It would be a damn shame if a terrible software malfunction resulted in Graz getting nuked by mistake. Damn shame.

From their lips to Dick Cheney's ear

. . . or his nazi.

Mission Accomplished!

* = s

Ugh. I sure as hell hope not. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. (Not that I have any better ideas, really...)

You'd think the crazy bastard in charge over there in Iran would have gotten the message from what happened in Iraq that W isn't to be f'd with. The fu**er is so damn crazy, he doesn't care. I suspect this is a feint to distract the Crazy Iranian while they stir up a revolution among the masses. :)

"Iranian clerics (Mullah) stand at a military base as human chain during a demonstration to support Iran's nuclear program, near Parchin Uranium Conversion Facility"

Target.Rich.Environment

Hmph.

We're training the Iraqis to use American tactical and strategic doctrine and do American-style training. From what I've seen leaking out, the result is a force with half or so of the capability of an American one of equal size.

American forces go through Arabs like s*t through a goose. An Iraqi army half as powerful as an American one is going to be almost as scary as the moonbats and fiskies claimed they were when Saddam was running things.

Iraqis are damned proud of being the cradle of Arab civilization, and if they can keep their shit together over the next few years they'll actually have something to be proud of. The Persians have been their enemies/oppressors/competitors since Justinian was a bath-boy, and Sistani's brand of Shi'ia looks at the Iranian ayatollahs pretty much the way a Southern Baptist thinks of snake-handlers. Sadr's bunch leans toward Iranian-style mysticism, but if Sistani seriously tells them to jump they'll ask afterward if it was high enough. The Arab Sunni are always ready to beat up on Shi'ia, and the Kurds are there to remind them to keep it downrange.

I wonder what the Iraqis will do with their shiny new toy...

Don't get stuck in a mental rut. It ain't just the Joooos and the USA any more.

Regards,
Ric

Ric Locke, do you think there will be such antipathy between the Iranians and SCIRI-voting Shiia of Iraq?

Looks like love to me. Especially if/when the Iranians wind up helping the Iraqi Shiia against the Sunnis, or to keep the Kurds from taking too much land...

Could well be that the Iranians are getting cocky due to their gains in Iraq -- at US expense. Especialliy after the election news is out...

VDL

We pretty much think your Volvo's ball joints are shot by May and you're out $600 bucks.

Don't know how that affects the Kurds, but it makes us smile all the same.

Iraqi population really was largely pro-US at time of invasion, though now the majority want the US out.

Can you imagine, though, the reception by the Iranian population of a US occupation?

It would take a draft to keep the mil ranks supplied.

$600 to repair a Volvo?

That's lowball.

My wife owns one of the damn things. Cost us $300 for a tune-up.

Damn Volvo...

Can you imagine, though, the reception by the Iranian population of a US occupation?

Imagine all the pee-pul,

living, under our boo-oo-oooooht!