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Retired general: US strike on Iran 'feasible and credible'
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Published: 09.08.09, 10:23
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1. WHO CARES
Arash ,   Tehran-iran   (08.09.09)
Who cares what a retired general has to say. After all he is not in any position to make decisions. The real players have noting against it. With people like Obama in the white house, we can at least be sure that there are some brains in the US. The rest is just hot air.
2. Yeah, right
Sarah B ,   New York City, USA   (08.09.09)
Just get out of the way and let the pros handle it. Remember Somalia? Move aside.
3. Iran will be bombed very soon; we must test our new weapons
Daniel ,   Los Angeles, USA   (08.09.09)
Iran has stepped into our net. We kill two birds with one stone. We get to successfully test our weapons. This both thwarts and intimidates our enemy while also bolstering our ability to do more of the same in the immediate future. Our enemy ought to realize that befriending us is win-win. We will prosper together in freedom and wealth, rather than mutually piddle away our resources. Shalom.
4. the US could smah Iran but Hussain Obama will never say go
zionist forever   (08.09.09)
At least until 2012 the US is not going to be taking any hostile action against Iran under any circumstances. It would ruin all Obamas grand plans to suck up to the islamic world and possibly ruin his legacy plans of a deal forced on Israel to give land to the palestinians, Syria and anybody else who says they want some of it. Obama ruled it out during his election campaign when he also invited Ahmadinejad for unconditional talks at the White House As long as they don't want to put troops on the ground and have any plans to rebuild after the bombing is over then the US could destroy Irans nuclear program & its plans to be a conventional military superpower as well within a week. Destroy missile launch facilities & anti aircraft defenses. Destroy Irans air forces Destroy Irans navy so they can't disrupt shipping lanes Destroy Irans chemical weapons facilities Destroy all of Irans nuclear sites If the US does the job properly they can put the Iranian nuclear ambitions back by 20 years also their conventional military forces could be weakened so badly that the Gulf states wouldn't be worried about getting into a future war with Iran. If Israel went it alone and was succesful it could put the Iranian nuclear program back by 5-10 years depending on how much damage it was able to do but the US with their facilities which are already in the Gulf could destroy it. Sadly Obama will never authorize it. He wants the muslims to love him and for America to become more of a pacafist state which stays out of conflicts just likes to have friendly chats with Hussain Obama who sees himself as a divinely sent prophet.
5. very good analysis
Jiroft   (08.09.09)
With that notable difference; Shaken by its internal divisions due t the fake delections, the current regime will be crushe d as a result of devasting bombing that would bleed to death the pasdarans. ther ewould be uprising against a regime that failed to protect the country from a ennemy strike and the days of the bearded dictators of Tehran would be counted..
6. Another bla ,bla,bla... Iran is hard nut for your
Sami ,   Lebanon   (08.09.09)
pro Mrs Sara B from New York City. The war in binuclear from your New York balcony appears easy and a fun. (Don’t forget to remove the cover though, not like your previous defense minister Peres)
7. US military is capable of attack but Obama is not.
John ,   usa   (08.09.09)
The man who said the US would never go to war with Islam will not attack Iran. Iran is an Islamic theocracy. Now this Obama will keep a promise to a despot nation. He only breaks them with the US people,
8. Bombing
Shimon ,   Cincinnati, USA   (08.09.09)
I don't believe Obama wishes to be loved, as 4 puts it. I believe he only wishes to keep communication open. Bombs will only cause more violence...especially with human mentality being what it is. If all options are rejected, then Iran will have to face being hit...unfortunately, possible radioactive contamination from such strikes might make "living" there even more dangerous. Personally, If there were good supervision, and immediate, decisive action taken for any weapons development, I'd feel somewhat safer.
9. If Iran goes back to the US dollar for the purchases of oil
Rivkah   (08.09.09)
as it agreed to do when President Nixon took the US dollar off the silver standard, then war would be less of a certainty. This is not about nuclear weapons since Iran could have purchased nuclear weapons and used them in the late 1980's when the old Soviet Union changed and nuclear weapons were available on the Black Market. If there is an attack on Jerusalem with nuclear weapons as is described by the Prophet Isaiah, it will be because the Lord did not protect Jerusalem and the reasons are threefold: flaunting of sodomy in God's holy city, women with wanton eyes like Aleph in God's holy city, and cheating the poor. God is very able to protect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Israel, but He is willing to do so only as long as these three offenses have not reached the cup of His indignation to overflowing. Clean up the offenses to the Lord in Jerusalem and the Lord will protect the city.
10. Wald's proposal
Brod ,   USA   (08.09.09)
Wald may be right. However, so long as Obama is President, Wald's proposal will not see daylight. Obama has sold his soul to the Islamist world. He is worst than Carter. As Mark Levin points out, he is screwed up.
11. Flaunting Sodomy: QUESTION FOR RIVKAH
Arik Silverman ,   Milwaukee USA   (08.09.09)
2000 years ago the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria complained of those flaunting sodomy. The text is found in his "Special Laws" Book III chapter VII. He talks about the "evil" of pederasty in the cities. "Mark how conspicuously they braid and adorn the hair of their heads ... paint their faces with cosmetics ... and smother themselves with fragrant unguents...you may see these hybrids of man and woman ... heading the processions at the feasts." (There's much more.) QUESTION for RIVKAH: What happened to those righteous Jews of Alexandria like Philo who were so pious 2000 years ago? Did Yahweh save them because of their homophobia? Maybe you and Philo and the Rabbonim don't know what Yahewh really wants.
12. Iran
Marilyn ,   USA   (08.09.09)
In this, in order to make a choice for one thing, you have to let other possibilities go. A choice by whomever was already made for the Iraq and Afganistan wars. It was set, Iran perhaps realized this and walked in. It is just like, if by some oddness, if we tried to get into a war with Iran, North Korea would run in. Russia perhaps would come in at some point. Things could get really bad, but a basic understanding is that this was what was chosen and now have to play it out.
13. Arieh Zilbermann exactly like all Muslims, obsessed with sex
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (08.11.09)
this is the result of hanging out at that Mosque in Milwaukee too many times
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