Don't expect France and Germany to be too woried about this. They're out of range and there's some money to be made. Russia's reaction will be interesting though.
Posted on 04/27/2006 6:21:05 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Iran has recently purchased BM-25 surface-to-surface missiles from North Korea that put European countries within firing range, Israel’s military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, has been quoted as saying today.
The missiles, which have a range of 1,550 miles, are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and part of the shipment has already reached Iran, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported.
You wonder what is going thru the Russians' heads. Afterall, Iran is a whole lot closer to Moscow than it is to NY.
The Europeans don't have to worry. Iran would not attack fellow Muslims.
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Doesn't matter - Iran wouldn't dare hit Russia. I don't think any country (except the U.S.) has the guts to hit Russia.
The wry irony is Russia, who recently approached us for some sort of "protection" or at least an alliance to fend off the Iranians who they have been supplying all the material to equip Iran with nuclear as well as rocketry to target the US.
Turns out the easiest route to the US is the Polar route which goes right over Russia.
(Yikes!)
Ya think maybe now Europe will get a hint?
Not unless you sneak one aboard a cargo container and launch, say, from their new Friends's country of Venezuela.
They're cutting out bed sheets as we speak.
Their "hint," such as it is, is that inevitable 'oh, sh*t' moment when they realize that they cannot do anything about Iran without asking us and the British for help.
The Europeans have no way to project significant power to other places in the world. For the past 60 years they've been content to let us do the heavy lifting in that arena, while they get to sit around and bitch about us.
And now they'll realize in the most embarrassing possible way that they're toothless without us.
Schadenfreud is best when it's allowed to mature for a while..... ;-)
Don't expect France and Germany to be too woried about this. They're out of range and there's some money to be made. Russia's reaction will be interesting though.
The Iranians would do well to remember that no people have such a rich and varied history of industrialized mass murder when it comes to doing away with their enemies or minority groups which have outlived their utility, or their welcome, than the Europeans.
Whether we're talking about the response to the "Albegensian Heresy", to the tradition of pogroms, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the French Revolution, the destruction of Native American and African tribal powers via smallpox and the machine gun, the Opium Wars, two World Wars (really four), right on through to Hitler's industrial-line death camps, Europeans are on the forefront of killing technology, and the will to use it, whenever they can justify it.
And they do find ways to justify it.
A mushroom cloud over Rome, Paris of Brussels would be just the thing to wake the sleepy Eurocrats from their slumber (although I DO NOT advocate it) and the resulting retribution would be more terrible than anything we Americans could ever unleash (we like to think we have morals, after all).
The Iranians (and all the rest of the Islamic nutjobs) would do well to remember what Europe has been capable of in the past, because that is a foretaste of the future should Islam finally go too far.
And don't come whining to the US, you Euroweenies. Handle it yourselves this time, because we have been told we should not be involved in the affairs of other nations.
It says that North Korea sold these missiles to Iran. North Korea has nukes. So how many of these missiles are nuclear tipped?
Who knows. The North Koreans are lunatics could be all of them have nuclear warheads on them. Russia just finished selling a ton of military weapons to Iran too. No wonder they don't want sanctions against Iran.
But Iran said their nuclear program was only for peaceful energy creation.
c'mon
they only bought them for self defense. in case a neighbour was going to invade, one of their immediate neighbors...... a non muslim neighbor
the power of jihad will have the crusaders kneeling before allah, god willing
InHonor.net exceeded their Bandwidth (and could use more donations) but, you can still view this Iranian Military Presentation from web Archives. As you can see from the video, they are paying tribute to missiles and targets. I see U.S. (USA), Star of David (Israel) and the swastika (Tibet?)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040710012932/http://inhonor.net/videos/uped/fl_video.php?f_num=52900
Bingo. And the consequences could likely be stark.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran Iran a threat? naw!!!!!!!!!! -sarcasm
Better them then us.
We're all in range of one of those.
So Saddam could have bought them too. And, with their range, if we had not invaded it might now be too late to do so. Thank You President Bush!
