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USS Carrier Harry Truman Now Officially Just Off Iran, As Israel Allegedly Plotting An Imminent Tehran Raid
As we first reported last week, in an article that was met with much original skepticism, the Pentagon has now confirmed that a fleet of 12 warships has passed the Suez Canal, and is now likely awaiting orders to support the escalation in the Persian Gulf. The attached image from Stratfor shows the latest positioning of US aircraft carrier groups as of June 23: the USS Harry Truman (CVN-75) is now right next to USS Eisenhower (CVN 69), both of which are waiting patiently just off Iran.
Report republished with permission of STRATFOR
As for the catalyst the two carriers may be anticipating, we provide the following update from the Gulf Daily News where we read that Israel may be on the verge of an attack of Iran, with an incursion originating from military bases in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Israel is massing warplanes in the Caucasus for an attack on Iran, it was revealed yesterday.
Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources.
Israel was, in fact, training pilots in Turkey to launch the strike and was smuggling planes into Georgia using Turkish airspace, they said.
However, Turkey was unaware of Israel's intention of transferring the planes to Georgia, the sources said.
The unexpected crisis between Israel and Turkey following an Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza Strip hit Israeli calculations.
Azerbaijan-based intelligence units, working under the cover of technicians, trainers and consultants, have helped with the preparations, the sources said.
Military equipment, mostly supplied by the US, was transported to a Georgian port via the Black Sea.
Georgian coastguard and Israeli controllers are co-operating to hide the operations from Russian vessels, said the sources.
They point out that according to Israel, it will not be in a position to launch a strike on Iran without using bases in Georgia and Azerbaijan due to the limited capabilities of its nuclear submarines stationed near the Iranian coast.
Meanwhile, Iran's Press TV reported that a very large contingent of US ground forces had massed in Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border. The independent Azerbaijani news website Trend confirmed the report.
Those reports came just days after the Pentagon confirmed that an unusually large fleet of US warships had indeed passed through Egypt's Suez Canal en route to the Gulf. At least one Israeli warship reportedly joined the American armada.
Press TV also quoted Iranian Revolultionary Guard Brigadier General Mehdi Moini as saying that the country's forces are mobilised and ready to face Israelli and American "misadventures" near its borders.
* Iran last night said it has cancelled plans to send an aid ship to the Gaza Strip as Israel "had sent a letter to the UN saying that the presence of Iranian and Lebanese ships in the Gaza area will be considered a declaration of war on that regime and it will confront it," Irna said.
We caution readers to take this news with a grain of salt as the Gulf Daily News' sister publication, Akhbar Al Khaleej, has a slightly less than stellar credibility rating. Then again, this is what some, Breaking News Online most notably, said about last week's carrier news, urging readers to ignore it.
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Dude, stop it, you're ruining their game!
I am Chumbawamba.
You mean the one the Zionists are going to unleash on the goyums?
How many Jewish Generals and Admirals are there? Just a thought...
Who is running the Harry Trueman?
http://www.aish.com/jw/s/48918022.html
How many Zionist soldiers are fighting alongside their "American allies" in Afghanistan? Just a thought...
nothing happening here, move on, move on
OK, Officer Barbrady.
...just so you know your place Burger. You are a citizen of south park.
... as opposed to being a subject of Amerika
This is one reason why ZH is usually my first stop when I fire up my browser - not a peep on the home pages of the WSJ, FT, BBC, etc. Perhaps they feel that this news is of no interest to investors, gasoline consumers, etc.?
<<Meanwhile, Iran's Press TV reported that a very large contingent of US ground forces had massed in Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border. The independent Azerbaijani news website Trend confirmed the report.>>
This would be very interesting except that Trend News, which I monitor, absolutely positively did not "confirm the report". Not by any stretch of the imagination!
Sort of calls into question the entire story... Frankly the Iranian news media is even less credible than the U.S. news media.
Certainly, there is the chance that this is not an accurate story. Maybe some futures traders wanted to goose returns on oil contracts. Perhaps an honest misread of news/events. Who knows.
However, if an attack is imminent, this is precisely the type of cat and mouse games that you play ahead of the start to wear out your opponent. Sort of a Peter and the wolf variant, hoping that after a number of false alarms, you opponent loses their edge and misreads real danger as another false alarm.
Time will tell. And of course, perception sometimes doubles as reality in the markets.
Chumba: I don't agree but I respect your opinion. You greatly lessen the value of your argument (and this website, I might add) by making statements such as the one above.
The website? The website will succeed or fail with or without my comments.
