Bush’s warning to Iran is classic saber rattling

[NNN0LHI]

Its not going to work either. The Iranians see no advantage to submitting to Bush's demands. They watched Saddam submit to our demands and they seen where that got him. Iran has not been weakened while under sanctions for a decade like Iraq was and with CIA weapons inspectors crawling all over the place. Iran has also watched us chasing ghosts around Iraq. They know what works and what doesn't.

I don't fall for this "Well Bush will just bomb them" , stuff them either. Iran has ballistic missiles that could drop tons of high explosives on top of the Green Zone and other US basis in Iraq. Bush talks about putting 20,000 more troops into Iraq and the Iranians are capable of inserting a couple of hundred thousand troops into Iraq if they wanted to.

I think its all bluster.

Don

[LSK]

1. I hope you are right

[Tellurian]

2. I don't... Bush had the look of FEAR on his face tonight..

Usually, the sob is grinnin and cocky as hell..

Something BIG is going down.. it's in the air and Bush is scared..

[madeline_con]

4. I think someone sat him down and explained how they made

him Prezident and they can make him the exclusive fall guy. I think he knows no one's buying it.

[Tellurian]

6. Or...because of his spectacular stupidity

his handling of the Middle East...the whole region
is going to blow up in his face. Then plunge our economy
into a depression because NO OIL can be shipped to the US.

Truckers can't get food into supermarkets nationwide, no gasoline,
no home heating oil..The whole country comes to a standstill..
and it's ALL his fault!!

yeah, something like this happening would put the look of fear,
like he had on his face tonight.

[Selteri]

7. I thought it was the look not of fear, but of a deer trapped in the headlights of an oncomming car.

That car being reality and somehow him thinking staring into it like a cure teddy bear will somehow stop the coming slaughter by doing the same thing countless other dead dear have done on the sight of headlights.

[Tellurian]

10. well, half right... the slaughter part is dead on..

only he has a bunker... we've got beans.

[soothsayer]

3. They know we're overstretched, unless we nuke 'em (and nutso

just might----I've read where deadeye dick and shrubby have been itching to break out the real nukes.

[Selteri]

8. That is one reason I'm glad there are sone safeguards on launching nukes in place.

Ones even overruling this president.

[4nic8em]

5. After what I heard tonight,

I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut the monkey bombs hell out of Iran.

[aquart]

11. Well, we know he wants to.

Frankly, I think he would just as soon bomb New York. None of us love him. And all that talk about how history will write him up in a hundred years shows that he's figured out he's going to be hated and despised for the rest of his life.

[ellisonz]

9. I'm with you 100%

Not CIA - IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency.

[NNN0LHI]

12. It was CIA

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,,794275,00.html

<snip>What happened to Unscom?

In December 1998, Unscom pulled out of Iraq amid complaints of obstruction by Iraq. Meanwhile, Baghdad claimed that the body was little more than a front for US spies (with some justification; the presence of CIA agents was later confirmed by the US, UN and former inspectors). It left ahead of Operation Desert Fox, 70 hours of US-British airstrikes designed to punish Iraq for failing to cooperate with the inspectors.

Unscom was disbanded and replaced in December 1999 by the UN monitoring, verification and inspection commission (Unmovic) funded by limited sales of Iraqi oil. Resolution 1284, which set up Unmovic, specified that if Iraq cooperated with the new inspection team for 120 days, sanctions would be suspended and then lifted. Iraq rejected the plan as a "criminal resolution" that would "transform Iraq into a protectorate governed from outside with Iraqi money".

[ellisonz]

13. Correction: It was CIA inflitrating IAEA/UN teams.

Yay for freedom!:sarcasm:

Unless you want to argue Hans Blix is CIA.

[GreenZoneLT]

14. Totally

Yet another "walk loudly and carry a stick you don't plan on using" from W. See "Axis of Evil" speech.