peace and social harmony 

...and the UN (alias US Govt, alias Big Oil) just dropped a bomb down Giddafis chimney and killed his youngest son ...that's a 'winning strategy' for an outbreak of peace and love in Libya isn't it? 

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 23:18 | 1232706 BlackholeDivestment
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