We all have been thinking of the recent kidnap and murder of U.S. soldiers by what appears to have been a special team of terrorists speaking English and using American equipment. Bill Roggio, Uncle Jimbo and I were all looking…

If I were in charge, that would be 5 cruise missiles fired into 5 military target inside Iran, with the public announcement that any future interference in Iraq OR any attempt to close Hormuz OR any attempt to interfere in Gulf shipping means that all military bases in Iran and their oil producing facilities will be struck.

A man can have sex with animals such as sheep¹s, cows, camels and so on. However he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, however selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.
From Khomeini’s book,

Sheesh! You’d think that by now everybody would know you shouldn’t sell the meat of the camel you boffed to the people in your own village, DUH!

I said CiC – Commander in Chief, and not Communicator in Chief:

I have no intent upon incur—going into Iran.

On a very serious note, I’m glad the NYT doesn’t have the Iran plan, yet, little Mr. Reid.

The mullahs are running their country into the ground; why mess with a good thing?

Quite right. “When your opponent is attempting to destroy himself, let him.”

On the other hand, keep the safety off and your finger on the trigger.

In principle that can definitely be done; it worked against the North Vietnamese and Serbians, for example. But with Iran I’m not sure anybody’s ready for that yet–particularly when you consider that it’s the sort of action that could bolster the regime internally by giving it a popular rallying point. Right now, I would think regulating the border along with internal counter-insurgency action would have the better chance of being effective on the ground in Iraq.

By “the rich” I meant “their leaders”.

Romeo13 on January 30, 2007 at 5:22 PM

That sounds good but I believe any strike that hurts the population will backfire on us. The rich aren’t harmed by oil shortages because they get theirs first.

I like the concept though.

I’ve read that they have started Gas rationing… because they don’t refine enough in country, and with Oil prices plummeting, can’t sustain their transportation system…

Sooo… just like the WWII air campaign to take out ball bearing plants in Germany… take out their refineries… and when they rebuild? take em out again.

Minimal civilian casulties with maximumal societal pain.

o the oil reserve fund was spent on cash handouts to the grateful poor, and the central bank, normally a bastion of prudence, was instructed to cut interest rates for small businesses.

So he’s trying to buy stability for his presidency.

The Blotter has a photo of that special Iranian-made IED that’s been killing so many American soldiers.

And that jerk who wrote the LA Times editorial that we’re overreacting tried to make the point that terrorists don’t have any advanced weapons. This IED sounds like an M1′s SABOT round, and if it can really get through our thickest armor (and offense ALWAYS beats defense) then our soldiers are in even more danger. If Pres. Bush says he won’t invade, (which is probably a good thing) then how is he going to stop the influx of weapons?

.”Let me put it this way,”he said.”In Basra today the currency is the Iranian toman, not the Iraqi dinar.”

Chilling at best. Markets have a way of being way ahead of the politics.

Dinnerjacket wants to be the ‘victim’ and I believe will welcome an attack. If GW doesn’t follow the plan then he will put together something the American’s can resist bombing.

What if, to force precisely the sort of rallying point the Guardian author imagines, they attack us first? It’s far-fetched but if they reach a point where they feel the regime is in danger, what would they have to lose?

Indeed. It’s important to remember Ahmadinejad’s apocalyptic perspective. He doesn’t need to win a war, nor even to survive it. He merely needs to start it. The Twelfth Imam will take it from there.