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i think Iran is going to be struck soon....

oil will go to 200

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http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-iran-so-fa r

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Oh I can sense it coming, it is...inevitable.

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Come July-September... Look out! We gots us an election brewing!

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Perhaps...Intentions change, actions are irrevocable.

Iran still has a chance to change course, but not for much longer. Bush and Saudi Arabia gave Israel the option of an open fly window back in 2008 and they were persuaded to wait. That won't happen again, whatever the consequences. Especially with the November UN report that says some of the research observed could only be used to to develop weapons.

No one, including their friends, wants a unstable nuclear state. Pakistan and North Korea anyone? No...even China says no thank you (but only in private)

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i don't expect the "advertised" timetables are correct. it makes no sense to tell them when they will be hit. it makes more sense to tell them they have longer than they think they do. I also do not think we should leave Israel with the blame. it would not surprise me to see oil jump a day or two before the strike.

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Pretty big and unusual training size element going on recently:


Marines 'assault' US beaches in amphibious drill

With beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that bears more than a passing resemblance to Iran.
After a decade dominated by ground wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, the drill dubbed Bold Alligator is "the largest amphibious exercise conducted by the fleet in the last 10 years," said Admiral John Harvey, head of US Fleet Forces Command.

About 20,000 US forces, plus hundreds of British, Dutch and French troops as well as liaison officers from Italy, Spain, New Zealand and Australia are taking part in the exercise along the Atlantic coast off Virginia and North Carolina.

An American aircraft carrier, amphibious assault ships including France's Mistral, Canadian mine sweepers and dozens of aircraft have been deployed for the drill, which began on January 30 and runs through mid-February.

Monday was "D-day" for Bold Alligator, with US Marines stepping on to the beach from hovercraft, near the Camp Lejeune base in North Carolina.


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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.7e2f54df1b9c336e0daa5210d53c3682.171 &show_article=1

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Iran is going to announce something in the coming days, seems like they think its a big deal. I wonder how much time we are going to give Iran. It is completely obvious that Iran is not going to cave into sanctions and will only work more aggressively towards their ultimate goal. You cant extend an olive branch to these people. I am not advocating war, but some people you cant talk to. Most Americans have no idea how extreme this islamic regime really is, and they truly do believe they must initiate a catastrophic even to hasten the return of their imam.

Atheists love to trash Christians, but somehow Islam gets overlooked.

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Yes, I saw that. So...who is calling whose bluff? Or is it a bluff?

And how in the world does Islam get overlooked Cash???

When most of the worlds population says the word 'terrorist' they picture a religious Arab male zealot in their mind, and not without good reason.

Christian hands are not clean in this conflict though. Nor are American hands clean from the formation of the current Iranian regime.

This is not a good versus evil conflict but if we are not very careful it could quickly devolve into a religious war if the religious rhetoric heats up too much.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/markets/oil-near-9-month-high-below-105-i n-asia-as-eu-agrees-to-greece-bailout-deal/2012/02/21/gIQABDCUQR_story.html


"Iran’s Foreign Ministry also said Tuesday that visiting inspectors won’t be able to inspect the country’s nuclear facilities. An International Atomic Energy Agency team arrived in Tehran this week hoping to monitor Iran’s nuclear program. Instead it will only hold talks with officials about ways to cooperate in the future."


This just goes to show that the Iranians are hell bent on islamic fanaticism on preparing the return of their Mahdi. This is why the whole "give talks more time" is such garbage. Oh lets give them an olive branch and make peace. You cant negotiate with these people. This is inevitable. Just look up the return of the 12th imam and what they think over in Iran what is really going on.


Now Iran is talking about their own preemptive strikes.

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AYATOLLAH: KILL ALL JEWS, ANNIHILATE ISRAEL
Iran lays out legal case for genocidal attack against 'cancerous tumor'


"Calling Israel a danger to Islam"


"Forghani details the Islamic duty of jihad as laid out in the Quran for the sake of Allah and states that “primary jihad,” according to some Shiite jurists, can only occur when the Hidden Imam, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, returns. Shiites believe Mahdi’’s return will usher in Armageddon."


http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/ayatollah-kill-all-jews-annihilate-israel/

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Watching Israeli PM Netanyahu tonight speak, actually on right now. He has been speaking for a bit. I am fully convinced after watching this, and after seeing earlier news about our drone going down over Iran and everything else that has begun.....we are truly headed to war soon this year.

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Ex-ambassador to Israel: U.S. will go to war with Iran in 2013

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57513809/ex-ambassador-to-israel-u.s-will-g o-to-war-with-iran-in-2013/


The build up in the gulf continues.

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Nixon I just found was an OCS grad and served in the Navy.