The value of my argument? What value? I'm just another schlub in this parade of idiocy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui6-Wc0PDc4
I am Chumbawamba.
Turd respects your opinion. Fucking cheese cheese cheese.Trust chumba when he speakes of broke fuck nigger, hes already been down the road your traveling.
Turd Ferguson
"You greatly lessen the value of your argument (and this website, I might add) by making statements such as the one above."
I know, I know. It should have read " Broke Dog Dick Nigger".
If you can't use the proper insulting slang don't use slang at all. It just makes you look so white.
Gully, have you contacted the Indonesian programmers I recommended to get your site up and running?
Chumba, you are wrong on one account; you forgot to add the emphasis that he will be a much more broke kneika! And we'll still be houndin'! Peak oil, bitchez!
Pharoahe Monch - Book of Judges:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGHFJCG9IM&feature=related
Living a life free of the rat race caused by the gob and living how I choose; raising my family how I choose and being left alone would make me a very, very, rich man. You're so hung up on money. There is so much more to life, good sir.. so much more. Freedom is my greatest treasure. Working my ass off to pay 1/3 to the gov't is slavery.
Fair enough, but the word eradication sounds like you are freeing your crops from locusts. Iran may not be better than any other Nation, but the people there are still people like you and me, and we must have empathy and not kill them! And Chumba is right, we go to war, kiss the doelarr goodbye. It could actually be a little funny. The huge tanks push to the edge of Iran, the gas light hits red, and they ask themselves whats wrong. Explaining FIAT could take weeks, so I hope they brought fire wood and banjos so they can sing themselves to sleep with koombeyeyah.
I think you missed the point of my post. It was a sarcastic sibling post to Chump'as constant Israel bashing. While he bashes posts like mine where I sarcastically suggested the destruction of an entire country, he shows his hypocrisy with his desire to reduce Israel to ashes. I'm just trying to be a thorn, on purpose.
Well, if you are being sarcastic, I can not hear you. Please consider using the sarcasm button.
One must be sarcastic when dealing with Chump-o.. it's a default option in my profile ;)
I try to be empathetic towards anger. I try to not hold grudges. I try not to judge the whole of a person just because of a simplistic point of view.
I find this to be more of a disagreement. He has his opinion, I have mine.. and I normally try to avoid the "middle east" posts on ZH because I know he's going to push his hate and I just assume not participate. But sometimes.. I just have to say something.
I usually stay out of here too [bullet misses LH's ear] it's a little noisy and mis informed [grenade goes off nearby] but due to the fact that we may now enter stage one of WWIII and at the very least witness the final collapse of the economy, whatever it was in the first place [ground shaking quake nearby, Chumba is heard yelling "Nuclear War bitches!"] I feel like, you know, hitting some points home maybe one last time [lights go out, red flashing lights go on, and a siren begins blaring in the distance].
Get prepped.. and the fear just about goes away.
I fear nothing especially not fear itself. We will continue to beat our drums.
UGrev, Mr Lennon,
I know the feeling about these Middle East threads! Dangerous!
Couple of weeks ago my comment of having no sympathy for the Gaza Peace Flotilla got me blasted out of there (20 junks) faster than I can fire a clip on my AK-47!
You mean 'magazine', not clip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clip_(ammunition)
You can call them clips.
UGrev, shut the fuck up
love your stance on the issue, hate your racial slurs
His stand on the issue is a racist slur.
Is not Israel an amalgam of many races with one ideology?
If you are referring to the fact that the Hebrews, who descended on the valley of a new land which was worshiped by "Sun worshipers" (RA) and "Lunar worshipers" (Isis) and they themselves were at that point "Saturn worshipers" (EL), and conjoined their worships with those around them (which was nothing new considering they were from Egypt which up until Akhenaten had itself many gods to worship) then yes, they worship many gods. This until the new testament was writ, confusing the whole issue.
akhenaten:
http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/akhenaten.jpg
Actually, the old testament is pretty chalked full of "other gods" that the Hebrews worshiped. The golden calf, libations to the moon, cakes set out for the moon goddess, burning children... its a pretty long list really. You could actually call it a major miracle that the hebrews actually kept one religion through the whole time, as much as they dabbled in other religions.
Good point.
palestine, was ceded to the khazar's (eastern european converts, circa AD 7th century), through blackmail. they are not biblical jew ancestors. (possibly edomites)
I mentioned no “God”.
Just race and ideology.
I suggested that Israel is made of many races and one ideology.
