I saw this domain for sale, according to the appraisals, its worth over $5000.00 usd. It has just the perfect amount of keywords….

Nice turn of a phrase.

profitsbeard on August 16, 2007 at 1:18 AM

Thanks

And what if two competing mahdis suddenly showed up?

The disappeared again?

That would be quite hilarious to say the least.

… chill one portion of a boiling cauldron…

Nice turn of a phrase.

And I think, scientifically, it can be done.

If nanotubes can passively regulate cell metabolism, turning on an off as needed, why not?

And what if two competing mahdis suddenly showed up?

The disappeared again?

Why shouldn’t we play their eschatological games against them?

Is it Madhi Gras time?

Any action against Iran calls for a drink.

aengus on August 15, 2007 at 7:55 PM

God Bless America!

CHEERS!

Southern is my wife, all I can say is GOD HELP US!

conservnut on August 15, 2007 at 9:07 PM

No Dear….Its ALLAH help us! Haven’t you kept up with the H.A. posts today?

Would you rather have me or Hildog in your bed?
Hmmmmm…..

SouthernPride for president!

Kaptain Amerika on August 15, 2007 at 1:49 AM

Southern is my wife, all I can say is GOD HELP US!

So here we have a regime that has been, and still is, providing weapons that are killing our troops and civilians in other countries such as Israel. Some how the left makes them out as victims….

You find a lot of interesting things while surfing the inter-web, and here’s one that jumped out at me. Check it out:
WASHINGTON — President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in …

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

Allahpundit on August 14, 2007 at 11:49 PM”

Allah “DOUBTFUL” I beg to differ see below…

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/mopping-up-the-usas-30000-pound-bomb-03172/#more

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Northrop_Grumman_Begins_Work_To_Equip_B_2_Bomber_With_Massive_Penetrator_Weapon_999.html

And also don’t forget something. We have both special forces (which may or may not be capable of such a large scale operation) and we also have a type of forces that were made just for such operations. Rangers, Green Barets, ect… were originally developed to be used as units that could be inserted deep behind enemy lines destroy facilities then be extracted. Just because the military has not done or had the opportunity to make such a move since Korea doesn’t mean our forces quit training the capability. Worst case scenario Allah accepting your assumption that we cannot bomb those tunnels effectively which I disagree we would go with the ranger airborne type operation.

People don’t really understand or comprehend just how overwhelmingly powerful and capable the US armed forces are. The problem is not capability the problem is political leadership with a sack big enough to leverage that capability and stomach some acceptable risk.

No disrespect, AP, and not that it’s a walk in the park, but I think we have all kinds of air and naval power capable of inflicting effective damage in Iran.

Military options are off the table with regard to Iran and we just need to accomodate ourselves to the reality of a nuclear Iran. The sooner the better, so we can all get on with the more important work of limiting greenhouse gas emmissions.

It is true that we don’t have enough soldiers to invade and occupy Iran as a whole without firing up a draft to build up the military for the occupation. We do have enough soldiers to make small grabs (think Gulf islands and maybe the SE oil fields) and maybe “thunder run” type moves deep into Iran. The Navy and Air force is still untapped and long fully stocked back up since the opening days of Iraq phase.

Iran is just like Iraq and the rest of the ME the entire place is a house of cards that is held together via their military and police state system. A major air campaign think GW1 targeting Iran could achieve many goals…
1) WMD programs set back years maybe decades
2) re-establish US perception of dominance in ME
3) Bring Iranian conventional forces down to more easily containable problem, read via neighboring allies and a US basing stores not soldiers like in Kuwait.
4) The destruction of the infrastructure would force Iran to spend billions upon billions at home to get back to basic requirements and rebuild their conventional force and police state forces. Those are resources Iran doesn’t have, so cuts especially in their foreign proxy networks would be required or they would face even more amplified internal strife. Blaming the Big Satan wont work when Hezbollah is still getting half a billion a year checks and citizen Fadilla in Iran has to drive a hour extra everyday because the bridge has not been rebuilt.
5) The Quds and Revolutionary Guard boys currently on offense all over the ME and beyond will have to come back home to re-secure the homefront. Balouch in the SE, shiaARAB in the SW, Kurd in the NW, Azeri in N, Westernized persian Youth movement across the middle, all are held down by the Iranian police state. After a air campaign communications, transportation, and government military/police are heavily degraded those groups will be both pissed and free to move. Irans Iraq would be in Iran.

Negatives:
1) Their will be a major flash of terrorism across the ME and possibly into EU and US. Their will be civilian losses however Iran will have to weigh its terrorist moves carefully major attacks may just result in more western solidification against Iran allowing even more military rope.
2) Hezbollah, Mehdi will rise up possibly Syria, and some of the other Shia pops across the ME. None of these will succeed and all will be beaten back either by the government police states of their nations or via outside powers military forces see Hezbollah/Mehdi forces.
3) OIL will temporarily go through the freekin roof. Venezuela will very possibly go for a temporary embargo. Iran will likely sink some tankers Insurance will become un-attainable on the tankers in the Gulf we will have to back it instead. The oil will flow out but you can easily expect a temporary increase think 1-3months 1st month highest jump with a slow decrease from there after speculative markets realize a handful of sunk tankers really is meaningless in the big picture. Venezuela if they even do honor their threat and embargo wont be able to sustain it. The effects of the US/EU/World economies will be hard felt and very likely recession or even depression (of course the recession part seems to be coming anyway so maybe Iran becoming the scape goat wouldn’t be so bad anyway).

Even with those negatives which are going to be painful and cause mild panic in some circles for a time are absolutely nothing compared to the Negatives the day after Iran gets their nuclear umbrella to safely openly aggressively support their terrorist proxies across the globe. That day expect all those negatives above times 100 and not lasting months but years. You cannot play Russian roulette with someone who is suicidal.

Knowing all of this I would be surprised if we initiated action I think Iran will overstep before we are forced to take action. War with Iran will not be without cost like the war in Iraq has been by any military historical measure a cake walk. I think we can expect the pressure to be slowly turned up on Iran and their proxies until they overstep. One day we will wake up to news of some overstep action here or their that will be followed in short order of domino news up to our defensive retaliation being drug into war.

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This is going to make the negotiations more difficult than they already were, which only makes it easier for the left to say that we haven’t made any real progress on the diplomatic front either so we might as well pack it in. Very strange.

We are so past “diplomacy.” Iran is killing Americans in Iraq. Iran is waging war on Israel through Hezbollah. (At least they were last Summer, and likely will be again before this Summer is over.) President Bush told the Iranians that there would be consequences for providing weapons to insurgents in Iraq. Like you say AP, this action against the Revolutionary Guard is the next logical step. Iran is pushing it. If we do nothing, they are emboldend. If we bomb their refineries, oil will quickly be north of $100 a barrel. This seems like a good interim step. However, Ahmedideminejhad is looking for a fight. I imagine he’s going to get it eventually. Hopefully, we’ll be ready to win. Iran really wants to throw the world into turmoil. They believe it will hasten the return of the “12th Imam” They may yet get their wish. (the turmoil part) We’ve been playing defense a long time. Iran may force us to go to offense. It’s likely to get ugly, no matter who is President or what path we choose.