That's a good idea, take the entire Iranian military, put them on a boat and blow it up.

That'll teach us to insult mohammed (piss be upon him).

What a bunch of idiots. My apoligies to idiots everwhere.

Posted by: walterc at October 29, 2007 4:50 PM

One can also tell a lot about a society by how they treat their weakest citizens- the elderly, the disabled and the children.

Posted by: s at October 29, 2007 4:54 PM

Hitler Jugend

Posted by: MP at October 29, 2007 4:56 PM

"One can tell a lot about a society from the figures it regards as heroes. Here, we have a 13-year-old suicide bomber."

Actually if the story is accurate, the boy is a hero - and a victim. A hero for giving his life to defend his homeland (Iran WAS attacked without provocation by Saddam's Iraq). A victim for having been born in a country where its adult populaton doesn't find anything remotely strange about a child fighting THEIR war for them.

Posted by: cruzado at October 29, 2007 4:57 PM

"Actually if the story is accurate, the boy is a hero - and a victim. A hero for giving his life to defend his homeland (Iran WAS attacked without provocation by Saddam's Iraq)."

A 13 year old "hero" is one that pulls his little sister out of a river, or saves the neighbor lady from a burning house, not a child that is given a plastic key to paradise and sent to attack a tank.

He was a victim of a cruel and senseless ideology.

Posted by: walterc at October 29, 2007 5:05 PM

That's what I call getting right to the heart of Patton's "poor dumb bastard" remark. General Ali Fahdavi kinda gets me all misty eyed.

Posted by: RalphInfidel at October 29, 2007 5:11 PM

@ topic

Oh...gee...what a shock (/sarc)...

especially after declaring every American a "terrorist" in lame-@$$ed infantile retribution for our calling a terrorist organization a terrorist organization, like IRGC is.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4712

gee...who'da seen that one coming?
(/sarc)

Posted by: jcom972 at October 29, 2007 5:13 PM

The Basij got volunteers, i.e. parents who willingly gave up their children, but Basij thugs also patrolled city and village streets shanghaing any kid unfortunate enough to be around.

The Iranians thought that sending tens of thousands of children into minefields was heroic. But no problem if they get the Bomb, they're just like the rest of us - only a little misunderstood.

Posted by: Peter Boston at October 29, 2007 5:14 PM

Sarkozy slandered:

http://fanonite.org/2007/10/29/the-manchurian-president/#more-944

Posted by: supercargo at October 29, 2007 6:05 PM

So what these people only understand force. Speak quietly and carry a big stick and be prepared to use it. It shouldn't be too difficult to get the word back that if they do try anything there will be an overwhelming response, if they try anything. I still thing the Swiss are looking after American affairs in Iran. Is it so difficult to remind these people, that they will have even less oil to export after the Americans blow up there oil instillations, in retaliation for any suicide attempt, and if they try anything again the result will only be worse. They cannot be so stupid not to understand that regimes can only survives if it is viable going concern and after American is finished that they will be bankrupt. Remember America they don't have to like you, they just have to fear you. All they have to know is that retribution is at hand if they start mucking about. Get Ex- Ambassador Bolton to say a few choice words at a press conference somewhere. Something on the lines of America would look on any hostile attack on itself or its allies in the Gulf as an act of aggression. Then invite a Syrian military attache to a demonstration of the American Air force dropping one of there MOABS mother of all bombs in Utah or somewhere, you could even emphasis that America was determined that Iran shall never have the A bomb, in these circumstances you don't have to be too subtle. Have no fear the Iranians would soon get the message, they are certainly not stupid.

Posted by: Holger Dansker at October 29, 2007 6:06 PM

What a shame the Persians didn't stick to the religion they developed in antiquity, Zoroastrianism. It is far superior in numerous ways to the death cult which is Islam. And instead of ayatollahs and mullahs in Iran today, there could be Magi instead. Damn.

Posted by: Wellington at October 29, 2007 6:07 PM

The ultimate guided weapon.

Massed Regiment size attacks with 40lb of Plastic explosives on each.

