Australian soldiers welcome to apply , book yours now , first in best
buried , get a front row grave while you can, expected to fill fast
kangarooistan
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Probably, Ahmadinejad will not be given the chance to deliver such an
address, and even if he did, the UN - just like its predecessor -
would be completely incapable of helping him.
.. This weekend, a senior Iranian general, Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh, said
his country was digging 320,000 graves for American soldiers scheduled
to fight in Iran. "In implementation of the Geneva Conventions, the
necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy
soldiers.
We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves for each of the border
provinces, or a total of 320,000," he said, pointing out that some of
them would be mass graves, if necessary. This was "to reduce the
suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against, and
prevent the repetition of the long and bitter experience of the
Vietnam War"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JG02Ak03.html.
These may sound like big words - similar to those barked by Saddam
Hussein and his information minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf in 2003 -
but they carry real impact on the psychology of American troops. Iraq
- with its weak army and corrupted regime - was impossible to chew for
the Americans. Nobody can imagine how
difficult a war would be against 65 million Iranians, with a well-
trained, well-armed military indoctrinated with ****'ite Islam and a
strong sense of purpose against the "great Satan".
In addition to building the graves - which has actually started - the
Iranians have several actions they could resort to if war were
declared between now and the end of President George W Bush's tenure
at the White House in January.
They can incite the ****'ites of nations where there are US military
bases; Saudi Arabia (33%), Kuwait (36%), Bahrain (80%). They can
incite the Kurds of Turkey and create problems with the ****'ites of
Yemen. They can unleash hell in Iraq through proxies like the Mahdi
Army of Muqtada al-Sadr and the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council. The
****'ites of these countries have strong bonds to Iran and would listen
and respond, if duty calls, and if the Americans or Israel went to war
against Tehran.
The Iranians can - and would - close the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow
waterway separating the Arabian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman and the
North Arabian Sea. This would cause already rocketing oil prices to go
through the roof, as pointed out by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps
commander Mohammad Ali Jaafari.
The strait is the world's second-busiest international water route,
channeling 25% of the world's oil supplies on a daily basis. Over 75%
of Japan's oil, for example, runs through Hormuz. According to
Mustapha al-Sayyed, a Syrian oil expert, "if the strait is closed,
alternate routes [if available] would have to be used, and this will
result in a loss of more than 20 million barrels per day in the
international market." He added that he expected oil prices to reach
"no less than US$500 a barrel". Currently, the oil flow through the
strait stands at more than 17 million barrels per day. The chaos in
world markets this would cause does not need explaining.
Iran has also re****tedly positioned some of its Shahab-3B missiles,
with a range of nearly 2,000 kilometers, and according to certain
press re****ts, is ready to fire at the Dimona reactor inside Israel.
The arrogant tone of the Iranians came after the New York Times ran a
story saying that over 100 Israeli warplanes had carried out major
training exercises over the eastern Mediterranean on June 12, in
preparation for a war on Tehran. As part of the exercise, they flew
the distance needed to reach the Iranian city of Natanz, where a
nuclear facility is based.
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