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Petraeus says strike on Iran could spark nationalism
reutuers ^ | 2/2/10 | reuteur

Posted on 02/03/2010 7:37:12 PM PST by Flavius

A military strike on Iran could have the unintended consequence of stirring nationalist sentiment to the benefit of Tehran's hard-line government, U.S. General David Petraeus told Reuters.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; iran; iraniannukes; petraeus; war
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To: MinorityRepublican

What do you think the effect wouuld be, if all the Iranian Radio/TV/ phone/satellite jamming stations were blown into pieces, but power plants and cell towers were left untouched?


21 posted on 02/03/2010 8:22:19 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Weapons of Mass Destruction.


22 posted on 02/03/2010 8:22:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: DGHoodini
I agree with you.

It is just as likely that the Iranian people will blame their gov’t for inciting the attack, & take that opportunity to depose Imanutjob & the mullahs. If Israel can kill some of the Iranian leadership & the Republican Guard, the Iranian people's job will be that much easier.

If Israel is gonna do it, & I believe they will (Obama wouldn't do it in a thousand years), they need to target the head of the beast to kill it for good.

23 posted on 02/03/2010 8:22:59 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: MarkAccord

Petraeus and the rest of the muzzie in chiefs sycophants are going to be mighty surprised when elements of the US Military decide to visit some hope and change on DC.


24 posted on 02/03/2010 8:23:06 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: ReyTurner
You want to go fight Israel’s war? You want your kids to die there? Why don’t you visualize your little 18 year old daughter with a bullet in her brain and then write me back and tell me Israel would be worth it. What a joke.

WTF are you talking about?

25 posted on 02/03/2010 8:23:29 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Looks like StormFront keyboard commandos


26 posted on 02/03/2010 8:25:40 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: Flavius

( Petraeus says strike on Iran could spark nationalism ) .. translated : Our hands are tied by the rules of engagement and by the CIC, so we can’t do a thing about Iran sending a nuke towards Israel.


27 posted on 02/03/2010 8:28:43 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: ReyTurner

Good grief! What is wrong with you???

You sound like a deranged Paulbot.


28 posted on 02/03/2010 8:29:08 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t recall widespread discussion of that for years before 2003.


29 posted on 02/03/2010 8:29:32 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
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To: ReyTurner
" You want to go fight Israel’s war? You want your kids to die there? Why don’t you visualize your little 18 year old daughter with a bullet in her brain and then write me back and tell me Israel would be worth it. What a joke. "

It was the JEWS who helped financed our war of Independence to help us gain our freedom from England, also, God said to Abraham " those who bless you, I will bless, those who curse you, I will curse and through you will all of the nations on earth be blessed "
30 posted on 02/03/2010 8:33:31 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: SoCalPol

AS John Bolton has said, we should be doing covert
work with the students and others who have been in the streets.

We should have been involved in that long ago. This is the biggest opportunity to help regime change from within since Solidarnosc in Poland. Now if GWB did indeed have such an operation - well John Bolton’s comment pretty much negates that, unless even Bolton was not privy to such an operation (or he’s not indicating such). Now we have a thug in chief doing no more than strong words and a wink.


31 posted on 02/03/2010 8:41:07 PM PST by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

ReyTurner - wonder if his screename refers to Turner Diaries.
Anyhow IBTZ! (for Turner, not for Badass)


32 posted on 02/03/2010 8:44:06 PM PST by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: Flavius

Hitting Iran will only prove or further prove to them why they should acquire nuclear weapons capability.


33 posted on 02/03/2010 8:46:27 PM PST by cranked
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To: Fred Hayek

This is why we need to get more Republicans in congress to push the agenda to win the war in the various theaters.
Push agendas, inform, The people who have a clue will be on board.


34 posted on 02/03/2010 8:48:23 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: BlueDragon

Who saifd anything about limited? I talking sinking every naval vessel, destroying every naval port and dock, taking out every military air base, shooting down every combat aircraft and IRGC helicopter, destroying every missle, rocket, and anti-aircraft platform that shows it’s radar, destroying every military base, taking out every IRGC and Basji barack in the country, every command and control asset that they activate...but leave all civilian targets such as gass lines, power plants cell towers alone. Give warning and then blow the crap out of the IRNA and IRIB...See how well they can keep the Iranian people under their boot *then*.


35 posted on 02/03/2010 8:52:04 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Flavius

We don’t need to strike Iran.

What we need to do is let the growing faction of Iranians fed up with radicalized Islam ready to fight know that they have support.

Europe too needs to step up and get behind them as well.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-continued-failure-of-u-s-iran-policy/


36 posted on 02/03/2010 9:00:36 PM PST by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: Flavius

It’s a darn good thing for us, isn’t it, that our troops are led by Gen. Patraeus, rather than quaint old dinosaurs like Gen. Patton. What did he know about winning wars?

“We must be eager to kill, to inflict on the enemy —the hated enemy —wounds, death, and destruction. If we die killing, well and good, but if we fight hard enough, viciously enough, we will kill and live. Live to return home to our family and our girl as conquering heroes — men of Mars.”

— General George Patton


37 posted on 02/03/2010 9:01:40 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Actually, the right time to go after Iran would have been to support the Shah in 1978 against Khomeini.


38 posted on 02/03/2010 9:03:29 PM PST by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: ReyTurner

Where’s you daughter tonight?


39 posted on 02/03/2010 9:08:33 PM PST by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: Flavius
There is a strong likelihood that the Islamic Republic itself will fall in 2010. That is what is now at stake. Not regime change—the switching of one office-holder for another within the same system—but total governmental change. John LeBoutillier

This is my hope and prayer. A new government in Iran this year.
40 posted on 02/03/2010 9:08:48 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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