Fast pleasure craft with 1-2 thousand lb. Bombs

Prop Planes tricked out the same way.

Throw that into their conventional weapons mix and you have one ugly affair.

Attacks like this would require us to kill everyone who even gets nears us. The MSM will crucifie us.

A couple days of Bombing Iran will never be enough.

Every weapon system we have, Land, Sea and Air will be employed. We will kill anyone who gets near us be it in Iran or Iraq.

The Enviromental Movement in America will be crushed under the demands for energy. Global Warming Idelogy will get tossed in the scrap heap of history.

Every form of energy production ever devised by man will be shoved down the throat of the most vocal opponets.

I wonder how many of our Smart Infantry Weapons are addaptabe to point defence at sea?

The Navy should re-condition some of our best preforming Prop Aircraft from WWII. Upgraded to carry some Modern Missiles, to counter the asmytrical threat Iran poses.

I would like to think that the Navy thinks outside the Box a bit considering the last war game they held in the Gulf simulating an attack against Iran. Where many of our ships were lost.

Posted by: flowerknife_us at October 29, 2007 6:08 PM

Flowerknife_us, the first eight items in your comment sound like the reasons that two atomic bombs were dropped in August, 1945.

Posted by: Pelayo at October 29, 2007 6:38 PM

"I wonder how many of our Smart Infantry Weapons are addaptabe to point defence at sea?

One Marine with an M-14 and proper orders would have stopped USS Cole attack. Those little martyrs would have been killed and blown up 200 yards away.

Posted by: Pelayo at October 29, 2007 6:45 PM

Iranian Revolutionary Guard general threatens suicide attacks in Persian Gulf
..............................

Well, this certainly shows the whole world how silly it was for the US Senate to designate the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization. Guess this disproves that theory!

Posted by: gravenimage at October 29, 2007 7:15 PM

Flowerknife

We have radar guided Gatling guns firing 30mm depleted uranium shells - they can shoot artillery shell out of the fckin air and they would mince any of these pathetic human bombs - I for one am praying that these dumb Iranians try something as dumb as this:
This is all typical Islamic false bravado - just watch when, soon, we start a lightning intense bombing campaign and take out the nuclear threat once and for all the Iranians will start crying like babies - there will be no retaliation ITS all bravado - check out what happened when the Israelis attacked Syria a couple of weeks ago - NOTHING - it only makes these ignorant peasant bullies understand how truly weak they are and how truly powerful WE are - BRING IT ON !!

Posted by: johnmacII at October 29, 2007 7:24 PM

As Pelayo points out, the best "smart infantry weapon" is a smart infantryman.

Posted by: ebonystone at October 29, 2007 7:30 PM

"Hakko ichiu".....Banzai! Banzai! (Allah Snackbar!?)

What now looks bizarre (even to the Japanese) will be one day be seen as bizarre even among Muslims. It's all trance and rituals over objective truth. It was the same with the Nazis (Heil! Heil! Heil!).

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:wKmEw1UutLoJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakko_ichiu+hakko+ichiu&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

Posted by: Frank at October 29, 2007 7:51 PM

The US military (thank you General) has got Osama whining in his latest video.

One looks forward to the day when this dude as well cries uncle.

As for the Saudis - it would be well to just bomb the kaaba in Mecca to get their attention.

The day when there are all kinds of houses of worship throughout the ME will be a great one.

Fundamental islam is just plain evil.

Posted by: dgene at October 29, 2007 7:57 PM

oddly enough,
they've done this before...and we expected them, implementing Operation Preying Mantis, 1988.
The result of which was the utter destruction of the iranian navy as an effective fighting force, and even their little boghammers (small, fast speedboats) were never the same after that.

Posted by: jcom972 at October 29, 2007 8:15 PM

"Fundamental islam is just plain evil".
Posted by: dgene at October 29, 2007 7:57 PM

Some may say you are a bit harsh, but I think you are addressing a truth that was finally recognized with the Nazi and Japanese supremacism as WW2 progressed. It had to be burned out. Dresden style fire-bombing of Germany and the use of the bomb against Japan were the only convincing argument the German and Japanese supremacists understood. We are dealing with a similar mind-set of trance and ritual with the Jihadists that is very similar to the German and Japanese mind-set in that period.

