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Posted by: populist 2 years, 9 months agoAs the US-Iran standoff escalates toward its inevitable denouement, analysts are busily gaming scenarios that may lead to the commencement of hostilities. Only the naive take solace in the illusion of peace, for it will take nothing less than a miracle of biblical proportions for either peace or de-escalation to prevail.
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not2needy
Feb. 10, 2007, 11:38 p.m.Only the naive take solace in the illusion of peace, for it will take nothing less than a miracle of biblical proportions for either peace or de-escalation to prevail.
And an accident is all that is needed to unleash hell on earth))
That's just plain scary, scary as hell.
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ETproductions
Feb. 10, 2007, 11:45 p.m.It will take an act of Congress strong enough to tell the Bush Administration Bush, Cheney and all the top lieutenants involved in violating the act WILL be impeached for having gotten us into one disastrous war based on at best cooked "intelligence" and then having learned nothing from the mistake, making a bad situation worse by launching a second illegal war.
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MonkeyBiz
Feb. 11, 2007, 12:17 a.m.The article's author is somewhat pessimistic ya think? I'm still optimistic enough to hope that cooler heads can prevail, but I'm not so naive as to think that an intelligent response to Iran will be forthcoming from the neocons.
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Taganan
Feb. 11, 2007, 12:50 a.m.When dealing with the insanity of fundamentalist Islamics there is no hope of peace. They want only to 1. kill Westerners and 2. make the entire world be fundamentalist Islamics, mostly by killing anyone who won't convert.
It is necessary to plan for every concievable contingency possible. Just because a plan is discussed doesn't mean it will be carried out. There are probably scenarios discussed as to what we might do if the UK was to become an Islamic country, or France a dictatorship.
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siropel
Feb. 11, 2007, 2:01 a.m.We are talking of cultural differences and this ain't never going to end. Even signing of a peace treaty won't mean a thing for those who lost their families.
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johnkamis64
Feb. 11, 2007, 2:33 a.m.What gripes my liver to no end is all these bozos quoting odds they probably just made up.Y'know,the odds of Islamic bakers beating a Columbian coffee merchant to death with breadsticks and cheese kringles being 654,987,321 to 1.
Odds, no matter how remote ,mean NADA when that one.....is you.
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johnkamis64
Feb. 11, 2007, 2:42 a.m.And Another thing....
Could SOMEBODY please get those wargamers some PS3s,with networking/online game capabilities; so the jagoffs will quit wasting millions of taxpayer dollars playing "Resident Evil Multinational Corporate Zombie Lobbyists " on the Cray-12 supercomputers and giving the whole world nightmares?
Is that too much to ask???
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disraeli
Feb. 11, 2007, 5:02 p.m.Why does it come as no suprise that you would get support for your world view from that paragon of the fourth estate, the Weekly World News?
Tell me was this below the fold on the edition that carried the headline "Elvis is the Father of my Alien Love Child"
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Amazing1
Feb. 11, 2007, 7:18 a.m.The drums keep beating. And wingnuts still abound. Accusing France of hiding nuclear warheads under the Eiffel Tower? Oh, give me a break.
Bush and Co. need to be impeached, stopped, arrested and tried. They have led us into this nightmare scenario and have now brought the world to the brink of meltdown, both economic and nuclear.
We also need to make sure that none of them escape to Paraguay. They have in a short six years made this world a far more dangerous place. They have painted the American flag with a big target and have exponentially increased the hatred toward our nation.
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ybdogsct
Feb. 11, 2007, 4:50 p.m.SNIPER91 WROTE:
"During a time of war (your) rights take a back seat to everything else! How do ya like them apples.!?"
What happened to the oath of enlistment you swore when you first enlisted?
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."
As part of your oath, you swore to defend the Constitution and the rights it grants its citizens. Your statement "your rights take a back seat to everything else" violates the oath you swore to your country, unless martial law has been declared (which it hasn't).
If you're so eager to abrogate your Constitutional rights and freedoms, then I suggest you move to a totalitarian state like North Korea, where you can brag about your military service all you want. It lends no credence to your posts here.
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Sabretooth
Feb. 11, 2007, 3:17 p.m.I thought you were all for censorship in a time of war? Oh, you meant only censhorship of people who think differently then you.
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MonkeyBiz
Feb. 11, 2007, 10:14 a.m.My rights take a back seat to nothing you facsist idiot. I fought for those rights (and if neccesary, will do so again).
You are a pompous poser chest thumping about being a Marine. There are plenty of veterans on this post that have as much or more service as you. Real Marines, particulary those with combat experience, see no need to brag. If you really were a Marine, you were undoubtably a REMF.
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Sabretooth
Feb. 11, 2007, 2:43 p.m.Yes, i do have a few questions about your service friend so please give me your credentials so i might make a few inquiries. Thank you in advance.
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inverse
Feb. 11, 2007, 9:20 a.m.This is too depressing, all these war talks and war consequences. I think we will need more tax cut to cheer us up.
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spikecwc
Feb. 11, 2007, 9:37 a.m.Boring, rambling piece with enough obscure words to make Willam F Buckley proud.
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slate
Feb. 11, 2007, 10:09 a.m.It seems to me that 2 or 3 people are obsessed with anything negative pertaining to Bush , Iraq, Israel and Iran. Their threads somehow make it to the front page every day with their curt one line blurb to start things off in hope of yet another orgasmic denunciation of the Bush administration. I know that's what this site is about but jeez how many time can Chicken Little decry the sky is falling?
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BhaktaRajPrabhu
Feb. 11, 2007, 10:09 a.m.Here's a quote by Justice William O. Douglas that everyone might want to consider. I think it's applicable today, with the possibility of an air strike on Iran, (and God-only-knows what consequences might result), and the "shut up, and we'll handle this" thinking that the neo-cons want us to swallow:
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness."
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Star_Poet
Feb. 11, 2007, 10:12 a.m.I don't think that video-games should support war. Video-games should be fun and support the bravado of true Fun, not all these stupid games that only want to make money.
You know who you are.
You want a better game? You want games that rock for the PS3?
Hire me.
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