Iran threatens to destroy Tel Aviv, Haifa if Israel attacks

Supreme leader's website via EPA

Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pictured Wednesday.

DUBAI — Iran's most powerful authority said the Islamic Republic would destroy the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if Israel launched a military attack against it.

"At times the officials of the Zionist regime (Israel) threaten to launch a military invasion, but they  themselves know that if they make the slightest mistake the Islamic Republic will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during an address, broadcast live on state television.


Israel has threatened military action against Iran unless it abandons nuclear activities which the West suspects are intended to develop nuclear weapons, allegations Tehran denies.

Khamenei said he was not optimistic about proposals for direct talks with the United States about the nuclear program, saying Washington did not want the issues resolved.

"I am not optimistic about these talks. Why? Because our past experiences show that talks for American officials does not mean for us to sit down and reach a logical solution," he said.

"What they mean by talks is that we sit down and talk until Iran accepts their viewpoint," he said.

Related:

Israel to grill Obama over possible military strike on Iran

Netanyahu says nuclear talks buy Iran time to build the bomb

Obama in West Bank: Palestinians 'deserve a state of their own'

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tired of this bs rhetoric I say bring it on lets do Iran and North Korea at the same time then we can nation build once more

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#1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:19 AM EDT

We'll be nation building Iran and North Korea. We do that.

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#1.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:32 AM EDT

Why bother with the nation building part, just leave a smoking hole and be done with it. Between the complete instability of Kim Jong Un and the fanaticism of the Iranian Ayatollah, the world is a very scary place right now. I have a suspicion that the latest nuclear test in North Korea was done for the Iranians. I think they either tested an Iranian design that was built in North Korea or the Iranians actually built it and smuggled it to North Korea to put the core in and test it. Even if this is not the case, do not think that the Iranians are more than a year from having a working weapon unless action is taken to stop them. If Iran actually succeeds in getting a weapon, which is looking more and more likely with Obama's refusal to commit to doing anything about it, it will only be a matter of time before one gets used. I do not know if it will be fanatical Ayatollah trying to take out Israel or the lunatic Kim trying to make good on his threats towards the US and South Korea, but one of these crazies may just detonate one in a populated area.

  • 88 votes
#1.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:35 AM EDT

JS in SD - I agree with your post. The two appear to be in cahoots.

  • 34 votes
#1.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:44 AM EDT
Comment author avatarSallyAnn-4595694Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

@Js in SD

Why does the US have to do anything about Iran? They aren't a neighboring country, and Israel is a big boy now, they have their own nukes. Let Israel take on Iran, then if Israel needs help, we help them with weapons, and supplies.

Not one American serviceman/woman should be involved in that mess. If Israel wants to throw their weight around, well let them carry out their threats. They want us to die for Israel, and to that I say BS. Let the Israel's' soldiers die for their country, not our soldiers!

But as a typical lap dog of the CHICKEN HAWKS, you won't go, just your neighbors kids, right? Don't you ever get tired of war? Most informed people are tired of wars that aren't necessary. And when Russia and China step in on Iran's side, then what?

Care to explain that, you arm chair general? That is, if you can.

  • 74 votes
#1.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:58 AM EDT
Comment author avatarUSAF RET-3995245Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Sallyann the troll said what?

  • 54 votes
#1.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:03 AM EDT

SallyAnn,

The answer to your question is US MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. Down to brass tacks, the truth is that war is and always has been extremely profitable to our corporations and government for pretty much our entire history. Having said that;

This guy is almost as detached as Kim Jong Crazy. We'll trade two Isreali cities for your country dip$hit! Because if you do that, odds are pretty high that pretty much all of your nations cities will be "razed to the ground" by us....for profit even..lol.

I can't wait till this thing really pops off so wee get the honor of silencing these two piles of excrement..

  • 18 votes
#1.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:05 AM EDT

SallyAnn: " They want us to die for Israel, and to that I say BS. Let the Israel's' soldiers die for their country, not our soldiers!" No american soldier ever fought in any Israeli war except those who volunteered to do so. For example:

http://www.flyingtigerline.org/Memoriam/wayne_peake.htm

Israel also stressed repeatedly that they would never accept foreign boots on the ground. Please support your outlandish claims with links to reputable sources.

  • 37 votes
#1.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:11 AM EDT

Do you think Americans will not be impacted by Iran's hate?

Iran is friendly with Venezuela and 11 million illegal immigrants have shown how weak the southern border of the U.S. is. You are foolhardy to think this is only an Israeli problem, infidel.

  • 62 votes
#1.8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:16 AM EDT

Iran will get the Boom Boom Boom and see how sand is made into glass!

  • 18 votes
#1.9 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:23 AM EDT

Yeah???

Well, here's a little kiss!!!

http://www.khirman.com/node/50

(good gravy that ayatollah is as ugly as he is bat@!$%# crazy!!!)

  • 14 votes
#1.10 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:43 AM EDT
Comment author avatarSwan37Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

How dare they threaten to strike back if attacked. Israel can wage it's own war. If they start a war we shouldn't put one cent into it. Iran hasn't stated a war in almost 200 years and I haven't seen an proof they are building a bomb. I guess you people get bored when we aren't bombing someone.

  • 26 votes
#1.11 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:45 AM EDT
Comment author avatarDissociateExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I agree with Iran. If Israel throws a sucker punch then it deserves to get punched right back.

  • 22 votes
#1.12 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:47 AM EDT
Comment author avatarya-su-ma-lockaExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Did we really think the President was going to go Israel and Iran was not going to talk Smack. Iran knows the President will do nothing except be open to seat down a talk, talk, talk.

Israel this President does not have your back.

  • 43 votes
#1.13 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:47 AM EDT

@the same damn time

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#1.14 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:48 AM EDT
Comment author avatarDissociateExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Iran will get the Boom Boom Boom and see how sand is made into glass!

Words from a retard.

  • 34 votes
#1.15 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:49 AM EDT
Comment author avatarWicked WandaExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Stupid Sally...this country was founded behind a war, this country has always represented support for the down trodden, this country represents freedom for the world against dictators and tyrants. Do you not remember the Holocost??? Before you shoot off your totally uneducated mouth, you need to look around yourself....ever heard of long range missles...Japan was not our neighbor yet we dropped two atomic bombs on them.. You can bet your dumb a$$ if these two countries are threating any country, our country could and will be next....please crawl back into whatever hole you came out of.

  • 42 votes
#1.16 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:50 AM EDT
Comment author avatarldoExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Mr. Obama has some serious International problems to deal with.

Wait a minute.....he continues to lead from behind. Maybe this administration thinks that if they ignore Iran and North Korea they will just go away like a pesky FLY.

Anyway, Iran would be given advance notice on what Israel intends to do. Seems there is a LEAK somewhere in this administration.

Case-in-points:

1. Doctor who turned in whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.

2. Information to Follywood for making "Zero Dark Thirty".

3. Double Yemeni agent.

4. Airfield Israel was supposed to use for an Iranian attack.

And this information was released PRIOR to the Presidential election.

  • 13 votes
#1.17 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:50 AM EDT
Comment author avatarstarsailingExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I remember the good ol days....when cranky old farts used to just shout..."Get off my lawn!!"

Perhaps a little more ketchup in his diet will help.

Invitation open to Ali guy to stop by the Chatterbox Cafe for a free piece of BeBop a ReBop Rhubarbarb pie. Yes nothing like a piece of Rhubarb pie to rid the taste of humiliation from your mouth. Free BeBop T-shirt and baseball cap if you negotiate peace between all.

  • 12 votes
#1.18 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:55 AM EDT

Hey Swan...better get your facts straight...Iran has been fighting Iraq for 200 years....Iran has always been a thorn in the side of peace and has never respected the rights of the rest of the world to live in peace. They are now and always will be extremist who kill. If you don't believe that, why don't you just hop over there and see what they will do to your infindel self...jerk

  • 36 votes
#1.19 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:55 AM EDT
Comment author avatarmark-1751582Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Let Israel handle the matter. Not one American life is worth the risk in our attacking Iran.

  • 19 votes
#1.20 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:57 AM EDT

chefaz,

"(good gravy that ayatollah is as ugly as he is bat@!$%# crazy!!!)"

It's gotta be all that inbreeding up in those hills. Isn't this guy supposedly a direct descendant of Mohamed? ...wonder what that guy looked like.

Mark,

I suppose we should just wait until they make their way across the ocean first....after everybody who isn't muslim over there is dead of course. Isreal is where it starts, not where it would end. I suggest a world history class for you with an emphasis on conquest and war.

  • 14 votes
#1.21 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:00 PM EDT

The Supreme POS ...er...uh...Commander is lying. If Iran had the capability to level Israeli cities, they would already have done it.

  • 15 votes
#1.22 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:01 PM EDT

@ wicked wanda

"Iran has been fighting Iraq for 200 years . . . better get your facts straight."

Odd, since neither country even existed under those names until after WW1 ended in 1918. Glad that the uneducated among us push for war.

  • 15 votes
#1.23 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:04 PM EDT

Hey Swan...better get your facts straight...Iran has been fighting Iraq for 200 years....Iran has always been a thorn in the side of peace and has never respected the rights of the rest of the world to live in peace.

Stop lying. Anybody can wiki the Iran Iraq war. Iraq attacked Iran so go sell your BS to someone else.

  • 10 votes
#1.24 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:06 PM EDT

Troy. Is that the way you always think? Are you saying that the lives of the peoples in those regions are worth a single American life. Please give a yes or no answer.

  • 4 votes
#1.25 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:07 PM EDT

Peace plan....maybe someone could arrange a simple game of dodgeball instead of going to war. After that maybe all could take a walk down by the lake/oasis and perhaps get some ice cream and talk things over...?

  • 8 votes
#1.26 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:10 PM EDT

ldo

Mr. Obama has some serious International problems to deal with.

Wait a minute.....he continues to lead from behind. Maybe this administration thinks that if they ignore Iran and North Korea they will just go away like a pesky FLY.

Sooooo what would be your solution eh? He's doing everything but bombing the @!$%# out of them, so I assume that's what you want to happen. Of course the minute he attacks you'll jump on here screaming about his warmongering. Please share your insight with us, Ido(n't have a clue).

  • 13 votes
#1.27 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:16 PM EDT

If the Israelis have a problem with Iran...by all means let the Israelis deal with it, but let them deal with it alone. The Israelis want to get the U.S. involved in another war of theirs....Keep our men and women home. We are tiered of loosing our young lives, fighting senseless wars...If the united states can afford fighting wars, lets have a war against drugs and poverty, lets help the homeless and the needy...

  • 9 votes
#1.28 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:17 PM EDT

The diplomacy seems to be working.

  • 2 votes
#1.29 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:24 PM EDT
Comment author avatarstarsailingExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Chris........IDO and his republicon cronies always have a plan......War profits at any cost and hiding them in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes....and blocking any attempt to end their sweet deal.

Notice something?.......Voters rejected their plan and Romney to be able to be the people to negoitate peace plan ....anywhere.....soundly rejected their meddling ways. That says it all to every rt winger posting rt wing views on this blog.....You are not in the game plan. The American people have spoken......BYE BYE!

  • 12 votes
#1.30 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:26 PM EDT

"but they themselves know that if they make the slightest mistake the Islamic Republic will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground,'' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during an address"

This tenth century desert Shiite Islamic pig leader Ayatollah and his team are some of the biggest shameless cowards history has seen!

They should save their fellow Assad in Syria and Shiites in Iraq before barking their usual rants.

The way they have been barking, Israel should have been long out of map!

  • 7 votes
#1.31 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:32 PM EDT

Israel is surrounded by Islamic nations. Nations that are cowards, Israel is right there, but instead of attacking Israel they use suicide bombers. I say let's turn our backs and let Israel do what they want, let them invade Iran and Palestine. Just don't ask us for our soldiers, they've been through enough.

