From: FloatingRock
To: People of Iran
Re: Revolution

Iran, the time for revolution is fast running out, please free yourselves from tyranny and end Iran’s status as a threat to the West. This task is inherently your responsibility, however it seems that your opportunity is about to come to a conclusion. At that point our responsibility for our own safety will take precedence and although we’ll try our best to accomplish the task with as little collateral damage as possible, there will certainly be collateral damage, perhaps lots of it. Sorry about that, it really can’t be helped, so be forewarned: stay clear of likely target areas if you value your lives.

Unfortunately for you, people of Iran, one of the primary requirements of the forthcoming mission will be success, regardless of collateral damage. If this eventuality does not meet with your approval then please fix your own damn problems before your opportunity is lost!

To summarize: sitting with our thumbs up our collective butts and doing nothing (aka the Jimmy Carter Model) didn’t work. Letting the unUnited Nations handle the problem, through the IAEA, hasn’t worked. Promoting an insurgency from within Iran hasn…

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Allah has a solid round up on all the recent talk of striking Iran. I strongly believe Bush will hit them before he leaves office. As for the grave threat from Iran because of the Straits of Hormuz and world commerce? It reminds me of…

Couldn’t a “3-day bombing bender” break the very chains that are holding back a pro-west Iranian populace? Seems like a lot of us have heard about them for years (decades?), but they have been unable to gain power. Since we probably don’t have time to wait for a political solution, could bombing Iran back to the 18th Century help those on the inside that are on our side?

Nobody knows.

I stand by my previous assessment that Bush is not going to attack but rather continue to turn the screws in deeper and deeper until Iran either capitulates (wont happen Zealots know no such) or Iran jumps and oversteps (something Zealots throughout history have mastered). Once they overstep giving US causi belli we will be able to move. It is sad that to do what must be done we are going to have to give first blow to Iran at the cost of who knows how much but in todays world warm-fuzzy qualifications outweigh logic.

Quick, someone post that over on Daily Kos!!!

Only kidding.

MB4 on September 2, 2007 at 7:27 PM

Heh…cropped and cherry-picked. :-)

You may well be right on all counts.

However, waiting for a revolution from the people will be like waiting for Godot. Revolutions are not hatched and executed by moderates. Moderates, by definition, do not have the moral certitude and inclination to revolution. Only fanatics launch revolutions. In the muslim world, revolution can only go one way – the way it went in ’79. It can not go back the other way.

So we are left with an Iran that can neither be coerced by the West, nor overthrown from within. That means that Iran will get the Bomb. Which, really, is moot. Radical islam already has the Bomb, in the form of a weakened and doomed Pakistani regime. Once Musharraf is gone, those nukes will be at the disposal of either the Taliban, al-qaeda, or those sympathetic to them. At that point, and I would argue already now, the Iranian bomb program will be redundant to the islamic cause to attack America. The bomb that takes out NYC, will most likely be a Pakistani device and it already exists.

Karl on September 2, 2007 at 7:25 PM

great Karl. Looks like Beauchump has his hands in this.

flipflop on September 2, 2007 at 7:24 PM

Quick, someone post that over on Daily Kos!!!

Only kidding.

The question still remains …

So you’re suggesting that we simply allow a madman who desires to bring on the Apocalypse to obtain nukes? Because you don’t want to lose friends?

Gregor on September 2, 2007 at 5:59 PM

No. You’ll notice in my original comment I said “for the moment”. Don’t put words in my mouth, and I won’t put words in yours, such as suggesting we preemptively nuke every nuclear power who may some day pose a threat to us.

bnelson44 on September 2, 2007 at 7:12 PM

I agree. But I still find it interesting and you just never know for sure.

Personally I would give low odds for any attack on Iran in the near future even if I had never seen that particular “story”. DEBKA a few months ago was predicting such an attack and it never happened then. Even DEBKA, as far as I know, is not predicting one now.

sonnyspats1 on September 2, 2007 at 6:15 PM

Oh for Pete’s sake that is ridiculous!

Everyone knows how well Bush’s plans with regard to Iraq have gone.

Why would it be any different with Iran?

Surly one success would follow the other.

The IAEA also reported that uranium being processed by the working centrifuges at Natanz was “well below the expected quantity for a facility of this design.”

Any hope at all that the IAEA is checking to make sure the difference from expected quantity is not elsewhere?