060411-N-1810F-001 Kings Bay, Ga. (April 11, 2006) – The Ohio-class guided missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728) makes her way through Cumberland Sound to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. Florida will be officially welcomed to her new home in Kings Bay with a return to service ceremony scheduled for May 25, 2006 in Mayport, Fla. Florida is the second of four SSBN submarines to be converted to the guided missile SSGN platform. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Lynn Friant (RELEASED) See that boat? That monster can carry 154 Tomahawks in its missile tubes. Yes you read right...154. Read it and weep...
Except for the Muslims in Chechnya.
All right -- both you a$$hats -- just BLINK...
And...don't the prevailing wind currents put Russia down wind from Europe (Nuke fallout can be pesky)
Mon Cherie! Do we have enough white bed sheets to make the french battle flags?
If the enemy's in range.....so are you!
Good! Maybe they'll wake up before the mushrooms sprout.
The Iranian president isn't a rational thinking person.
This is very true. Amadgonad (sp?) seems to think he is the 12th Iman....I thought this was the Iman.
This should change the dynamic a little bit.............
Those were the Europeans that you read about in history class.
- Not the socialist, leftist Europeans of today.
They will do nothing at all except change the definition of what the "problem" is.
I love it. Lets see if the dying civilizations do anything now.
It would be a kick if someone like the Poles, Czechs took action on their own.
25 nuclear bombs on missiles are not significant militarily. Their only use is to discourage potential aggressors. If they are actually used or if their use is even threatened, they are useless.
"Those were the Europeans that you read about in history class. Not the socialist, leftist Europeans of today."
Just wait until enough of them die. Madrid and London combined didn't even "rise to the level" of a 9/11. As for "redefining the problem" the problem is this: just as Usama Bin Hindin' figured out, you could continue to execute pinprick raids and acts of terrorism against America forever in the manner of a mosquito stinging an elephant. Lay a real smackdown them and they will cower.
Usama miscalcualted with regards to the United States, didn't he?
In Europe today you have a series of events starting with Madrid and London, moving on through the French Muslim Riots of this past winter, coupled with the French Labor Riots of this spring, the Italian problems with Albanian Muslim "refugees", the Danish Cartoon Protests, The murder of Dutch politicians and film directors at the hands of Muslim extremeists, that will eventually arouse the Europeans themselves, not their politicians.
The "problem" is NOT Europeans. It is the European government minister who does not live in the world he has created for his people, and is not held responsible for his actions.
You have to differentiate between the typical European populace and the high-ideal-no-sense-of-reality-European-bureaucrat. The two cannot be further apart in terms of the reality they inhabat.
The PEOPLE of Europe are ready for a fight. The POLTICIANS are not. Events will conspire to replace the "nuanced, reasoned approach" of the one with the "rabid, red-meat" response of the other. Espeiclaly if there is a mushroom cloud over Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Copenhagen or Rome.
"How do you like that Star Wars now, Froggy?"
True but you're speaking in terms of rational people.
Ahmenutjob OTOH...
Iran got the missile technology from Korea. Korea got it from China. China got it from Bill Clinton.
Vote democrat in 2008 - NOT!!!!!
That's what Korea told Carter and Clinton, and they actually fell for it and helped them along!
There is a distinction to be made between rational and reasonable. Iammadjohn may be highly rational, but totally unreasonable. He may have no problem ruining several countries to bring about his apocalype, although he won't get the apocalypse he expects but another. Wisdom, an ancient Persian virtue, does not appear to be his.
They claim he will lead their army with a white horse - an army with "marks on their foreheads".
According to the Koran, their leader will reign for 7 years, and the book ends there.
Our Bible says the Antichrist will reign for 7 years and Christ himself will throw their leader into the fiery abyss for all eternity leading to a 1,000 years of peace on earth. When the islamo facists are gone, the world will have no more wars.
If you look at the wars raging around the world, you'll notice most of them are with Muslims. Some are even Muslims against Muslims!
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