Ideology is not a “God” unless one imagines that idea is “God”.
>>Is not Israel an amalgam of many races with one ideology?<<
No
Whatever, Inter-scene Fluff Guy.
Fucking A, jomama dont like racial slurs. I love this cuntry.Our hippocracy has no bounds.
please enlighten us as to how jo mama is a racist slur.
Racist swine.
Zionist supporter.
I would like them both, the moslims and the jews go up in flames!
What does that make me? A Razionist?
An anti-semite.
Both Jews and Arabs are Semitic peoples.
So Israel is in fact run by a bunch of anti Semites. Are you guys going to stand for that!?
semitic, refers to a language, who the hell knows what it means anymore. the accuracy, of our terminology, has been woefully degraded, kinda like everything else.
Excellent retort Chumba.
Is not Israel an amalgam of many races with one ideology?
First, define "Israel". The country? or the Children of ...
Second, define "race".
Israel is a State.
Children are children and always will be.
They need fathers.
But some, even when they grow up, need greater fathers.
So they make a God.
And they call God the Father.
Race is the sum of humanity.
Do you have any other questions?
The Jewish people of Israel are God's chosen people that God created and then selected as his people. Any other questions?
Yeah: do you really believe that shit?
Yes I do.
I am not chumbawamba.
PickAJew I choose you.
I'm Catholic, you lose.
I'm Catholic
Impossible. Your statements conflict. You are exposed.
Soon we find out if the IT junk-be-gone is still 20....
Mr. L H, Chumba, all decent people are with you. They don't have a voice yet.
Make that the suicide of Israel.
Bring it on!
If you like suicide, do us a favor and try it yourself.
Tough SCUMguy, people like you make the rest of us HATE HATE HATE all of you Americans, even if we know that not all Americans are alike!
Allbeit you FORCE us to HATE you! WE WANT AT LEAST PEACE!!!!
Fuck you, damn you forever!
desgust - please don't confuse an Israeli with 2 passports, doing his ethnic supremacy, blood-lust, war dance with an American.
You do a disservice to the pliant sheeples.
+1
Iran has survived almost all modern era empires, and this time wont be different. Would you like to use nuclear weapons to eradicate 75 million people? You would loose your major card in your slate used so successfully for more than 60 years. Wouldn't it be new Holocaust?
The premise I don't understand is who gets to say what country has the right to own nuclear weapons? As far as I am concerned, the US doesn't deserve to own them either - considering they are the only nation to have used them on civilians (WWII). If I were Iran, and had western powers breathing down my neck - I would likely research them too.
Right to own?
Only the country that brings them into existence.
Though whether it is a “right” or not is a moral and political question.
Exactly, especially when it's an open secret that Israel has them.
Gemini, I'd like to propose that your question is the most profound of the day (and, no, this time I'm absolutely serious which seldom happens).
My short answer is "The Leviathan," (and my inner Alinsky just sent a tingle up my leg).
As to "research"? Might be entertaining for you to look up "centrifuge" and UF6.
- Ned
I am curious, why would you want to destroy anything? Bankster power system excluded...........
Good question. I'll offer an answer.
So you can pick through the remains and take what you want without argument.
How's that.
Oh, ok. Vultures and hyenas; I have noticed that they are clever creatures.
Double. Junk away!!!!
The space between the banksters and Israel is small.
But the citizens of Israel?
Let them speak for themselves:
Israeli poll: 75 percent favour deporting fellow citizens; Netanyahu favours birth control
A survey conducted by the Israeli Knesset channel shows that 75 percent of Israeli Jews are in favour of deporting Israeli-Arab citizens...
In an effort to boost his popularity ratings while those of his political rivals tumble, Netanyahu has launched a media campaign to convince Israelis of his important role in reducing the birth rate among Israeli-Arabs.
http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/arab-media/671-israeli-poll-75-percent-favour-deporting-fellow-citizens-netanyahu-favours-birth-control
'50% against equal rights for Arabs'Fifty percent of Jewish Israeli high-schoolers believe that Arab Israelis should not be granted the same rights as their Jewish counterparts, according to a new Ma’agar Mohot poll of 536 15-to-18-year-olds.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=170735
41% of Israel's Jews favour segregationA poll of attitudes among Israel's Jews towards their country's Arab citizens has exposed widespread racism, with large numbers favouring segregation and policies to encourage Arabs to leave the country.
The poll found that more than two-thirds of Jews would refuse to live in the same building as an Arab. Nearly half would not allow an Arab in their home and 41% want segregation of entertainment facilities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/24/israel
But go on, keep shooting the messenger. The internet has an endless supply of facts and I have all day.
