Posted on 02/01/2006 4:51:17 PM PST by humint
...liberty is the future of every nation in the Middle East because liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.
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The same is true of Iran. A nation held hostage by a small clerical elite who is isolating and oppressing its people. The regime in that country sponsors terrorists in the Palestinian Territories and in Lebanon and that must come to an end.
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The Iranian government is defying the world with its nuclear ambitions and the nations of the World must not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons.
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America will continue to rally the world to confront these threats. Tonight let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran.
America respects you and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom and our nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran.
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They will do it.
short, sweet, and to the point.
Here it comes.
Well said! I agree completely...
Do you think?
I hope so. I hope so.
Its time to step up if Iran were stupid enough to try and block the Strait of Hormuz. We could station the Navy there which, in conjunction with the Air Force, would defend against sea and land-based threats - silkworm anti-ship missles and other shore hazzards. Even if an Iranian missle were to somehow get within several miles of an American ship, well, I assume we all know what a radar-guided Phalanx system can do to an incoming target in a fraction of a second :)
The United States Military can and probably will apply incredible force on this regime if it continues to side against liberty. That's the key here. If the regime in Iran were to surrender its despotism, free its political prisoners, end its support of terrorism and stop threatening the community of nations with clandestine nuclear weapons programs and oil embargoes the free world would most likely back off.
I know.... unlikely it may be, but it could happen.
The Iranian regime needs to surrender.
Ahmadinejad bum bu da dum lam da dam jam, blue moon!
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