  • 8 votes
#1.32 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:32 PM EDT

When we should have been concentrating on North Korea and Iran, we went to war in Iraq. There was never a reason. Not a real one anyway. Our fiasco in the Middle East started with the first George Bush and was made worse by the second George Bush. Whatever stature we had in the Islamic world, they destroyed, personally. We are now trying to get back in the game and clean up a mess that is beyond cleaning. The only solution is to start feeding people and stop bombing them! They may just see a different side of the US. The Military Industrial Complex can be used for other things besides war, both here and abroad.

  • 10 votes
#1.33 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:33 PM EDT

is it going to take iran to put a nuke in a ship and goodbye to New York harbor before people understand they will not stop ! Belive me I hate war and what happens , please look at at what iran has done from theaten the lives of writers < offer money for murder on their national tv > to the biggest supporter of terrorist activity since the PLO went straight and are working towards getting a country of their own. When I get back to the U.S. I dream of just sitting down on the grass and watching a river flow .

  • 13 votes
#1.34 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:36 PM EDT

Mark,

YES YES YES YES YES....in case I didn't pretty much imply that notion!

Isreal is worth protecting at all costs. That is indeed what I believe. It is ground zero...

Or we can go back to an isolationist neanderthal mentality and just sit around until one of these goonish nations kills thousands of our own people....THEN attack...that way even more American lives have to be sacrificed to push back the slobbering horde of muslim barbarians.

Sounds like a good idea, 'cept for the relatives of the thousands who will die....oh wait, that happened recently didn't it. Yeah, we should go back to the good ol' days...where we lose tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands even, of our American soldiers because we didn't act when we see it coming from a mile away. Iran is and will always be a threat to the security of this nation and anybody else who disagrees with their religious fanaticism...all muslim nations are. You think these people will ever give a $hit who you are when they slit your thoat? All they care is that you are not muslim. The only thing holding them back from world conquest is the lack of resourse to achieve that end....so YES!

Chefaz,

I love the "motivational" poster....laughed at my desk! I'd print and hang it at work if I could.

  • 12 votes
#1.35 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:37 PM EDT

Hey Troy!!!

Isn't this guy supposedly a direct descendant of Mohamed? ...wonder what that guy looked like.

Doubtful this guy is a direct descendent of Moe since Moe was born in Mecca but who knows??? The Quran gives a description of him but there are no images per islamic laws.

I love the "motivational" poster

Originally sent to me by a dear friend who is now deceased. I miss her terribly and think that she would approve of my use of the poster.

  • 5 votes
#1.36 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:39 PM EDT

This guy has to know that if he does that his nation will be turned into a glass parking lot

note to posters allow comments to be madeby posting and allowing vote

  • 1 vote
#1.37 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:47 PM EDT

Troy let me answer my own question to you.

Yes American lives are worth the risk to prevent tragedies. It's just that the way we go about evaluating tragedies is filled with irony. When genocide was taking place in the Balkans, American might was grossly delayed in stamping it out. Republicans who have no moral compass and no political principle other than disagreeing with the opposition party were against any action to stop the genocide. Republicans specifically said that not a single American life should be risked to stamp out genocide where hundreds of thousands of humans could be murdered. Any soldier's life that was lost would make Bill Clinton culpable for his courageous but admittedly belated stand against genocide.

If American lives are worth sacrificing, then why do we regard Palestinian lives as worthless? Israel has had a policy of stealing Palestinian land for its entire existence, and subjecting Palestinians to inhumane treatment, and then Americans whine when a small minority of Palestinians become terrorists. American immorality concerning Palestinians may be the biggest factor in the rage that many of the Islamic countries direct towards the US.

Why didn't America regard the overthrow of Iran's democratically and pro western government as a tragedy? Oh that's right because America and Britain are the ones doing the overthrowing and the ones who installed the Shaw of Iran, just because Iran wanted a fair share of the profits for the oil that was being extracted from their lands. Americana's own actions directly led to the eventual takeover of Iran by radical Shiites. Now America is whining because Iran may finally obtain the ability to fully protect itself from outside influence.

Maybe Iran needs to be stopped, but it's an Iran of America's making that needs to be stopped.

  • 6 votes
#1.38 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:51 PM EDT
Comment author avatarWicked WandaExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Starsailing....don't count your chickens just yet...or haven't you noticed the winds of change blowing in this country...the majority of the people did not vote for your prescious OhmyGodbama. Only the hevily populated cities with the most electorial votes voted him in. The rest of the country voted against him. If we manage to survive his policies another 2 & 1/2 years there will be a major change dude and you will be singing out the other side of your mouth. 2014 will wake even the Dumocrats and left over chickenwingers up. Cause that's when all hades is going to break loose. That's when the taxes that aren't taxes, but fines, but are really taxes (depending on where he was in the campaign time line) are coming to frutation. And all of you baa baa's will pay through the nose just like rest of us...

  • 7 votes
#1.39 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:53 PM EDT

Swan37

"I haven't seen an proof they are building a bomb. I beg to differ with you on the above statement"

I beg to differ with you on your statement above, cause if they were not building weapons of mass destruction then why won't they let the UN Inspectors in at anytime to inspect there facilities. That would be the best way to get the US, Israel and the UN of there butt.

  • 13 votes
#1.40 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:53 PM EDT

Just NUKE the little bastard (NK) and somewhat taller brother's (IRAN). And, let GOD deal with it, by sending them both down the elevator to HELL.

'nuff said, thank u very much.

  • 3 votes
#1.41 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:54 PM EDT

Chefaz,

It's wallpaper on my laptop at home for a bit for sure....lol.

Sorry about your friend. You wouldn't miss her if you hadn't enjoyed sharing time together though. Bitter sweet no doubt but I'd take bittersweet over plain bitter any day of the week.

Mark,

I forgot to add that since we are in the biz of acting in a forward thinking fashion since after 9/11 the rate at which we loose soldiers has diminished drastically. In the days of WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, we losts tens of thousands of American lives....we are loosing only a small fraction of the numbers we lost in the days we simply "reacted" to national threats.

  • 3 votes
#1.42 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:55 PM EDT

I think Israel is asking for a grass parking lot, warmonger nation !!!

  • 5 votes
#1.43 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:55 PM EDT

When did Israel ask for help from American soldiers??? Am I missing something? I don't think so... Israel is able to defend herself, always has, always will ... it's the bleeding hearts who keep stopping them from destroying terrorist countries such as iran... Israel has been too soft of them, and that needs to stop.

Again, to all those who say "If it's Israels problem they should handle it themselves, leave American soldiers out of it"... they don't ask for boots on the ground... you're safe behind your computer screen in your lazy-boy...so chill the heck out

  • 13 votes
#1.44 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:56 PM EDT

This jack-azz, and the other schmuck from North Korea are just begging for beatin'.

  • 7 votes
#1.45 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:57 PM EDT
Comment author avatarmark-1751582Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

And troy if we should protect Israel at all costs, is that a geopolitical or a moral judgement? What about a moral judgement for the Palestinians? Israel did some terrorizing of the own by killing women and children to force the Palestinians off their land. 70 years later, the Palestinians still do not have a state in their own homeland.

  • 6 votes
#1.46 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:57 PM EDT

“What they mean by talks is that we sit down and talk until Iran accepts their viewpoint," he said.

I agree Ayatollah. We have become a bully with no end in sight. This is well supported by the comments above stating, "we'll turn you to glass," and others. You can't have nuclear power, nor weapons because the bully says so.

Why do we, as a country, continue to want to throw our soldiers into harm's way? Certainly wish we were smaller so that more people would place value on each soldier's life.

  • 6 votes
#1.47 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:01 PM EDT

Agnomad74....so I didn't use Babalyon or Persia...get over it. Iran has always hated Irag and thats a fact. They are two different sects within Islam who hate each other and have for 2000 years...Read up on some ancient history.

  • 3 votes
#1.48 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:06 PM EDT

this is the time/day/era, that ALL NATIONS behave Like Children. too destroy Lives/families is TRULY EVIL. when Powers display; ACTS of hate/evil & power attributes, they show the worst of their inner core of their SOUL. Holy People do not behave this way. Worldly attitudes should be more MATURE & positive for a better mankind, for everyone. WAR IS MURDER, all said & DONE...........

  • 1 vote
#1.49 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:06 PM EDT

Mark,

"Yes American lives are worth the risk to prevent tragedies. It's just that the way we go about evaluating tragedies is filled with irony. When genocide was taking place in the Balkans, American might was grossly delayed in stamping it out."

Sounds harsh to say but genocide in the Balkins wasn't anywhere close to a threat to our national security. A nation who freely and openly states that it wants to wipe our allies off the world map....well IS.

Palestinians, in my view, represent not much more than a well organized group of terrorists and don't possess the means to inflict catastrophic damage onto our nation as a whole...so no national threat there.

Look, viewed in a fundamental nature, regardless of our alliance with Isreal, Iran represents a threat that we will either deal with now or later...now, with minimal cost of American lives, or later, when they are stronger, and with a much greater cost of American lives.

On the topic of Iran; it is not the Iran of history. It is a Persian nation that has been highjacked by muslim extremists....which by their (muslims) religious ideology and fanaticism are untrustworthy suicidal maniacs who don't care who they kill for any reason and have the potential to develop the capacity and aquire the resources to inflict much greater damage to our nation than a hodgepodge group of loosely affiliated tribes wandering around in Isreals back yard.

I vote for now.

natawa,

I agree with your assesment. At the end of the day I also think we should stand with Isreal as our ally should they ever need the help....which they dont. They have the best trained most capable military in the world. History certainly shows that they will not be so easily bested.

Chefaz had a link to a motivational moster somewhere above that best describes modern day Isreali prowess. Love it too!

  • 5 votes
#1.50 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:08 PM EDT

We have become a bully Nation with no end insight, well you can thank the warmonger GOP for that, vote for Republican you get War and debt, just ask GWB !!!

  • 9 votes
#1.51 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:09 PM EDT

Any country that is attacked should be expected to hit back, if able. This is no surprise. Nor is it new for Iran to threaten Israel. So where is the "news" story here? MSN, quit rabble rousing!

  • 3 votes
#1.52 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:10 PM EDT

I love how all the internet trolls are so brave with other people's money and kids' lives, not to mention the nonchalance with which these chicken hawks are willing to kill millions of innocent people with.

Yes, lets bomb some sovereign nation into a smoldering crater. I'm sure there won't be any long term repercussions for that; no, we've never experienced any blowback for being belligerent hegemonic a-holes stuffing our noses into every one's business.

Frankly, Israel needs a little azz kicking. Between its harsh occupation and segregation of Palestinians and its forced sterilization of Ethiopian Jews the region kinda deserves its payback. And if Israel is going to play the role of Middle Eastern hegemon its gotta put on its big boy pants and take that azz kicking coming like the grown up state it pretends to be. You want to help them out? You spend that $6 trillion dollars it will take to be mired in that conflict for the next 10 years out your own damn pocket; the next few trillion dollars coming out this country's coffers should be going to de-stupidfying the American population.

  • 8 votes
#1.53 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:17 PM EDT

the Palestinians still do not have a state in their own homeland.

Kidding, right??? A two state option was proposed back in the 40's. It was refused and in 1948, Israel was promptly attacked upon it's birth. We all know the results of that war.

Why don't the surrounding countries help the residents of Gaza, West Bank??? These people are only supplied with terrorism materials against Israel. When the people that call themselves Palestinians try to migrate to the surrounding countries, such as Jordan, Egypt or Lebanon, they are not treated with kindness. They are grossly mistreated. In Israel, these people have the same rights as anyone else and Israel supplies these areas with food and free medical care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca48ocpFBiE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcu5649nUU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gzyeo1Z1I4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyhuqthF2UM

http://theisraelconnection.blogspot.com/2008/09/origin-of-name-palestine-truth-is.html

  • 9 votes
#1.54 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:18 PM EDT

Mark,

Geopolitical. Fundamentally, Isreal represents a buffer between us and the slobbering muslim hordes of the middle east. And also offers a forward operating base if we have to go wholesale war over there. Also, for me as a Christian, it is a matter of protecting the Holy Land for all peoplses. Isreal represents much to many people...and is worth fighting to protect it from slobbering barbarians who want, at their very core, to simply erase all that is not representative of their culture from it's surface....which they will indeed do.

