U.S. Ready for Pre-Emptive Strikes in Terror War

[faded glory]

U.S. Ready for Pre-Emptive Strikes in Terror War

By Anton Ferreira and Sayed Salahuddin
Reuters

WASHINGTON/KABUL, (Feb. 2) - The United States signaled Saturday it would take pre-emptive action in the next phase of its war on terror, ratcheting up the rhetoric that has set off alarm bells in Iraq and Iran.

''The best defense is a good offense,'' U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a security conference in Munich, elaborating on a theme set by President Bush this week when he called Iran, Iraq and North Korea the ''axis of evil''.

''Our approach has to aim at prevention and not merely punishment,'' said Wolfowitz, a hawk in the Bush administration. ''We are at war.''

Iraqi newspapers Saturday condemned ''the dwarf Bush'' as savage and aggressive and Iranian parliamentarians called him a threat to world peace and security.

In Afghanistan, where the United States launched its war on terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,100 people, fresh fighting erupted between factions scrambling for advantage in the vacuum left by the vanquished Taliban.

About 40 men were killed in clashes in several parts of the northern Afghan province of Balkh, sources involved in the fighting said.

The battles flared a day after a local Pashtun tribal council in the southeastern town of Gardez ousted the town's governor appointed by the interim government in Kabul.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I think that all those who invested in nuclear blast chambers during the cold war are thinking their spending was worthvile after 10 years when they tought it was all over...

[faded glory]

Preventive targets? The Iranian Nuclear programme comes to mind. That has to go......


The buildings the silly Iraqi's rebuild over and over and over again at there chemical sites....some have been bombed 3-4 times. Yet for some ungodly reason, they get rebuilt.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I just hope that's all and that he will not start a true war with all of them.

[faded glory]

We will. It must be done before these ****** get nuclear weapons and find ourselves 1 short of a city.

Then people will be asking themselves "Why didnt we stop them?"


So im afraid, its etched in stone. Not that I think we can lose, our military will route there armys with ease.

[DinoDoc]

Weren't you the one pissing your pants with fear over a possible attack on Iraq, faded?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I'd rather see you taking their nuclear producing capabilities out somehow without getting into actuall war. I wouldn't be suprised if China came out against you. They are a communist dictatorship afterall.

[faded glory]

not fear, but rather that the coalition would break up and it would be seen as more of a USA against Arabia. Now I see that it doesnt matter.....its a different playing field.


So I support this (see St. Marcus Axis thread for lightbulb moment)

[Thue]

[axi]

Preemptive strikes?

That's called terrorism, you know. These 3 countries never threatened the United States. Yet you are continuously threatening them. If that's not terrorism, then what is?

Hypocrites!

[Thue]

Re: Preemptive strikes?

Originally posted by axi
That's called terrorism, you know. These 3 countries never threatened the United States. Yet you are continuously threatening them. If that's not terrorism, then what is?

Hypocrites!

In fact they are perfectly innocent nice little countries .

[Eli]

USA!

[Az]

@ Thue

[Faeelin]

This was a mistake. They'd better not go after Iran or NK. Iran is/was heading moderate before we threatened to invade and bomb them, and NK will collapse within 10 years anyway.

[faded glory]

Iran Supports Hezbollah, PFLP and Islamic Jihad.


The ****ers who bombed our barracks in 1983? And who were invoved in the Disco bombing in Germany?



Moderate? Ya right The show is run bye dinosaur cleric's. The president is a puppet....thats it. Moderates are jailed and the media is controlled fully bye the islamic revolutionary council.


There also devoloping a nuclear plant that is a big ****in threat to Israel,Europe and USA.