Panetta: Israel could attack Iran as early as April

[SlowwHand]

You say that Israel should sit there until actually attacked. I say that's bull****.

Iran Threatens U.S... Again; the Week is Complete - Yahoo! News
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Feb 3, 2012 – U.S. and Israel praise EU deal to ban Iran crude ... Iran threatens action against U.S. ... Iran will not be satisfied simply with eliminating Israel

[SlowwHand]

The latest, but there's still no provocation, right, Al?

US condemns Thailand blasts, suggests Iran link

Associated Press

Posted on February 14, 2012 at 12:06 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is condemning a pair of small blasts in Thailand's capital and suggesting they may be linked to Iran.

Thai authorities say an Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after a blast shook his Bangkok house.

The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India. Israel blamed the attack on Iran.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was awaiting the results of investigations. She offered condolences to those injured.

Nuland didn't blame Iran directly. But she noted Monday's incidents in India and Georgia, and recent "Iranian-sponsored" and "Hezbollah-linked" plots to attack Israeli and Western interests in Azerbaijan and Thailand.

She called it "reprehensible" for states to use terrorism as a foreign policy tool.

The dumb bastard couldn't even blow himself up correctly.

[Elok]

This damn thread keeps making me want pancetta, when the nearest Italian specialty grocery is thousands of miles away. Stop it, already!

[Barnabas]

Isn't pancetta Italian for Bacon?

[SlowwHand]

Yes.

[Elok]

It's a specific type of bacon, not unlike prosciutto. Which is also unavailable. Grr.

[SlowwHand]

But Pancetta specifically translates to bacon. Prosciutto has no translation. Wait a minute. Are Iranians big bacon eaters?

[onodera]

But Pancetta specifically translates to bacon. Prosciutto has no translation. Wait a minute. Are Iranians big bacon eaters?

Of course not.

[Dinner]

BTW Iran has been issuing condemnations of the US threatening action against it since 1979 so I don't know way anyone takes what they say seriously. It's just the same old posturing they've been doing all the time for 32-33 years.

[Dinner]

Isn't pancetta Italian for Bacon?

Not really though it is made with pork belly. It's seasoned and cured pork belly rolled into a roll then cut perpendicular to the long access resulting in round slices. One could say pork belly = bacon but that ignores the whole seasoning and dry curing stages. Prosciutto is dry cured seasoned ham not pork belly so I'm not sure what sloww was talking about.

[Dinner]

Of course not.

They should be. It might mellow the dumb ****s out.

[SlowwHand]

BTW Iran has been issuing condemnations of the US threatening action against it since 1979 so I don't know way anyone takes what they say seriously. It's just the same old posturing they've been doing all the time for 32-33 years.

How can you say it's the same when now they have nuclear capabilities? Do you think about what you're saying at all?

[Dinner]

Except they don't have nuclear capabilities. How the **** could you miss that?

[dannubis]

1. proof of the fact they have nuclear capabilities besides rumors and hearsay.
2. proof of the fact that any country in history that acquired the a bomb has actually used it (besides good old USA).

Until then: I am thouroughly unimpressed by texans resistance to fear mongering.

[SlowwHand]

Leon Panetta was born in Monterey, California.