Much like post war Germany did for us as a buffer for containing Soviet communism from leaching further west than it did.

  • 7 votes
#1.55 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:21 PM EDT
Comment author avatarunoitallExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Will they please do it now while you know who is there!!

Seaskip: If libtards are so progressive why do they continue to bring up the past....talk about going "backwards"...sheesh!!

  • 6 votes
#1.56 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:24 PM EDT

Yes troy that's what I thought you might say. The fact that Israelis where the original terrorists against the Palestinians has no moral significance to you despite the fact that Palestinian terrorism against Israel directly caused by Israel cruelty is morally significant to you. Nice to know you have a geopolitical rather than a moral compass.

Muslim extremists were able to hijack Iran only because America and Britain allowed them the opportunity by overthrowing a democratically elected secular government. Troy, secular means that the overthrown government of Iran was not Islamic.

Anyone with a sense of decency would have a hard time swallowing what you said about the Balkans. Lets be clear. You said that preventing the murder of possibly hundreds of thousands of people was not worth one American life.

  • 2 votes
#1.57 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:25 PM EDT

I sense a great deal of racism on here but, then again I see a great deal of racism in the country as well.
American right wingers are racists toward Mexicans, Blacks and anything that looks brown.
What is odd about the whole thing is the fact that even after being told that your attitudes are racist, most of you continue to express racist remarks.
Haven't you guys done enough killing, enslaving, oppressing, lying and stealing????
Then once you get everything you need, you call everyone else evil for trying to take back what doesn't belong to you in the first place????

Not all whites but the majority on the right have a "SICK MENTALITY" passed down by your ancestors.
Confront your current racist attitudes before calling others evil,
or else shut up already!!!!

I can name a number of issues where the racist attitudes are institutionalized over here in this country.
You won't hire blacks where the pay is good.
All white colleges get the majority of the money while the black colleges are third world colleges in this country.
You lock all black men up for trying to survive even though they can't take care of their families.
You are racist towards Mexicans.
LAPD is racist.
Governors suppress the black vote in many states.
Lawmakers here create laws targeting minorities and look to imprison them for free labor (slavery).
Your media make blacks the fall guy for evils that whites get away with.
And the list goes on and on.
Even uneducated whites get jobs before highly educated blacks. Then you call blacks lazy even though you won't hire them.
Look at Silicon Valley and the number of blacks hired there.
.00001%.

If Iran view you like we view you then, they may need to get a weapon because you guys will eventually kill them for their oil like you allowed your past President George W. kill those in Iraq for oil.

KILL, KILL, KILL!!!
Then you think you have a right to have guns but, Iran don't???
You people are some hypocrites!!!

Evil, Evil, Evil!!!!

  • 1 vote
#1.58 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:31 PM EDT

Thanks Troy. It just really frustrates me when some folks make it seems as if Israel is asking for on-the-ground help, when they're not. Israelis, more than anyone, understand what US has been going through in the last decade or so...they too lost lots of soldiers, their brothers, sisters, fathers, etc. fighting against terrorism. They don't want anymore soldiers dying as much as we don't.

  • 7 votes
#1.59 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:31 PM EDT

Hummmmmmmmmmmm "What happens if you have a war and nobody comes" I think I'll skip this one!

Why don't all "War Supporters" put your feet where your mouth is .. and pack your little bags up and take yourselves to it .. do the fighting instead of "dissing" the president because he doesn't want to commit this nation into another war? You just want to drag others in to do your fighting for you ... let others that don't share the same religious faith ..die for your faith ...

It's amazing that a nation that has been committed to religious tolerance for over 200 years has been drawn into a pissing contest by a small, theocratic, disingenuous,non significant religious state, Israel, that has no intent of making or keeping peace in the region... because its not in their REAL interest. If they make peace, allow the all citizens of Israel equal rights (Palestinians included) the jews will loose their hold on the nation in less than twenty five years! Jews in Israel, to maintain power, have to rid themselves of the Palestinians to keep the theocracy from being overrun by the shear birth rate numbers.

Quit the disingenuous BS ... and if you want to kill off this group of people and war with your neighbors go to it! BUT leave this nation out of your actions .. and bear the brunt of of the consequences yourself... It's your problem ..not the people of the US, We have paid enough for supporting your cause for the past fifty years.

One can only wonder what the thoughts would be if the WASPs in the United States followed the same policy as the Israelis?

All you armchair warriors are either puppets or fools ... talk is cheap when your sending others to battle .. till your in the hell of it or the personal destructive cost become so high you realize the foolhardiness of the conflict.

  • 5 votes
#1.60 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:38 PM EDT

Give the State of Texas to the Palestinians !!!

  • 6 votes
#1.61 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:39 PM EDT

It's Isreal terrorizing the Palestinians!!!
Like I said after taking what doesn't belong to you and feeling retaliation from those who it actually belong to you scream terrorism and yet you are the actual terrorists!!!!!

  • 5 votes
#1.62 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:42 PM EDT

Wicked Wanda,

What's the matter? You seem all bound up. Are the batteries in your pocket rocket running low?

  • 3 votes
#1.63 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:57 PM EDT

Mark,

Good sense geopolitical tactics will always protect ALL of our people in this country much better than a good moral compass.

Good moral compass = makes you feel good, accomplishes very little, inefficient, costs lots of money

Good handle on geopolitical tactics = national security, minimal lose of American lives, efficient, costs less money

If viewed in a somewhat scaled down sense I see it as;

Probably not good in a moral sense to kill a killer, but if you are interested in saving lives, killing the killer would most certainly achieve that end.

Also, I said genocide in the balkins did not represent a national threat.

Geopolitical tactics...then, if you will, moral compass.

The other way around simply makes you feel good until your throat is slit!

  • 2 votes
#1.64 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:10 PM EDT

So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

  • 3 votes
#1.65 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:17 PM EDT

Iran and the other Muslim nations killed or pushed out most of the Christians that in some cases were living there before there were Muslims.

Through immigration and a high birthrate, Muslims have grown to 25% of the population of France and are now controlling much of Spain.

Once Iran has a nuclear bomb, it is doubtful that Israel will be in existence within another year or two.

So with Israel gone and major parts of Europe being controlled by The Nation of Islam, do any of you really believe this is not going to affect the U.S.?

Is it war mongering or self preservation to want to stop the problem before they stop us?

  • 3 votes
#1.66 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:34 PM EDT

bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran, bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb iraaaaan (with nukes)

    #1.67 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:35 PM EDT

    jarmoush,

    ' "how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?"

    Sounds like your moral compass, in the event of global domination by slobbering hordes of muslim extremists, will probably get you, and possibly many others around you, killed one day..

    zac2000....a voice of reason finally! refreshing....

    Our fellow brothers and sisters think that these people share their multicultural ideology...extreme miscalculation. These people want you to die....so much that they are willing to align themselves with the portions of you ignorant enough to be compassionate to their cause in order to take out whoever they can...no worries, they will come for you later. It is honorable that people embrace multiculturalism but those who do need to recognize that there are those who don't. And muslims openly reject it at all times!

    • 5 votes
    #1.68 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:38 PM EDT

    Who ever attacks 1st we should join sides against them. Period. Even if its Israel.

    • 3 votes
    #1.69 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:17 PM EDT

    He's just jealous because baby Kim is getting all the attention.

    • 4 votes
    #1.70 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:25 PM EDT

    How about we wipe out the Iranian people and re-name that country Palestine?

    Problem solved right? I should call the white House with this idea!

    • 2 votes
    #1.71 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:29 PM EDT

    Well wouldn't most countries threaten to do the same if they were attacked? At least they are not threatening to do this "preemptively," and hopefully they are smarter than that!

    Revenge attacks trigger revenge attacks trigger revenge attacks and on and on, especially in the Middle East, a never-ending vicious cycle. Too bad the world did not help Israel establish an independent country somewhere else (like maybe in North America!) after WWII; I think there would be a lot less Muslims if this had happened because they would have continued warring with each other and killing each other off as they had done for many centuries. This way, they have more or less united against Israel.

    However, the US is too financially broke and should only engage militarily in a major war unless absolutely necessary. And if we do, hopefully, taxes will be increased, especially on those who can afford the tax increases most, to pay for the war, and it will not add many trillions more dollars to the federal deficit, as a major war against Iran and its major allies certainly would.

    • 4 votes
    #1.72 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:32 PM EDT

    googlesamonopoly,

    ....nevermind, way to easy. What 19th century hole did you crawl out of? Sounds like you have a good handle on "whitey" not!!!!!!!!!!!...lol. So now what?

    You scream "whitey" racism and then unload the biggest amount of "whitey" stereotype racist garbage I've read in a long time.

    "we hatess the nasty little whiteysess" he says....lol. You should use Smeagol instead of googlesamonopoly....suites you better....lmao!

    • 4 votes
    #1.73 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:50 PM EDT

    Troy

    With a probabilistic threat by Iran created by America's own making you said

    Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesYes Yes Yes Yes

    to sacrificing American lives, yet when there was actual genocide you said

    No No No No No No No No No No

    and that not a single American life was worth the risk.

    You described yourself as a Christian yet you regard other peoples lives including those in the Balkans and in Palestine as worthless. You said that there isn't any need for a moral compass. As a Christian that is certainly hypocritical and perhaps shows that you are in fact not a Christian. There is absolutely no reason why America can't be moral at the same time it looks out for its interests.

    You said the Palestinians were basically terrorists despite the fact that it was Israel that initiated the terrorism. That Israel terrorized the Palestinian population by killing children and pregnant women is well established historical fact. A minority of Palestinians became terrorists because of Israeli cruelty and denial of basic human rights and you whine about the Palestinians but the not actions of the Israelis that caused it. There were at least two Israeli terrorists that eventually went on to become prime ministers. Equating Palestinian terrorism beyond Israel terrorism is completely hypocritical to a christian, which is what you call yourself.

    • 1 vote
    #1.74 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:51 PM EDT

    KILL, KILL, KILL!!!
    Then you think you have a right to have guns but, Iran don't???
    You people are some hypocrites!!!

    We don't want Iran to have nukes for the same reason with don't want your average American to have them. Because just like with guns, some deranged idiot will use it to kill a whole lot of people.

    • 2 votes
    #1.75 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:14 PM EDT

    Don't get my words twisted like your mentality, Troy!!!!
    I SAID """"WHITE REPUBLICANS"""!!!!!
    There are a vast number of true white Americans who actually believe in the concept of freedom and respecting others that I did not include because they are upstanding individuals.
    These individuals have a moral compass but read some of the comments on here by your other Republican members and then, maybe then you will get the picture "THE TRUTH"!!!!

    I'm more so talking about individuals like you!!!!
    YOU THAT IS TROY!!!!

    Troy why don't you take the lead in the war against Iran and go over there to provide Israel with the logistics since you scream WAR, WAR, WAR!!!!

    • 1 vote
    #1.76 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:20 PM EDT

    "Too many voters embrace feel-good propaganda that they want to hear instead of learning the basic facts about issues they care about. They should do a better job of calling out dishonest politicians -- and shunning media outlets that stoke political food fights."

    http://money.msn.com/investing/11-things-wrong-with-congress

    President Obama's Foreign Policies were seen by the Ayatollahs of the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran as the US Negotiating from a position of US Defeat. Immediately the Ayatollahs of the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran increased their Overt and Covert Activities against the US and US Allies Worldwide.

    President Obama's Failed Foreign Policies that Caused the US And US Allies Loss of Strategic Resources Worldwide for the current US Standard of Living and Future Alternative Energy; US And US Allies Loss of Strategic Locations Worldwide; US And US Allies Key and Strategic US Allies Worldwide.

    Since 2010 US Ally Saudi Arabia, requests, begs, pleads with President Obama and US Ally Israel to attack the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran BEFORE they finish construction of their Underground Nuclear Attack Proof Facilities UNDERNEATH the Iranian Mountains (similar to US NORAD, and USSR Ural Mountain Complex).

    President Obama refuses to listen to the Facts (verified Intelligence) about the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran increased Activities to Develop the Iranian Nuclear Program.

