once again, they are arming their sites with Russian SAMS to defend against air attacks. According to
, who I wish gave a source for that fact, Israel's aircraft will no longer be able to reach Iran's nuclear sites once these high-tech SAMS are in place. Only our stealth fighters will.
Maybe that will give us some clarity. I have been hoping for so long Israel would just go ahead and Osirak some of these sites--obviously we can't get them all, but if we shoot in the middle of the SAMS in, e.g., Nataz or Isfahan. Now either they do it by the time these new SAMS get in place, or we do. And I'm sure they don't want to do it.
Why Russia is so blithely proliferating nuclear weapons is a subject for another post sometime, but it looks to me like the NPT and the IAEA have become about as relevant to international politics as a UN General Council resolution.
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What is it with Russia and its seeming inability to find sane leaders? Does Putin just not care that the people he is helping are arming and training the Chechens? I think Putin is just feathering his nest and planning to retire somewhere nice and peaceful while the world tears itself apart. The man is an idiot.
These missiles just add another layer of instability to an already untenable situation, and I don't think it will be long before we have to send our forces into Iran. I just hope that we can get the Iraqi Army up to speed soon enough to free up our troops to invade Iran, which is looking more and more inevitable every day.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 03, 2005 12:13 PM (0yYS2)
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Our stealth bombers will take out those SAMS, and Isreal's jets will finish off the job. Then we'll land a marine division on their primary nuke site and secure it against an Iranian counterattack while the Army Corp of Engineers dismantles it real nice and up close. If well coordinated, the entire operation could take less than a day or two and Liberals won't even have time to star whining by the time we withdraw.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 03, 2005 12:48 PM (8e/V4)
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Well if we go to the trouble, we should just make a full-blown invasion of it, and liberate the country from the mad mullahs while we're at it.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 03, 2005 01:11 PM (0yYS2)
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The best bet for Israel woule be to take out Iran's "President" and a few hundred of hius henchmen first and see what develops afterwards.
Posted by: Ayatrollah at December 03, 2005 01:53 PM (x2mun)
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The Russians have always valued cash and believe that even if their weapons get turned against them, well, that can always be dealt with later on.....somehow. Plus there's no real shortage of customers eager to hand over their money just to find out that the system doesn't quite work as well as the guy at the defense expo said it would. Hopefully the US and Irael won't have to take any action. It would be sweet if all that Russkie reactor and processing technology suffered a catastrophic failure the same day that the 30 day warranty expires. Then the world could sit back and smile as all requests for clean up assistance is denied. Ahhhh alas tis not meant to be.
Posted by: Graeme at December 03, 2005 02:19 PM (eb53o)
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Ironically Iran has said on numerous occasions it does not fear the United States military due to the "mess" we're in Iraq.
Unfortunately Iran's leaders have not read a history book, nor a book on Military tactics because we do not have to _invade_ Iran in order to destroy it. Blanket bombings, and targeted strikes against their military and industrial targets for example.
However, it is unlikely the U.S will have a hand in this, the U.S cannot even substain military action in Iraq, without the "evil Bush" infecting the Media, Congress and citizens, imagine the "Evil empire" banners if the U.S authorized action against Tehran?
Posted by: dave at December 03, 2005 02:21 PM (CcXvt)
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You're probably right Dave, and I'm guessing that it won't be long before we well some first generation stealth bombers and fighter to Israel.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 03, 2005 02:33 PM (0yYS2)
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I can't believe we're doing the same thing over
again. Has
anyone read the Wretchard Conjectures? And we're just sitting here
waiting for it to happen. Jeez!
Posted by: MegaTroopX at December 03, 2005 02:38 PM (yT/Rw)
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Agent Brown has realized IAEA inspectors have never been allowed to inspect Israeli nuclear facilities.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 06:09 PM (VDGim)
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>>>"Agent Brown has realized IAEA inspectors have never been allowed to inspect Israeli nuclear facilities."
The IAEA and whose army.
Israel gets to keep its nukes, Iran doesn't. Period.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 03, 2005 06:15 PM (8e/V4)
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Agent Brown says that Israel never permitted IAEA to enter it's territory, but instead allows American inspectors limited access, similar to the way a U.S. state would be checked.
Agent Jones thinks that Iran will cause big problems in the southern "Sistani" section of Iraq they control by proxy and disrupt shipping in the Hormuz straits if their regime is threatened.
Agent Smith concurs.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 03, 2005 07:37 PM (VDGim)
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>>>"similar to the way a U.S. state would be checked."
or a U.S. ally. But state works for me too.
Iran must not go nuclear.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 03, 2005 10:56 PM (8e/V4)
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Agent Brown agrees with Jesusland Carlos: Iran must not go nuclear.
Posted by: Agent Smith at December 04, 2005 06:47 AM (VDGim)
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