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		Good news: U.S. victory over Iran would only take three weeks, so no big deal (rt.com)		26
		More: Unlikely, Iran, Mehr News Agency, military threat, Near East, computer worm, security experts, u.s. central command, wire transfer

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Mentat		2012-05-03 11:32:08 PM

11 votes:

SilentStrider: Would it pay for itself too?

Only if we cut taxes. I'm always surprised that people don't get that part.

SilentStrider		2012-05-03 11:26:44 PM

5 votes:

Would it pay for itself too?

coffeeburns		2012-05-04 01:53:14 AM

3 votes:

just send them the box sets of our daytime television programs, and blueprints of our education system, and they'll just kill themselves.

thomps		2012-05-03 11:30:46 PM

3 votes:

cman: I call bullshiat.

After Iraq, if there is one thing that we should have learned, it is that there are too many damned variables to be able to make these kinds of predictions.

ok we don't have to get as specific as "3 weeks." but i'm sure you'll agree that we can ballpark it between either six days, six weeks, or six months, right?

MrBallou		2012-05-04 11:35:29 AM

2 votes:

Tor_Eckman: CasperImproved: Tor_Eckman: meanmutton: Are people really so stupid that they don't understand the difference between "Occupy a country and replace its despot with a democracy" and "Defeat militarily"?

We destroyed Iraq's military in the first Gulf War. As I recall, that wasn't enough for some people.

What makes you thing it will be enough in Iran?

Apparently some people just don't get it...

WE DON'T NEED TO OCCUPY THEIR COUNTRY TO ACHIEVE WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

/Is that CLEAR enough for you now?

Of course. Now that you have used the power of ALLCAPS I get it.

But it didn't answer my question.

Or are you just being snarky? I can't even tell anymore.

Careful. He used ALLCAPS. He's a man on the edge.

BigBooper		2012-05-04 06:35:51 AM

2 votes:

vernonFL: LavenderWolf: The US could turn the entirety of Iran into slag, thirty feet deep, in a matter of seconds.

Why? Iran is a diverse country both landscape and ethnic wise, plus Iran is home to a lot of human history. Timeless ruins from the dawn of civilization. Why destroy it?

For the Lulz?

indylaw		2012-05-04 03:48:28 AM

2 votes:

THEY WILL WELCOME US AS LIBERIANS!

sjcousins		2012-05-04 03:19:16 AM

2 votes:

bluorangefyre: Of course it'd only take three weeks. Week one would be our bombing the shiat out of Iran. Week two would be Russia, China, and the USA launching every available nuke at each other. Week three would be counting whoever had the most people left after week two.

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Depending on the breaks.

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Pointy Tail of Satan		2012-05-04 02:03:49 AM

2 votes:

Will US missiles work in Iran?

What is the heat or radar signature of a flying carpet?

Aar1012		2012-05-04 12:18:14 AM

2 votes:

SilentStrider: Mentat: SilentStrider: Would it pay for itself too?

Only if we cut taxes. I'm always surprised that people don't get that part.

Silly me. You're right.

All we have to do is shift some money from the Dept of Education, NPR, and PBS and we'll be in the black for a decade!

ecmoRandomNumbers		2012-05-03 11:48:38 PM

2 votes:

Fark it. Start a war. Enact a draft. I don't care anymore. I'm sick of looking for work, anyway.

Tarkus		2012-05-03 11:46:21 PM

2 votes:

It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

thomps		2012-05-03 11:27:53 PM

2 votes:

can we pick out the flowers that we are greeted with this time? i'm f*cking sick of iraqi posies.

macadamnut		2012-05-04 08:39:46 AM

1 votes:

pacotastic		2012-05-04 06:13:10 AM

1 votes:

Surool		2012-05-04 04:56:50 AM

1 votes:

The headline is giving me the most overpowering feeling of derp-ja-vu.

nrdgrl		2012-05-04 03:39:30 AM

1 votes:

MeinRS6		2012-05-04 03:14:12 AM

1 votes:

Nrokreffefp: Did you not get an education on the way that WWI and WW2 started? Not surprised.

Ok, let's pretend that I don't know anything about WWI or II and you explain in detail to me how the way either of those started applies to a US nuke strike on Iran in 2012.

But you won't do that. You will just post some other dumbass comment. Because you've got a big bag'o'nothing. So sit down, beeotch.

Little.Alex		2012-05-04 03:00:40 AM

1 votes:

True story:

I was sitting in the airport in Istanbul about 2 years ago. I'm on a metal bench, with 5 young guys in cheap suits.

And a girl walks by, with a really great ass. Just great. High and firm and round, like a ballerina or a girl who plays a lot of tennis. We all stared at her ass, like we were trying to burn a hole in it with physic energy.

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And we caught each other, and had a laugh over it. Then one of them speaks to the others in their language, and as their spokesman stands up and comes over to me.

him: "Excuse me, are you an American? Can I ask you a question?"

me: "yeah, sure" -obviously I'm American, because I'm wearing jeans and sport shoes

him: "We are all Iranian engineers working here. And I wonder; do you think your country and mine will go to war?"

me: "No, I don't thinks so. War is very expensive and unpopular, so I don't think the American public will support another war."

he translated that back to his friends and then said, "that's too bad. we were hoping you guys would change our government."

Dahnkster		2012-05-04 02:17:23 AM

1 votes:

I heard China and Russia are totally cool with it. Europe says, "Why not? We're wacky for NATO Asian conflicts". Who cares what the rest of the world thinks., We'll tell them what to think. China will be able to sell cheap crap to them after the ass-kicking and no competition against Russian oil interests. It's a win-win. Plus Israel gets a priapism.

The US government and the media are already telling us there is no more money for Social Security or MEDICARE in a couple decades. The evangelicals think anything short of WWIII won't bring rapture Jesus. All the military industrial complexes will make some currency and dead soldiers don't hurt unemployment.
And when do the banks and financials not make money?

www.vine2victory.com

I triple dog dare you?

shivaaa		2012-05-04 02:12:42 AM

1 votes:

Will you pay for that war with Visa or Mastercard?

yagottabefarkinkiddinme		2012-05-04 02:04:43 AM

1 votes:

Farking Mayans.

tinfoil-hat maggie		2012-05-04 01:08:30 AM

1 votes:

FTFA "US Central Command (CENTCOM) believes it can destroy or significantly degrade Iran's conventional armed forces in about three weeks using air and sea strikes, a defense source told The Washington Post. "

Sure let's do it, ten years later after a siege we can really take 'em out.

vernonFL		2012-05-04 01:04:28 AM

1 votes:

We have so much more to gain from NOT going to war than we have by going to war with them.

I have met so many Iranians who are so educated and modern and pro-Western, it would be such a terrible shame to go to war against Iran when we could instead negotiate with the current Islamist regime and gradually gently push them towards modernity and democracy, much like our relationship with China or Burma or Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.