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The whole point behind the Iraq war was to get onto Irans doorstep. They are now completely surrounded. With forces in Afghanistan in the north to forces in the south in Iraq. The nearly undefeatable US navy covers the east and west. The single largest proprieter of fundamentalist extremist Islam is and has been Iran. We have been fighting an Iranian funded and supplied insurgency. This is no secret.Text
My personal view of how it will go down is this. Iran continues to fail to meet UN security coucil deadlines one after another. The US manages to get actual real physical evidence of a nuclear weapons program. Millions of Iranian civilians begin the exodus out of Iran into Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq etc. They and the rest of the world know whats coming next. More physical evidence of a nuclear weapons program is coraborated with evidence found by other nations intel as well.Text
The UN gives Iran one last chance and is issued an ultimatum like was issued to Iraq. They of course dont comply. US forces in Afghanistan swell to 200.000 and likewise in Iraq. All over the course of a month. The mullahs in Iran start some pretty seroius sabre rattling at the now truly multinational forces at their borders. With real evidence an Iranian invasion is a much easier sell. At this point the US has had specops in Iran for a year mapping out targets.Text
It comes down to another 48 hour ultimatum issued by Bush. Instead of complying the mullahs make the claim of having nuke armed missiles ready to fire. Having seen this coming for quit a while Bush orders the first wave of airstrikes as soon as the mullahs have finished claiming that they have nukes pointed at everybody and this is before the ultimatum is up.Text
Having had specops forces in country for so long the US knows exactly where there secret nuke sites are. B-2 stealth bombers drop the new bunker busting nukes at all suspected nuke facilities destroying them completely. Israeli planes take out the Natanz plant. One very big risk is that Iran has a hidden scud somewhere with a nuke on it pointed at Israel. If it comes down to they only have a couple of nuclear missiles and their backs are to the wall they will launch them at Israel instead of coalition forces. It has been stated many many times that Irans sole purpose is the destruction of Israel and they mean it.Text
Wether they nuke Israel or not Tehran falls in less than a month. Damascus shortly thereafter. Seeing that hes last on a very short list Kim Jong Il sends a half a million men screaming through the DMZ. NK opens up on Seoul with over five thousand artillery pieces. Keep in mind that they are using bio chem warheads as first offense weapons. The half million men sent through the DMZ dont make it more than 20 to 50 miles past the DMZ. Its an absolute bloodbath not seen on such a scale since WW2. Nearly all the five thousand plus artillery pieces are vaporized by once again bunker busting nukes dropped by the B-2 Spirit. Possibly US nuclear artillery shells as well. Remaining NK forces attempt to launch their crude nuclear missiles at the rapidly advancing US/South Korean forces which most likely will number around 600,000 combined. At least one NK nuclear missile will go off on/in its launcher/silo? wiping out the NK nuclear threat. What is left of the NK forces retreats into Russia. Some high ranking officers are allowed to escape into China. China will not back NK in case of war. Morally yes but militarily no.Text
The NK forces that have retreated into Russia manage to hold territory in one way or another for at least a year. The US repeatedly offers assistance but the Russians are to proud to ask for help and dont want US forces crossing their border. It takes at least six months for the proper Russian forces to assemble and coordinate. The other six months sees the remaning NK forces turned into a peanut butter like substance by Russian forces. In all no less than 2 million people are dead possibly on the Korean peninsula alone. Let alone Iran.Text
It will truly take a miracle not to end up without the wholesale annihilation of Iran and North Korea. They have been the two biggest thorns in the side of the world since Nazi Germany and Japan. Not to just the US either. This has all been coming for a very long time. This will all go down over the course of the next 24-36 months. North Korea may very well get some kind of missile(s) through to the US west coast. Russia will become even poorer due to the costs of having to clean out their countrysides of truly mad fight to the death North Koreans. You know, the ones that actually think that Kim Jong Ill invented the car and landed on the moon.Text
The war becomes the biggest economical and technological boom ever for the US. The war will see the dawn of the next generation of science fiction like US weaponry that has been rumored for so long. Things like the Aurora plane(s) and the unveiling of SDI which has been operational since 1990. Haarp plays a role in weather modifiactions in favor of coalition troops. The F-22 shows how superior it really is and takes out anything put up against it prompting congress to order hundereds more. The M-8 is now fully fielded in five different interchangable calibers. 9mm,5.56,6.5Grendel,6.8Remington and 7.62 Nato. Of course Im sure some would like to argue. Youre thoughts please. Thank You....
Originally posted by verfed
Israel will not hesitate to destroy Irans Nuclear facilities. When will Russia start sending in the fuel? Whats happens next will depend on Russia.
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear facilities there was no massive Arab backlash but will Iran be different? Will conservative regimes and monarchies want to retaliate against Israel for destroying a very liberal revolutionary regimes nuclear ambitions.
The Arabs are not as united as you think. The Saudi Royal family is as afraid of the Islamic revolution in Iran as democracy in Iraq. I don't believe there will be an Arab attack on Israel. Of course the leaders of Arab countries will condemn Israel to avoid getting capped by some etremist.
Who will be there to help Iran. Russia. Russia invested a lot of money into Iran and now it is gone. What will Russia do to Israel? Syria may be a base for Russia as Syro-Russo relations are as high as ever.