In the final analysis only parliamentary style secular democracy where the chuckle-head "religious police" and imams are well criticized and kept out of politics will save Saudi-A-Totolitarian-Gas-Station and the Mideast from catastrophe. I don't see that happening. The Sharia trance will probably have to be burned out. That will happen after some terrible attack on Israel or on the US.

Posted by: Frank at October 29, 2007 8:18 PM

This bunch sounds like the most hotheaded of Japanese generals in August 1945. Even the atomic bombings didn't bother them-a fight to the death of Japan was their only answer. For all his faults at least Hirohito decided enough was enough and threw in the towel. Who in Iran will be their Hirohito?

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 29, 2007 9:13 PM

A lot of Dems voted to deny Bush's request to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guards terrorists, fearing that it would make military action more likely against Iran. As angry as I am at that, one must admit that Bush's pie-in-the-sky goals for democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan are much to blame for much of the country's isolationist attitude towards Islamofascism.

Posted by: jewdog at October 29, 2007 9:33 PM

A few well placed boom-booms and Iran's petroleum ports and distribution are RUINED, the country (already tense and mismanaged and economically chaotic) would be economically GONE.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at October 29, 2007 9:45 PM

Dear Gen. Fahdavi,

You're an idiot. Similar tactics have been tried in the past, but they have generally failed to meet the stated objectives. However, the use of those tactics and methods led to the impression of there being a deep seated, totally irrational, fanaticism among the enemy. It eventually lead to the abandonment of conventional warfare techniques and to the adoption of tactical nuclear strikes against selected enemy targets.
Please keep this in mind the next time you feel led by allah to launch a suicide strike against American interests anywhere in the world. Have a nice day!

Posted by: livefreeordie! at October 29, 2007 9:50 PM

Who in Iran will be their Hirohito?

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 29, 2007 9:13 PM

Good question. At this time they are in Banzai! mode in Iran. In any case they must not get the bomb. However, in the long term, I think the real source/foundation of Muslim "Hakko ichiu" is Saudi Arabia (which is really an apartheid state), and where the spark plugs of the engine of Arab Imperialism are located.

Posted by: Frank at October 29, 2007 10:00 PM

Point defences on Ships are designed to hit fast moving airborn targets. Usually traveling at near to 3x the speed of Sound. Tracking radar may not lock on target well with slow moving, manuverable targets.

First use of Nuclear Weapons is not an option for us.

Put nothing past the Iranians in their efforts to self distruct.

If there is a Democracy movement in Iran they need to do something soon. Or they will look like Germany did at their Surrender.

Posted by: flowerknife_us at October 29, 2007 10:14 PM

"Who in Iran will be their Hirohito?"

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS

Maybe their 12th Imam (or is it the 13th?) will climb out of his well.

Posted by: ebonystone at October 29, 2007 10:41 PM

"Go ahead. Make our day."

Posted by: angryeagle at October 29, 2007 11:25 PM

Frank - have you read G K Chesterton's "The Everlasting Man"? All you need to read is the chapter entitled "The War of the Gods and the Demons" (Rome vs Carthage).

I also recommend, to everyone here, but especially to anyone who is either serving in Iraq or Afghanistan or knows someone serving there, a book called "The Desert Column", by an Australian soldier - Ion L Idriess, Trooper Number 358 - who served at Gallipoli and then with the Australian Light Horse in the desert campaign against the Muslim Ottoman Turks in 1917, from Sinai to Jaffa. He kept a daily diary in small notebooks throughout his entire time of service, sometimes even scribbling notes in the lulls of battle. The book came out in 1932, essentially an abridged transcript of the diaries.

Something worth noting, from chapter 46 - "Men are remarking how the Turk fights to the very last charge, until the pounding hooves are upon him, then he drops his rifle and runs screaming; while the Austrian artillerymen and German machine-gun teams often fight with their guns until they are bayoneted".

