Tronic

well... its better then having our agencies tell us tommorow... sorry folks... they have the bomb...

and I say all we need now is major money put into other sources of energy... lets face it, we're killing the planet, and killing it fast....

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Julie

{curtsy, curtsy}....I'm honored for your reply.

The best part to me is the oil company ceo's would literally shiit in their pants if we did that.

If it were me making the call......that's what I would do....in a heartbeat.

Ray

Cannamore,

Alaskan oil extraction has a great price to pay in ecology.

While it may make economic sense, it may not make sense in the long run.

I rather go with Sniper. Dry out the Arab oil and gas. That is their sole blackmail weapon.

Oil gone, these Sheiks and their subjects become the dirty little ill clad Bedous that they are!

Even the remainder of the Islamic world will heave a sigh of relief, having been liberated from the clutches of these Wahhabi vermin!

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GVChamp

Attacking Iran's oil facilities actually makes a hell of a lot more sense than attacking nuclear facilities now that I think about it.

That's shutting down about 15% of the Iranian economy and something like 80% of its exports. Shutting down that means shutting down the flow of hard currency, which means no more pretty new artillery shells and definitely a lot harder time to trying to modernize its own economy. Slap some sanctions on the country, throw in their massive government deficits (which are only going to get larger), double-digit inflation which will only rise with the deficits, and the problems they have been having with their privatization efforts, and the Iranian economy is going nowhere fast. No economy=no threat, and could even mean revolution or reform.

Too bad that the best course of action is the one that would make everyone absolutely nuts.

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Ray

Blasted exiles!

I don't trust any turncoat.

I would check the news myself and that is what the US should do rather than listen to these fools.

Iraqi exiles and their rosy pictures of chaps waiting with garlands should be a warning!

Never trust an Arab carpet seller or even a Persian (Iranian) carpet seller!

They will always overbid and sell worthless stuff as heritage articles!

I know a Kashmiri artifact shop owner. He says his best customers are Americans and they are so profitably gullible!

Anon

Attacking both makes even more sense still.

Ray

Nuclear facility is what is the sore point.

Oil, the world and the US requires!

GVChamp

That it would. It'd be mighty tough to replace equipment and scientists under normal circumstances, but trying to do it with no money would be a nightmare.
But how good is the intelligence on Iran's nuclear program? My limited knowledge is that it is dispersed, underground to a large extent, and close to civilians in many cases. That makes it difficult to:
A. Hit it
B. Determine what each individual base is doing and how important each is to the overall operation.


I'd rather send out only a few air raids to hit more important facilities as opposed to 50 in an attempt to grind the entire program into dust. Both, I would think, would accomplish our goal of stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon any time soon.

Too bad my college education is in economics and not nuclear engineering.

We sure need oil, and bombing oil facilities would probably set back worldwide oil production for a LONG time. But Iran will be hurting a lot worse than us.

Anon

As i have speculated in the past, if they cannot power a lightbulb, then their nuclear ambitons become almost irrelevant.

If i'm in charge, we're bombing everything i can find that's worth the effort.

Dams, oil facilities, bridges, electrical grids, all advanced industry, everything.

My solution is simple.

Either they surrender, or the JDAM fairy cometh nightly until they change their minds, or until there are none of them left to change their minds.

"By the time we're done with the bastards Japanese will be a language spoken only in Hell".
~General Curtis LeMay

Ray

What have you got against the Japanese, Sniper.

Your Japanese car not performing well?

Monk

Sit on the oil for abt 40yrs. Let the towel heads run dry. Then release the oil on the market and watch them having to buy from you to satisfy their energy needs. I am waiting for this moment. I have known abt the canadian oil for years and always thought that was going to be the strategy,
Fukk this biatch ass towel heads!!!

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Monk

She was always the smartest lady here M21 (and THL too).

Monk

There was a time I was a strong supporter of Iran. On this very forum I have debated several boarders abt the error of bombing Iran.

I no longer feel the conviction to do so.

Ready, take aim,........................

Bluesman

Our future, if the Democrats' fortunes wax:

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Bluesman

One small inaccuracy with that last panel. Can anyone tell me what it is? (Almighty snark inbound at high speed...)