Posted on 03/06/2006 10:02:09 AM PST by Abathar
Advertisement AdvertisementIran vowed today to be a "killing field" for any attackers after the United States warned of "painful consequences" if it failed to curb its atomic plans. US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said yesterday his country had been "beefing up defensive measures" to thwart Iran's nuclear program, which the West suspects is a quest for atomic bombs, not just nuclear-generated electricity.
Gholamali Rashid, deputy head of the armed forces, said the United States did not understand to operate in the Gulf region.
"Iran's armed forces, through their experience of war ... will turn this land into a killing field for any enemy aggressors," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said he was hopeful a deal to defuse the nuclear dispute could be reached soon. He was speaking in Vienna just before delivering a report on Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran has been already reported to the UN Security Council for failing to convince the world its scientists are working only on nuclear power stations and not on a covert weapons program.
Although the United States and Israel have said diplomacy is the best way forward, neither has ruled out military options.
Iran is planning to set some 3,000 research centrifuges running in the last quarter of 2006. Scientists say these could produce enough material for a warhead in one year.
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Yep, the ol "Mother of All Battles". Just like Saddam.
"UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said he was hopeful a deal to defuse the nuclear dispute could be reached soon."
This is a fairy tale of an idea that there could be a legitimate deal.
The EU, UN and ElBaradei need to stop the denial and Get Real!
Modern day hannibal with WMD's in place of Elephants. Rome will give all their soldiers horns to blow when the battle starts. Who knows, the metaphoric elephants may panic and stomp all over their Iranian masters.
Well, there is one thing sure and that is that infsofar as blood-curdling threats go the Middle East beats out the rest of the world hands down (North Korea comes in second followed by the Red Chinese with an honorable mention to Hugo Chavez).
Yeah, blah-blah-blah, keep yakking you fools, when the U.S. decides it's time for you all to go meet the demon calling itself 'allah', Iran will end up not as a "killing field", but as a ripe field of freshly kicked Ahmadinejad, which surely must translate to "sh*t" in English.
And somehow, someway, I just know that "Mahmoud" when used with "Ahmadinejad" means "dumb".
Which is exactly what that little runt who sees green lights is.
Does anybody know how many nukes and fuel-air bombs it would take to turn the "killing field" into a field of glass?
The hapless iranians, who couldn't get over in the iran-iraq war, the rag-tag iraqui amry, would be hard pressed to whup a troup of our girl scouts.
The third cousin, twice removed of all battles.
Agreed. So what else is new?
Are we talking about the country that lost more troops losing a war than we did in Iraq1,Iqaq2,Vietnam,Panama,Kosovo,Korea,WW2and WW1 put together?
If their is a conflict with Iran, no Regime change, no Nation building!!!!
Just bomb their parliament while in session, bomb all nuclear sites and get out. What killing fields? Among themselves?
LOL!!!
A 'killing field'? This will join the proven-ludicrous-by-history and equally farcical 'line in the sand' and 'Mother of all Battles'!
Put Ahmedinejad in a padded cell and let him make his threats to the walls.
He probably won't know the difference and he'll be happy as a lark.
over the weekend it was reported that Yale U officials said about recruiting the Taliban ..."we lost one already to Harvard and we'll not let that happen again...."
I would like to know what was the name of the terrorist recruited by Harvard...
bump.
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