Nixon quote:

"In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading"


Sounds like Obama and his ilk.

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funny how Obama sounds more like GOP presidents than the GOP's do.... Nixon and Reagan even daddy Bush sound more like Obma than romney does....

hint hint- the GOP folded like a cheap lawn chair years ago cash... demand that they get their act back together or find yourself a new party... i am done with parties for the foreseeable future...

i'll get intersted again if i have to for 2nd amenmdet reasons, but i don't see much else to support the GOP in these days..

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"funny how Obama sounds more like GOP presidents than the GOP's do"


Where do you see that?

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all over cash. Ronald Reagan is THE GUY who implemented this tax program we now have which allows the "poor" not to pay...

Obama supports it too, while the new GOP's whine about it...

now here's the logic:
The poor are poor cuz they have no money right? simple enough. The poor CAN, do, and have paid taxes, just not INCOME taxes since Reagan took over.

here's the catch-22 in the new GOP logics if you tax the poor they won't be able to use that money to buy stuff from the rich who have the stuff for sale and the rich lose the moeny they would get formthat sale while the poor only lose having a few extra toys...

so when regan took the income taxes offa the poor? the rich benefited... he knew that cuz he made his money offfa poor people paying a dollar a time or even less going to the movies...

the rich today are actually whining about having a broader customer base when they complain about not taxing the poor enough-

shall i go on? it's endless you know.. the daddy Bush compalined specifically about the ultra-rights like pat robertson and falwell... he was correct, they chase off us "normal" republicans with their fanaticsism...

and cash, i am a "normal republican" i will vote republican IF they offer me a decent candidate cuz i understand that Republicanism is a form of govenrment not a political party get that drift?

romeny was actually normal and he went crazy.. go figure that???

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Something is also brewing in the pacific.


China’s most powerful military leader, in an unusual public statement, last week ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed islands and anti-Japan protests throughout the country turned violent.

Protests against the Japanese government’s purchase of three privately held islands in the Senkakus chain led to mass street protests, the burning of Japanese flags, and attacks on Japanese businesses and cars in several cities. Some carried signs that read “Kill all Japanese,” and “Fight to the Death” over disputed islands. One sign urged China to threaten a nuclear strike against Japan.


Gen. Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, considered the most senior military political commissar, said Friday that military forces should be “prepared for any possible military combat,” state run Xinhua news agency reported.

Heightened tensions over the Senkakus come as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in China Monday.

Panetta, in comments made in Japan shortly before traveling to China, said, “We are concerned by the demonstrations, and we are concerned by the conflict that is taking place over the Senkaku islands.”

“The message I have tried to convey is we have to urge calm and restraint on all sides,” he said, noting any “provocation” could produce a “blow up.”

Panetta repeated the U.S. position that it is neutral in the dispute over Japan’s Senkaku islands, a small chain of islets located south of Okinawa and north of Taiwan. But he also reaffirmed the U.S. defense commitment to Japan, a treaty ally.

“We stand by our treaty obligations,” Panetta said, echoing a similar commitment made during a 2010 standoff between Beijing and Tokyo over the Senkakus. ”They’re longstanding, and that has not changed.”

China claims the islands as its territory and calls them the Diaoyu islands.

Last week, following the Japanese government’s purchase of three of the Senkakus from private Japanese owners, six Chinese maritime security ships were deployed near the Senkaku islands, further heightening tensions.

Xu’s unusual comments followed reports in state-controlled Chinese media that opposed the Japanese government’s purchase of the three islands.

Xu said during a visit to military units near Taiyuan, in the northern province of Shanxi, “efforts should be made to ensure that the military is capable of resolutely performing its duty to safeguard the country’s national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity whenever it is needed by the Party and the people.”

A U.S. official said the PLA’s most senior political general rarely makes such direct appeals to troops to prepare for combat.

Panetta told reporters en route to Japan, the first stop on a three-nation visit to Asia, “The United States does not take a position with regards to territorial disputes.”

In 2010, then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates invoked the U.S.-Japan defense treaty when tensions between China and Japan increased over Tokyo’s arrest of a Chinese fishing captain who rammed his boat against a Japanese coast guard vessel in waters near the Senkakus. Gates said the United States would “fulfill our alliance responsibilities” toward Japan.

Japan’s Coast Guard announced on Sept. 14 that six Chinese maritime patrol vessels sailed into Japanese-controlled waters near the Senkakus and the vessels ignored Japanese warnings for the ships to leave the area.

Other reports from China on Monday showed a convoy of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels sailing toward the disputed islands.

The six Chinese ships entered Japanese waters near the island on Friday, and ignored Japanese coast guard orders for them to vacate what it said was its territorial waters.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed that six of its surveillance ships had entered the waters near the islands.

