"This is far too much chest thumping for someone who doesn't have some type of ace up his sleeve."
He either has a nuke, or something that can do some significant damage. No one is so stupid as to bluff like he has been, considering the consequences of getting called on it.
Or he has the personell in place in the US to conduct a large coordinated attack. 40,000 suicide bombers going off in subways and busses simultaneously across the country would cause a lot of havoc.
For anyone interested in Biblical prophecy, all others
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"The prophecies of Daniel have decreed that the fate of the world lies in an empire called Persia.On four occassions, Daniel writes, kingdoms from this eastern empire will rise up and cross the Euphrates river to challenge the western nations -- a coalition of kingdoms which the Bible collectively calls 'Babylon'.
According to Daniel, the culmination of these four hostile invasions into the lands of Christianity will be the fateful appearance of the fourth and last Persian empire. The world's end, this visionary explains, and all the tribulation and warfare preceding it, will come to pass in the birth and growth of this fourth eastern league of nations."
http://goodnewschristianministry.org/babylonchapter7.htm
Combine Iran and etal and we are going to see something
I assume he has a nuke or several of them courtesy of some Ukranians, as the Jewish World Review ( Glick) has been claiming for a month or so.
We are talking about the simultaneous detonations of several nuclear devices in Iraq and the Gulf of Hormuz.
The Russians are in on it as pay back to the USA for loosing money on all those oil options in Iraq, as it was invaded contrary to their demands.
Our forces will also need to respond to an Iranian ground invasion of Iraq as a follow up to a nuclear attack.