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tech3149

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1. The "tension" with Iran is completely US generated.

Reply to The Northerner (Original post)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 06:42 AM

Jul 2012

I've been telling people for years that if we stop pissing in other people's sandboxes we won't have so many "enemies"
Iran is no threat even if they did have a desire for nuclear weapons. We've had a hardon for Iran since the "hostage" crisis but that was a reaction to our shooting down an Iranian passenger plane. You could even go back to the end of WW2 when it was decided that our "strategic interest" would be to secure access to Middle Eastern oil.

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US beefs up Gulf naval force amid tension with Iran [View all] The Northerner Jul 2012 OP

The "tension" with Iran is completely US generated. tech3149 Jul 2012 #1

Deploying U.S. navy ships to the Gulf is setting up for a Mideast version of Gulf of Tonkin. no_hypocrisy Jul 2012 #2