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Originally posted by woodwardjnr
Some of the clips were from 2006 and didn't George Bush put Iran in the Axis of Evil..the baddies that America needs to sort out. when was the axis of Evil speech?
Iran has always been a bit of a thorn in America's side as far as I can remember.
I guess the hard talk of attacking them in the media sparked up around 2006 maybe earlier.
In a morbid show of bravado, Iran has dug mass graves for US troops should the United States decide to implement Adm. Mike Mullen's contingency plan to strike Iran, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guard said.
Adm. Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that the US military has a contingency plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a military strike is probably a bad idea.
Gen. Hossein Kan'ani Moghadam, who was the Guard's deputy commander during the 1980s, said graves have been dug in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, where Iran buried Iraqi soldiers killed during the ruinous 1980-88 war between the Islamic republic and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime.
"The mass graves that used to be for burying Saddam's soldiers have now been prepared again for US soldiers, and this is the reason for digging this big number of graves," Moghadam told The Associated Press Television News late Monday. He did not say how many were prepared.
(AFP) – Jun 29, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.
"In implementation of the Geneva Conventions... the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers," the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying.
"We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000," the general said, some of them mass graves if necessary.
Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to "reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country... and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War."
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
Yes, they are powerful. That power is currently at an ebb, but they're really entrenched everywhere, even in this administration. Warring factions at every level. We'll probably never really now the half of it either.
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
I'm still hoping that one day Colin Powell writes a book. I think that there was a lot of this that didn't sit well with him, going back to the Plame incident, which by the way is in the news again too!