Now its official: Neocon Imperial policies have made 200′000 US soldiers hostages of Iran. These hostages will be attacked if the Empire decides to attack Iran. That’s not my opinion, it’s what the former commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (Pasdaran) has now officially declared.
Guys, the Iranians are *not* threatening to strike at Israel, much less so ‘wiping it off the map’. They will go after US forces (exactly as I have predicted, by the way).
On a more personal note: I do not even have a TV at home. But this week-end I had to “opportunity” to watch some CNN. Jeezus - they are just as pathetically warmongering as FOX. They are still showing ‘heroic’ troops “fighting the insurgency’ kicking down doors in the dark (and finding nobody, I would add). The reports are still entitled “the fight for Iraq”. What a joke! This kind of crap is totally staged, only an idiot would think otherwise. I am baffled that anyone still watches that nonsense. Nobody in the corporate press has the guts to say that all these soldiers will find themselves in hell as soon as the war start. The corporate press claims that Anbar is a success (which it is definitely not) while all the US forces are doing is arming the insurgency (which will turn against them as soon as the weapons deliveries stop). But Anbar will be utterly irrelevant once the war with Iran starts.
The US forces are already trapped and awaiting execution and the entire world knows this, except for the US public.
BTW - you know what Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi is doing since he retired from the Pasdaran? He has become the “Senior Advisor to the Leader for Military Affairs”. That is main advisor for military affairs to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, the person who *really* controls the Iranian Armed Forces (including, directly, the Revolutionary Guards Corps, the one with the missiles which the Empire has placed on the “terrorist list”)
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You think CNN and FoxNews are bad? Last night, PBS aired a “documentary” centering on Robert D. Kaplan’s journeys with American military forces in Georgia, Mali, the Philippines, and one other country that I don’t remember. Just like he does in his dreadful articles, Kaplan proudly asserted that America is now an empire and that we are “making the world safe for democracy”.
LOL. I never really watched PBS, but I listened to NPR which I used to call “Neocon Public Radio”. Gave that one up. Totally.
Now, I get all my news from the Internet, including TV, Radio or written stuff. I have never been better informed.
Xenos - That shit was sick, right? It will never cease to amaze me the things some people think are okay to say into a TV camera.
Television News sucks! I stopped watching it over a month ago. All they talk about is lost miners, kidnapped kids or “celebrity” arrests. You’d think that the Iraq war was over from watching it.
The Americans must also realize that if they were to attack Iran, Shahab missiles would reign down on the Green zone killing thousands of soldiers not to mention the destruction of their brand new embassy, which I have a feeling is not going to last too long.
@Michael - yep. I also think that the Green Zone will be a top target for Iranian missiles, or even for a ground assault. To be “successful” such a ground assault on the Green Zone by the Shias allied to Iran would not even have take the territory. All it would need to do is scare the shit of the the dunken overpaid assholes sunbathing around the swimming pools and make them feel threatened. The US corporate media will probably hush or or dramatically minimize any such attack, but the expats would know about the facts on the ground.
“The Americans must also realize that if they were to attack Iran, Shahab missiles would reign down on the Green zone killing thousands of soldiers not to mention the destruction of their brand new embassy, which I have a feeling is not going to last too long.”
You ever read about the French experience at Dienbienphu in Vietnam? It seems the US could be devolving into a position where the Green Zone becomes a giant Dienbienphu.
Scott - yeah, it was sick. I could barely watch it.
@Bob - funny that you would say that. I was thinking the same thing the past weeks. Although Dien Bien Phu was surrounded geographically (by mountains) the Green Zone is surrounded demographically (in a Shia-owned city of millions of people) and well, well within range of Iranian missiles.
@Scott - Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi might be the former Pasdaran commander, but he was moved UP to main military advisor to Khamenei!
check out this good story by Chris Hedges (and check the Iranian babes on the photo. LOL): http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070903_the_next_quagmire/
Look like some of my Catholic school teachers with yardsticks instead of the guns.
Check out this Iranian babe!
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/deebee23/sarah-shahi-gm_l1.jpg
and this one too!
http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2006/August/Images/lynx.jpg
I’m moving to L.A.
Michael - sounds like you’ve got the right idea man…
Just like you said Mr. Horton–bloggers with Master Degree intellect; or higher.
Heh. Well the conversation isn’t always quite that high… : )
Fuck L.A., I’m moving to Tehran!
…Xenos, VS et al…Scott’s hero Woodrow Wilson, the last most over learned fool in Christendom attempting to [sic] “…make the world safe for Democracy” in April 1917 was thought of as a “Progressive”as well. The results of his progressivity?—117, 462 US Casualties in 8 months of attrition. The seeds of Nazism and Marxism germinated to sprout into mass terror within one generation. International Bankruptcy in the wake of Deficit War spending. Subsequent Reparations assessed to Germany and the rise of Hitler, and last but not least—World War 2. This fuckin’ Kaplan’s originality in borrowing Mr. Wilson’s platitude—and verbatim no less—is indicative of the contempt he holds the general level of Public Intelligence…Personally speaking, I find him, and the putrefaction of his “pro Empire” tripe easily enough to make a healthy vulture vomit…He should apologize.
@Michael - yes, the second Iranian lady is indeed very beautiful. But this is not the kind US GIs will get to meet if the US attacks Iran. Check out this one:
and her mom
More Iranian women. There are more pictures later on in the thread.