[Nathan Zachary]

"Been saying all along the Israel rhetoric was a red herring. The real immediate target of Iran is Arabs!"

That's nothing new. It's well known that Iran's desire (along with Russia) is to take over the entire ME and control all the ME oil. You can bet Israel will be attacked at the same time by Irans Hesbola and Hamas terrorist groups when the full blown offensive starts. They know they have no chance of winning in the short term, but they will try their best to inflict as much damage as they can, and attempt to block the shipping lanes. The New Persian empire (a Russian, Iranian and many of those "stans") will form an alliance later while the west (including Europe) is busy dealing with the economic collapse caused by an oil shortage. Then the real war will start.

[rjp2005]

Summer 2009 I believe.

[steve86]

Interesting comment. No, it isn’t new news, but you boiled it down into a few cogent sentences.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" is busy dealing with the economic collapse caused by an oil shortage "
Caused by the environmentalist agenda, empowered by the Democrat Liberals in our government to deny us the ability to drill for oil, and refine it in our own country for the last 30 years.

[Issaquahking]

Pretty spot on, astute observation. Iran's leader (imanutjob) isn't stupid. He has the political power he wants coming to America (the ME could be a nuked wasted land, and Obama would still be saying "can we talk"), and if America is stupid enough to elect a dumba$$, he'll wait.

Sidebar....Will the greenies whine, and snivel about the global cooling from all the dust in the air, after the intial strikes? They may have to join the U.N., in issuing a "condemnation statement". American Patriots will be reaching for their weapons.