Dec. 19, 2006
U.S. Plans Military Buildup To Warn Iran
CBS News: Pentagon Officials Consider Sending Message To Defiant Tehran
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If the trend holds, the final results in local elections will be an embarrassment to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP)
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CBS News national security correspondent David Martin says the U.S. military build-up, which would include adding a second aircraft carrier to the one already in the Gulf, is being proposed as a response to what U.S. officials view as an increasingly provocative Iranian leadership.
Recent Iranian naval exercises, support for Shiite militias in Iraq, and Tehran's allegedly peaceful nuclear enrichment program — which U.S. intelligence believes is designed to produce a bomb — have all lead to the planned changes, Martin reports.
Military officers say the build-up would take place after the first of the year, not with the aim of actually attacking Iran, but strictly as a deterent.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that U.N. sanctions would not stop the Islamic republic from enriching uranium.
The United States and its European allies are seeking sanctions against Iran because of its refusal to stop uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel for civilian purposes or fuel for a nuclear bomb.
A draft U.N. resolution would order all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology to Iran that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also would impose a travel ban and asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs who are named on a U.N. list.
"A nation whose youth have been able to achieve the nuclear fuel cycle with empty hands — rest assured that it will be able to capture other peaks of (progress)," Ahmadinejad told a large crowd in the western city of Kermanshah.
The hardline president spoke a day after election results indicated his allies suffered an embarrassing defeat in last week's local council elections, an apparent sign of voter discontent with his policies.
Ahmadinejad, however, has had success in gaining support among Iranian citizens by emphasizing the struggle with the West over the country's nuclear program, a source of Iranian pride.
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The Emerging Euro-denominated International Oil Marker
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html
Posted by gorph001 at 04:09 PM : Dec 20, 2006
Well of course they do, all Iranians want to die and have their country wiped out, the sooner the better. They are just crazy that way. I am sure there will very soon be solid evidence of weapons of mass destruction, I also know it is very easy to smuggle a few atomic bombs to U.S.A
the United States will declare an unconditional surrender.
This is bad, and I find this totally unexceptable.
And still there is nothing we can do about it.
Posted by sim828524s at 02:14 PM : Dec 20, 2006
You don't understand, the abilities of the USA NAVY
they will have to
TAKE OUT EVERY USA SUBMARINE
and the only way that will happen is someone
INSIDE HELPS THEM...
What is it they (US Submarine Captains) say...?
What do you call anything above the water???
They are called TARGETS...
The N BOMBS these ship have are big enough not only to destroy a city,
they can BLOW A HUGE HOLE in the ATMOSPHERE
the sea's will boil...not from heat , but from vacuum..
IMHO
to heart.
Don't bother replying, I will not be here.
The biggest threat that Iran has is the United States. Soon they will have enough urainium to build four very powerful nuclear bombs. Each of them will be enough to wipe out a very large city, say the size of Paris.
They will give each suicide bomber an assigned task. The terrorist will set out and make their way to Washington DC, New York, Chicago,
and Los Angeles. There, they will be given a chance to piece them together, and detonate these bombs.
They will not carry the urainium in their back packs, luggage, or anything ridicules as such.
During that time while the United States is licking it's wounds trying to survive, the Iranians will have made two more bombs to be delivered to the U.S., and detonate each in Atlanta, and Dallas.
Finally, just when Iran completes an additional nuclear bomb, the United States will declare an unconditional surrender.
This is bad, and I find this totally unexceptable.
And still there is nothing we can do about it.
The conflict is about petrodollar vs petroeuro.
We simply cannot conceive that any country would have the audacity to attack us in this manner. But there is a new kind of enemy, and America sure as hell better wake up to that fact.
That's great information.I didn't think about that.You sound right though.I remember I read the news about Iran asking Oil prices to be in Euro instead of US Dollars.
My opinion OUR GREAT LEADERS are setting us up for a fall..!
How many ALIENS (foreigners) work for the federal government..
How many people are part of the FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
With little or NO LOYALTIES to the AMERICAN PEOPLE
(i.e. a Fifth Column)
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
James B. Veasaw v. Cari M. Domingues,et al.
