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They're trying to do the same thing we are, dominate the region. Since we handed them Iraq, it seems like they're going succeed, too.
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I call bull****.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
but it certainly seems as if there is no doubt they are going for nukes.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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How is the US occupying the Arabian Gulf or any central Asian Republics?The U.S. is occupying Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and several of the central Asian republics. Do you think Iran might feel a little surrounded?
So you agree with Bush!but it certainly seems as if there is no doubt they are going for nukes.
I think I should dig up a certain NIE thread...."The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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you aren't allowed to do that when I agree with youOriginally posted by DinoDoc
I call bull****.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Sorry that was a kneejerk reaction after reading Oerdin's posts. I missread yours.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Originally posted by Patroklos
How is the US occupying the Arabian Gulf or any central Asian Republics?
The Gulf is full of our navy, plus we have bases in Kuwait, and several of the other Gulf nations. We have a few bases in the Central Asian Republics as well, or have we closed those down?
So you agree with Bush!
I think I should dig up a certain NIE thread....
Information has changed. I fit my opinion to the data, not the other way around. Maybe new data will change my mind.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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International waters, and while we have a good number of ships there, be majority of the coalistion fleet their is not US unless a carrier is there and we don't keep carriers in the gulf 365 any more.The Gulf is full of our navy
We do so at the request or with the permission of those nations, which is in their soverign interest becasue of Iran.plus we have bases in Kuwait, and several of the other Gulf nations.
A couple are still there, but they are maybe a few hundred members at most. They are really just airstrips for planes to touch down on and continue on, plus some comm/intel stuff.We have a few bases in the Central Asian Republics as well, or have we closed those down?
So there is hope you will abandon communism yetInformation has changed. I fit my opinion to the data, not the other way around. Maybe new data will change my mind.
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I think there is a difference between trying to be a dominant power and trying to export religious hegemony. Now, if we were trying to "Christianize" the region then we would have a different debate going on. Iran's stated goal since its inception as an islamic republic is to export its revolution. Two different things.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
They're trying to do the same thing we are, dominate the region. Since we handed them Iraq, it seems like they're going succeed, too."I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003Comment
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I want a new centrifuge. the one at work is getting a bit on in years.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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Iran is such a big baby. If the Soviets were the only nuke power after WW2 the US wouldn't have tried to develop their own nukes even with Soviet bases in Canada, Mexico and Cuba. If the US would have been willing to accept that without hesitation than Iran should as well.Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.Comment
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Originally posted by Starchild
I want a new centrifuge. the one at work is getting a bit on in years.
I don't think these would help you very much.
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Empires don't roll that way. We told them to "request" our presence.Originally posted by Patroklos
We do so at the request or with the permission of those nations, which is in their soverign interest becasue of Iran.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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So?Iran begins installing 6,000 new centrifuges
And yet, IIRC, they import gasoline.Iran has the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world
Having said that, of course they want nukes. But they don't want said nukes to use on us, or even Israel. They want them to deter us/Israel from whacking them upside the head for their support of Hizbullah and/or whatever faction is useful to them in Iraq.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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So...they want them so that they can use terrorist front groups to export their brand of totalitarianism and to be able to do it with impunity. I see...sure let them have them!!Originally posted by Arrian
Having said that, of course they want nukes. But they don't want said nukes to use on us, or even Israel. They want them to deter us/Israel from whacking them upside the head for their support of Hizbullah and/or whatever faction is useful to them in Iraq.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003Comment
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Mainly because of lack of refineries.Originally posted by Arrian
And yet, IIRC, they import gasoline.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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