I am Chumbawamba.
Yup. Fuck em.
Better yet, how often does the Hostlie Elite in the US rain insults upon my people (WASPs) from the positions ethnic nepotism gave them in the media. They expect us to fight and die for them in their wars yet can't even bring themselves to slighly hide their extreme hatred for us. All those "redneck", probably racist or nativist young men from Texas (ewwwww) who wouldn't be allowed to pour coffee at the offices of Commentary Magazine who die for Israel in Iraq.. Tinderbox, 'round here.
+100
They need to wake up and smell the Zionist coffee.
damn Chumba, you are the effing MAN!
That's the way to do it. Expose their genocidal ways just like the banksters. Search Rockefeller + "war on the weak"
I have also heard that many Jews want the Zionists out as well. Stats can be misleading, Diebold and AP polls and Census Beuros and Employment figures for example.
wait, wait didnt the germans try that " we can make better humans " ie "we are the master race". Odd to see the israelis tack that same position.
disclaimer: i am far from human.
I hope its after the 4th of July. I'll be in New York City and would hate to be caught up in Irans counter offensive.
If, like me, you think that the majority of the world hates the USA. Wait until we are used as the baby daddy for the 2010 Iran-Israel war.
I imagine one day that international travel for people with American passports will be a death sentence. Unless you are traveling to the UK or Israel.
As a Belgium citizen I welcome all American tourists! We all do! Americans are also very well wanted all over Europe and Azia.
Actually: I know some people that when they had a baby, they went to America for 6 to 10 month for the birth, just so the baby would have a American passport and then came back.
Fucking beautiful feature, Sacrilege. The Double Post.
Maybe you want to study up on database triggers and use one to eliminate this annoyance.
Also, your implementation of Varnish is broken. I get at least 20 "Connection: closed" errors per 50 visits. Why use an accelerator if it does not work...
Or just continue praying to Yahweh. He'll fix it for you.
All the other nations have to do is dump the doelarr. Bombs away! I smell a (nother) failed auction comin'! What happens when the only indirect is (un)Great Britain?
There is nothing like a war to take the public's mind off of bad economic news.
There's nothing like a war to generate large transfers of money.
FIAT money is a misnomer. Their transfers will be better spent in front of the board game Monopoly.
There is nothing like a war.
Was calling Stratfor "Startfor" merely a typo or a Freudian slip?
i wonder how gold will react ..........
If this action leads to greater uncertainty for the west and especially the US, gold will go up.
that was purely a rhetorical question but thanks anyway
Yeah but papah or phisical? Let's get this straight....
i dont see anyone willing to sell his phys gold and a part the usual naked short sell no one will be willing to sell his gold if something big happens in iran , most people dont realize the iranian army is no joke , it has a quite a decent army and any invasion will be much more tougher than what happens in irak or afghanistan . so i see both phys and paper up
Totally agree gold goes up, physical for sure.
...
No US - Iran ground war. No way.
Maybe we help the Israelis with airstrikes / cruise missiles. Take out part of the oil refinery in Esfahan and any rail bridges south of Irans's northern borders and they have NO gasoline, Iran gets to walk...
Fuck gold... any idea how much oil will be?
Free if you dip a cup in the Gulf of Mexico.
I am Chumbawamba.
and free methane. 4th could be a blast. folks say pensacola beach smells like a gas station. The nosmoking sign SHOULD be up.
City fathers opened the beach and now 400 are sick. You can see the gasses bubbling out at the beach.
Now is a good time to take a vacation in the N.West.
Dumbed down mericans are swimming in it including their children despite having to wipe oil of their feet. Lunacy and the failure of the self preservation instinct combined with false news and a president sayen its ok go have fish there. heard of coreexit Mr president?
Once again, I don't think most people understand what an attack on Iran would mean.
It quite literally means the end of the U.S. as we know it.
In a matter of weeks we go from a nation of SUV driving consumers to a nation struggling to survive.
i must agree , if the us is involved in an attack in iran , it will precipitate the us economy in a unprecedent economic collapse .