    The "Countdown" decreasing rapidly from 10 years, 6 years, to the current President Obama 1 year. What next President Obama will say Months, Days.

    South American and Central American Governments deals with the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran to build ICBM/IRBM underground nuclear attack proof Missile Bases at South and Central Americas. And shipments of tons (containers) of weapons, ammunition, etc. to the South and Central American Governments of Russian Federation and Chinese (copies of Russian Federation) weapons, ammunition, military equipment, etc.. Also agreements with the South and Central American Governments to allow the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran's shipments (containers) of weapons, ammunition, military equipment, etc. to be smuggled into Mexico for the Mexican Drug Cartels. President Ahmadinejad visits to South and Central America's 2010, 2011, 2012 to observe his Foreign Policies "Progress" (construction of ICBM/IRBM Silos).

    go read the rest of what I posted about the situation at post#1.97

    http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/20/17382317-obama-says-there-is-still-time-to-find-diplomatic-solution-to-iran-nuke-dispute-netanyahu-hints-at-impatience?last=1363836912&threadId=3688232&sp=0&pc=25#last_1

    By the way Firsthand Experience negates your Opinions:

    Definition Fact - Experience or Observations.

    Definition Opinion - a personal view, attitude, or appraisal without knowledge, thought, or reason.

    GOOGLESAMONOPOLY - I sense a great deal of racism on here but, then again I see a great deal of racism in the country as well.

    You do not even know the Definition of "racism". Mexican is a NATIONALITY, not a Race; and it has been the proven ADVERSE ACTIONS of the MAJORITY of the over 23 Million ILLEGAL ALIENS at the US, it is the MAJORITY of ILLEGAL ALIENS that are the Loyal Citizens of the Nation of Mexico, and the minority coming from other Nations ILLEGALLY.

    And before you even use that lame arguement "Nation of Immigrants", correct as "Nation of LEGAL Immigrants"; and WRONG pertaining to ILLEGAL ALIENS.

    mark-1751582,

    Flinging bullsh!t all over everyone is not appreciated. Instead of attempting to defend stup!d and that stup!d reflecting on you; how about researching Fundamentalist Islamic Amin Al Husseini, Amin Al Hussein as the Representative of the Islamic World signing the Forever Alliance in 1933 with Chancellor Hitler, Pan Arabic Plan (partially implemented by removing by armed force the original Palestinians of Christians and Jews, replaced by the "undesirables" (prisoners, murders, rapists, thieves, political prisoners, debtors, etc.) from the Arabic Nations Prisons*, formation of the Fundamentalist Islamic Arab League of Nations (Original Charter the Extermination of the Jews).

    * That is why chefaz-1319563 post#1.54, is almost correct especially the rest of post#1.54.

    Most of this link is correct, there are some errors as propagand but most is correct (verified by many other references) go read this mark-1751582,

    http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html

    If the British would have terminated Amin Al Husseini, they would not have had problems at Tunisia, Algeria (including the problems the French had later), and the rest of "North Africa" during WWII. Today's Islam would not be the 109 Suras of the 114 Suras of the Holy Koran's (Quran) Calls to All Islamic Believers to War Against the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers. There would not be a "Palestinian Problem". Most of today's Fundamentalist Islamic problems would not exist today, as without Amin Al Husseini organizing, creating, etc. the Islamic World as a cohesive organized force of over 1.5 Billion Islamic Believers Worldwide. Same thing if you terminated Adolf Hitler before he became Chancellor of Germany.

    chefaz-1319563 - Why don't the surrounding countries help the residents of Gaza, West Bank??? These people are only supplied with terrorism materials against Israel.

    Because the original goal of the Pan Arabic Plan was to occupy Regions to stop the Jews from ever returning to their Nation.

    chefaz-1319563 - When the people that call themselves Palestinians try to migrate to the surrounding countries, such as Jordan, Egypt or Lebanon, they are not treated with kindness. They are grossly mistreated.

    Because the Jordanians, Egyptians, or Lebanonese do not want their "undesirables" back so they throw the former Jordanians, Egyptians, or Lebanonese as "Palestinians" that by armed force after emptying out their Prisons made them leave and go to Palestine into Prison Camps with armed Guards to prevent the "Palestinians" from mixing into the populations of Jordan, Egypt, or Lebanon.

    At the "Palestinian Refugee Camps" of Jordan, Egypt, or Lebanon when you see the razor wire inside the fence, and the razor wire supports facing in, that means detention or prison as prevention from escape, not protection. Same with the locations of the Guard Towers being outside the wire with their weapons facing into the "Palestinian Refugee Camps" at Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt.

    Most of the Citizens of Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon did not want to leave their own Nations as the Pan Arabic Plan, Families at those Nations, what they were familiar with, etc..

    chefaz-1319563 - In Israel, these people have the same rights as anyone else and Israel supplies these areas with food and free medical care.

    And there in is part of the problem, just like the over 23 Million Illegal Aliens at the US, that rose to over 25 Million, giving people "Free" only invited more. Even President Obama partially knows that with the 2010 US Supreme Court Ruling pertaining to NO Material Support To Terrorist Organizations, in that providing Medical Supplies, Food, Building Materials, Humanitarian Assistance, etc. makes it so that the Terrorist Organization can buy more weapons, ammunition, bomb making materials instead of spending the Terrorist Organization's Limited Funds to buy Medical Supplies, Food, Building Materials, Humanitarian Assistance, etc..

    mark-1751582,

    Your belief that the Arabic and Fundamentalist Islamic Palestinians just sprung up from the ground and were at Palestine first is simply amazing. Jews were First (start developing the area using things they learned during their slavery by the Pharoahs, like irrigation, farming, building. as those skills necessary to settle an area instead of being Nomadic), Christians as Christianity next, then after 600 AD then Islam. As a people the Arabs were Nomadic Tribes (did not believe in owning land or permanent residence at a "Nation" until after WWI, 1917, as observed by T.E. Lawrence with his living with the Arabs and his attempts to organize and create Arab Nations).

    • 4 votes
    #1.77 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:35 PM EDT

    GOOGLESAMONOPOLY - I SAID """"WHITE REPUBLICANS"""!!!!!

    Now who is the Racist.

    You do know that the real (by actions) Racists were actually the Democrats, until the later 1970s.

    • 5 votes
    #1.78 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:41 PM EDT

    Wow Googles! All I can say is WOW!!!

    • 3 votes
    #1.79 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:58 PM EDT

    Googles- again, please contact your doctor to have your medication adjusted. Holy smokes. And seriously, my friend, you need to find something to do in your spare time.

    • 2 votes
    #1.80 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:57 PM EDT

    David-As a people the Arabs were Nomadic Tribes (did not believe in owning land or permanent residence at a "Nation" until after WWI, 1917, as observed by T.E. Lawrence with his living with the Arabs and his attempts to organize and create Arab Nations).

    I know history classes here suck.But just how bad must they be that you've never heard of the Arab Civilization that was the wonder of the world in the middle ages. While the west was sunk in barbarism,the Arabs kept and extended the learning of the ancient world.The west has come a long way since then,and the middle-east has declined since the Mongol and Turkic invasions,and Western Colonialism and neo-Colonialism. But that doesn't take away from the fact that civilization as a whole owes an eternal debt to the Middle-East.

      #1.81 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:22 PM EDT

      Googlesamonopoly....you need to get a grip. Between your "call sign" and your RACIST agenda, we've already learned way TOO much about you. And it's HIGHLY discouraging.

      Only the progressive left can preach and "educate" the masses on RACISM and BIGOTRY. All the while slinging their own brand of racism (aka Anti White) and stereotyping.

      Well, I best be on my way. My pregnant wife has dinner waiting, and then we have church, followed by the local KKK meeting. Tomorrow we have to clean our guns before we go protest at the local abortion clinic. Busy week here in WHITEY LAND, (sarcasm).

      • 1 vote
      #1.82 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:22 PM EDT

      I know history classes here suck.But just how bad must they be that you've never heard of the Arab Civilization that was the wonder of the world in the middle ages.

      You are right about one thing....our history classes (aka education system) do SUCK.

      However I have a hard time getting behind any pro Arab stance until they treat women and people w different religious views better then they treat DOGS or CATTLE.

      The middle east and Arabs for sure have had ample opportunity to transform into a MODERN society. Hell, they sit on top on the most prized commodity in the world (oil)....and what do they do? They pay slave wages...make ppl work in dangerous conditions. You think they have any OSHA laws or equal rights for their own ppl?? NOPE. They treat women like second class citizens and have NO MIDDLE CLASS at all. 95% of the citizens are poor. And not like our "poor"....we're talking the real real poor.

      Sorry but the Arab ppl should be utterly embarrassed by their culture. BECAUSE IT HASN'T CHANGED.

        #1.83 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:36 PM EDT

        If Iran thought that they could destroy Israel today, they would have already done it!

        They're simply bluffing!

          #1.84 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:40 PM EDT

          lmao.

          I actually got back on here to see if googoo-doll responded to my comment and wow.

          Raider, David...all others....god, voices of reason....brings a tear to my eye...if my "white" republican Christian a$$ was capable of crying.

          Mark interests me a bit more because he does make rational valid counterpoints....but I have to say Mark, you waste your time trying to draw out hypocracy in my opinions. I did not once say I did not care about genocide in Balkins or any of the other twist of words you claim as mine. I said as a nation, national security is priority one and if morality and geopolitical ideology clash, in the interest of the masses morality sometimes must take a back seat.

          googoo doll doesnt know his US political history. Historically it was the southern democrats that were racist....white republicans freed the slaves...the guy is clearly not up on his history....its why I said....you're too easy dude....not even worth a good debate.

          • 2 votes
          #1.85 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:02 PM EDT

          I beg to differ with you on your statement above, cause if they were not building weapons of mass destruction then why won't they let the UN Inspectors in at anytime to inspect there facilities. That would be the best way to get the US, Israel and the UN of there butt.

          When posting it helps to know what you are talking about. Iran's nuclear facilities are under IAEA inspection protocol as required by the NPT which they signed.

            #1.86 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:57 PM EDT

            Chefaz, Good Evening, thanks for the poster, it is my background for a while as well. Looks like I missed the debate, oh well.

            Troy1101 I see we see eye to eye on some things.

            Israel does not need our boots on the ground, they need us to help with mid air fueling, they are more than capable of handling the rest.

            • 3 votes
            #1.87 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:13 PM EDT

            I also suspect that the N Koreans are sharing test results with Iran...

            Surely Iran knows that if it was to raze Tel Aviv, we would respond with 10x the force and level Tehran and it's nuke facilities. At that point, it will be game on... regardless of our budget.

            S Korean President Sue said it best, if S. Korea is provoked again with another attack, the leadership of N Korea would evaporate off the face of the earth.

              #1.88 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:14 AM EDT

              Israel also needs some of our bigger bunker busters.

                #1.89 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:15 AM EDT

                When posting it helps to know what you are talking about. Iran's nuclear facilities are under IAEA inspection protocol as required by the NPT which they signed

                While this is true, they don't allow access to the military facilities where testing is believed to have taken place. I believe that is what the poster was referring to.

                  #1.90 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:17 AM EDT

                  Troy1101, God is crying, over someone like yourself belittling others and placing morality on a back burner while lamenting that you are a christian.

                  Pathetic, indeed....

                  May he have mercy on your "white Christian A$$"

                    #1.91 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:20 AM EDT

                    While this is true, they don't allow access to the military facilities where testing is believed to have taken place. I believe that is what the poster was referring to.

                    Let me know when the UN is inspecting US and or Israeli military bases. It is not required under the NPT. The idea you can claim any site to be nuclear and then roll in and inspect it is stupid. On top of that the sat pictures that some have used to support nuclear weapons work at military sights look striking similar to those we used to support the attack on Iraq i.e. they show nothing. Their is some construction, a few trucks, some roads being built ect. Then they add some warmonger commentator telling your that it all means they are going to nuke us. I don't buy it. We saw this song and dance from Colin Powell before Iraq II and it turned out to be a pack of lies. Powell now admits we had squat. There is no credibility left for this kind of BS now. Since Iran has not attacked anyone, in my view there is no moral authority to attack Iran no matter how we may feel about their current government. Not only that the cost of another war will push us further towards bankruptcy. I'm not sure why many on the right are pushing for America to commit financial suicide.

