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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 09:23 PM Original message |
If you think Iran can be beaten militarily: Rent the Movie "Grass" (documentary set in Iran) |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. amazing movie---- |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life" |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. Correction: Bakhtiari, not Luri |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. K&R! ghost bro' will you please help with this... |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-20-07 09:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Sure, Done! n/t |
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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. Great doc- but the subtitle... Yo Ali got us all tittering when we |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-19-07 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
6. Very interesting ... thanks for posting. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-20-07 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
8. Anyone else see this movie? |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 08:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. didn't need to |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 05:52 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Combines the mountains of Afghanistan with the urban centers of Iraq. |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 08:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
32. saw it on TCM a few times |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. bump |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
10. The people interested in a military attack on Iran... |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 06:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. They need to take a course in geography. For instance, Iran is too big to be traversed |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 06:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. They need to take a course in the 7th grade. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 07:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Are you saying you don't believe it will ever happen? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. No, I don't think it will happen. |
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pettypace (695 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 09:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Ominous ramifications aside |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 05:00 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Or five fronts, albeit weak enemies, but we would be occupying an entire region that hates us. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 05:26 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Oh, I forgot 6. Hezbollah, Shi'ites, Palestinians in the mountains of Lebanon |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 09:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
36. If they're not interested in learning differences between Sunni & Shia, |
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generaldemocrat (227 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-22-07 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. Iran can't be beaten militarily, but it can be economically. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 05:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. What is the definition of victory? You can't "starve into submission" a country of 70 million |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
21. bump |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. It's too bad none of the people who "aren't worried about an attack on Iran" have discussed this. |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I try to educate folks here |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:55 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Americans underestimate nations other than the U.S. as a matter of course... |
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coffeenap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
24. And for those of us who want to be reminded about how human |
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etherealtruth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
26. I don't think attacking Iran Militarily is a wise /sane/moral idea .... |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
27. Anyone can be beaten militarily. Its the occupying that is a problem. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
29. America could beat Iran militarily very easily indeed, if that was all it wanted to do. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 08:05 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. How do you beat or occupy a country that is the size of Western Europe |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-24-07 08:59 PM Response to Reply #30 |
40. Who said anything about occupation? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-24-07 10:07 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Bush? Destroy Iranian oil infrastructure? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-25-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I am still hearing comments about how "we will bomb them from afar" |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-26-07 06:34 PM Response to Reply #29 |
46. Right. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. even terrain wise iran wil be impossible... |
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teryang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
33. Lt. Col. (ret.) Tony Cordesman published an Iran Order of Battle |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-24-07 12:13 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Looks Interesting. Thanks For The Link |
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teryang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-24-07 12:58 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Check out his lessons learned from Israeli-hezbollah war |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-24-07 08:52 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. And Iran still managed to destroy Iraq's will to fight, setting em up for Gulf War I |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-26-07 06:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
45. I just read this, and it does not sound the way you describe -- it sounds like a puff piece for war. |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
34. If ya think we're LOSING in IRAQ -and we certainly are- just wait! |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-23-07 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
35. Iran; A Bridge Too Far |
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GreenZoneLT (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-25-07 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
43. Yeah, but those people aren't "Iranian" |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-25-07 10:21 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. I don't see how you bomb Iran without ending up in the same situation Saddam ended up in. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-29-07 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
47. I'm bumping this thread because people continue to post ignorant statements about Iran |
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