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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 05:57 AM
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Iran stages war games near Iraq border
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 24 – Islamist militiamen affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have launched military exercises near the Iraqi border to “deal with possible unrest”, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.

Members of the paramilitary Bassij force staged military exercises in the western town of Dehloran. The paramilitary forces attacked dummy enemy sites during the operation.

“The objective of the military exercises here is to raise the level of readiness of the Bassij forces”, said Alireza Bazdar, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Dehloran. “Our forces were able to capture the positions taken by the enemy and destroy the enemy forces”.

“This will help us prepare ourselves to deal with possible outbreaks of unrest with force and determination”, Bazdar said.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6392
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flamingpie2500 Donating Member (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 07:46 AM
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1. Can you blame them? Civil war would make me nervous too. It won't take
much of a border clash to give Bushie an excuse to intervene.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:43 AM
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2. There have been rumors that the Kurds and Israelis are doing
military ops into Iran. Iran might be tired of that. And since we now know * was using Afghanistan Invasion money to fund the Iraq invasion, I can only assume he's using part of the $2 billion a week to figure out how to invade the next Muslim country on his list.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:46 AM
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3. Tired of rumors?
Or are we to assume that said rummors are true?

Also while he might be able to fund a war with Iraqi money, I don't know where he is going to get the troops from.

Bryant
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 12:45 PM
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4. Depends on what the rumors are. Since * spent a lot of time and
money messing with Iraq before the actual invasion, I have no trouble believing he is doing the same to Iran - just quieter. I've seen lots of stories of Israelis being in Iraq. And the Kurds would do anything almost to stay independent.

From the warning * has said, all he needs are nuclear bombs to invade Iran. He has been working on a nuke first policy since he got in office. He threatened Iraq with nukes if they used WMD against our invasion. He's also warned Iran. He knows if he starts a draft, he's done with. Has to use something to conquer all those oil countries.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 03:20 PM
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5. So the solution is to Nuke?
I don't know - i think this is pretty far fetched.

Bryant
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 04:19 PM
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6. Dot-connection. When * got into the WH, he set on a course to
bring nukes back to the top of the list. He talked about pre-emptive nuclear attacks. Those at the top of the military command who disagreed with him were retired or demoted. He now has top military men who are ready to use the nukes. * has also been trying to get approval from congress to bring in new research and testing on nukes. So far (as far as I know) congress has refused to put money into that idea. They were getting close the last time the idea was presented.

* likes nukes. No dead US troops. No bodies of the nuked population to count for war crimes. Don't have to worry about a draft and let the US population get an idea of how far he plans to go. He is crazy. He has been planning this for a long time now.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:41 PM
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7. No bodies of the nuked population?
He's pretty delusional if he imagines nukes are going to get around this particular problem with war.

Bryant
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:53 PM
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8. A lot of the bodies will be vaporized. THey're still finding bodies
in New Orleans and there is no radioactivity there.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-26-06 02:44 PM
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11. OK let me see if i got this down
President Bush's master plan is to drop nuclear bombs on Iran on the theory that he can more easily hide the devestation and cost of war in this fashion. People are going to, instead of being horrified, say, "gosh didn't there used to be people living there?"

Bryant
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:56 PM
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9. Who wouldn't do that if they knew PNAC pegged them next!?? n/t
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zestfolly Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:07 PM
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10. So we're less secure than we were before going into Iraq
That should be the campaign to retake the House, the Senate, and eventually the oval office!

Bush has made America less secure.

The Republicans have failed. It's time for a change.

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zestfolly Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-26-06 07:17 PM
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12. Bush failed spelling
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