                    • 1 vote
                    #1.92 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:48 AM EDT

                    Ray,

                    Thanks for caring about my soul. That set me straight indeed. From now on I will fly straight and not be a hypocrite.

                    Just a thought; why would God cry over my little ol' imperfect self. He already knew I was going to say all that.

                    God gave me free will and a brain...these slobbering barbaric hordes are the reason why.

                    I will keep my guns and my bible, the most reliable sources of protecting ones self...have faith that good moral compass of yours is bullet proof and capable of repelling slobbering hordes of muslims. If you are still alive afterwards, we can get back to debating God, guns and national security threats, mainly slobbering hordes of barbaric muslims that want to kill anybody who is not them, if you like.

                      #1.93 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:29 AM EDT

                      Ray in Jax

                      Israel also needs some of our bigger bunker busters.

                      They already have them, and I am sure they are capable of building their own. I read an article on how they work, they really aren't that complicated.

                      • 1 vote
                      #1.94 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:33 AM EDT

                      Antistupidity,

                      "I see we see eye to eye on some things."

                      Yeah...I guess we do. How about that? Not all no doubt, as been our history of debating, but some...lol.

                        #1.95 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:54 AM EDT

                        I will never understand why people take a NBCnews article as fact, the whole story, etc. There is absolutely NO evidence that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ever made that statement! Google "What did Ayatollah Ali Khamenei say this week," the closest thing you get is February and it wasn't about Israel.

                        The Tehran Times is usually pretty up to date - they do have an article that states:

                        TEHRAN – Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said on Saturday that Iranian commanders had been given the authority to give immediate response to any hostile action by the enemy.
                        Jazayeri made the remarks in response to threats of military action against Iran over its nuclear program issued by a number of Israeli officials, according to Sepahnews.

                        Link: http://tehrantimes.com/politics/106501-commanders-authorized-to-give-immediate-response-to-hostile-actions

                        I think that US Leaders who issue the same statement if there was a threat to the US.

                        What was the last thing that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said this week:

                        In other words, insecurity drives Iran’s nuclear ambition, and it leaves Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, convinced that if he were to give up Iran’s nuclear program entirely, as Libya did in the last decade, he would only invite the fate of Muammar el-Qaddafi. That logic — if Iran is going to face sanctions anyway, better to face them with the bomb than without — has produced a saying in Tehran these days: “Better to be North Korea than Iraq.” Still, Iran’s leaders and citizens clearly want the sanctions lifted, and they may now be signaling a way out of the deadlock.

                        It’s time for the United States to test the leaders’ real intentions and offer them a path to rejoining the international community.

                        Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/opinion/why-iran-may-be-ready-to-deal.html

                        Please do not take NBCnews as gospel.... especially concerning Iran who has NOT started a war since 1804!

                        • 1 vote
                        #1.96 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:47 AM EDT

                        Once upon a time, the Eastern civilization was the wonder of the World. True, it was basically a club of the elite, but at least the educated classes were, well, educated. In the same time period most European kings could not read and write and depended on scholars and clerics. Then came Mohammad and Islam.........

                          #1.97 - Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:15 PM EDT
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                          There will be a lot of smoking glass in the desert that you aren't going to want to be near for the next 100,000 years if they try that.

                          • 10 votes
                          Reply#2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:19 AM EDT

                          Iran is a grave threat to world security. If their quest for nuclear weapons is not addressed -- the stage for a nuclear winter will be upon us.

                          Unlike the Russians who feared Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the Iranians cannot be contained . . . they're messianic, awaiting their hidden Imam, the Madhi, to reappear. . . .

                          • 28 votes
                          #3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:20 AM EDT

                          Madhi must look like Khamenei. We have found the missing black smurf. Let's give them mushroom homes.

                          • 6 votes
                          #3.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:27 AM EDT

                          Agreed, NBCWatchman (#3). This is no idle threat. If they can kill their own people with impunity they will have no qualms using nuclear weapons against other religions, regardless how many other Muslims die in the process. They answer to nobody except Allah.

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                          #3.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:32 AM EDT

                          Sort of like right wing Christian fundamentalist. Who want a war in the Middle East because it would trigger the return of Jesus, who would in turn offer the Jews conversion or death. Sounds kind of "nutty" to me

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                          #3.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:46 AM EDT

                          Basil Romeo - Are you kidding me?

                          If they had as many people willing to die like your suggesting the war would already be over. The truth is that the leaders of that country are no more willing to fight and die than the leaders of this country are.

                          They will however not be as easy to defeat as Iraq or Afghanastan and if you think that we can just bomb them out of existance and not pay dearly ourselves, you truly are as crazy as I think you are.

                          All of you tough guys that want to start WWIII, but, not want to do any fighting yourselves, make me sick to my stomach. So unless you are currently in the military or have plans on joining then shut the f#$K up., and, pray that there is a peaceful solution.

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                          #3.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:18 PM EDT

                          And the Craziest Part each of these EASTERN religions. Believe that they are the chosen ones. And they have brought the entire world into the dog and pony show. I think the problem is more and more people. Are actually jumping off the Fanatical bandwagon. And learning that God is above all three. And could care less which one you choose. If one at all. So the Fanatics in power in these countries have to sabre rattle the general public. To keep the Doors of FEAR open. And stay in power.

                          When was the last time our Nation had a NON Christian President? And did not Jesus himself state to Love thy neighbor as thyself. You know he was not talking about the address next door. He was speaking of those who do not follow the same beliefs. And if Jesus was a part OF god meaning his son. He was speaking as GOD. When he stated The only path to God is through me.

                          Go to your GOD directly and listen. Its far easier than following someone other than yourself.

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                          #3.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:24 PM EDT

                          MCR - that's an idiotic statement. Christians aren't wanting war to bring back Christ. We believe he's coming back in his OWN time; we can't influence that. Try doing a little research on those you hate before spewing lies about them...at least you won't look so stupid.

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                          #3.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:29 PM EDT

                          Nice post. I've taken to shutting up and asking God what He wants. He never says anything about nuke thy neighbor. Although He does suggest He loves us and the children of Israel. I don't have an answer, but I don't know how a strike against those two cities could stand without some kind of response? Perhaps, nuclear? Only perhaps, not by us?

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                          #3.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:34 PM EDT

                          You are making your post like this mad Ayatollah!

                          They fought Saddam for decades and could not do much!

                          These people are experts in fantasizing from their Islamic hell holes and make tall claims!

                          "“What they mean by talks is that we sit down and talk until Iran accepts their viewpoint," he said."

                          Either these cowards listen or else give them kicks starting from their caps! A few al Qaida people will do that job for a fee!

                            #3.8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:40 PM EDT

                            My Monies on Israel!

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                            #3.9 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:04 PM EDT

                            NBC... I

                            Unlike the Russians who feared Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the Iranians cannot be contained . . . they're messianic, awaiting their hidden Imam, the Madhi, to reappear. . . .

                            Frank

                            have been saying that too in my posts..too...Iran does not care if the whole middle east goes up in a mushroom cloud, and millions die, (wait until you see the oil prices climb, even though we do not get a whole lot of oil from the middle east, the speculators would love a war there) they want a catastrophe to occur so that the Madhi, can appear and conguer the entire world for Islam...Yes Iran and Korea are dangerous, but glad that I do not have to make a decision, military or otherwise..

                            Just wonder what the Russians, Chinese, South Koreans, and alot of those countries would say if this all went nuclear, and the fallout starts dropping on their country

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                            #3.10 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:22 PM EDT

                            @Bill (#3.4): It's people like you with limited foresight that truly worry me.

                            To all those who are too bigoted, racist, and/or parochial to see past their own back yard, consider the January 29, 2012 "Israel vs. Iran" article in the New York Times were it was noted that, "The Iranian regime will be several times more dangerous if it has a nuclear device in its hands...one that it could bring to the United States. It is not for nothing that it (i.e., Iran) is establishing bases for itself in Latin America and creating links with drug dealers on the US-Mexican border. This is happening in order to smuggle ordnance into the United States for the carrying out of terror attacks. Imagine this regime getting nuclear weapons to the US-Mexican border..."

                            The Jews have survived by preempting threats of genocide, and those few times they didn't almost resulted in their annihilitaion. If you don't think this is also your fight, think again.

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                            #3.11 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:39 PM EDT

                            Nice post. I've taken to shutting up and asking God what He wants. He never says anything about nuke thy neighbor. Although He does suggest He loves us and the children of Israel. I don't have an answer, but I don't know how a strike against those two cities could stand without some kind of response? Perhaps, nuclear? Only perhaps, not by us?

                            Try reading the old testament. Go in take over and leave none alive....

                            The end in the bible depicts nuclear war. Better to stop these punks now and deal with the consequences than to let them arm up and be able to fight back with nukes.

                              #3.12 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:48 PM EDT

                              Well Studio Steve, put your money on our military industrial complex. If you are a betting man that will be your best return.

                              The best comment on this thread was something to the affect of "we should feed people not bomb them". Those few words say it all.

                              Stop being pawns in ths perpetual cycle of war. We should not be the worlds cop and if we are going to continue this insanity we need to be well compensated for our services.

                              How is it we hand over billions and billions of dollars to all these other countries and provide them with our military services as well?(Rhetorical)

                              And the heist goes on, right before our very eyes.

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                              #3.13 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:52 PM EDT

                              West Coast Joe, you've got it.

                              One of the common threads of perpetual war is religion. The is gives our so called highly evolved human species something the kill each other over.

                              Religion and Resources. Which one is necessary? One things for sure, war will continue over the control of each.

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                              #3.14 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:07 PM EDT

                              So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

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                              #3.15 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:21 PM EDT

                              Jonathan-1982062 - A few al Qaida people will do that job for a fee!

                              Nope. Fundamentalist Islamic Al Quada and the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran are on the same side, of Fundamentalist Islam.

                              The proof is the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran's Special Forces, Quds, training arming and funding the Millions of Holy Warriors of Islam at the Fundamentalist Islamic Autonomous Kurdistanis Region of Northern Iraq, Southern Turkey, Syria, and Northwestern Iran; and yes, that does include all the Al Quada International Franchises.

                              Recently after President Obama decreased support of US Ally Yemen, Al Quada Yemen reopened many of the Al Quada Yemen Holy Warrior of Islam Training Camps on the Northern Yemen Borders (next to the Southern US Ally Saudi Arabian Borders) with the intent of attacking US Ally Saudi Arabia the Collaborators to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers.

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                              #3.16 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:01 PM EDT

                              Basil Romeo,

                              Most of us believe that it is too late to attempt to do anything to stop the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran as Fully Supported by the Chinese and Russian Federation.

                              It has been the long time Strategic Goal of the Chinese and Russian Federation to get the US and US Allies out of their Backyards (Resources). Previously, the Chinese using the North Koreans, North Vietnamese, etc. as their "Proxy Fighters". Previously, the USSR using Iran as their "Proxy Fighters" during the Iran Iraq Wars. Currently, both the Chinese and Russian Federation using the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran as their "Proxy Fighter" Worldwide. The Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran using the Millions of Holy Warriors of Islam as their "Proxy Fighters" Worldwide.

                              Some of us believe that the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran will attempt to smuggle 10 Kilo Ton (KT) or larger (up to 40KT) Nuclear Weapons (physical size 203mm (8 inches) diameter x less than 1 meter (36 inches) length, or the size of a small foot locker including radioactive shielding to prevent detection, unassembled components can be in the size of multiple 1 gallon paint containers with shielding) to their Holy Warriors of Islam (Hezbollah, Hamas Foreign Fighters) at South America. These Nuclear Weapons are then smuggled into the US by the Mexican Drug Cartels accompanied by security provided by Holy Warriors of Islam (Mexican Drug Cartel's Human Trafficking) to major US Cities like D.C., New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, etc. with simultaneous detonations (making any coordinated disaster relief impossible). The EMP/EMR from these causing a complete destruction of the US High Tech Infrastructure for Decades of zero electricity. Due to President Obama's Failed Foreign Policies since 2009 the Ally of the Fundamentalist Islamic Shia Republic of Iran, the Chinese, since 2010 now control the Resources that the US does not have, to rebuild the US High Tech Infrastructure. After obtaining control of these Resources Worldwide the Chinese placed Export Restrictions of these Resources especially to the US and US Allies; therefore, Made In China or nothing (High Tech) for the US and US Allies.