And Idriess' opinion of Islam:, from chapter 41:
"At Tel el Marakeb. When off duty I go for a walk along the beach at sundown. The wet sand is firm, everything is quiet and still, for a precious two hours a man can almost forget the army and claim his soul his own. In a small date-palm oasis Bedouins are camped. At sundown the ragged men walk to the beach, spread their praying-mats of bag and turning their backs to the setting sun and the sea offer prayers to their God with a faith and earnestness equalled by very few Christians. One evening as I passed behind them a black-bearded chap's eyes lit on me as he stood muttering devotions, but I'm doubtful if at the moment the 'Christian dog' existed for him.
"I could not help thinking that IF THEY HAD A RELIGION LESS DOGMATIC, LESS CRUEL, LESS INTOLERANT, LESS MURDEROUS [my emphasis] and put their intensity of mind and life more to other things, they might become quite a force in the world instead of being a living clog from the days before Moses" (p. 233).

His observations upon the Muslim Arabs of Sinai and 'Palestine', in particular the Bedouin, are scathing - and he is disgusted by British sympathy with, and insistence on protecting and accommodating, these "ghouls of the battlefield", as he calls them. He notes that although the Bedouin were "the Turks' best spies" they were just as quick to murder and rob a wounded Turkish soldier after a battle, as they were to murder and rob a wounded Australian or Englishman. So much for the much-vaunted 'brotherhood' of Islam! (Perhaps it was the Arab supremacism of Islam, that Hugh has often talked about here, in action - Turks being treated as second-class Muslims, the moment they became weak).

Like Churchill's "The River War" - referred to often on this web-site - I think Idriess' book offers some interesting and useful insights on what happens when Western soldiers get to grips with the jihadists face to face on the battlefield, and what one must do in order to prevail.

One horrifying image, from the Gallipoli battlefield: "within a few yards of my periscope lay a tale telling how furiously both sides died. The Australian's bayonet is sticking, rusty and black, six inches through the Turk's back. One hand is gripping the Turk's throat, while even now you can see the Turk's teeth fastened through what was the boy's wrist. The Turk's bayonet is jammed through the boy's stomach and one hand is clenched, claw-like, across the Australian's face. I wonder will they fight, if there is an after world". (from chapter 9).

We need to recover all our histories from previous phases of the Defence of Humanity against the Jihad - not just the Western stories either, Poitiers/ Tours, or Pelayo, or El Cid, or Vienna and Malta and Lepanto, from the Balkans, from Russia, but how it was that the Ethiopians or the Maronites have fought out their long sieges in their mountain citadels, and the heroism of the Sikhs. Yes we need the cautionary tales of corruption, division, confusion, defeat and dhimmitude, so we know what NOT to do - but we also need to reflect on the victories, very carefully, not just to build hope, but in order to try to work out what people did RIGHT, so we can try to do it again.

A final observation - if the jihadis only call for hudna when they want a time-out, in order to recoup their forces for a treacherous attack later on, then, logically - no matter how much it goes against our natural instincts, the cry for 'hudna', whenever it is heard, should be THE signal for our forces to ramp up their attacks and GO IN FOR THE KILL. Have the field commanders in Iraq or Afghanistan worked that one out, yet?

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at October 30, 2007 12:01 AM

The tactic is to scatter lots of small boats in the vicinity of warships. Navigational rules of the road allow freedom of movement in open water and moving speedboats into the vicinity of warships is legal. Firing on loitering speedboats would be a violation of international law.

The Straits of Hormuz is a really tight place to maneuver warships. If there are 1000 speedboats hanging out in the Straits, evenly spaced, that’s one every few dozen yards. The navy needs to navigate through the speedboats, the speedboats don’t need to approach the navy. Throw in a few loitering Kilo-class submarines, and things could get exciting.

