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U.S. Steps Closer To War With Iran
Asia Times ^ | August 18, 2007 | Kaveh L. Afrasiabi

Posted on 08/19/2007 3:54:28 AM PDT by Fennie

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To: Fennie
The Bush administration has leaped toward war with Iran...

Using the word 'leaped' told me the nature of this article without reading further.

At least President Bush, after all he has endured (and brought on himself), still has the guts to correct Carter's mistake of 30 years ago.

21 posted on 08/19/2007 4:54:12 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
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To: pnh102

No problem.

And I agree with you, it is a very perplexing question.

I think it goes back to something Woody Allen said in “Take the Money and Run”:

The character who played his father in the scenes when Woody was a little boy, when the maid was caught stealing again:

“We can’t fire a black person. We’re Jews!”

Many Jews grow up thinking the MUST vote Democrat, no matter what. Very sad. Pathetic, really.


22 posted on 08/19/2007 4:56:47 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Joe Boucher

Patience. The Bush administration is waiting for the attack on US soil that they know is coming. Then comes the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and baby milk factories.


23 posted on 08/19/2007 5:12:43 AM PDT by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: Fennie

I hope the only thing Bush is waiting for in zotting Iran is Patreus plan to work in Iraq. Once thats done, Iran is fair game


24 posted on 08/19/2007 5:15:47 AM PDT by wingsof liberty
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To: Joe Boucher

Concur.


25 posted on 08/19/2007 5:28:15 AM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Joe Boucher

......Were I president I’d order an attack ....

There are cheaper and perhaps more effective attacks.

Iran now has a declared terrorist organization. That group is subject to attack.

Anyone in the world who supports the Iranian terrorist groups can be subject to pressure by the USA.

Gasoline is fungible. Any gasoline shipped from Indian refineries is supporting the terrorists. India can be asked to exert pressure on the refineries and curtail shipments to Iran and promise to provide other markets for the product and crude from non Iranian sources.

We working with the Gulf states including Iraq can provide the crude and markets for the gasoline. The Gulf States get more business and take a lick at Iran.

This would be a cheap and clean attack. It is the course I would recommend.


26 posted on 08/19/2007 5:31:01 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Hillary's color is yellow.....how appropriate)
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To: SolidWood

The correct spelling for this group is “jews” rather than “Jews”


27 posted on 08/19/2007 5:33:24 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Hillary's color is yellow.....how appropriate)
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To: Fennie
444 days we can never forget.
28 posted on 08/19/2007 5:38:12 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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"...she still gets a huge majority of the Jewish vote in New York."

I've always wondered about the bizarre phenomena of Jewish Democrats. The only things that helps me understand it are Jewish guilt and the good fig/bad fig thing from Jeremiah 24. They are a bunch of bad, guilt ridden figs who are quite willing to sell out the homeland.

29 posted on 08/19/2007 5:41:32 AM PDT by GBA ( God Bless America!)
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To: The Pack Knight
... and his solicitation for human shields seems to have been entirely in the US.

I wonder if he was successful in getting human shields... and more importantly, if we were able to kill them.

30 posted on 08/19/2007 6:00:34 AM PDT by pnh102
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I haven't found any news, so they were probably among the human shields who went to Baghdad and left when they got tired of waiting for the interminable "Rush to War" to end.

If we had killed them, we would have heard about it.
31 posted on 08/19/2007 6:22:32 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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If we had killed them, we would have heard about it.

True, true. Maybe we won't miss the opportunity this time if they decide to go to Iran.

32 posted on 08/19/2007 6:43:45 AM PDT by pnh102
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Hear, hear. I don't think most of them really have what it takes to put their money (and their lives) where their mouths are. My guess is many will make the trip (funded by Soros et al), get some photo ops in and make a few speeches, then hightail it back to safety after the gesture has been made.

There aren't too many kids out of Berkeley who actually want to eat a JDAM just to make a point.
33 posted on 08/19/2007 6:57:49 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Erik Latranyi

“still has the guts to correct Carter’s mistake of 30 years ago.”

Does he? I guess I’m not that optimistic.


34 posted on 08/19/2007 10:39:27 AM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: Fennie
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket I'm pretty sure Abhamanijad and Iran declared war on us a few years ago, and we didn't invade anyone back then. The MSM just missed it.
35 posted on 08/19/2007 11:00:12 AM PDT by rbosque ("To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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