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sheikh radlinrol
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: Possible attack on Iran |
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Are TEFLERS in the Midddle East apprehensive about the possibility of a joint US/Israel attack on Iran? I�m not sure it�s going to happen but wouldn�t like to be in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia if it does. Mad dinner jacket has said allies of the Satans will be punished. What do you think? |
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Christian St.Bacon
Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 54
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:30 am Post subject: Choof CurlyWurly... |
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Having read this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17261265
don't think it will happen
if it did...........there goes my retirement plan
Homeless in Glasgow..
Legless in Bangkok..
Penniless in Tokyo..
NOT shukran very much
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:38 am Post subject: |
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After the success of military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan - onward to Teheran ! |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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The fundamental ignorance and arrogance of the Neocons never cease to amaze.
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Dear veiledsentiments,
"Cons" is SUCH as appropriate shortening, though, isn't it? .
Regards,
John |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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Our American cousins really should have listened to that advice from Ike about the Military Industrial Complex. And our own dear masters in London should have stuck to Harold Wilsons decision to withdraw doe "East of Suez" |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yup... Eisenhower was right...
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sharter
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 878 Location: All over the place
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:47 am Post subject: erm |
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The alternative was to do nothing.....yeah that's right innit? |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Dear sharter,
Yup - and then we would have all been destroyed by Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Oh, wait a minute . . . .
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John |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: erm |
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sharter wrote: |
The alternative was to do nothing.....yeah that's right innit? |
Exactly...
Or at least do something related to the problem. Afghanistan was probably inevitable, but most Americans seem to think we were attacked by the taliban, and of course, we were not. So, let's punish a whole country for the actions of Saudi expat and his minions...
And I suspect that American imperialism will die of bankruptcy there just as the USSR did. What is that old saying? Those that don't know history are doomed to repeat it...
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2buckets
Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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IIRC, Saddam had, and used poison gas on the Kurds in Halabja.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack
He also used against the Iranians in his dustup with them.
So, isn't poison gas a WMD?
During Gulf War I, we sat on top of a hangar in the Eastern Province of the KOSA, drinking Sid, and watching the Scud Missiles arcing into the area. We had our gas masks and protective suits at the ready, but were a bit concerned about what was in those scuds.
It was a fireworks show that even HESN would have loved. (If he hadn't scurried off in the night to Paris or Geneva with the rest of the other cockroach Sheiks and Princes from the Gulf countries). |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Dear 2buckets,
I was in Riyadh when we got Scudded. Did you put on your gas mask? I can;t recall anyone ever doing so when we were up on the roof watching the fireworks.
"Small number of degraded chemical weapons recovered
On June 21, 2006 the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released key points from a classified report from the National Ground Intelligence Center on the recovery of chemical munitions in Iraq. The report stated that "Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent." However, all are thought to be pre-Gulf War munitions.
These munitions meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, according to the commander of the National Ground Intelligence Center. "These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes ... they do constitute weapons of mass destruction," Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee. The munitions addressed in the report were produced in the 1980s, Maples said. Badly corroded, they could not currently be used as originally intended, though agent remaining in the weapons would be very valuable to terrorists and insurgents, Maples said."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
"Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq."
http://www.salon.com/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/
Now, North Korea - there's a nation with WMDs AND the ability to send them more than a few hundred miles.
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:58 am Post subject: |
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I was in Jeddah when Scuds hit Riyadh. Direct hire employees got gas masks. Those working fpr contracting firms did not ! |
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Cool Teacher
Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 930 Location: Here, There and Everywhere! :D
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
After the success of military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan - onward to Teheran ! |
Ha ha ha ha!
Actually it is a bit not funny too... |
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