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2007-09-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran threatens missile attacks on US targets
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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-17 20:38|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top

#1 Were the US to strike first, there would be nothing with which Iran could launch a counterstrike. Bluster from an empty turban.
Posted by RWV 2007-09-17 20:43||   2007-09-17 20:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Bring it Iran..
Posted by Chenter Unimp7361 2007-09-17 20:59||   2007-09-17 20:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Instead of blustering breast feathers, Iranian mullahs should be trying to negotiate albeit secretly a 'measured defeat' on their part, by the US. The level of Assured Destruction of Iran will be determined by Iran's 'Use It Or Lose It' decision, and whether WMD warheads are loaded on the first or second wave missiles.
Japan bent that knee one day before the third atom bomb would have been dropped, that surrender action saved the nation from total annihilation; whereas Hitler didn't give a s***, and the generals had to plea for surrender to 'save the German people', the last historical mistake of the 'Third Reich'. Eating alittle cheese is better than not eating it at all!
Posted by smn 2007-09-17 21:01||   2007-09-17 21:01|| Front Page Top

#4 "Today the Americans are around our country but this does not mean that they are encircling us. They are encircled themselves and are within our range," said Gen Mohammed Hassan Koussechi.

Chesty Puller said it better. Then again, he was leading Marines...
Posted by Pappy 2007-09-17 21:05||   2007-09-17 21:05|| Front Page Top

#5 RIAN > IAEA > NO GUARANTEES ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM'S CIVILIAN NATURE [hence will tolerate a nuke reactor for Muslim Azerbaijian]; + RUSSIA DENIES SUPPLYING WEAPONS TO IRAQ INSURGENTS
* TARIQ ALI > GWOT:IRAN BENEFITS THE MOST FROM AMERICA'S ACTIONS.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-17 21:17||   2007-09-17 21:17|| Front Page Top

#6 GLOBALRESEARCH > BRIT ACADEMICS WARN US PREPARING "SHOCK AND AWE" FOR IRAN.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-17 21:19||   2007-09-17 21:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd go with shock, awe is not really that crucial. I mean, one has to be alive to be awed.
Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-17 21:28|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info]  2007-09-17 21:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Keep honking threatening, we're reloading.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-17 21:37||   2007-09-17 21:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Iraqi scud strikes did little more than put a couple of thousand of Israel residences - some used by Arabs - out of commission for a short time. However, the Iranians might have an advantage in accuracy.

However, there remain professional soldiers in the Iran military who would like to make a move against the Ayatollahs. That would be extremely bloody. The Ayatollahs are unlikely to seek peace, given their martyrdom rites.

The US administration believes that wiping out Shiite leadership in Iran will lead to co-operation with Sunnis in the GWOT. Makes sense.
Posted by McZoid 2007-09-17 22:02||   2007-09-17 22:02|| Front Page Top

#10 The mullahs fought Saddam to a bloody stalemeate over eight years. We had him filthy and ragged and in a hidey hole in a matter of weeks. The Iranians know the odds; they're hoping the Western public doesn't.
Posted by Baba Tutu 2007-09-17 22:18||   2007-09-17 22:18|| Front Page Top

#11 With the anti-missile weapons we have in place nowdays, it would be a strike from Iran and a butt-whoopen' response from the US.

Go ahead. Try it turbanbutt.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-09-17 22:29||   2007-09-17 22:29|| Front Page Top

#12 The hammer of GOD will come down on Iran.
It is a shame that the good Iranian people have to suffer for their leadership.

It is so needless and unnecessary.

oh well.
Posted by newc">newc  2007-09-17 23:20||   2007-09-17 23:20|| Front Page Top

#13 MAGOG will fight a futile battle. They will try to assuage power but will be unable to conquer. MAGOG is doomed.
Posted by newc">newc  2007-09-17 23:22||   2007-09-17 23:22|| Front Page Top

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