At this point, officials said, IRGC has deployed more than 1,000 FPBs in and around the straits. The vessels, armed with cruise missiles, mines, torpedoes and rocket-propelled grenades, are up to 23 meters in long and can reach a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/me_iran_06_22.asp

Posted by: pez at October 30, 2007 12:01 AM

Someone suggest this big mouth general be the first to strap on the bomb. Notice the hypocrisy. The idiot suicide bomber is the poor dumb bastard that was talked into it by his superiors.

Remember what Patton said, "The job is to get the other poor dumb bastard to die for his country not you for yours." or something like that.

Unfortunately we will need to hit them hard or we should not do anything at all. War is not half measures. Vietnam was half measure IMO. In someways Iraq is a half measure war.

Posted by: Im.mad.as.HELL! at October 30, 2007 12:06 AM

‘If necessary we will take advantage of the element of martyrdom-seeking,’

I'll bet General Fahdavi, nor any of his children will be strapping on an explosives vest to martyr themselves in the cause of Islam.

Odd how few Islamic leaders and their families are called to Martyrdom by Allah. It seems this honor is always reserved for someone elses kid.

Posted by: rational at October 30, 2007 12:37 AM

Ray Hanania lies again:

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/religious_gesture_of_understanding_turns_into_usual_debate_on_hate/0014878

Posted by: supercargo at October 30, 2007 12:43 AM

Good point pez,
but the hardware is a lot better now than it used to be, so such things like a KILO aren't very hard to detect anymore, and a boghammer (speed boat) every few yards makes a target-rich environment, no matter how fast it is (even old phalanxs will take those out close up, let alone the new wares, which makes 100kph/62mph not as fast as they need to be to evade.) and our minesweeping ability had a major upgrade-no, doesn't mean it's a breeze by any means...just that what appears to be advantages often shows distinct disadvantages like those mentioned, and their attempted intimidation posturing are no better than their missile masquerades a couple months ago...
...and with 720 warplanes within range from the Navy alone (not including USAF on-call), the retaliation will be swift, severe, and a repeat of Operation Preying Mantis (it's already in place, ready to go on a moments notice)...
the old adage:"if the enemy is in range, so are you"
is more of a disadvantage for them than us, especially when you consider the proximity of their oil refineries, and a major base at Bandar Abbas aching to be turned into a bomb crater again.

But...if they wish to TRY...I say let 'em.
*WEG*

Posted by: jcom972 at October 30, 2007 12:52 AM

ISLAMSFORLOSERS said

For all his faults at least Hirohito decided enough was enough and threw in the towel. Who in Iran will be their Hirohito?

Who in the U.S. will be our Harry Truman?

Posted by: special_guest at October 30, 2007 1:12 AM

From the article:

referring to 13-year-old Iranian Hossein Fahmideh who became a national hero after blowing himself up under an Iraqi tank in the 1980-1988 war.

Unless little Hossein was holding a shaped explosive charge, it is unlikely to have done any damage to a modern tank. More likely, he blew only himself up, and the tank drove away undamaged. It's questionable whether the soldiers inside the tank even noticed the explosion as the tank treads ran over the pulpy remains of the boy. But if that is the example that they want to live up to...

Posted by: special_guest at October 30, 2007 1:24 AM

Little Hossein is now in Paradise, playing marbles with the pearl-like little boys there also -- whenever they have time, that is, from servicing the grown-up Muslim martyrs.

Posted by: Marwan'sDaughter at October 30, 2007 2:11 AM

Send 'm back to Allah

http://www.ourdigest.com/view_video.php?viewkey=dfaecdc212708f721b78

Posted by: DrWolffenstein at October 30, 2007 2:43 AM

I know some folks who'll help on that one.
They must be good-they have their own currency.
72 Virgins Dating Service
Express Delivery Available:
"We'll hook you up!"
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2737/85/

;-)

Posted by: jcom972 at October 30, 2007 3:55 AM

"One Marine with an M-14 and proper orders would have stopped USS Cole attack. Those little martyrs would have been killed and blown up 200 yards away.

Posted by: Pelayo "

...as I recall, the security on the USS Cole had seen the small boat acting suspiciously and had reported the small boats' actions to the Bridge, the security was armed with M16s and a M60 machine gun....After reporting the small boat to the Bridge, they were ordered not to fire....gotta make sure you don't kill "civilians"....doncha know....

