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AtheistCrusader

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24. Yes, that's exactly what I said.
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 02:31 PM
Jan 2013

No, I said it would keep the US out of Iran's backyard. We violate their airspace all the time, and keep two carrier groups within strike distance of them, at all times. Mysteriously, shit keeps blowing up inside their country, etc.

We are meddling in the destiny of the Iranian people, and producing the very outrage (in blowback) that keeps people like Ahmadinejad in scotch and scones. We should stop that. One way for that to happen, would be for Iran to successfully detonate a nuke in an underground test. We'd be the fuck outta there overnight. Hell, we've even drawn down our presence in South Korea, after N.K's successful or semi-successful test.

I don't care how the Ayatollah explains Pakistan. I know that Pakistan and India now have deterrence against one another, and the fighting has subsided, so MAD is a workable possibility, until cooler heads prevail.

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Scary oberliner Jan 2013 #1
Yes, we would never decide and legislate things here in the United States based on the religious djean111 Jan 2013 #2
I should hope not oberliner Jan 2013 #4
We are dictated to by special interests all day (and night) long. djean111 Jan 2013 #5
Can you name one law leftynyc Jan 2013 #9
I never narrowed that down to just security. Or just religion. djean111 Jan 2013 #12
When elections are rigged, Sekhmets Daughter Jan 2013 #27
"Unelected"?? Not by popular vote, but like the US President indirectly happyslug Jan 2013 #16
Yes - unelected oberliner Jan 2013 #21
He sounds more rational than most elected Americans............. kooljerk666 Jan 2013 #3
Perhaps we should adopt Islamic law as the law of the land as well oberliner Jan 2013 #6
Wait ........... do you want Iran to have nuclear weapons? nt. polly7 Jan 2013 #7
Uh, no oberliner Jan 2013 #8
Shiites are NOT fundamentalists happyslug Jan 2013 #17
I don't recall using the word fudamentalist oberliner Jan 2013 #20
its called morality iamthebandfanman Jan 2013 #10
We are in the process of doing so. (Turning things over to the pope) Sekhmets Daughter Jan 2013 #28
Well this puts a cog in the MIC machinery! Crowman1979 Jan 2013 #11
Sure they will. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #13
Ummm... I love weed Jan 2013 #14
Personally I think they have every right to develop a nuclear weapon if they can afford it. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #15
Wow - Pro-nuclear proliferation posts on DU. oberliner Jan 2013 #18
If it wasn't for the behavior of our own country AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #19
So according to your logic Mosby Jan 2013 #23
Yes, that's exactly what I said. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #24
people here need to read up on Al taqiyya Mosby Jan 2013 #22
You got it....spot on. zellie Jan 2013 #25
OMY!! What will the PNACers do now? What will Bibi do without a war on Iran? nt kelliekat44 Jan 2013 #26
Yes, let's all just take the Supreme Leader at his word oberliner Jan 2013 #30
What a lying punk. zellie Jan 2013 #29
Amazing how trusting some folks are of The Supreme Leader oberliner Jan 2013 #31
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