The Coming Conflict with Iran

[The New Guy]

looks like i need to bring up a previous analogy:

if your neighbor down the street tells you everyday that he is going to kill you as soon as he gets the opportunity are you going to wait for him to do it? pre-emption in my book is called prevention.

[jgaffney]

Saunterelle sez...

Our current war is bankrupting our country

Wrong again, Saunterelle. What is bankrupting our country are the runaway entitlement programs that the Democrat party continues to defend. How many bipartisan commissions have there been to study entitlements? Four? Five? I've lost count. In every instance, when the committee is preparing to present their results to Congress, the report gets leaked early and the Democrats begin demagoguing it before it is even published. By the time the hearings are held, it's already dead.

I remember when Bush first proposed Social Security reform. My 88-year-old mother was getting letters from Richard (the censor won't let me say D*ck) Gephardt, claiming that Bush was going to cut her Social Security. Gephardt was making this claim in spite of the fact that there was nothing in the Bush plan that would affect current retirees.

Or, how about the Farm Bill? Don't get me started!

Tell me again who is bankrupting the country?

[jgaffney]

Dragging this thread back on topic, this just came out in today's Wall Street Journal:

Talk about timing, perhaps fortuitous. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Prague signing an agreement that's a first step toward protecting Europe from ballistic missile attack. As if on cue, Tehran yesterday tested nine missiles, including several capable of reaching southern Europe, as well as Israel and U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East. Remind us. Who says Iran isn't a threat?

Well, Saunterelle, for one.

Iran may already have the capability to target the U.S. with a short-range missile by launching it from a freighter off the East Coast. A few years ago it was observed practicing the launch of Scuds from a barge in the Caspian Sea.

This would be especially troubling if Tehran is developing EMP – electromagnetic pulse – technology. A nuclear weapon detonated a hundred miles over U.S. territory would create an electromagnetic pulse that would virtually shut down the U.S. economy by destroying electronic circuits on the ground. William Graham, head of a Congressional commission to assess the EMP threat, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee this morning. We hope someone asks him about Iran.

The proposed "third site" in Europe is part of a rudimentary missile-defense system that the U.S. already has in place for the homeland. It's one of the unsung successes of the Bush Presidency, and the U.S. and its allies are safer for it. Yet few Democrats are willing to acknowledge it. That apparently includes Barack Obama, whose response to Iran's missile tests yesterday was to call for more direct diplomacy with Tehran, tougher threats of economic sanctions and bigger incentives to behave – all of which Tehran has sneered at numerous times.

But, how could they sneer at someone as charismatic as Obama? Obama has already brought a majority of the Democrat Party into his sway. That pesky Ahmadinejad will be a piece of cake, right?

[harpman1]

How shall we pay for clearing the radioactive debris from the streets of Tel Aviv?

Burying Iranian military installations under thousands of J-DAMs may distract them from test-firing more Israel-targeted missiles.

The Boy President thought randomly firing Cruise Missiles into aspirin factories would solve both of his pressing problems: Sadaam & Monica.

How about we adopt his strategy?

Were there any Democrats objecting at the time?

We'll just call the Iranian targets aspirin factories!