[Crimsonsabbath]

Originally Posted by Sauron

strategypage is a joke.

Iran could just bomb the refineries in Saudi Arabia and other places. That would take weeks/months to fix.

strategypage.com is a joke and that is your grand strategy? Oh boy...

[bruce_campbell]

I hope it doesn't come to war, but I've got a bad feeling that it will.

[Pridelives]

Originally Posted by Piper

The fact that the US has "leaked" the fact that plans for targets in Iran have been set, it a tactic to get them to back down, and stop supplying/training/manning attacks on US and Iraqi troops within Iraq.

Hillary is now trying to sound tough against Iran, too. She knows, as most in congress do, that Iran is flagrantly waging war against the US in Iraq and the elected government of Iraq. If it doesn't happen before Bush leaves office, then whoever is elected will have to deal with this.

The US election is only a few months away, and the ground is being prepared and the populace being prepared for the eventuality of action against Iran.

Pulling out of Iraq is contingent on Iran being dealt with. If Iran wasn't waging its war in Iraq, we could leave relatively soon. Al-Qaeda is nearly removed, the indigenous insurgents for the most part have now sided with the US against Al-Qaeda, the elected government of Iraq is lead by Shiite muslims, but the "militias" backed by Iran are fighting them and the Sunnis. With Iran knocked out, Iraq can recover and we can leave.

I agree.

[RuSSiaNThuG]

did you guys catch this?


BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran hardliners condemn Khatami

'Sabotage?'

Mr Khatami's remarks have been interpreted as suggesting that Iran supports insurgents in other countries.

"What did the Imam [Khomenei] mean by exporting the revolution?" he asked in a speech on Friday to university students.

"Did he mean that we take up arms, that we blow up places in other nations and we create groups to carry out sabotage in other countries? The Imam was vehemently against this and was confronting it," he said.

pretty full on

[AllahvULongTime]

history has shown that the only way to avoid violence is to give the aggressor what he wants.

[Sanin]

Originally Posted by AllahvULongTime

history has shown that the only way to avoid violence is to give the aggressor what he wants.

I hope youre being ironic

[InternetHero]

Originally Posted by Sauron

strategypage is a joke.

Iran could just bomb the refineries in Saudi Arabia and other places. That would take weeks/months to fix.

With what? Covert suicide bombers?

Their air force wouldn't make it.


Even if they could hit them they wouldn't, because the consequences would be grave for Iran.


Not that I care because a conflict with Iran is not going to happen in the next year or two, if ever.

[Sanin]

I do believe Iran has missiles and all the tests I've seen tend to say that our missile defense systems are a joke. That being said they'd be more likely to send in "martyrs" to do it by hand, which would all of course fail, in an attempt to incite a religious uprising.

[InternetHero]

Originally Posted by Sanin

I do believe Iran has missiles and all the tests I've seen tend to say that our missile defense systems are a joke. That being said they'd be more likely to send in "martyrs" to do it by hand, which would all of course fail, in an attempt to incite a religious uprising.

I don't think they have the Warhead capability to take out the Saudi oil fields, and they would not be foolish enough to escalate the conflict in that way. (A conflict they already started btw...)

The U.S. not going to strike Iran though anytime soon. I guarantee.

Israel though? Signs point to "maybe".

[Sanin]

Don't fool yourself. If anyone attacks Israel they are in effect attacking the United States.

And current estimates are that Iranian warheads have a range somewhat more than 2,000 km. That includes Israel, US military bases in the region, and can even reach as far north as Southern Europe.