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- 15 Aug 06
- 4:17 pm
This administration built up to a preemptive strike on Iraq and coupled that with rhetoric that is duplicated with Iran. The bomb test "Divine Strake" was designed to test penetration of Iranian nuclear worksites. We no longer have the force structure to send troops into Iran, but all signs point to painting Iran as a notch on the Axis of Evil that must be destroyed regardless of factual support for their complicity. The administration no longer has Colin Powell to proceed to the UN, but the groundwork has been laid and Iran will be in some technical violation and GW will …

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- 15 Aug 06
- 9:43 pm
Talk about Hizballah being "controlled" by Iran is premature at best. The organization is well supported by Lebanese (40% are Shiite) and used by other factions in Lebanon as a political tool for coalitions. Hizballah is used by Syria next door and by anybody interested in a major internal power. After being weakened by Israel's bombing and US bombs, they may seek resupply and support from anybody in the region, but their power to do so was only helped by the images coming from the news. They caused mostly military while Israel caused mostly civilian deaths. My guess is that if …

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- 19 Aug 06
- 12:09 pm
My energetic and peace loving friends, please read the latest Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker re Lebanon. According to Mr. Hersch, the unusuallly high damage rate of Israeli boming was due to the (depleted uranium GBU 28) Bunker Busters that we provided. It seems that GW wanted to test these weapons before using them on Iran and we had heard that Hizballah had tunnels that would provide a good comparison. Don't let all this talk of human lives get in the way of a good test. Unfortunately, not all is as it seems. Even the issue as to who …

Posted to Examining Irans ties to Hezbollah
- 19 Aug 06
- 3:44 pm
Hyjinx: I can understand using violence to respond. Unfortunately, it does not work very well. We hijacked the Iranian government by installing a Shah and they finally got wise and retalliated. They used violence to capture people in our embassy. Again, it is a matter of perspective. Exactly when in history are you calling something an aggression? If you don't count all the crap we laid on Iran, then you are absolutely correct, they had no business taking hostages. Unfortunately, human memory is such that folks hold grudges and they are carried from generation to generation. If you think that we …

Posted to Examining Irans ties to Hezbollah
- 19 Aug 06
- 11:29 pm
to decampe: Seymour mentions the bunker busters in the 21 August issue of the "New Yorker." I put in the parenthetical addition of just what those bunker busters were. That I gleaned from the net as you are free to verify. Simply enter Google and use "bunker busters lebanon" and you will get several hits. That is why I use the parenthesis. It is not from Seymour, although if you were to ask him, he might agree. You can also find some related stuff under "Divine Strake" which is a test that we planned for June that never got by the …

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