....when in port...put out the notice to all in the area...do not approach the warships....at all..for no reason...else you just may become a martyr who failed....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 30, 2007 6:12 AM

"TEHERAN - A top general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday warned that the Basij militia were ready ‘if necessary’ to carry out suicide operations in the Gulf"

.......When the Basij militia were employed against Iraq, the only tactic they used were simply moronic mass assault against superior forces (shades of the Battle of the Somme in WWI). The result was similar .... massive casualties....mostly their own....they were employed mostly just to clear the minefields in preparation for the regular Iranian military to attack, often the Basij had no weapons (but they did have the plastic key)...sometimes they would just roll on the ground (you can cover more ground this way ...increases your chance of finding those hidden land mines)....as far as I know...they never breached any Iraqi line....children with no weapons assaulting rifles, machine guns, mortars, artillery and tanks is no match....after the Iran/Iraqi war, many Iranian soldiers reported sadness and psychiatric problems is dealing with the knowledge that they had killed so many children (tens of thousands children were killed)...I suspect this time around the Muslims will give the children rifles and grenades....

...."to carry out suicide operations in the Gulf"

is exactly what they will do....and the MSM and the dhimmicrats will blame us for killing them all.....it will be suicide...but since when does Islam care about young children?.......(NOTE: The Basij militia is comprised mostly of teenagers and children who could be as young as 8 years old...)

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 30, 2007 6:33 AM

"A final observation - if the jihadis only call for hudna when they want a time-out, in order to recoup their forces for a treacherous attack later on, then, logically - no matter how much it goes against our natural instincts, the cry for 'hudna', whenever it is heard, should be THE signal for our forces to ramp up their attacks and GO IN FOR THE KILL. Have the field commanders in Iraq or Afghanistan worked that one out, yet?

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy "

......absolutely!....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 30, 2007 6:43 AM

Put a few destroyers in the Gulf and fire at anything that floats

Posted by: hemoglobin at October 30, 2007 9:25 AM

exsgt
When the Cole happened, the commander-in-chief was busy smoking cigars with ML.
He made no secret of hating the military and they of disrespecting him.
My brother who served our country with honor and distinction sent me many updates of how many of our experienced and talented military jumped ship during his term of office.
After Bush was elected he sent me two videos. One with Bill leaving Marine One and one with Bush doing the same. His instructions were to watch the actions of the Marine guards as they saluted the Presidents when they left the helicopter.
the diference was astounding.
Both times they saluted as he left the aircraft except in GW's case they turned and held the salute long after he passed them by.
And remember the Captain of the Cole is no longer commanding a ship.

The best weapon in our arsenal is the freedom loving soldier himself. We could Never turn one of them into a suicide martyr through orders. But they do continue to sacrifice themselves to save others.

God Bless our troops.

OT If you are close enough to catch the local News out of Atlanta, they are doing a story @6pm of Thursday on channel 2 (ABC) on the two Islamic terrorist compounds in GA. Maybe they will show it online.

Posted by: Aunt Bea at October 30, 2007 9:35 AM

If the comments of a "top general" indicate that Iran's most deadly weapon is a child suicide bomber, they've already lost any battle they could possibly fight against the west.

Iran is full of losers. shocking, I know.

Posted by: kutabeach at October 30, 2007 10:59 AM

I cannot remember the officers name...but there was someone from our side commenting on this subject a few months ago when tensions began to rise between us and Iran. The gentleman had a very good point about how difficult such massed attacks are to orchestrate. He's right on the money- it isn't going to work as the enemy expects. Can they manage the odd hit now and then? Probably, especially against merchant shipping. In terms of danger to merchant shipping and naval vessels it's probably...
1)mines
2)shore-based surface-to-surface missiles
24)some idiot with a bass boat full of dynamite
Somewhere inbetween 2 and 24 is the Iranian airforce and navy, which we'll use for some beginner-level target practice.
I have no doubt we'll take some licks now and then, but the lion's share of the ass kicking will be done by us. We have the technology, and (most important of all) we have the true warriors in this fight. Thank God for the men in women who have stepped forward to defend our republic!

