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Originally posted by USMC-oorah
To fufill my obligation to the United States Marine Corps and to get a nice tan.
To fufill my obligation to the United States Marine Corps and to get a nice tan.
Iran is now the third-largest oil supplier to China’s oil-thirsty economy. Moreover, China is investing nearly $100 billion in developing Iranian oil and gas fields. By some estimates, Iran will provide China with over 250 million tons of natural gas and 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day over the next 30 years.
Iran buys Chinese conventional weapons, including anti-ship cruise missiles, sophisticated naval mines, and anti-tank missiles, as well as technology and equipment for WMDs and ballistic missiles, such as missile control/guidance systems, chemical-weapon precursors and nuclear materials and technology.
Iran is also a commercial cash cow for China. Chinese firms are building Tehran's billion-dollar subway system, and Beijing plans to invest over $200 million to help finance a new highway connecting Tehran to the Caspian Sea coast. Other projects also are in the works.
Moscow, which sought close relations with Iran during the Soviet era, has continued to build close military, trade, and diplomatic ties since the fall of the communist empire. Russia has sold Iran billions of dollars of tanks, armored personnel carriers, warplanes, missiles, submarines and other military equipment. Between 1994 and 2004, Russia sold Iran more than $2.7 billion in arms, the equivalent of 68 percent of its total arms imports, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. China was second to Russia in arms sales, providing 18 percent of Iran’s arms imports.
Just last December, Russia agreed to sell Iran another $1 billion in arms, including $700 million worth of advanced surface-to-air missiles (SAM), the TOR-M1. Each TOR unit is capable of tracking 48 targets and firing at two targets at the same time. Once deployed, these SAMs could pose a deadly threat to aircraft involved in any strike against Iranian targets, including the high-value nuclear-related sites at Bushehr, Natanz, Arak and Isfahan. In October 2005, Russia launched Iran’s first satellite, which is capable of taking photographs that could provide valuable military intelligence.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
reply to post by drift393
You already have lite martial law in the US. Checkpoints, no search warrants, arrest for anything without proof, corrupt police... when all break down, it will be the hard martial law. Where the police and the army will attack crowds with sound cannons to make it look ``non-lethal``.
Hard martial law will be enforced by police, army... then when they are dead, or turn against the system, it will be foreign troops... 30% of all troops in the US are already foreign or felons. When you have a former assassin as a soldier, he won't care about the constitution, he will only care about raping your daughter, like he is in Iraq. Then you add Blackwater. Then you add all those who obey orders no matter what, just like when Katrina hit.
If the shooting start, it will be either by accident by the FED, or an all-out revolution by the people or a stage event. And it will lead to the seperation of the US in 3 camps. Those who supports the system who raped them all their life, those who don't want a part in it (cowards) and those who want to fight for the ideals this country was founded on, the constitution.
And of course, those who will fight back will be terrorists.
And the attack of Iran will probably be launched by a false-flag.
[edit on 27-5-2008 by Vitchilo]
Originally posted by CreeWolf
Without soldiers, you'd be speaking Japanese right now and serving the Emperor.
Originally posted by CreeWolf
Sheesh! All this talk and Bush-bashing and everyone seems to be missing one important point. Do you honestly think if Bush was the tyrant people are saying he is, he's going to leak the information to a couple of idiotic Senators? Everyone knows in Washington that if you want to keep a secret, you don't tell a Senator or Congressman! AND, before you try to say he "leaked" it on purpose; does it stand to reason that Bush really has the plans to bomb Iran?
Personally, I hope he does at least weaken Iran before leaving office because the Democrat who will probably get elected will make us wish for the good ole' days when we had a president who kept these whack-jobs in the Middle East at bay!