Iranian Leader Calls Holocaust "Myth" This guy is as crazy as the little bastard running North Korea. His rhetoric is completely over the top. We are going to end up fighting the Iranians and we had better be ready for it. By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (Associated Press Writer) Ahmadinejad last week questioned whether the Nazi destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War II occurred and said Israel should be moved to Europe. He also provoked an international outcry in October when he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map. ... Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said: "The repeated outrageous remarks of the Iranian president show clearly the mind-set of the ruling clique in Tehran and indicate clearly the extremist policy goals of the regime. ... "The combination of fanatical ideology, a warped sense of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no one in the international community can accept," Regev added, referring to allegations that Iran is developing nuclear bombs." ... Ahmadinejad said the West had harmed Muslims, invaded their countries and plundered their wealth. "If your civilization consists of aggression, making oppressed people homeless, suffocating the voices of justice and bringing poverty to a majority of the world's people, we say loudly that we hate your hollow civilization," he said. ... Iran has suffered a series of plane accidents - most recently on Dec. 6, when an aging U.S.-made military transport plane crashed into a tall building in Tehran, killing 115 people. Iranian officials have blamed Washington for the crashes, saying they are partly caused by the difficulty in obtaining spare parts. "No country is authorized to impose spare-part sanctions against another country. Nothing can justify this," Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.
It's only a matter of time before Israel goes in and bombs the Iranians nuclear facilities. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475720368&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Israel bombed Iraqs reactors back in the 80s and now Iran, another country that wants to wipe Israel off the map, will not be allowed to go nuclear. If the United Nations can't get Iran to stop building the reactor, which i doubt they will be able to, then Israel is going to have to take matters into their own hands to assure their continued existence.
The Mossad has always been and continues to be the best intelligence agency in the world. Our CIA faces too much liberal political opposition for it to be as effective as it should be. We've taken HUMINT out of the equation almost entirely and rely upon SIGINT almost exclusively.
So here is a question. Do those of you who feel the Iraq war is unjustified feel that if we went to war against Iran, it too would unjustified? It seems to me that Iran's complete lack of reality with regards to the rest of the world (and in my mind, saying the Holocaust was a myth is a complete lack of reality) signifies it as a rogue nation. A rogue nation with nuclear capabilities is probably worse than Iraq with Saddam in power. My Marine contempories feel that we are most likely going to be sparring with Iran and/or North Korea in the near future.
Not at all. I think we should have gone to Iran, North Korea or Pakistan because they all pose actual threats. Iraq was and continues to be a wasteful misalocation of U.S. military resources.
Now we have a large, meaningful military presence in the Middle East. Think that would help us against Iran? Pakistan?
I've been saying in many threads that our biggest military threats were from North Korea, Iran, China, and Pakistan. This guerrilla insurgency in Iraq is far from the places we need to be focusing on and a waste and misuse of a fine military force. We need to be fighting our kinds of wars--fast, violent, high-tech, low-casualties, airpower-heavy, and a quick victory using overwheming force. (see Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Kosovo, Afghanistan) In Iraq we are fighting the enemy's kind of war--slow, endless patrolling with insuffient troops, no opportunity for airpower success, high casualties, an occupation of a hostile land using infantry weapons giving the enemy a fighting chance. (see Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq) The most effective military force in the world won the war in 21 friggin' days and sacked Baghdad. But this continued occupation is unwinnable and the longer we stay, the worse it will get. This administration is incompetent to manage the power it wields. And Osama still runs free.
We've always had a large military presence in the Middle East. US airpower and naval power dominates, as it has since WWII. We have bases and forces in 93 countries. But our ground force is bogged down in Iraq and unusable in a crisis elsewhere. Nobody can out "log" the United States. Our logistics can move men quickly to where they are needed and back into their kasernes when they are not. It is a waste to squander good infantry fighting guerrillas in Iraq and their presence there does not make them as asset for other operations unless they can be withdrawn and refitted.
