That is my assumption. I don't get the Iranians - they are like American apocalyptos, they seem to think if they can get the Israelis to attack them their Imam will return. They are making it impossible for the Israelis to NOT attack them.
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Iranians are Nationalists, no matter how much they may despise their present leadership. The Mullah's Kleptocracy has at most 15-20% popular support and will brutally suppress any dissent, which there is no shortage of. To divert attention away from internal problems is nothing new. Jane Kokon on her PBS Frontline report "Forbidden Iran" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Dec29.html
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I think it is inevitable and we better prepare ourselves for it. I would support Israel 100%. If only we had had a case like theirs for preemptive action - a threat by the leader of Iran to wipe the Jews off the face of the Earth, direct support of Hezbollah in their attacks on Israel. Unlike us, who have to make up lies to invade people, Israel has a solid case.
And I thought you said in your other thread that no one can predict the stock market or the price of gold? What about with your prediction above, can you predict the price of oil, gold, silver and inflation if your prediction above is true?
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That is my assumption. I don't get the Iranians - they are like American apocalyptos, they seem to think if they can get the Israelis to attack them their Imam will return. They are making it impossible for the Israelis to NOT attack them.
I don't get the 'Iranian's' does not apply, the 'Iranian leadership' does. The Country has no semblance to a Democracy and the opinion of the people have little in common with the Goverment's.
Iranians are Nationalists, no matter how much they may despise their present leadership. The Mullah's Kleptocracy has at most 15-20% popular support and will brutally suppress any dissent, which there is no shortage of. To divert attention away from internal problems is nothing new. Jane Kokon on her PBS Frontline report "Forbidden Iran" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Dec29.html
Yes, I agree. They are the bad guys. If the US had not been run by dreaming fascists, we should have invaded them instead of Iraq. Instead, the Bushites, who delude us into thinking opposing the GOP fascist wing aids the terrorists, have done everything wrong, leading to Iran being the big winner as they emerge as the Terrorist Superpower. Iran is the embodiment of the greatest threat to the US: a terrorist state with a nuclear weapon led by men who would be suicide bombers on a massive scale if given the chance. Bush has now made it politically impossible to deal with them. On Sept 12, 2001 we should have nuked the Al-queda camps in Afghanistan and the nuclear facilties of Iran. The only thing to have been done in Iraq would have been to turn and ask them if they wanted some next.
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Of course it does, but at the same time, I am struck by the possibility that Iran might be our strongest ally in the region today had we not meddled in their internal affairs back in the '50s. We seem to have a way of creating our own messes.
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Of course it does, but at the same time, I am struck by the possibility that Iran might be our strongest ally in the region today had we not meddled in their internal affairs back in the '50s. We seem to have a way of creating our own messes.
This is true and too be honest I do not know what we did before I was born but I do know no one is perfect and we all have to live and someimes pay for our mistakes we made in our past. as for the mid-term election mistakes, I believe we will all pay for that for a long time coming.
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