It is my suspicion that their response will consist of a nuclear detonation, either as a test, or worse.
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These guys are not playing with a full deck, and, as the Silkworm transfer to Hezbollah shows, will not hesitate to transfer top-notch weaponry to terrorist groups.
The media has created the impression that we are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Bush admin seems content for the moment to play possum. I suspect we are drawing them out to make them take the first move, and to scare the crap out of the Eurons so we will be able to do what is necessary when the time comes.
Agree.
Exactly my thought.
The little weasel will try and make shi'ite happen. It would behoove us to flush him down history's toilet before he can imolement his plan.
If so...there will be no Iran on August 23.
I think you're right.
We need to land a (non-nuclear) ballistic missile launched from a submarine in their midst with the message that we can turn their country into glass in less than 30 minutes and our trigger finger is getting very itchy.
I doubt that Iran will test a nuke if it gets one. They know that a test would alert Israel that they have the bomb, and that the next thing on the program would be a mushroom cloud rising over the heap of rubble that was formerly Tehran. I think the first we will know of Iran having the bomb will be when it either explodes or fails to explode in Israel.
Either way that will spell the end of Iran as a functioning nation, because Israel's response will be devastating. Several nukes exploding simultaneously in carefully selected areas of tiny Israel would probably take out most of it's population and infrastructure, but I believe the IDF has the ability to massively retaliate with multiple nukes of it's own even if the homeland is virtually destroyed.