War of words heats up as Iran warns of preemptive strike on US forces

[Beetwasher]

TEHRAN (AFP) - In a marked escalation of a war of words between Iran and its arch-enemies Israel and the US, Tehran has for the first time threatened a preemptive strike against US troops in the region.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&e=10&u=/afp/iran_iraq_us_israel

The world is so much safer w/ Chimpy in charge. Gotta love the doctrine of preemption! Monkey see monkey do.

[SoCalDem]

1. This is very dangerous..

Our forces "over there" are split.. with that HUGE Iran right in the middle...mountains..desert..and our guys are POOPED..

What if Iran DID decide to join their Shi'ite "brothers" and take us on in BOTH places at once??

We are stretched so thin..

Talk about UGLY..

and of course it would succeed in probably keeping * in the WH :(

[russian33]

2. Yep, nothing like planting our guys within firing distance...

..why doesn't he just paint a bullz-eye on their backs too...bastard!

[Zynx]

3. If Iran launched an unannounced, full-scale attack on our strung out force

s in Iraq, the results could be devastating for both sides.

[judge_smales]

4. This one deosn't make much sense

why would Iran basically invite us in?

I don't get it.

[Zynx]

5. We don't have the forces to fight them right now.

[SoCalDem]

7. Probably because they think they could "win"

A win for them would be the humiliation of US...no matter how many of them die..

The middle east thinks in terms of Hundreds and thousands of years.. We tink in terms of months..

They are patient, and they have bigger numbers than we do.. We are already perceived as invaders.. There are muslims all over the world, and we are not in any position to keep their supporters from flocking to their country to "help" them..

Bush opened Pandora's Box, and we cannot stuff the evil back in it..

Middle east diplomacy is like a ballet.. and unfortunately, we have a clog-dancer in DC.:(

[LynnTheDem]

6. If it's good enough for America...

Iran decides to use the bush Doctrine. Like Japan preemptively used the bush Doctrine on Pearl Harbor.

Why not? If the bush Doctrine is good enough for America, it's good enough for the rest of the world.

Which is EXACTLY what the world's experts warned bush about. But bush, being a totally stupid arrogant ignorant asshole, ignored them all and is being proved, as always, dead wrong.

Only it's other people who will, as always, be doing the dead part.

[David__77]

8. The results would be catastrophic for the US.

No puppet would last a day supporting a pan-Islamic US occupation. US forces would be forced out--for good.

[Ghetto_Boy]

9. Saber rattling... Iran playing to the faithful

[PsychoDad]

10. Iran adopts the "bush doctrine"

"TEHRAN (AFP) - In a marked escalation of a war of words between Iran and its arch-enemies Israel and the US, Tehran has for the first time threatened a preemptive strike against US troops in the region."

[Walt Starr]

11. duplicate Thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=760518&mesg_id=760518

[Union Thug]

12. Mission Accomplished! /eom

[Moderator]

13. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=760518&mesg_id=760518