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Bush Tried to Get Israel to Attack Syria in Latest War

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by glynch, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. tigermission1

    tigermission1 Member

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    Then where was much of that stuff you're talking about? Why didn't they use everything at their disposal to punish the Israelis? Are you saying they were exercising 'restraint'?
     
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    Thats good news. iran's armed forces are not loyal to the mollah's. except some of the IRGC, but the regular Army, Airforce and navy are loyal to iran. the worst thing the bush Adminstration can do is a provoke a war with the brave men of the iranian Army. we fought iraq for 8 long years without any assistance from anyone. but iraq was reciving intelligence from the us, MiG fighters from the Russians and mirages rom france. but our brave Airforce pilots tookout the iraqi airforce despite our planes lacking spare parts. the iranian F-14 pilots are the most successfull pilots in terms of kill ratio. there record stands as 1 to 9. each F-14 tookout nine iraqi jets. my dad was a F-4 phantom pilot who served in the airforce during the war. he came back from overseas when the war started to serve in the airforce again.


    You see what i mean, any aggression against iran will unite even the anti- regim units.
     
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    Thats for hezbollah to answer. Mr mohtashamipour the director of liberation of palestain in iran said that we have supplied them with Zelzal and other stuff. infact he went on to mention soon we will give them more then just Zelzal missiles. i assume shahb 1 or 2's.
     
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    Hezbollah did takeout a few apache and blackhawk helecopters. not to mention a isrealie gunboat. plus the IAF did also takeout a few un-maned iranian drones.
     
  5. tigermission1

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    I think it was only one...

    But let's say that you're right, that Iranian-supplied weapons (however inferior they were to Israel's) were good enough for a tiny militant group to take on and 'hold off' the mighty IDF...what would that say about Israeli chances at 'eliminating the Iranian threat'? It seems to me that if Israel ever undertakes a campaign against Iran, they will have to use nuclear weapons at some point in the conflict when they have advanced missiles (not Katyushas, mind you, which have caused havoc in Israel as is) raining upon them.

    If we assume that all parties have 'rational' leaderships, then there is very little chance of a conflict breaking out between Israel/US and Iran. However, I am not sure we can bank on that assumption...
     
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    But this Conflict has shown that Iran's Militarly Capebalities are far more advanced then at first thought. in my opinion it is great news. it will scare of the isrealies and the us to commit a major blunder of attacking iran. iran is not a paper tiger. in my opinion we have an army equal of anyone in the region. as we saw, iranian- built weapons are highly effective against the best the isrealies can throw at them. make no mistake, it was a war between iran and isreal. hezbollah was just using our built weapons.
     
  7. glynch

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    Israel and the US can and may still bomb Iran and mainly kill civilians as was done in Iraq and Lebanon. Rightfully so, they are afraid of a ground war with Iran in Iran. Israel is just too small to fight a ground war on Iranian soil and the US could only do so successfully with a full scale draft. Don' get me wrong the US could take Teheran and install a puppet in a Green Zone type area, but then the real war would continue.

    There is no chance of Iran attacking Israel or the US. It is a good thing that Hezbollah put a crimp in the Israeli- US plans to invade Iran or Syria. Both Syria and Iran now have a blueprint for successful defense against offensive thrusts by the US or Israel. It isn't exactly mutually assured destrution. but may be enough to deter Iraeli / US offensive wars.

    If Seymour Hersch is right, nutter Bush wanted to attack Iran with nukes, but the military managed to resist.
     
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    Actually, Iraq showed the U.S. it couldn't invade Iran.
     
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    Actually, it could invade, but not occupy.
     
  10. glynch

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    You would think so, but Bush and certainly Cheney with their militaristic mindsets would like other people's kids to go and give it a try.
     

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