Thats the main purpose and intent. The banksters own the gov and now want the states.
if i was a bankster i really would not like to see a shitload of angry jobless peasant looking for someone to blame ...
i might be missing something but theyr strategy is complete nonsense
Economic collapse is probable, of course, but more likely is the final elimination of any moral standing America has in the world. There won’t be a fraction of difference in the world’s perception between Israel and the U.S. regardless of who pulls the trigger or who responds to Iran’s counter attack. For too long, Americans have avoided facing the reality of its Israel problem. It should be settled right now, here in America, and not by warships in the Persian Gulf. The writing-on-the-bathroom-wall talk here, of course, distracts us from dealing with the real threat.
what really pisses me off is that the us governement is still pretending to be THE moral . last time i checked , guantanamo was not in iran ....
Look up 'Evin Prison'.
I just posted it to stick a burr up Chumpa's butt. He has a hard-on for Islamo-Fascism for some reason.
OSAMA BIN LADEN BITCHES!!
Friend of yours?
Ummm - Friend of the Bush family, actually
that's the "Fascist Bush family" to you.. so what... you think I'm a bush supporter because I'm anti Islamo-fascist? I love the assumptions from some of you people; Simply divine!
what's that sound? oh, could it be the deflation of your argument..?
Loyalty to my country above all..
Nationalism is more of a curse than religious fanaticism. The US does not care for your loyalty, it cares for your taxes. It will also take your blood in exchange if you can't find a job to pay your citizenship dues.
The type of nationalism you refer to is the kind where people rally around a person to show their national pride and loyalty. Fortunately for me, I don't have any desire to project my loyalty to my country by some proxy person.
++ ozz.
succinct.
Yes, loyalty to the Fatherland - great riposte. So, moving along, tell us how you feel about Israel-fascism?
are you not a fan of the Constitution and Freedom? why would you not have a great pride and loyalty to this?
Freedom??? In America ??? .... Oh, hahaha oh my oh my don't ROTFL...oh --- oh my... never laughed so hard in my life. And the Constitution - - that was used for toilet paper years ago
.... are you not a fan of reality and truth??
(but why not just start by answering the question - -do you support Israeli fascism ... or oes it just plain not exist?)
What constitution and what freedom?
Where's the justice when millions of people suffer and a few jackasses make of with billion in bonuses. Where's the freedom when the US has the most number of prisoner's in the world? Where's the constitution when people can be assassinated when deemed a threat, or locked up indefinitely without a trial?
You're a serf, how many Congressmen and senators have children fighting their wars? When the rich argue, the poor die.
Justice, the rule of law, these are things not known in the recent age of America.
....yep... loyalty.... right or wrong ... loyalty - despite reason... that makes sense
...loyalty to a country is the highest form of human expression?
Jesus - what a little tiny life you must lead...
NO A PERSONAL FUCKING HERO BITCHES!!
Thanks for showing everyone your true colors, dirtbag.
- what about the USA's true colors??
The United States began training insurgents in, and directing propaganda broadcasts into Afghanistan from Pakistan in 1978. Then, in early 1979, U.S. foreign service officers began meeting insurgent leaders to determine their needs. According to the then US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, CIA aid to the insurgents (Osama Bin Laden) within Afghanistan was approved in July 1979, six months before the Soviet Invasion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMSj8XDZxQ
Wait. It's 1976 today. Who's Jimmy Carter? President Ford and the elites were behind the selling of F-14 Tomcats to our great ally, Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQpfbqlINwA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlA1gP5kKY4
Iranian F-14 Tomcat passing over usa troops in iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnaOQkS3l-g&feature=related
US aid to Saddam Hussein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP7ZrmkcuU
Boy.. were your born with your head and ass swapped like that? or was this a recent development?
- wake up bitch.
"How many assholes are on this ship?" -spaceballs
No, I just have an affinity for terrorists: Osama bin Laden, Barrack Hussein Obama, Abu Nidal, Ariel Sharon, Yassir Arafat, Shimon Perez, George Bush, Ehud Barak, &c.
I am Chumbawamba.
And the reason you love free speech is what exactly?
chumba roots for muslims, other for the israelis is there anybody out there rooting for us few remaining white folks and black folks. We feel we are getting screwed by EVERYBODY and having less babies too. The new freedom is for the dead.
?
I don't root for Muslims, I root against Evil. God damn it, this is not complicated.
I am Chumbawamba.
How does anybody junk my comment above?
Seriously?
Iran exports 2.5 MBD of crude. Take that off the market, and another 2-5 for regional dispruptions, and you're down almost 10%. Overnight. And we're already past peak production.
Price goes to 200 before the .gov takes over all distribution.
Gas is 10-15 bucks a gallon. If you can get it.
Game over.
add close SoH - Ned
Your comment is junked by those who want an attack on Iran.
