Posted on 08/11/2006 12:00:58 PM PDT by EternalHope
The war in Israel has not gone well for the good guys, but that is merely a side show compared to what Iran hopes will come next.
None of this is tin foil stuff. I wish it were.
We've been warned. They mean it.
I have confidence in President Bush, and I'm sure we'll be as ready as we possibly can be under the circumstances.
Not if we act TODAY. Not wait and see what happens on the 22nd. TODAY. International opinion be damned.
Maybe it won't be on the 22nd, maybe it will be on 9/11 or October 28, or whenever. But it will happen if we don't act fast.
We're planning an end of the world live thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680521/posts
World to end on August 22
I've got REM qued up.
I actually am taking the Iranian Madman seriously, but all I can think of is how messed up my plans will be for the end of the month -- a nice vacation in the mountains, back to school night with our homeschool group, etc. It's almost surreal to hear about August 22 as a sort of doomsday and look at my life right now, which is so completely normal.
Throw in some Fishbone "Party at Ground Zero"
Think I'll order some sparklers. Make it an Israeli independence celebration.
I believe that we must rise early, and put an end to those who destroy us all.
LOL!
Not only might President Roosevelt have known in advance of the attack at Pearl Harbor...FDR's Administration sought for more than a year to provoke an attack to marginalize those "isolationist" Republicans you disparage. In October of 1940, Lt Cmndr McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to two of FDR's most trusted military advisors in which he set forth an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the US. Over the course of the next 12 months, all of those steps were implemented.
It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado; and it is barely possible that vigorous action on our part might lead the Japanese to modify their attitude. Therefore, the following course of action is suggested:
A. Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore.
B. Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies.
C. Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang-Kai-Shek.
D. Send a division of long range heavy cruisers to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore.
E. Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
F. Keep the main strength of the U.S. fleet now in the Pacific in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands.
G. Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
H. Completely embargo all U.S. trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire.
10. If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better. At all events we must be fully prepared to accept the threat of war.
The notion that Iran is going to nuke the US is absurd...if it even has nuclear weapons...the CIA estimates it is not even close. Of course, generating a climate of fear and paranoia is what government does...its how it perpetuates its existence.
I have confidence in President Bush, and I'm sure we'll be as ready as we possibly can be under the circumstances.
Don't. Government...even the American government...is not be trusted. In the words of Randolph Bourne, war is the health of the state.
Iran will pop a nuke in Beriut or Damascus and blame Israel.
I'm looking for an article I read back in 1996 that predicted this. I think it was by Ralph Peters, or he wrote a forward for it.
I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened already.
At best, Iran could test a home grown nuke on Aug 22. If they intend to shot a missile based nuke, they are using someone other country's components. Designing a working nuke missile isn't all that easy.
Making a nuke is tough, making a small lightweight nuke is tougher still. Lots of testing needs to be done to get it right. We haven't seen nuke tests carried out in Iran that I am aware of.
I've been praying that there will be an Iranian, someone perhaps in ahmadnijab's inner circle, who will have a crisis of conscience and leak information about the madman's plans.
Well I'm scheduled to fly to Europe on 9/1, so if we're going to nuke Iran I hope we do it before then so I can factor that into my travel plans.
LOL! IIRC the rest of it goes,
Women and poor hardest hit.
Vanity is right, there is little to support your supposition. Since President Bush insists on using
our fighters as targets in Iraq wouldnt it be more likely
for them to take the brunt of an Iranian attack.
An attack on Jerusalem might provoke a response
that Iran might not be able to absorb.
Save the Bay Crabs!
Pakistan has working nukes, and working missiles to carry them. The head of the Pakistani nuclear program is a fanatical Jihadi and sold the plans to multiple Muslim nations. He is a national hero in Pakistan, so he was only placed under house arrest when he was arrested. He made a public confession and "apologized".
It is widely believed that North Korea has sold missiles to Iran.
Put the two together, plus enough fissionable material, and you have a nuclear armed Iran, plus the means to deliver.
It may all be "sound and fury, signifying nothing", but a bluff can backfire politically. If Iran is bluffing, then Ahmadinejad may have talked himself into a corner he cannot get out of without a huge loss of face.
I hope that is what he has done, but I doubt he would take that chance.
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