China’s aggressiveness in maritime disputes has garnered little attention in the presidential election campaign.

On Monday, President Obama criticized GOP nominee Mitt Romney for his attack on the administration for being soft on China through its weak response to China’s trade and currency policies.

The Chinese maritime warships near the Senkakus were reported last week by Xinhua as “routine patrols” near the islands to “assert the country’s sovereignty and protect fishermen.”

“The Diaoyou Islands and their affiliated islets have been China’s inherent territory since ancient times, and their surrounding waters are China’s traditional fishing ground,” the report said.

A classified Chinese government map from 1969 that was obtained by Japan’s government shows Beijing had labeled the islands as “Senkaku,” their Japanese name, and thus confirmed their control by Tokyo. The map, which was viewed by the Free Beacon, also had a dividing line south of the islands showing that they fall within Japanese territory.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R., Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during a hearing last week that China’s behavior toward regional states was tantamount to bullying.

“While the world’s attention was turned to other crises, including Iran’s nuclear program and concerns over the faltering Euro, China has upped the ante, playing the role of a schoolyard bully towards its maritime neighbors,” Ros-Lehtinen said.

“From one end to the other of the South China Sea, Beijing has increased both in belligerence and bellicosity.”

Ros-Lehtinen said the United States, through the Navy, will stand by friends and allies in the region.

The Florida Republican said China is seeking to control the South China Sea and other coastal waters and sealanes because they are “central to the Chinese communist mandarins’ aspirations to re-establish the Middle Kingdom as the dominant power in Asia.”

“Whoever controls these sea lanes can dominate Asia—and beyond—by choking off that commerce and oil shipments to the major stakeholders in the Asian economic miracle,” she said.

Chinese efforts to dominate the western Pacific are increasing the possibility of naval clashes, Ros-Lehtinen said.

“Other global crises must not distract from our vital national interests in the South China Sea and the western Pacific,” she said during a hearing.


http://freebeacon.com/chinese-general-prepare-for-combat/

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So we have naval buildup in the persian gulf, and the Chinese are going to start pushing around the Japanese. Man, sooner or later something is going to go and its going to get ugly.


Here is a photo of Chinas new stealth jet:

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"sooner or later" something always does cash.. it's in our DNA... that's one reason why cutting taxes is dumb.. Obma SHOULD raise taxes on everyone- rich and poor right?

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Well this isnt surprising:

(Reuters) - Iran has been using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against his government, according to a Western intelligence report seen by Reuters.

Earlier this month, U.S. officials said they were questioning Iraq about Iranian flights in Iraqi airspace suspected of ferrying arms to Assad, a staunch Iranian ally. On Wednesday, U.S. Senator John Kerry threatened to review U.S. aid to Baghdad if it does not halt such overflights.

Iraq says it does not allow the passage of any weapons through its airspace. But the intelligence report obtained by Reuters says Iranian weapons have been flowing into Syria via Iraq in large quantities. Such transfers, the report says, are organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

"This is part of a revised Iranian modus operandi that U.S. officials have only recently addressed publicly, following previous statements to the contrary," said the report, a copy of which was provided by a U.N. diplomatic source.

"It also flies in the face of declarations by Iraqi officials," it said. "Planes are flying from Iran to Syria via Iraq on an almost daily basis, carrying IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) personnel and tens of tons of weapons to arm the Syrian security forces and militias fighting against the rebels."

It added that Iran was also "continuing to assist the regime in Damascus by sending trucks overland via Iraq" to Syria.

Although the specific charges about Iraq allowing Iran to transfer arms to Damascus are not new, the intelligence report alleges that the extent of such shipments is far greater than has been publicly acknowledged, and much more systematic, thanks to an agreement between senior Iraqi and Iranian officials.

Ali al-Moussawi, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media adviser, dismissed the intelligence report.

"Iraq rejects baseless allegations that it allows Iran to use its airspace to ship arms to Syria," he said. "The prime minister has always called for a peaceful solution to the Syrian conflict and ... the need for a ban on any state interfering in Syria whether by sending arms or helping others to do so."

The issue of Iranian arms shipments to Syria came up repeatedly at a Senate hearing in Washington on Wednesday on the nomination of Robert Beecroft as the next U.S. ambassador to Baghdad. Beecroft is currently deputy chief of mission there.

John Kerry, the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked Beecroft what the embassy was doing to persuade the Iraqis to prevent Iran from using their airspace for flights carrying weapons to Syria. Beecroft said that he and other U.S. officials made clear to Iraq the flights must stop.

U.S. THREAT TO REVIEW AID

Kerry said he was alarmed that U.S. efforts thus far had not persuaded Baghdad to halt the overflights, and suggested that the United States could in future make some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance it gives to Iraq contingent on their cooperation on Syria.