Kim is a maniac who is capable of anything. Whatever Kim does I think China will be on the rightside.
Originally posted by demosthenes
Yes World WarIII has started.
Its just waiting to esculate. Things will get worse depending on how our next President is. We can't have a push over or a overly confident cocky one either he's got to be right in the middle and strong when its comes to issues that involve the US.
I believe that the insurgents in Iraq will never end and that goes for every where else in the World. This is a guerilla warfare and it won't end as long as someone supports them and they have a place to go for safety, and fresh bodies.
Originally posted by SonofSpy
Id like to remind everybody who reads this that the last time the US was attacked on such a scale it ended with us nuking people. We may as well have been nuked on 9/11. It did that much damage. No matter what happens to end it, the US will once again come out on top. How it will end wil be hell on earth no matter which way you theorize it. The most likely scenario is that we nuke Iran.
The whole point behind the Iraq war was to get onto Irans doorstep. They are now completely surrounded. With forces in Afghanistan in the north to forces in the south in Iraq.
The nearly undefeatable US navy covers the east and west. The single largest proprieter of fundamentalist extremist Islam is and has been Iran. We have been fighting an Iranian funded and supplied insurgency. This is no secret.
My personal view of how it will go down is this.
The US manages to get actual real physical evidence of a nuclear weapons program.
Millions of Iranian civilians begin the exodus out of Iran into Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq etc. They and the rest of the world know whats coming next.
More physical evidence of a nuclear weapons program is coraborated with evidence found by other nations intel as well.
The UN gives Iran one last chance and is issued an ultimatum like was issued to Iraq.
They of course dont comply. US forces in Afghanistan swell to 200.000 and likewise in Iraq.
All over the course of a month. The mullahs in Iran start some pretty seroius sabre rattling at the now truly multinational forces at their borders. With real evidence an Iranian invasion is a much easier sell. At this point the US has had specops in Iran for a year mapping out targets.
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It comes down to another 48 hour ultimatum issued by Bush. Instead of complying the mullahs make the claim of having nuke armed missiles ready to fire. Having seen this coming for quit a while Bush orders the first wave of airstrikes as soon as the mullahs have finished claiming that they have nukes pointed at everybody and this is before the ultimatum is up.
Text
Having had specops forces in country for so long the US knows exactly where there secret nuke sites are. B-2 stealth bombers drop the new bunker busting nukes at all suspected nuke facilities destroying them completely. Israeli planes take out the Natanz plant. One very big risk is that Iran has a hidden scud somewhere with a nuke on it pointed at Israel. If it comes down to they only have a couple of nuclear missiles and their backs are to the wall they will launch them at Israel instead of coalition forces. It has been stated many many times that Irans sole purpose is the destruction of Israel and they mean it.
Text
Wether they nuke Israel or not Tehran falls in less than a month. Damascus shortly thereafter. Seeing that hes last on a very short list Kim Jong Il sends a half a million men screaming through the DMZ. NK opens up on Seoul with over five thousand artillery pieces. Keep in mind that they are using bio chem warheads as first offense weapons. The half million men sent through the DMZ dont make it more than 20 to 50 miles past the DMZ. Its an absolute bloodbath not seen on such a scale since WW2. Nearly all the five thousand plus artillery pieces are vaporized by once again bunker busting nukes dropped by the B-2 Spirit. Possibly US nuclear artillery shells as well. Remaining NK forces attempt to launch their crude nuclear missiles at the rapidly advancing US/South Korean forces which most likely will number around 600,000 combined. At least one NK nuclear missile will go off on/in its launcher/silo? wiping out the NK nuclear threat. What is left of the NK forces retreats into Russia. Some high ranking officers are allowed to escape into China. China will not back NK in case of war. Morally yes but militarily no.
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The NK forces that have retreated into Russia manage to hold territory in one way or another for at least a year. The US repeatedly offers assistance but the Russians are to proud to ask for help and dont want US forces crossing their border. It takes at least six months for the proper Russian forces to assemble and coordinate. The other six months sees the remaning NK forces turned into a peanut butter like substance by Russian forces. In all no less than 2 million people are dead possibly on the Korean peninsula alone. Let alone Iran.
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It will truly take a miracle not to end up without the wholesale annihilation of Iran and North Korea. They have been the two biggest thorns in the side of the world since Nazi Germany and Japan. Not to just the US either. This has all been coming for a very long time. This will all go down over the course of the next 24-36 months. North Korea may very well get some kind of missile(s) through to the US west coast. Russia will become even poorer due to the costs of having to clean out their countrysides of truly mad fight to the death North Koreans. You know, the ones that actually think that Kim Jong Ill invented the car and landed on the moon.
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The war becomes the biggest economical and technological boom ever for the US. The war will see the dawn of the next generation of science fiction like US weaponry that has been rumored for so long. Things like the Aurora plane(s) and the unveiling of SDI which has been operational since 1990. Haarp plays a role in weather modifiactions in favor of coalition troops. The F-22 shows how superior it really is and takes out anything put up against it prompting congress to order hundereds more. The M-8 is now fully fielded in five different interchangable calibers. 9mm,5.56,6.5Grendel,6.8Remington and 7.62 Nato. Of course Im sure some would like to argue. Youre thoughts please. Thank You....