                              History Channel, Day After Disaster

                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCme_K6MYLY

                              The Zero Electricity (Limited Non Nuclear EMP/EMR Effects link below, Nuclear EMP/EMR is worse as travels further and lasts longer*) is what we did to 20th Century Iraq during 2001 Operation Viking Hammer, Operation Hotel California in preparation for the President Clinton US Policy Overthrow of President Hussein in accordance with President Clinton's US Law, H.R.4655 amended by US Congress to authorize the Use of US Military Force as 2003 Operation Iraqis Freedom.

                              Will Saddam Fall Victim to the Elusive E-bomb?

                              http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125336&page=1

                              *July 8, 1962 - Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from high-altitude nuclear test knocked out electricity at Oahu, Hawaii over 800 miles away. This nuclear weapon was no designed specially to generate EMP/EMR. Not considered at that time was the use of a nuclear weapon to create a temporary hole in the Ozone layer as a weapon.

                              http://www.atomicarchive.com/Timeline/Time1960.shtml

                              joeyfromcali,

                              I told you before stop using your limiting Western Term of Religion for Fundamentalist Islam. For Fundamentalist Islamic Believers (by definition Muslims - Islamic Believers completely subjugated to Islam), as for the Islamic Believers the majority being Fundamentalist Islam, Islam is ALL, All Politics, All Religion, All Laws, All Culture, All History, All Ways of Life (and Death), All Beliefs, etc.. You don't see that for any other "Religions" do you, Today 21st Century not Centuries ago (600 AD).

                              By using the limiting western term Religion you are underestimating the extent of Islamic Believers dedication to Islam and what they will actually do in the name of Islam.

                              1B4IGO - We should not be the worlds cop and if we are going to continue this insanity we need to be well compensated for our services.

                              I don't see you Demonstrating or Protesting to get the US out of the United Nations. Ever since the creation of the United Nations, the US Military at US Citizens Expense has been used as the United Nations Military B!tches, while the United Nations Members the Chinese and the Russian Federation laugh their arses off at the US.

                              We would have been compensated for being the United Nation's Military B!tches, until President Obama Failed Foreign Policies. Resulting in the US And US Allies Loss of Strategic Resources Worldwide for the current US Standard of Living and Future Alternative Energy; US And US Allies Loss of Strategic Locations Worldwide; US And US Allies Key and Strategic US Allies Worldwide.

                              go read post#1.97 at

                              http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/20/17382317-obama-says-there-is-still-time-to-find-diplomatic-solution-to-iran-nuke-dispute-netanyahu-hints-at-impatience?last=1363836912&threadId=3688232&sp=0&pc=25#last_1

                              And do NOT even tell me that is NOT what happened, since the US Military Training Teams to US Ally Iraq during the Iran Iraq Wars, rotated to Operation Cyclone, till now, surviving all the crap in between, we have been stopping the losses from happening with the almost thousand of us that started on the US Military Training Teams during the Iran Iraq Wars till now only a few dozen of us survived. So do not tell me you read crap from a book (a nonparticipant's opinions), or President Obama's Propaganda (proven repeatedly as lies that cost many lives), we saw what happened (Definition Fact - Experience or Observations, our Firsthand Experience and Firsthand Observations).

                              Everything we have been fighting to stop and over 900 of us of almost a thousand died for, all undone in months by President Obama's Failed Foreign Policies.

                              1B4IGO - Well Studio Steve, put your money on our military industrial complex. If you are a betting man that will be your best return.

                              By doing that studio steve is ensuring the direct and indirect employment of the almost Hundred Million overpaid too expensive "Fair and Living Wage" US Civilians of the US Military Defense Industrial Complex. The Majority of the US Defense Budget is the Payroll of the overpaid too expensive "Fair and Living Wage" US Civilians.

                              The US Defense Budget is NOT only the US Military, especially those Multiple Billions (Hundreds of Billions USDs) of US Infrastructure Construction within the US of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

                              2012 Secretary of Defense Penetta, "A 10 % Defense Budget Cut will result in a Million (US) Civilians becoming Unemployed". President Obama as Commander In Chief Orders a 11% US Defense Budget Cut. 2013 Secretary of Defense Penetta tendered his Letter of Resignation "to go work on his (Walnut) Farm with a different kind of Nut".

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                              #3.17 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:00 PM EDT

                              NBCW-Unlike the Russians who feared Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the Iranians cannot be contained . . . they're messianic, awaiting their hidden Imam, the Madhi, to reappear. . . .

                              That's totally false,and just anti-Iranian propaganda. Even Israeli intelligence reports and media don't believe that. Its just used as a way to attack Iran. The Christian and Jewish religions have the same type of beliefs in those faiths. The return of the Messiah,the End of Days,Armageddon,the Rapture,are all believed by millions of people in the US. But we are still rational actors,no more or less,than the Iranians.


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                              #3.18 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:26 PM EDT

                              The difference is Christian and Jewish religious fanatics do not control governments.

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                              #3.19 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:43 PM EDT
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                              Let's make it clear that if there is an attack on Israel, Tehran will be vaporized. For good measure, Mecca should be part of the equation.

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                              Reply#4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:26 AM EDT

                              An attack on Mecca, means that Hitler's final solution would finally be achieved. There are about 1. billion Muslim worldwide and they will attack Jews worldwide.

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                              #4.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:49 AM EDT

                              @ ewusnret , I'm not to sure if Israel is attacked, that Obama would put forth a attack on Iran. I'd like to think he would but not sure he would !

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                              #4.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:50 AM EDT

                              you really think obama would fire on his muslim friends, don't forget right now the commander in chief is not interested in the Israelis or Americas best interest. I'm sure he'll tie our hands with the new command he's assembling, you know the one thats willing to fire on American citizens.

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                              #4.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:56 AM EDT

                              Teapot - Go shoot yourself in the head please. How about all those musllims he is killing by drones? You guys cannot have it both ways. You do not get to call him a muslim lover and at the same time question is use of drones in attacking the terrorist.

                              This has not made him popular with muslims anywhere you frikin idiot.

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                              #4.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:22 PM EDT

                              Hey, Bill. Good post. He's killing a lot of Muslims. He's not a Muslim. But, it fits with their Fox Noise narrative of a Nazi, Communist, Muslim, Black, Socialist, Jew hater, and all the other stuff he is.

                              I'm not a fan of this president because of the Fourth Amendment, spending issues, drone strikes on Americans without 14th Amendment protections, and all sorts of things idiots aren't talking about.

                              But, for the record, I'm sure he's a very nice man. And he's the duly elected leader of the free world. So, I owe him the benefit of acknowledging he's just as much a red-blooded American as the rest of us. Just off on that tiny little matter of the CONSTITUTION.

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                              #4.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:41 PM EDT

                              Hitler actually considered arabs, and other non-aryans...inferior, the only reason he appealed to the muslims (even though he used bosnic muslim toops, and was friendly with the grand mufti or Jeruselum) was to counter the british and french

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                              #4.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:25 PM EDT

                              The only reason the muslims weren't rounded up and slaughtered by Hitler and his goons is because he hadn't made it that far yet. They were on the list bet on it.

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                              #4.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:05 PM EDT

                              Hitler considered Slavic nations inferior as well, yet he had no problem employing Russians and entrusting them to slaughter Jews and Gypsies.

                              Arabs would probably get a reprieve, as long as they were willing to do some proper Jew-hunting in their territory.

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                              #4.8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:46 PM EDT
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                              It must be nice to sit back in your comfortable chairs in front of your computer and hope for war. WW3 ? Let's get it on !!!

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                              Reply#5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:31 AM EDT

                              Hope for a war that they are not going to fight in.

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                              #5.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:17 PM EDT

                              That is exactly what will happen. Islam will take an attack on Iran as an attack on Islam and WWIII will ensue.

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                              #5.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:25 PM EDT

                              So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

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                              #5.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:22 PM EDT

                              jarmoush,

                              Are you just copying the same comment all over the board?...why yes you are. It was lame back in 1.whatever.....still lame.

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                              #5.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:01 PM EDT

                              Sometimes one does have to repeat a question over and over because no one has answered it and jarmoush has asked a VERY good question.

                              Keep asking jarmoush and I'll keep giving you a point! It is a good question, but the arm-chair warriors do not like to delve into facts much, it is apparently much easier to think that NBCnews is "The News God," and argue with anyone who looks up the facts and points out the glaring, abysmal holes in almost every article posted.

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                              #5.5 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:05 AM EDT
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                              These Islamic pukes need to be wiped out. They will never leave the rest of the world in peace. They are protected by the shield of political correctness by claiming to be a religion. They are not a religion, they are a governmental/political organization that has an embedded religion. They are worse than the Nazis, the Nazis were not protected by the screen of political correctness and were dealt with. These fanatics need to be reduced to cult status just like the Nazis were.

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                              Reply#6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:31 AM EDT

                              I guess President Obama will have to talk to them.

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                              Reply#7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:32 AM EDT

                              Deerhunterbow - He will have a stern talk with them and that will settle it.

                              You forgot "stern"...it sounds much more intimidating with the word "stern" in it.

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                              #7.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:32 PM EDT

                              The State Dept has already mailed out a "Hope you are feeling better" card, shaving supplies, and some new toys that goats and camels like.

                                #7.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:36 PM EDT
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                                With what ? They don't have the firepower ......Right POTUS ? I guess we shall see.....

                                  Reply#8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:33 AM EDT

                                  Lawrence of Islam (Obama) will solve it all.

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                                  Reply#9 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:34 AM EDT

                                  I'm not sure Obama can solve this !

                                    #9.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:52 AM EDT

                                    I'm not sure ANYONE can solve this.

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                                    #9.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:05 PM EDT

                                    We know Obama can't solve anything!! He's proven that time after time. He'll continue to blame others and throw congress under the bus like in his comments yesterday. He is a terrible president. Under no circumstance do you bad mouth your fellow Americans' in front of other leaders. And these are things we catch on open mics. What is he saying that isn't caught. He keeps proving over and over again how much he hates Americans'. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!

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                                    #9.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:36 PM EDT

                                    So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

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                                    #9.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:22 PM EDT
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                                    These Middle East nutcases have no idea of what the US military is capably of doing. Iraq and Afghanistan are just surgical conflicts. Remember back almost 70 years on August 6, 1945 when Japan was pulling their shyt? Poof went a couple of their cities as a demonstration. We now have weapons that are hundreds of times more powerful. Powerful enough to even destroy Allah.

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                                    Reply#10 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:37 AM EDT

                                    and who is alla?he has not done t thing for them in a 5000 years,doubt he will start now ha ha

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                                    #10.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:21 PM EDT

                                    So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

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                                    #10.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:23 PM EDT

                                    So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

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                                    #10.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:24 PM EDT

                                    @jarmoush - let's not forget that while the US and Israel go on their crusade, many of our servicemen/women will DIE and we will have new articles from NBC such as those from today:

                                    Veterans appeal to Obama to step in on VA backlog -

                                    I believe the subtitle (it was up 30 minutes ago - now it's a video) said that 100million Veterans are waiting for their benefits!

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                                    #10.4 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:13 AM EDT
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                                    What I find odd is time and time again these threats are without merit from a region of the world (toss in the parka wearing unicorn from NK) that lies and cheats to achieve anything.

                                    That whole saddum insane thing about the rings of fire around bagdad will make our military tremble with fear and force our military to run away didn't work very well for them. Oh and we did find the SOB hiding like a dog in a hole in the ground.

                                    If it makes you feel good keep saying these lies and repeat your threats all you want. Reality is one thing; Iran's & NK's imagination is another that I'm not concered with.

                                    EWUSNRET - agree with mecca and that you for your service.

