Interesting since Panetta said an Israeli attack on Iran may come late spring. Goddammit.

I have a feeling this image is going to get a lot of mileage in the next few months.

Amos Quito: [t1.gstatic.com image 275x183]

I don't get it

Nobody better do any hot dogging or they'll be flying cargo planes full of rubber dog shiat out of Hong Kong

hopefully SEAL Team Six is there...two in the stink, one in the think. night night.

This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

Hobodeluxe: This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

France will send a "Charles de Gaulle" nuclear aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, Interfax reported citing Israeli media.

Anyone else see the irony in multiple countries sending their nuclear-powered weapons to defend a country that illegally has nuclear weapons from a country that is trying to legally use nuclear power?

Awesome. Yay war.

Pribar: thats what 20% of the worlds operational carriers in one place? I could be wrong on that but I think my math holds

If you include the amphibious assault ships its no where close to 20%.

Plus one of them is the De Gaulle, whose size is actually quite comparable to a US Amphib Assault Ship.

Pribar: thats what 20% of the worlds operational carriers in one place? I could be wrong on that but I think my math holds

The Charles De Gaulle isn't what we'd consider an aircraft carrier. It's more like what we'd consider an amphibious assault ship (we have 10 of those to go with our 11 actual aircraft carriers). All told, there are about 30 total aircraft carriers.

I've decided to found a think tank called the Center for War Advocacy.
It's the way of empire.

With props to AJE...

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Hobodeluxe: This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

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siyuntz: Hobodeluxe: This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

I love poems

excellent rebuttal of my predictions.
you know that's why Israel is moving on this now.
Politics.
They have to move before the election while Obama will be over a political barrel.

You can rattle sabres all you want, but will anyone in D.C. allow our warships to do the right thing?

How I long for Gen Jack Ripper....

/ too obscure for young Farkers?

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I don't get it


Looks like Israel is getting their wish.

From the desk of former president Theodore Roosevelt...

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. "
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton, Chapter 12, 1897

Plus I didn't pull out the old "Speak softly and carry a big stick" becaue that would be like beating a dead horse.

The absence of hostilty is not peace...peace through strength, resolve, and shared purpose should be the mainstay of every nation of the world. Basically, be a good neighbor, don't crap on your neighbor's yard, and just live you live's leaving everyone else alone....but when the neighbor does get uppity, it does pay to have a fleet of nuclear propelled, razor tipped, hammer chunking aircraft carriers to park on their front steps.

/ok, move it along, nothing else to see here.

Unless we invade, we probably won't be able to breach the bunkers holding their nuclear labs. Before you even bring them up, bunker buster bombs are fiction. Even the nuclear ones don't work very well.

Other than needlessly pissing off a bunch more Muslims with more unilateral attacks on middle eastern countries, what is it we hope to gain from an attack, exactly?

So this thread is based on a blog entry that links to some pseudo-news site allegedly in Baku, Azerbaijan.

/Wat to go catapultin' the propaganda

Hobodeluxe: gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.


Now now, we all have to make small sacrifices so that Israel can feel more secure.

It's a worthy cause. No?

KeithGate: From the desk of former president Theodore Roosevelt...

TR's autobiography is copyright-free now and is available all over the net.
Well worth the read.

/Best accounts of cowboy life in the Dakota territories I've ever read.

KeithGate: From the desk of former president Theodore Roosevelt...

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. "
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton, Chapter 12, 1897

Plus I didn't pull out the old "Speak softly and carry a big stick" becaue that would be like beating a dead horse.

The absence of hostilty is not peace...peace through strength, resolve, and shared purpose should be the mainstay of every nation of the world. Basically, be a good neighbor, don't crap on your neighbor's yard, and just live you live's leaving everyone else alone....but when the neighbor does get uppity, it does pay to have a fleet of nuclear propelled, razor tipped, hammer chunking aircraft carriers to park on their front steps.

/ok, move it along, nothing else to see here.


Except that Iran isn't instigating shiat.

Keep that in mind.

All I can say is: Nobel. Peace. Prize.

Iraq will counter with it's invincible photoshopped navy.

/Nikita Khrushchev pounds his casket lid with shoe in solidarity....

fireclown: All I can say is: Nobel. Peace. Prize.

That's Pre-emptive Nobel Peace Prize to you, serf!

meanmutton: Pribar: thats what 20% of the worlds operational carriers in one place? I could be wrong on that but I think my math holds

The Charles De Gaulle isn't what we'd consider an aircraft carrier. It's more like what we'd consider an amphibious assault ship (we have 10 of those to go with our 11 actual aircraft carriers). All told, there are about 30 total aircraft carriers.

no no...you are talking about WARMONGER with Jimmy Whocares on bass....Charles Demurred was in WHOREMONGER..

get your facts straight before you go posting toughguy stuff..

Amos Quito: Hobodeluxe: gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.


Now now, we all have to make small sacrifices so that Israel can feel more secure.

It's a worthy cause. No?

this isn't about security. it's about maintaining dominance.

Hobodeluxe: This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

Are you kidding? Republicans love war almost as much as breathing. The pain of high oil prices will be counterbalanced by the joy of killing brown people.

Now posted in the correct thread.

Are we going to go down this "War is inevitable" thing again, where no reasonable opinion on why we shouldn't start bombing will be drowned out by 24 hour a day corporate media extalling the technological brilliance of our military and how everyone is in imminent danger of the current threat and we really have no choice and support ARE TROOPS!!!!


because, that would be fun

glassbottomboatcaptain: Hobodeluxe: This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

Are you kidding? Republicans love war almost as much as breathing. The pain of high oil prices will be counterbalanced by the joy of killing brown people.

I'm not worried about losing votes that would never got Obama in the first place.

Raharu: [img824.imageshack.us image 350x232]
Now posted in the correct thread.

I still don't get it

I_C_Weener: Amos Quito: Except that Iran isn't instigating shiat.

Keep that in mind.

Well, threatening to shut down the Hormel Straits is pretty instigaty in a world dependent on oil.

We cannot allow our supply of Spam to be cut off. It is vital to the American economy, not to mention the Hawaiian waistline.

I_C_Weener: Amos Quito: Except that Iran isn't instigating shiat.

Keep that in mind.

Well, threatening to shut down the Hormel Straits is pretty instigaty in a world dependent on oil.


And what action did the US take that caused Iran to respond by threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz?

Hobodeluxe: This will ensure Romney's election.
It's a no win scenario for Obama.
gas prices will soar and cripple the struggling to recover economy.
and of course he will get the blame.

There, there. Don't worry, princess. Obama will be reinserted no matter what. Mkay? (Pats on head.) Run along now!

/Tax dollar kabuki theater.
//Don't you (the collective "you") get tired of falling for their shiat, or is it just fun to play "Ohnoes!"?

would love to see Ahmadinejad added to the 'miss me yet' roll-call

also need some music ala lmfao / Kim

/persian spring ftw - advocating internal revolution aided by external pressure, not war, before I get shot down