Obama rattling the saber against Iran,

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98. I really ought to be paid to tutor...

1) Sneak attack was referring to your "stealth attack."

2) History, goddamn it. During the Iraq-iran war, the Iraqi military was the most powerful and modern armed force in the region; Saint Reagan saw to that. In fact the size and power of this Arabist military is the major reason that Israel supported IRAN during that war. yeah, just like they funded and supported Hamas as a counter to the PLO, they shipped weapons and intelligence to Tehran during the 80's.

3) a large portion if Iraq's land forces were annihilated by Coalition forces in 1991, during their retreat from Kuwait along highway 80. It could legitimately be called a massacre, since even though they were the belligerent force, they were in retreat and were not returning fire. it was ten hours of US armed forces shooting a barrel of fish.

4) Twelve years later, iraqi forces did fold before the invading coalition, almost without a fight. Turns out twelve years of strict embargos and starvation sanctions don't improve military morale very much.

Now the thing with Iran is... They spent twelve years fighting against Iraq - pre-Kuwait Iraq. It was the longest war of the 20th century, and the third-deadliest after the World Wars. They were facing down a proxy military of the United States, that was heavily funded by Gulf kleptocracies, aided by European and Russian backers... And by the closing days of the war, it was Iran that was gaining ground, having taken Basra and Abadon. After most of their air and armor had been smashed by '85.

Point is... don't think that Iran is like the peasants that the nation you revere as god blows up and calls "War." We're not talking about ghetto kids with slingshots, we're talking a nation that will fight to the last scrap of flesh to keep foreign assholes away.