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                                    Reply#11 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:38 AM EDT

                                    While I personally believe the leader of North Korea is Insane I don't believe he'll actually make good on his threat to Attack the U.S. in the pacific or on the mainland. However i do believe that Muslim Iran is a very different story, these people will have no quams about using Nuclear weapons once they have them. Although our men and women in uniform have done an outstanding job the last 10+ years and I'm ready to see them all come home from these 3rd world toilets should it become needed to level Iran in order to protect Isreal or American assets/Interests then I'm fine with that.

                                    However what everyone hoping for WW3 should remember is Muslims have infiltrated every continent on the planet and in large numbers so if Iran gets leveled and Mecca destroyed as another poster suggested then everyone everywhere needs to be prepared for the response that will surely come of it as such an attack would be viewed as an attack on all of islam and no continent on the planet would be without blood shed.

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                                    #11.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:02 AM EDT

                                    Goodguyfl - While I agree with you mostly....how would you stop this needless agression? I firmly think that only after several generations will these issues be solved and only after the insane muslims have been defeted. The Cuban missile crissis was a pretty close call. Several continents are currently with bloodshedding at the hands of insane muslims. No rational person hopes for WWIII. I agree with brining our troops home and closing more overseas bases. However, I'm for for cutting off the head of the snake first.

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                                    #11.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:13 AM EDT

                                    USAF that was my point a strike on Iran would spark a worldwide conflict not really nations versus nations but one Religon/Cult against everyone else. The only way to stop it at that point is to fight until these animals are gone. I don't pretend to know the solution as i said if this fight must happen then fine but I was just trying to point out something alot of people may not be thinking about. My reference to the troops was more about how well they've been performing in Iraq and Afganistan (Spelled wrong i know) and they should be brought home and allowed to live in peace without being thrown into another conflict so quickly. Perhaps I'm not verbalizing it as well i as could be but I think you pretty much understand what I'm trying to say. And by the way thanks for the Service

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                                    #11.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:32 AM EDT

                                    Problem is, is that although we can espouse how much we don't want a WWIII or anything like that. These countries have called jihad on Israel and US multiple times. Iran called it on us in the 70s (so technically we are at war with them right now)! The problem is their mindset and the fact that most of them operate under a tribal, "warlord" mentality. This means that they only respond to the biggest baddest mofo out there who will not hesitate to lop off heads to make his point clear. It's hard to raise an olive branch when they respond with sharp objects.

                                    And it's hard to take them seriously when the leaders of their religion condone things like "thighing." Yeah go look that one up and tell me how you feel.

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                                    #11.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:12 PM EDT

                                    Goodguyfl - well maybe I did not fully get the point you were making and btw yr spelling is fine enough to get yr point across. Please have a good day!

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                                    #11.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:15 PM EDT

                                    USAF and Goodguyfl, If there is an issue between Israel and Iran, Iran would loose in a big way. Israel is already a nuke power they just don't say much about it. I agree that Mecca should be left untouched by any weapons as it would be a slap to any muslim. USAF is most likely correct on the fall out if Mecca was attacked. I do not agree that all muslims would arise world wide if Iran was attacked. I think a real good compromise would be to nuke in the correct area to have a fair amount of fallout hit Mecca. Think of all the good muslims who would still go.............And yes thank all of us for our service.

                                    Brad USNR

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                                    #11.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:25 PM EDT

                                    What I want to know is why we decided to take out Saddam Hussein, a Sunni and a proven enemy of Iran in order to install a Shiite government in Iraq that is now a natural ally of Iran! AND got a bunch of American soldiers killed to do it. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

                                      #11.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:42 PM EDT

                                      Because somebody made millions in oil money.

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                                      #11.8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:47 PM EDT

                                      I.e. Halliburton.

                                        #11.9 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:43 PM EDT
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                                        These Islamic animals only understand one thing--brute destructive force that has no ambiguities. There will never be any productive negotiation with those who consider lying the right thing to always do when it comes to promulgating their totalitarian ideology.All of this will eventually end with Iran being a parking lot.

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                                        Reply#12 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:39 AM EDT

                                        So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

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                                        #12.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:25 PM EDT
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                                        Abbas is his last chance for someone to believe him on this trip.

                                        • 2 votes
                                        Reply#13 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:44 AM EDT

                                        I agree with that. He needs to be serious, not another Arafat, to achieve support for palestinians - if Hamas and Iran let him resolve the palestinian issue.

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #13.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:51 AM EDT

                                        So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #13.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:26 PM EDT
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                                        We can thank the Bush family and their friends (Cheney, Rummy, Wolfy, and the Saudi royal family) for this debacle. I hope that when our planet is uninhabitable it will have been worth it for them. Maybe they can afford to go live on another planet with all their gold and oil. The Mideast was pretty stable before we re-attcked Iraq, the single greatest thing that happened this century for Iran. It also doesn't help that we overthrew Mossadegh, their elected Prime Minister and "man of the year" 1951, all for oil.

                                        • 7 votes
                                        Reply#14 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:48 AM EDT

                                        1) Iraq was a biggest blunder of the century. Iran was the biggest beneficianry of the invasion of Iraq.

                                        2) Let Mossadegh memory die in peace. We dropped 2 nuk bombs on Japan and we have military and commercial cooperation - all forgotten. Why can't Iran move on? the muslim thing?

                                        • 6 votes
                                        #14.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:54 AM EDT

                                        2) Let Mossadegh memory die in peace. We dropped 2 nuk bombs on Japan and we have military and commercial cooperation - all forgotten. Why can't Iran move on? the muslim thing?

                                        What do you mean why can't Iran move on? Did you forget it's the US and/or Israel who are threatening to attack?

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #14.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:51 AM EDT

                                        Sorry, Sean, you can't blame this on Bush. The insanity in Iran and the muslim world in general has been going on since before he was born.

                                        • 4 votes
                                        #14.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:56 AM EDT

                                        Sean, yep...Bush, etc were the ones to start the crazy extreme Islamist religion...the one which says "kill all infidels...yep...Bush's fault Yep, they were born almost 2000 years ago..and they are the ones who have continuely waged war for those 2000 years against all other religions, including the peaceful Tibetians. Yep Bush's fault.... You need to get a new horse...cause your's dead and pew.

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #14.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:06 PM EDT

                                        Wow, blame it on Bush when everyone else was ALSO saying that we needed to dethrone the dictators. The Arab Spring only sped it up for us or else we would have had to go into the rest of those countries. It's tough when you have to depose all the propped up dictators we put in there in the first place because we knew they would be harsh, but would keep their people in line.

                                        Now we pay the price for trying to reset everything again. Look, those people out there don't want to make nice with us, and they never will. I don't care how much we leave them alone. Something about being an infidel just rubs them the wrong way about us.

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #14.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:17 PM EDT

                                        Swan <<<~~~~~>>> (After the teacher broke up the schoolyard fight) Bobbie: "Well, you see, Teach, it all started when Jimmy hit me back."

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                                        #14.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:12 PM EDT

                                        So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #14.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:27 PM EDT
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                                        Waiting for war with Iran is the mistake. They are NOT going to stop, and I can't imagine the US doesn't realize this by now. Iran leadership, like the Taliban, doesn't care if they go into a mode of pure "godly war" and end up with incredible losses on the Iranian side. After all, to die for them is gain.

                                        War cannot be stopped. Its better to get it done and over with than wait for them to prepare more.

                                        • 6 votes
                                        Reply#15 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:52 AM EDT

                                        Ok. Idiot you send your kids there to die for Israel...don't ask the rest of us to do it. This is just the pro-Israel lobby manipulating the American public. Please notice how all the articles are slanted in a favorable light for Israel. You are a fool. Too much American blood and treasure has been spilled over that piece of desert. No other country supports the fascist state Israel has become except the US...there could be peace there if Israel wanted it. If anyone had done to you what the Israelis have done and are still doing to the Palestinians you'd be wanting to kill them too.

                                        • 7 votes
                                        #15.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:04 AM EDT

                                        @John C also if they're serious about having such a war then they should forget about winning hearts and minds and let our men and women do what they were trained to do.

                                        • 3 votes
                                        #15.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

                                        We've given North Korea 60 years to prepare, and now we find ourselves technically at war with them since they voided the armistice. We'll wait for them to nuke us before we'll do anything.

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #15.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

                                        @Perry and todays South korea is not the same one from 60 years ago they are much more capable of defending themselves against the north and I don't believe any American deployment would have to involve large numbers of ground forces but rather slant more towards Naval and Air power contributions. However China will also have to be a consideration in that scenario. It's a tough one to predict. If it happens I say let the South Koreans handle the bulk of the fighting on the ground supported by American units already present and Add a contingent of naval and air support.

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #15.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:40 AM EDT

                                        @Goodguyfl -

                                        I hear ya, but, did you know that when the shooting starts and if North Korea comes over that border that the provisions of the agreement we have with South Korea (which they've recently re-affirmed) is that U.S. Forces will immediately take command of South Korean forces the same as in 1953 ?

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #15.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:45 AM EDT

                                        That i wasn't aware of Perry. Interesting thanks.

                                        • 1 vote
                                        #15.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:58 AM EDT

                                        Well then, let's hope that China puts their red-headed stepchild in the corner where he belongs. This is why I condone spanking by parents.

                                        No offense to red-heads btw. Personally, I like those fair-skinned fiery ladies from the Emerald Isle.

                                        • 2 votes
                                        #15.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:21 PM EDT

                                        No offense taken, Animal Farm! Not only red-haired, but a step child as well. Neither have hindered me in any way :)

                                          #15.8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:10 PM EDT

                                          So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

                                            #15.9 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:27 PM EDT

                                            You people don't get it. Iran, even more so than North Korea, will think nothing of using a nuke against Israel and/or the US. These guys want to start a major "end of the world" event. Their state run media runs stories linking our time to the end times their prophets spoke about - in preparation of something like this.

                                            You guys have no idea what kind of nut-jobs they are over there. Iraq was nearly there with the bomb before Israel bombed their production - and we look back on that as the best thing they ever did. If a non-democratic nation develops the bomb, that nation's leadership will be forever seeded.

                                              #15.10 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:41 PM EDT
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                                              It is about time someone shuts up these Arab bullies. We should nuke them and No. Korea at the same time wiping both off the face of the earth. The only thing these idiots understand is brute force so give it to them now versus later. The are f'n cowards when it comes to fighting so teach the world a lesson that there needs to be peace and learn to live with your neighbors. Nobody will ever miss these countries.

                                              • 3 votes
                                              Reply#16 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:57 AM EDT

                                              And all of you lap dogs of the low informed GOP base think Russia and China is just going to sit by and do nothing? If so, you should be in the market to buy some bridges and beach front property in Kansas, right?

                                              Christ on a crutch people, Russia and China support Iran, and they will most likely step in. And then, yes, DC, NYC, Chicago, San Fran, San Diego, Salt Lake city, and Dallas, and Miami, and how many other US cities will have mushroom clouds above them?

                                              Think it can't happen. Keep up your un-informed drivel, convince everyone the sky is going to fall, etc etc. Then when it does happen, what next?

                                              • 8 votes
                                              Reply#17 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

                                              Give'em hell, SallyAnn ! You go girl !

                                              • 3 votes
                                              #17.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:08 AM EDT

                                              SallyAnn, these idiots think they can just sit back and watch this unfold like a computer game and it's not going to have an affect on thier lifes. Boy, are they going to be in for a suprise !

                                              • 6 votes
                                              #17.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:17 AM EDT

                                              SallyAnn realisticly the Russians don't want to be involved in a shooting war and the Chinese will certainly not deploy forces that far away from their mainland. Their support for Iran is political and at most would consist of supply shipments. If it looked like the "Big Bombs" were gonna be used Neither nation you mentioned would risk having their forces in that area or on the continent for that matter.

                                              Also to your point abput numerous american cities getting mushroomed the answer is not likely as Russia would not risk Mutually Assured Destruction over Iran, it just won't happen. If such a conflict occured and I doubt it will with the coward in chief we have, it will most likely trigger an uprising by Muslims worldwide as they would view such an attack as an assault on islam as a whole and every continent with have to deal with what comes of it from that point on.