They don’t care what happens to the US (or anywhere else for that matter).
They care only for control.
They care nothing for humanity
Ship sank. Fifteen people in a lifeboat designed to hold only ten. It is sinking. All will perish unless you throw five overboard. What a cruel person he is, who cares nothing for humanity, who stands up and decides which five people will be thrown overboard to save the other ten.
Management is the allocation of scare resources among competing objectives. The resources are scarce. "Scarce" means some people won't get them. The "strongest" managers don't make the resources scarce. They just win the "right" to allocate them; they decide who gets the scarce resources and who doesn't. They cannot allocate them to everybody (they are scarce, remember), and so the managers determine who doesn't get the scarce resources. It has always been this way and always will be.
If you don't like who is currently allocating the scarce resource, get strong enough to overthrow the current "managers". Oops - game over. Once you become strong enough to allocate the scarce resources, you can keep yourself strong and everybody else weak.
It isn't right. It isn't wrong. It just is. Survival of the fittest - the first who is able to control the allocation of scarce resources.
Is it still a matter of survival of the fittest or more like how low can you go?
I would throw you overboard and rotate the remaining extra 4 in and out of the boat from holding on to the sides..
lol + 90000000. funny shit , thanks
That reply always made the most sense to me. Except when you factor in the temperature of the ocean, the sharks, and the fact that the liferaft only has fresh water for ten people.
I was addressing Welligton's claim that "they" care nothing for humanity. Sacrificing some to save others is part of the process of allocating scarce resources among competing objectives. It does not always mean that the allocator cares nothing for humanity.
The premise that perpetual growth is unsustainable is incorrect. The universe is stable, ordered, benevolent and expansive even if the minds of many bear witness to the opposite fact. Scarcity is a mindset. All behaviour is a result of mindset and setting. Under the right circumstances an individual will automatically self-actualise their potential. The current GDP of the world is about $40 Trillion. At 3% growth rate from 2012 the total will be $120 Trillion by the middle of the century. Of course there are limits to the amount of liquidity that can be injected into the system. There must be some forms of regulation. Oversight is required. Money like people must obey certain constraints. I can prove all the above points empirically, anecdotally and scientifically. I have a vast amount of life experience and pure research to back up what I say. Happy to sit with any interested parties to present my claims. (BTW, I am already doing so...)
MULTIBALL
#436674
Some unlikely bedfellows. Is Obama's Israel bashing actually cover for American support/participation in an attack on Iran? Hard to believe anyone will have the balls to attempt to attack Iran given how far along their nuclear program is, how many sites there are, how well buried those sites are, and how powerful Iran's military is. Iran could be taken out, looking at a map, by a combined effort of the US launching from the east and west (Iraq and Afghanistan) and Russia from the north. I'd gladly give the Russians the oil if they would seize control of Iran's nuclear program and dismantle it. I don't think Israel has the military to move the needle on Iran.
Liz it that you? what a great pic, love the bra.
military aggression and empire building kill mostly civilian human life. the blood of innocent people. you speak of it as you would a video game or pieces on a chessboard. i would suggest that you find some reality and humanity.
Reality? Just trying to push out a nuclear 9-11 another year or two. Still grappling with the question: "How does a world of big cities exist in a world where loose nukes are floating around terrorist circles and any group with a grudge can take out half of New York or Moscow or Jakarta?"
slutty nukes. I always thought of nukes as harem girls.
You've got to be kidding.
Russia on the Straits of Hormuz with control of not just Iran's oil but everything coming out of the Middle East?
If that comes to pass, we'll be longing for the good ol' days of Ahmadinejad and The Ayatollahs.
Please bear in mind that "Energy Blackmail" is the key foreign policy tool Russia has used to regain power and influence in Europe. Also bear in mind that Russia is no more friendly to the West and a lot more unpredictable than was the old Soviet Union.
And as far as making the Middle East a nuclear-free area? You'd be putting the world's second-most-powerful nuclear power in a chokehold position.
Finally, bear in mind that Vladimir Putin's most admired heroes in Russian History are Stalin and Peter The Great - and he is slated to return as President once the Medvyedev intrerregnum is over.
Russia moving into Iran will turn out very, very badly for us ....
KrvtKpt laughing swordfish
DKM Trading Division
"Hard to believe anyone will have the balls to attempt to attack Iran given how far along their nuclear program is, how many sites there are, how well buried those sites are, and how powerful Iran's military is."
Hard to believe anyone will have the balls to attempt to attack Iran given how advanced their chemical and biological weapons programs are.