"Maybe we should make some of our assistance or some of our support contingent on some kind of appropriate response," he said. "It just seems completely inappropriate that we're trying to help build democracy, support them, put American lives on the line, money into the country, and they're working against our interest so overtly."

The intelligence report, which Western diplomats said was credible and consistent with their information, said Iran had cut a deal with Iraq to use its airspace.

One envoy said it was possible that Tehran and Baghdad did not in fact have any formal agreement, but only an informal understanding not to raise questions about possible arms transfers to Syria.

In comments published by Iranian media on Sunday, IRGC commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said members of the force were providing non-military assistance in Syria and Lebanon. He added that Tehran might get involved militarily in Syria if its closest ally came under attack. A day later, however, Iran's Foreign Ministry denied those remarks.

Two Boeing 747 aircraft specifically mentioned in the intelligence report as being involved in Syria arms transfers - an Iran Air plane with the tail number EP-ICD and Mahan Air's EP-MNE - were among 117 aircraft hit with sanctions on Wednesday by the U.S. Treasury Department.

The Treasury Department also blacklisted aircraft operated by Iran's Yas Air for supplying Syria with weapons. A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions against Iran has repeatedly named Yas Air, along with Iran Air, as a supplier of arms to Syria.

The Treasury Department statement on the new blacklistings said the move would "make it easier for interested parties to keep track of this blocked property, and more difficult for Iran to use deceptive practices to try to evade sanctions."

The statement did not mention Iraq.

Earlier this year, the U.N. panel of experts recommended that Yas Air be put on the U.N. blacklist for helping Iran skirt a U.N. arms embargo. So far the Security Council has not taken any action on that recommendation.

The U.N. panel's reports have described Iranian arms shipments to Syria via Turkey, not Iraq.

The intelligence report said such transfers across Turkish airspace had ceased.

"Since Ankara adopted a firm position against Syria, and declared that it would intercept all weapons shipments sent to the Assad regime through Turkish territory or airspace, Tehran has all but completely stopped using this channel," it said.

Tehran is forbidden from selling weapons under a U.N. arms embargo, which is part of broader sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

Earlier this month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Syria's conflict had taken a brutal turn with other countries arming both sides, spreading misery and risking "unintended consequences as the fighting intensifies and spreads.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-syria-crisis-iran-iraq-idUSBRE88I17 B20120919

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cash, i predicted this type of collusion between Iran and Iraq in 2004 right here. it will get worse, musch worse as tuime goes on- remeber that Iran is a Shi'ite majority and so is (and was) the Iraqi majority,

this is why i threw away 'idealistic' notions by the time i was 16. The "idealistic" notion that we can "spread democracy" across the planet is childish.

Dictators run and ran these countries because the people actaully want them. Oh sure there's a always a few people we can come in and try to help temporarily, then they drift right back to what works for them.We have to recognise that and not waste money ans lives trying to change the unchangeable. Dealing with dictators is necessary when that's what the peopel actually choose for themselves- and they do...

these cultures were around and are more or less continuous since the settlers from Siberia paddled and sailed their kayaks made of seal skins down to tierra del fuego 12,000 years ago.. the history wasn't written down then, but we have nothing to offer these people that they haven't already discarded many times over...

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Iran Fires on U.S. Drone, Misses


WASHINGTON—Iranian fighter planes shot at an unarmed U.S. drone earlier this month, U.S. defense officials said Thursday.

An MQ-1 Predator drone flying 16 miles off the coast of Iran, in international waters, was fired upon by two Iranian fighter planes, both Su-25 fighters, George Little, the Pentagon press secretary, said.

The incident occurred on Nov. 1 at 4:15 a.m., eastern time. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and White House officials were notified of the incident soon after, early on Nov. 1.

Mr. Little said the incident wasn’t revealed publicly because the drone was on a deployment to conduct classified reconnaissance. Defense officials said politics didn’t play a role in keeping the incident quiet.

The fighter planes shot bursts of machine-gun fire at the drone, Mr. Little said. The planes fired at least two volleys. The drone didn’t appear to be hit by the gunfire, Mr. Little said, but added that the gunfire didn’t appear to be warning shots.

“Our working assumption is they fired to take it down,” said Mr. Little.

Mr. Little said the drone, after being fired upon, flew further out to sea and turned to return to base. The Iranian craft followed the drone for a period, eventually breaking off.

Mr. Little said this was the first time the Iranians had fired at a U.S. drone. In December 2011, the Iranians captured a stealth MQ-170 drone that went down inside Iran. U.S. officials said that drone crashed because of a mechanical issue and wasn’t shot down.


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