…

It sounds to me more like a special at IHOP, or maybe some sort of bath house maneuver.

Well, first you need a ship
And then you need a crew
And only a leaky, creaky ship
And a nasty crew will do!

We can’t have that, can we?

Imagine a low-yield nuke fried San Diego tomorrow and The Hezz took credit for it in an Internet video (Featured on YouTube!)

Would Dubya call for the round up every “known Hezz sympathizer” in the USA be they American citizens or not? Would he immediately authorize airstrikes on every known Hezz compound around the world?

No, of course not. He knows CAIR will sue (and maybe LULAC too), American Muslims will violently riot from Dearborn to Dallas, and every progressive-minded key influencer in the media (Rosie, Colbert, etc.) will scream “See I told you!” because of the fascist destruction of American civil liberties.

Well, we can’t have that, can we?

Lose-lose.

Short of Fred! sworn in as POTUS and Chuck Norris as VP in January 2009, we can’t win.

In all seriousness though, we absolutely DO NOT need a war with Iran. Not unless we’re looking to start Iraq II, only much worse.

Do you think any military action in the Middle East should be avoided and change can be accomplished through peaceful diplomacy? That’s no a realistic ideal.

Most Middle East governments use force and/or terror to project control over their populations. History has shown time and time again that diplomatic solutions do not work on governments like in Iran. Only an armed force can displace a militaristic or terroristic totalitarian type government. Dialog and international diplomacy does not work. Think WWI and WWII, Germany (and Japan in WWII) was defeated by the use of deadly force, not international diplomacy.

We tried diplomatic solution in Iraq for decades, long before the first Gulf War, yet all that dialog failed and Saddam and his government remained until America, along with a coalition of 30 countries, invaded and took that government out through the use of force. Now there are several factions, some assisted by Iran and other Middle East countries, that are using a militaristic and terroristic methods in an attempt to gain control of Iraq and the US military is forced, once again, to use deadly force to stop them.

It’s clear that the only way to stop dictators and terrorists is by the use of force. Is that really so hard to understand?

(And I know where there’s a BIG, ornery parrot who can be taught to say “ACH-madinejad Scuttle his jib!!” very irritatingly.)

- The Cat

If there’s a Photoshop contest, I’m in. What’s the deadline for submission, MirCat?

- The Cat

Then again, I think my DoA singer ref was better than Keith Richards….

Indeed. It was obscure and grotesque.

I concede the match.

I’ll see your “lead singer from Dead or Alive” and raise you Keith Richards.

natesnake on April 2, 2007 at 3:30 PM

Then again, I think my DoA singer ref was better than Keith Richards….

As far as not striking Iran because of future economic impacts, we tried that out back in 1991 with Iraq. The ‘let them do whatever they want so we have cheap oil’ strategy sucks ass. They’re pimp slapping a major power and getting away with it. If this continues, they will only get more brazen. Remember OBL and the the terror attacks in the 90′s? He took our lack of response as weakness and he turned up the heat. If Tony Blair keeps acting like a Bill Clinton intern, he’s opening the door for a lot of Iranian trouble.

I’ll see your “lead singer from Dead or Alive” and raise you Keith Richards.

natesnake on April 2, 2007 at 3:30 PM

Damn! you win.

The screen-cap looks like Dil from The Crying Game.

natesnake on April 2, 2007 at 3:04 PM

I was gonna say the lead singer from Dead or Alive.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CMwdAc1Dzfg

Yes, world oil prices would take a major hit… and Saudi Arabia has already stated they would not raise output to cut prices… HOWEVER, IMO we are at a crossroads.

Right now the world economy is fairly strong, and Irans economy if vulnerable. Give Iran a few years, and more oil income, and the situation for Iran, and its government could be a LOT more stable.

Its a question of do you strike now, or do you have to deal with an even larger problem later?

Yes, their economy may be fragile. But disrupting that much of the world’s oil supply would have a devastating ripple affect throughout the world as well. Even if we are not buying oil from Iran, the Chinese, Europeans and others are. If that dried up, those countries are going to need to get oil from somewhere, putting an even greater strain on the global energy supply. Plus, if you think they hate us now, bombing them back to the 14th century is only going to breed more anti-American sentiment then ever.

Once we “liberate” them from running water and electricity, it’s really going to hit the fan.

1.Tinfoil hatted Leftist Loons took over from bottom up
all across the country in every level of government
from education to the Presidency…ALL LEVELS!!

2.Tinfoil hatted Leftist Loons got stopped a little
when Reagan took office..lost it with Bush, i.e., the
BDS took over their minds.

3.Tinfoil hatted Leftist Loons cannot see or hear
or learn anything EXCEPT their own ideology. They
do not believe anything done, written or spoken
except for their own voices in their minds.

4.When the streets are flooded with blood ala Katrina
and the sea of bobbing heads float along, they then
will truly be unable to hear or see anything because
their heads will also be bobbing next to mine.

Unless there is a miracle, the Tinfoil Hatted Leftist Loons agenda is in like Flynn for years to come until the Islamofascists begin their beheading programs around the world.