Military action in Iran not in anyones interest, says Gates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843874/posts
...redo with the link.
Military action in Iran not in anyones interest, says Gates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843874/posts
Hmmm. Looks like a political decision was reached.
Great.
I should have just voted for Kerry, I guess...
It seems to me that Gates and Rice just blinked, and Mohamed ElBaradei is the winner here.
“Rice: U.S. Not Preparing for War Vs Iran”
Shes a fool’s fool and so is her boss.
Iran is already making war against us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843875/posts
Iran has increased arms shipments to both Iraq’s Shiite extremists and Afghanistan’s Taliban in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to pressure American and other Western troops operating in its two strategic neighbors, according to senior U.S. and European officials.
In Iraq, Iranian 240mm rockets, which have a range of up to 30 miles and could significantly change the battlefield, have been used recently by Shiite extremists against U.S. and British targets in Basra and Baghdad, the officials said. Three of the rockets have targeted U.S. facilities in Baghdad’s Green Zone, and one came very close to hitting the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital, according to the U.S. officials.
The 240mm rocket is the biggest and longest-range weapon in the hands of Shiite extremist groups, U.S. officials say. Remnants of the rockets bear the markings of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and are dated 2007, those sources said. The Tehran government has supplied the same weapon, known as the Fajr-3, to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim Lebanese militia.
We don’t hear from Condi in what seems like MONTHS and this is what we get? She needs to don her black boots and “Matrix” overcoat again and do some @ss-kickin’.
It’s hard to believe this is the same woman who served as NSA in Bush’s first term. I’m starting to think there are some kind of pods growing under the State Department building or something.
The US isn’t planning to engage Iran militarily, because the plan and most of the combat power, are already in place.
And, no, engaging Iran militarily is not in anyone’s “best”interest.
Iran will not take losing their nuclear facilities lightly.
We will not enjoy their response.
It is a last resort, online if all else fails.
Among the possibilities are a US draft, a global depression, and world war.
Part of me understands perfectly the outrage felt when Iran kills even one US Serviceman, (do not think those are unilateral actions), and another part looks for the way through this matrix where the fewest overall US Servicemen die.
If you simply must have a confrontation, be advised...the only future that doesn’t include same is one in which Iran capitulates, in Iraq, and on the nuclear issue.
Iranian capitulation looks unlikely to me, and if they don’t, a military confrontation, before Bush leaves office, is the most likely result.
Sounds like our state department is giving the “green” light to Israel? Just my take.
My 10 bucks says the Bilderberg group meeting that ended today in Turkey hashed it all out already.
We’re trusting the word of a anti- US man named Mohommad.
This really is Jimmy Carter Part II.
Total fools are running our government.
I certainly hope that is disinformation.
I think that Condi Rice is a very intelligent, gracious, attractive lady. She would have made a good VEEP for someone but her undying loyalty to the disappointing failure, Dubya, has tainted her prospects for any further involvement in politics after Jorge leaves office.
I think Secretaries Rice and Gates are well-informed and have the US’s best interests in mind.
I’m relieved at the news.