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1 posted on 12/13/2011 8:53:16 AM PST by edpc
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From arab spring to persian winter.


2 posted on 12/13/2011 8:55:05 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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Gives our guys an idea which forces Iran would use and how to target them.


3 posted on 12/13/2011 8:55:19 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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US Navy to Practice Bombing Iranian Military


4 posted on 12/13/2011 8:55:35 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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Their intent is to introduce worldwide chaos and carnage, and then their Big Imam will come out and they will take over what’s left of the world.

Sort of a king of the ash-heap concept.

The flaw in their plan is that they failed to get the ok from the God of Israel.


6 posted on 12/13/2011 9:04:56 AM PST by lurk
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Anyone know if you can sue the to allow drilling as secure energy resources are a National Security issue?


8 posted on 12/13/2011 9:10:52 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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“Iran’s energy minister told Al-Jazeera television last month that Tehran could use oil as a political tool in the event of any future conflict.”

I don’t know... did the US ever use grain as a tool when the rest of the world was starving?????


10 posted on 12/13/2011 9:17:33 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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Watched a Chuck Norris movie last night called “HitMan”. Made in ‘91.One of the group of gangsters were Iranian. When an opposing group of Italian gangsters captured one of the Iranians and took him to a meat packaging center to interogate him.They chained him and tied him up and was force feeding him pork guts, trying to get him to talk while saying some very unpleasant things to him.


13 posted on 12/13/2011 9:23:55 AM PST by eastforker (I'll pick Rick but I still root for Newt.)
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Drudge is making a big deal with a link to the Reuters story about this.


14 posted on 12/13/2011 9:23:55 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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Isn’t this like having a football practice before the Super Bowl and inviting cameras in?


16 posted on 12/13/2011 9:28:12 AM PST by HIDEK6
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A true fact that many not know is that Iran’s ships are like tin cans.

Go ahead block the Straits of Hormuz and the U.S. Military will destroy your little tin can ships in about 6 hours...

This is why idle threats from Iran that really has absolutely no military power at all will lose. The full force of the U.S. Military has the ability to sink their ships and then they can all go back home crying to the 72 virgins that they thought they would meet when in fact they will simply burn in hell...


20 posted on 12/13/2011 9:44:13 AM PST by billsgottago (Government is like a baby. A big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other end.)
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You have to wonder how l;ong the World will let this country bully them before they squash them.


21 posted on 12/13/2011 9:44:56 AM PST by Venturer
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I saw this earlier on Drudge and then went looking for it on the BBC, London Financial Times, Bloomberg, AP-breaking, WSJ, and other news sites.

I found nothing on the other news sites.

That makes me wonder about the story.

While it would not surprise me for Iran to rattle a sword like this and “employ” the small zodiac boats that they have used in the past to harass shipping, one also has to remember that they have been building up their submarine forces and that they have been developing anti-ship missile systems. A few mobile land based anti-ship missile systems, combined with some submarines, and normal coastal artillery would cause most shipping companies to consider not risking high value oil tankers.

This doesn't have to be a military operation, it can be commercial blackmail on the part of Iran.

If this is real, which I am not sure yet, my hope would be that a country like say Korea, or Japan, which are both very dependent on oil imports could be allowed to carry the water for the rest of the world and with the blessing of Middle East oil countries, US, and Nato go in and clean house on the Iranians with help from other nations.

24 posted on 12/13/2011 9:53:15 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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I’ve been saying this would happen since 2008


29 posted on 12/13/2011 10:21:28 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Martyr: Arabic word for "lousy fighter")
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I think about 1/3 of Chinese oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Be a great way to shut China down.

Go ahead boys!


32 posted on 12/13/2011 10:40:11 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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The Iranian government is apparently led by pouty children.

(Of course, so is ours.)


34 posted on 12/13/2011 12:02:51 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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