No: 05-1467
Securities and Exchange Commission
was giving away or selling Govt. jobs, and the COURTS were COVER UP..!
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They are going to start a war and
they are going to KILL ALL OF OUR TROOPS...
sink our ships, and destroy our air force...
then they are going to DRAFT the ILLEGAL
(soon to be legal) ALIENS
(i.e. HESSIANS / MERCENARIES )
and they are going to IMPRISON the American PEOPLE
within 3 years (from 2006)we will be in a
CIVIL WAR
and
within 6 years (from 2006) we will be in a
WORLD WAR
We are sitting in the middle of a HORNETS NEST
OUR GREAT LEADERS
don't (can't) even see the entire field of battle
PAKISTAN and AFGHANISTAN are not given
not to mention SYRIA and IRAN.etc
IRAQ has the problems because some EINSTEIN (IMHO, Rumsfeld)
didn't want to shut down the borders at the beginning of the war
"We will kill all the terrorist that come to IRAQ.."
P.S. We are suppose to be at WAR,
you notice they don't want to shut down our borders TOO.
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BUT Newt Gingrich tells us in his speeches,
if we don't give up our FREE SPEECH, we will loose an AMERICAN city..
Posted by jn122736 at 06:44 PM : Dec 19, 2006"
LOL
You think that a drug-ravaged mind works according to reason and common sense?
You think that the MAD MIND of a heartless warmonger (whose family members can't be sent to the Middle East) thinks rationally? LOL
I, along with most Americans I%u2019m sure, pretty well assumed that the administration would never invade Iran or any other country while we are still stuck in Iraq.
Could it be that we have allowed ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security on the subject? After observing this administration violating or ignoring so many laws including the constitution itself, I believe these are valid questions.
ANTI-AMERICAN FREE SPEECH Tour...
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THESE CRIMINAL ARE AFTER OUR RIGHTS...
Posted by USAwatchman at 05:57 PM : Dec 19, 2006
It's not like we had much of a so-called 'free speech' to begin with. LOL
Newt Grinch is just trying to steal christmas.
PJP
Posted by pojar1 at 05:34 PM : Dec 19, 2006"
The only 'god' israel has behind them for now is UNCLE SAM! LOL
Their god has time and again proven useless for the Jews; when the Persians came, and the Babylonians came, and the Romans came to return the Jewish ethnic cleansing karma, and drive them out of their stolen 'promise land'!
And history will repeat itself for as often as the Jews build their Jewrusalem on the illegal foundation ETHNIC CLEANSING!
If the Jews really had a god with power and well meaning, then he would have raised up a piece of UNOCCUPIED land in the ocean and give it to his so-called 'chosen people' as their 'promise land'.
But the Jews shall have no peace in a stolen/ethnically cleansed 'promise land' it seems.
ANTI-AMERICAN FREE SPEECH Tour...
has been telling everyone if we don't give up our free speech
they (??) are going to destroy a city
I wasn't sure if THEY was the Muslim terrorist or
the BUSH White house (White horse) back door gang..
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Newt Gingrich
ANTI-AMERICAN FREE SPEECH Tour
started in November
here is one event on his ANTI-FREE SPEECH tour..
Gingrich Says Terror Threat May Necessitate Changes In Freedom Of Speech Laws
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/free_speech_terror_threat_need_changes_in_free_speech_laws.htm
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one of his last event was on NBC = MEET THE PRESS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16153676/print/1/displaymode/1098/
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WAKE UP PEOPLE...!
THIS PSYCHOPATH (see definition)
(Newt Gingrich) is trying to justify taking
OUR FREE SPEECH and other GOD GIVEN RIGHTS
Him (Newt Gingrich) and HIS CRIMINAL FRIENDS
are now COVERTLY THREATENING to DESTROY OUR CITIES
until we give up OUR RIGHTS...
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PEOPLE if you have not seen the movie
V for Vendetta
take time this Holiday, go RENT / BUY and SEE IT...
THESE CRIMINAL ARE AFTER OUR RIGHTS...
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