War's coming, and there's plenty of the enemy on our own shores. Please make plans and prepare to take care of yourselves and your families when the crap hits the fan. After the fact...will be a day too late.

Posted by: livefreeordie! at October 30, 2007 4:35 PM

General Ali Fahdavi,

Concerning your statement that you "were ready ‘if necessary’ to carry out suicide operations in the Gulf". I have spoken with many of my infidel friends about this, and I can now assure you that we would be terrified if you were to commit suicide by drowning yourself in the Gulf. If you could get the popular Iranian midget comedian Minabadmood Armandhandjob, who often appears on Iranian television, to drown himself with you it would be guaranteed to fill our hearts with terror. We have been very intimidated by the large crowds that Mr. Armandhandjob draws to each of his concerts. Accordingly, the sight of those crowds following Mr. Armandhandjob into the Gulf, to demonstrate their commitment, would truly leave us terrified beyond belief.

Posted by: RalphInfidel at October 30, 2007 7:28 PM

I still maintain the position, despite their lame empty sabre-rattling...
it's (still) panic-squared, in iran.

Posted by: jcom972 at October 30, 2007 7:49 PM

jcom972,

Assuming they have any sense at all (hmmm?) you're right.

Posted by: RalphInfidel at October 30, 2007 7:57 PM

primal sense, yes...that doesn't leave until ya die.
(the panic-squared comment was relayed via an Indian General VIP visiting iran, to his friend, Dr Jack Wheeler which he wrote down in article @ http://www.tothepointnews.com and that was even before sept. 6, when the Israelis nailed that syrian nuke site-they pounded him with frantic questions, asking will we attack, when will we attack, will it be surgical or mass bombing, etc etc...all the while painting the chest-thumping badass impression to the MSM ON camera...as well as monitoring their wireless cellphone conversations, which can be picked up with the right equipment only available to law enforcement & military/NSA/CIA/MI5-6/etc...and also happen to be made by Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, which coincidentally is invested in iran that way by , you guessed it...nancy pelosi

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287216,00.html )

So, yep...they're panic-squared...they just act all tough in front of their lackeys, aka MSM via camera.

Posted by: jcom972 at October 31, 2007 1:39 AM

"Put a few destroyers in the Gulf and fire at anything that floats

Posted by: hemoglobin "

...and heavily mine the area, then back off to watch the fireworks....nothing goes in and nothing goes out...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 31, 2007 7:12 AM

just a few destroyers?

Would 3 carrier battle groups + one close by on station,
2 Marine amphibious groups + one close by on station,
and several hundred warplanes (and that's just the NAVY) do instead?
(not including 354th & 509th Bomb Wings from USAF currently on standby)
(also not including the Charles DeGaulle French Naval Group also there on station)

*poof*
Your wish is my command.
*WEG*

(oh, and FYI, yes the islamicommies will REALLY throw a fit on this one...
if that 509th sounds familiar, it should. 509th Bomb Wing derived its designation from its predecessor, 509th Composite Group of Hiroshima & Nagasaki fame. Of that, the 393rd Bomb Squadron of the 509 stands out, especially since its Commanding Officer also has an equally famous name:
Lt Col Paul Tibbets IV)

Posted by: jcom972 at October 31, 2007 7:40 AM

...and with that,

Brig. Gen. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr (USAAF/USAF ret) who lives just long enough for the classified data to be released, thus justifying the bomb drop beyond doubt.

RIP, brother.

Thanks to men with guts like him,
many of us (especially many who don't realize it yet, since our fathers would've most likely died in action in Operations Olympic/Coronet/Downfall before we were born...as well as most Japanese alive today, too, 75% would've never been born either)
owe our existence to him.

Thank you, General...you did just fine.
"See you at the big roll call."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307252,00.html

Posted by: jcom972 at November 1, 2007 7:20 PM