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Originally posted by marg6043
but now it has reached a critical point
BS, CIA and IEAI are saying that Iran are 10 years away from nukes. The immediate threat IS BS, just as Iraq's WMD were! Why in hell it is so hard to understand?
Yes but the propaganda machine have most American believing already that Iran is going to nuke poor Israel and our sons and daughters has to give their lives helping the poor lonely country.
Plus many even think that Iran is going to nuke US.
What can I say we have a nation where people are so hook on the propaganda that they has stop thinking for themselves.
[edit on 17-1-2007 by marg6043]
Originally posted by Regenmacher
The idea of Iran invading and taking over a country is ridculous considering most their weapons are old russian crap and they haven't done anything of the sort for centuries.
It's also best to question all propaganda designed to foment hate that builds the military-industrial complex and destroys more Earth.... before becoming a stooge of it:
Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust?
So who currently is more apt to bomb a country's infratructure, invade it, kill off its leaders and set up a puppet regime in order to benefit itself and make some quick profits?
[edit on 18-1-2007 by Regenmacher]
Originally posted by Luxifero
Our mission has a limited objective--to open the supply routes, to get the food moving, and to prepare the way for a U.N. peace-keeping force to keep it moving. This operation is not open-ended. We will not stay longer than is absolutely necessary.
Let's break this apart.
to open the supply routes, to get the food moving
Originally posted by Luxifero
From September-October the region was already on it's way to recovery.
Originally posted by Luxifero
Success was well under it's way before the U.S decided to intervene…
Originally posted by Luxifero
Exactly what constitutes a U.N peace-keeping force?
As I stated in the post you are referencing…pointing the finger at the US does not and can not justify Iran’s actions. Iran’s actions are not that of a peace seeking nation and my response in the previous post made just this point.
Originally posted by Luxifero
Iran is not a peace keeping nation nor does it acclaim to be.
Originally posted by graphicsman1977
There is no way that Israel will ever be anything less than the "occupying regime" to the Palestinians and large sections of the Islamic world. In that sense, then, the only solution to the Iranian leader, is the elimination of Israel.
Originally posted by Regenmacher
I am more apt to believe Iranians love there children too, before thinking they are led by a Persian suicide cult that wants to test the theory of of M.A.D., and that same belief has kept us from from turning the planet surface into slag.
Originally posted by RedGolem
As to the suicide cult I can not completely discount that possibility.
Originally posted by Regenmacher
Maybe we should look at Persian history to see how many times they have started a war?
Originally posted by RedGolem
So I guess it would come down to who is in the loop and what will they do.
I don't see the fanatical kook threat as a reason for a pre-emptive attack, cause it's bound to bite us right back in the ass. I rather wait to cross that dirty nuke kook bridge when or if it ever gets here.
When we actually tighten border security rather than having it look like a big joke, then I am more apt to believe in this kook with nuke theory too.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
War against imperialism, by protecting Lebanon from Israël and US influence.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
So if we are to talk about Afghanistan, the groups supported by each country, we won't end. The US is as guilty of crap in Afghanistan as Iran,
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Iran is killing kurds in northern Iraq with Turkey and you say they support the Kurdistan party in Turkey? How that works?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Well they are fighting foreign influence, because you know what happens when the US take over your country when your in the Middle-east, you're screwed, your under a dictatorship.
Originally posted by Regenmacher
I don't see the fanatical kook threat as a reason for a pre-emptive attack, cause it's bound to bite us right back in the ass. I rather wait to cross that dirty nuke kook bridge when or if it ever gets here.
So your thinking the reason for an Iranian war is about backpack nukes, while Russian and medical grade radioactive elements flow freely on the black market?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
I don't see the fanatical kook threat as a reason for a pre-emptive attack, cause it's bound to bite us right back in the ass. I rather wait to cross that dirty nuke kook bridge when or if it ever gets here.
Exactly. The neo-cons should stop living in a world of fear. First, Iran is 10 years away from a FIRST nuke. Second, it would takes AT LEAST another 3/5 years to be able to mount it on a missile. Third, it would take AT LEAST another 5/10 years to reduce it to a backpack. So there, at bare minimum, they will only be able to bring a nuke in Israël in 20 years. What a threat!
Originally posted by pavil
Being naive and trusting the word of a regime that has been secretive in the past in the nuclear age is truly a recipe for worse events.
Originally posted by Regenmacher
So far, the pre-emptive attack Iraq plan has given the American people 3000+ dead soldiers, 47,000+ wounded, $1.2 trillion of war debt, oil up over 200%, a collapsing dollar, and Iraq on verge of civil war. The excuse was that Saddam had WMD's too, so maybe you should tell us how being fooled and abused by your own people is not niave.
By and large the world reacts to what actually happens, not fantasized what ifs, which makes the difference between a paranoid animal and a civilized human being.
The Saddam regime was in violation of UN resolutions and had been given ample time to comply. They chose not to comply fully with the resolutions.
They were, by almost all accounts, not nice people and had started two wars in the region with it's neighbors as well as persecuting a majority of it's own population.
That actually happened you know. Don't make it sound like we pick on some poor defenseless old women for no apparent reason.