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Old 31-01-2007, 10:19 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Iran - the next US target?

John Bolton has stated that Iran is sponsoring terrorism in Iraq and is the reason why the US are not winning the war there. And in the same week that Tony Blair stated that the diminishing oil reserves mean we must consider nuclear power as a sensible source of energy, Bolton says that Iran must not be allowed to continue its nuclear program. In fact, he simply says that Iran is building nuclear weapons and refuses to concede that they might need nuclear energy as an alternative to oil.

American soldiers are now being told that they have a license to kill Iranian 'activists', whatever that means.

Clearly, Bolton's statements that the US needs to refocus its intentions and strategy for Iraq are simply a veiled attempt to hide the fact that the US administration now wants to bring Iran to its knees.

How will the rest of the civilised world deal with this? Not sure, but I'm glad I don't live in the Middle East.
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Old 31-01-2007, 10:21 AM   #2 (permalink)
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like pussy as usual. We should have kicked the US out of the UN for violating the UN charter.
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Old 31-01-2007, 10:39 AM   #3 (permalink)
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have a license to kill Iranian 'activists'
oh, moving on from "enemy combatants" to "actvists"?
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Can't remember the exact words but you get the idea.
Bolton has also said that the US want to stop Iran using oil revenues to sponsor terrorism, so they have a duty to curtail their oil supplies. So what will they do for energy then?

They want regime change. Heard these words before?
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Old 31-01-2007, 12:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I believe the actions that the U.S. will take against Iranians are Iranians aiding or conducting operations, or gathering intelligence inside Iraq.


As stated by another poster, and at times myself, the Americans are supporting the same groups as the Iranians:


Nouri Al-Maliki,
Sayyid Moqtada Al-Sadr,
Sayyid Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim,

These are the Shiite groups that comprise the current coalition government in Iraq.

This is the very same government that the U.S. is supporting.

And, so is Iran.


The U.S. and Iran are actually supporting the same side.

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The U.S. and Iran are actually supporting the same side.

April 7th 1980 broke diplomatic relations with Iran.

So there isn't much harmony to be seen.

Maybe Iranians are missing their big macs and KFC buckets of fried chicken.

Instead of bombing Iran with explosives we should just spray the entire country with pig feces.
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Maybe Iranians are missing their big macs and KFC buckets of fried chicken.
Is that what they were eating before the revolution?
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^I don't know but I'm sure they aren't strangers to mickey'D's and KFC when traveling abroad.
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The U.S. and Iran are actually supporting the same side.

April 7th 1980 broke diplomatic relations with Iran.

So there isn't much harmony to be seen.

Maybe Iranians are missing their big macs and KFC buckets of fried chicken.

Instead of bombing Iran with explosives we should just spray the entire country with pig feces.
Mr Earle mate,

That's not what I mean.

I mean....that the U.S. and Iran are supporting the same sides in Iraq.

Right now.


Note the political parties and names mentioned above.
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Old 31-01-2007, 07:17 PM   #10 (permalink)
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US can't do no shit to Iran, IMHFO.
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IMHFO the US can........but it will inevitably come back and bite them in ass just like it has in iraq.


i'm really beginning to think that either the US or israel is going to bomb iran before jan 2009.

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Mr Earle mate,

That's not what I mean.

I mean....that the U.S. and Iran are supporting the same sides in Iraq.

Right now.


Note the political parties and names mentioned above.

I guess I neglected to make my point that any perceived cooperation between Alsadyr and the USA and Iran is likely unintended. But who knows, I just think we should give them all a nice bath in pig shit.
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i just saw a 'report' on CNN.....the pentagon is probing possible iranian links to the attack in karbala last week that killed 5 us soldiers.

here we go again.....
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it's kind of funny....she's all courage and bravado when there's no real risk. i guess it's kind of like posting on an thailand internet forum and thumping one's chest about the ME.

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i just saw a 'report' on CNN.....the pentagon is probing possible iranian links to the attack in karbala last week that killed 5 us soldiers.

here we go again.....
Yes, I read that too.

This is starting to sound like convenient propoganda.


Mobilize the uneducated and functionally illiterate masses to back a surgical strike.
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The US is harmless, just trying to distract the public from that other little failure, Iraq ? It would be a civil war in the US before they can invade Iran
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Never underestimate a President with historically low poll numbers to do something desparate in an attempt to turn them around.
In the last 2 years of a Presidency many Prez's try to do altruistic and noble things to superficially try to install a sense of "legacy" for the historians.


I just wonder who is in W's inner circle right now.


30% approval ratings.....

Maybe he's looking for a Hail Mary pass......

Won't happen, and that's not the way it works.
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