                                              • 5 votes
                                              #17.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:19 AM EDT

                                              Goodguyfl , how do YOU know how Russia or China would respond ? Are you their spokesman ?

                                              • 6 votes
                                              #17.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:01 PM EDT

                                              Look if they were blue cities in blue states I think that could be considered the price we have to pay ;-)

                                              • 2 votes
                                              #17.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:05 PM EDT

                                              Goodguyfl.

                                              You just proved my point! You called Obama a coward (which he isn't), how does Russia and China view him? You don't know, and I don't know how they look at him/think of him. So if they thought like you do, what is to stop them from doing a first strike?

                                              FYI, not a damn thing, as they just might think that Obama would cave in. See, again you, like most lap dogs like to put names to people, and don't even think about the actions that could cause. But like I said, you PROVED MY point.

                                              @And to the idiot who thinks I said we ever had troops in Israel, I never said we did, and I said we don't need our troops dying for Israel, let the Israel troops die for their country. Can you understand that, lap dog? Or do I need to use smaller words?

                                              • 5 votes
                                              #17.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:17 PM EDT

                                              SallyAnn speaking of uninformed drivel. I would like the names of all the US military that died fighting for Israel should be easy since none have. Israel doesn't want our military only our supplies.As far as the cities you mention other than making newes there would be no reason to hit them they have no military status if they were to try anything it would be Grand Forks, Minneapolis, Omaha etc next time chect the facts

                                              • 3 votes
                                              #17.7 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:18 PM EDT

                                              Kenya... that was beautiful. Sally's just worried because the Russians and Chinese would nuke all the liberals out of the country... LMAO!

                                              • 3 votes
                                              #17.8 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:25 PM EDT

                                              Read my post again SEEN IT BEFORE! I never said we had troops die there, I said we don't need to have our troops die for Israel, let the Israel troops die for their country, our troops don't need to die for Israel.

                                              You think, really think they won't nuke the big cities, NYC and San Fran are the two finical cites, along with the population. DC for the Pentagon and Govt, Dallas area is military and military suppliers. San Diego is a naval stations, same as Seattle area.

                                              NEXT TIME YOU CHECK THE FACTS. Every city around every base will get hit, or that base itself. That is common knowledge, if you would check the facts. And yes, every large city in almost every state would get hit, just to kill the people, and to disrupt the commerce. Less people, less fighters they would face.

                                              And don't think we wouldn't do the same to them.

                                              • 3 votes
                                              #17.9 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:26 PM EDT

                                              SallyAnn I was in the service during the Viet Nam war and I enlisted how about you? did you ever serve your country? In Israel everyone goes into the military there are no deferments and they have one of the best trained military in the world so no they don't need our manpower

                                              • 3 votes
                                              #17.10 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:27 PM EDT

                                              Stupid Sally, first, not everyone who supports Israel is GOP. I'm not anyone's lapdog including yours!!! And how dare you use the Lord's name in vain...sounds to me like you're a Islamist troll. This issue has absolutely nothing to do with American party lines....except to people like yourself who are so blinded by your own parties doggrel that you cannot think beyond those boundries.

                                              • 4 votes
                                              #17.11 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:27 PM EDT

                                              @Kenya Lmfao that was funny, however as much as i despise leftys, lib dems I'd prefer they didn't die I get alot of joy watching them shake with rage as their commie agenda is slowly defeated just like their pathetic attempt at a gun ban.

                                              @Somedude I'm certainly not their spokesmen however Russia KNOWS we'll Know the moment their nuclear weapons go hot and they Know we'd begin a matched escalation that means we arm our nukes and point them at thr russians. Also there's A little thing called M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) that means the moment they launch at us we'll launch at them and everybody dies. Now Russia would not risk something like that short of a threat to their national security and at the end of the day Iran just isn't worth it to them not for the chump change in arms sales they make there. You don't have to be a rep to know this just pay attention and use common sense.

                                              As far as China goes well they have no real interest in the middle east, they're more concerned with controling Asia and trying to push the U.S. out of there. Sending troops to iran does nothing to further their National goals and would most likely be seen as a waste of time, money, and lives. Now if you were talking about North Korea you'd probably have to be very concerned about a chinese military challenge as that's right in chinas back yard. Again it's not about being a rep it's about common sense and nobody not even the Russains and Chinese would get involved in a Conflicted that had no upside for them.

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #17.12 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:28 PM EDT

                                              Christ wouldn't be on a crutch, Silly Ann.

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                                              #17.13 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:11 PM EDT
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                                              Sad the human race. Sad.

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                                              Reply#18 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:07 AM EDT

                                              Goodnuff - China would not want to fight a war that far from their mainland? They are on the border of both China and Russia, and, an attack on North Korea could be very dangerous for both of those countries as they might think it is a ploy to start attacks on them.

                                              Why in the world do you think we have not annihilated them already? It is because it could start a war with countries that really can fight back and fight back hard.

                                              You people had better get your geograhpy and have a better understanding of Geopolitical considerations; before you just start bombing people and by people I am talking about the millions of innocent Koreans and innocent Muslims who just want live normal lives, like the rest of us.

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #18.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:43 PM EDT

                                              @Bill I've already said that a military challenge from China is something that would have to be taken into consideration should a conflict break out in Korea since that's in their back yard. The comment you quoted was in reference to Chinas willingness to send troops to back up Iran and no they would not get involved there as it would do nothing for them in any way.

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #18.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:19 PM EDT

                                              Actually China is heavily vested in Iran - it was China who first went around the idiotic sanctions the West put on Iran by paying in real GOLD instead of bank currency - China refines 98% of Iran's oil and China gets a great rate on what they purchase. China is having an industrial revolution where oil is power - they will not sit back & watch Iran get destroyed....the reason the West is beating the war drum on Iran is because the West wants to cut the oil flow to China - the West still thinks it is an Empire, sorry - the new Empire is rising AGAIN and it will be China. Putin (Russia) has also said that he will not allow an attack on Iran....he has a few nukes too!

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                                              #18.3 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:24 AM EDT
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                                              you will die sally

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                                              Reply#19 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:10 AM EDT

                                              @Tom,

                                              Yes, someday I will, same as you and the rest of the lap dogs that are yipping here. So what else is new? We are born, we pay taxes, we die, and our estate pays the final taxes. Like I said, what else is new?

                                              • 3 votes
                                              #19.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:20 PM EDT

                                              so Sally....why is everyone else here a "lap dog" except yourself? Classic name-caller. When you cannot rely on reason, start the namecalling......good. I'm sure you are proud.

                                              • 5 votes
                                              #19.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:55 PM EDT

                                              So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #19.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:28 PM EDT
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                                              The oil company's that continue to do buisness with Iran by useing small aubsidiearies to sell them what they need to develop nukes should have thier board members and thier families,including extenden family, be in front of any troops sent to invade Iran.

                                              • 1 vote
                                              Reply#20 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:12 AM EDT

                                              In every major military parade in North Korea, you see Persians sitting in the grandstands with all the high-ranking Generals and Kim Jung Un. That tell you anything ?? Either one of them go to war, the other will follow and China and Russia both have serious investments in North Korea. I think Israel realizes this. Maybe since they are our allies they'll send a Brigade or two of IDF to the DMZ to help us out in South Korea ? No ? They are our greatest ally aren't they ?

                                              • 1 vote
                                              Reply#21 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:12 AM EDT

                                              Israel is not an ally of anyone. They will sell America out in a heartbeat if it benefits them the slightest. This is a lesson you will learn very soon.

                                              • 4 votes
                                              #21.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:15 AM EDT

                                              Most of you half wits have only lived in this country / things are vert different in Iran.You can kill your wife or daughter if you feel they have dishonored you.Nothing is sacared anything is ok under the name of all there god.90% of the people are great it's just that there religion has to control everything.I lived in Turkey for three years and found the people pleasant,easy to talk with and very understanding.But they have been working with europe for years and tend to think along european lines.Israel just tells it like it is which is hard for americans thats the reason you ellected Obama.Slowly you will learn that your small existance can easily be crushed.

                                              • 4 votes
                                              #21.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:10 PM EDT

                                              How dare you Pyles!!!! I prefer my existance just the way it is thank you. Now, I shall return to my Xanax infused lifestyle where everything is rainbows and unicorns.

                                              And, unicorns are real btw because North Korea's leader found them! Ah, bliss!

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #21.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:29 PM EDT
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                                              Wish both these a-hole "nations" would obliterate each other right off the map.

                                              • 3 votes
                                              Reply#22 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:12 AM EDT

                                              When Israel says jump, America says HOW HIGH SIR?

                                              • 4 votes
                                              Reply#23 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:14 AM EDT

                                              I dont think so. Sure they have influence but Israel is more of a parasite

                                              on Americas arse than anything. All these Rich Evangelicals are praying for the

                                              destruction of the Noble Sanctuary so Jebus returns for judgement, they

                                              probably should not want that seeing how most of those so called Christians

                                              will not be joining thier savior in Heaven.

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #23.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:53 AM EDT

                                              The seat of government and the Iranian military is in Tehran and under control of the Mullahs. It would appear that one well place nuclear weapon would guarantee that there are no Mullah's, not seat of government, and no military.

                                              • 2 votes
                                              #23.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:59 AM EDT

                                              So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #23.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:28 PM EDT

                                              Did you forget we have Obama as President? Obama only jumps for himself, he is one big self serving, narcissistic leader wanna be.

                                              • 2 votes
                                              #23.4 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:20 PM EDT

                                              the US is a bully!!! they start wars in middle eastern countries, w/o any evidence what so ever. The middle east is filled with poverty and woman and children who have no voice of their own. all these people died in iraq and no weapons of mass-destruction was ever found. I think as humans we need to speak against countries that bully the weak, at the end of the day the people on the top send their children to European Schools, drive their fancy cars and live in their big homes.. what happens to the displaced babies, tolddlers, and mothers who lose their husbands and have no way to feed their children..... come on people put ourself in their shoe for just one minute, this BS is not about US, IRAN, ISRAEL, OR KOREA, this is all about the almighty dollar and who will walk away with more of it..... what happened to Iran a few years ago when the youngsters died trying to bring in change to their country will happen one day around the world. Michael Jackson said it best, in his song Man In The Mirror; we have to make that change and stand up speak against the abuse of humans, woman and children....

                                                #23.5 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:37 PM EDT

                                                jarmoush please don't be so ignorant, destroying Muslims does not change anything. just look at what Hitler tried to do, why destroy a human race. This world is more beautiful because of it.

                                                  #23.6 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:44 PM EDT
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                                                  More like N. Korea all the time.

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                                                  Reply#24 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:14 AM EDT

                                                  Israel believes in the "lead, follow, or get out of the way philosophy." Seems to me they are feeling Obama out. I think today at the meeting with Abbas, Israel got their answers.

                                                  • 4 votes
                                                  Reply#25 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:20 AM EDT

                                                  So just kill & destroy all Muslims, Koreans and rest of the bad bad people on this earth so all the good people can live happily and peacefully? or may be we can make sure they all think and live just like us how's that sound to all the good, intelligent & chosen people of civilized world?

                                                    #25.1 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:29 PM EDT

                                                    And your souition is????

                                                      #25.2 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:18 PM EDT

                                                      the US is a bully, we have problems in our own backyard and we are constantly going else where. Lets help all the soldiers that come back messed up fighting wars which makes no sense. Help them, so when they come back they have a home, a job , and their dignity. just go to downtown LA and see how may soldiers of Vietnam are now begging, and are pushing carts because their government has failed them.

                                                      The problem here is that we all sit around and blame Iran and the Muslims but non of you have any idea how the other half live. How would you feel if you could not feed your children, or be able to save them from the bombs which may fall on your home.... woman and children people, babies...

                                                      these wars are created so that the people on top get richer, their children get good education while the poor and unfortunate, and no word of their own get killed....

                                                      Michael Jackson said it best in his song Man in the Mirror, take a look at yourself and make that change. we should stand up for the human race and not except what they do to the less fortunate...

                                                      • 1 vote
                                                      #25.3 - Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:53 PM EDT
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