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Iran launches "space rocket...or missile".
"Eric Chomko" wrote:
:On Mar 3, 8:47 pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote: : On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:08:27 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat : Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in : such a way as to indicate that: : : 2) Partition Iraq. : : That's probably what's going to eventually happen. But that means that : the southeast Shiite part gets absorbed by Iran, and then they have even : more land and oil... and Kuwait now has Iran on three of its sides. : : Yes, of course, because we all know how famously Persians and Arabs : get along... : :He wasn't speaking about Persians or Arabs, he was talking about :Kuwaitis. Eric, you have failed to keep up. The statement "the southeast Shiite part gets absorbed by Iran" refers to Persians (in Iran) and Arabs (in the Shiite part of Iraq). Oh, and Kuwaitis are Arabs, so even by your rather skewed interpretation he would have been talking about "Persians and Arabs". -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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Iran launches "space rocket...or missile".
"Eric Chomko" wrote in message
oups.com... No, actually the US does not claim to be a Christian nation as Israel claims to be a Jewish nation. In short, the US has more freedom (or is at least supposed to!) of religion than does Israel. I consider the more significant comparison to be Israel's freedom of religion vs. that of any of it's neighbors for thousands of miles in any direction. Besides we don't have the forced draft. If Mexicans had as much animus toward Americans as Palestinians do Jews, we probably would. -- Regards, Mike Combs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By all that you hold dear on this good Earth I bid you stand, Men of the West! Aragorn |
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Iran launches "space rocket...or missile".
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:59:56 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: Rand Simberg wrote: I hope that you, if not Eric, are not such a moron as to think we were talking about Kuwaitis. That's what _I_ was talking about when I mentioned that if Iran annexes part of Iraq, it leaves Kuwait with Iran on its west through northeast, the Persian Gulf to its northeast through southeast, and the Saudi desert from its southeast through southwest That's not a terribly defensive position. Iran will have the ability to attack its tankers from three sides if it feels like it. And assuming that the Kuwaitis don't learn how to eat sand and scorpions, they could really lay siege to this country, followed by annexing it also. But we don't have to worry about that...because the President has had the brilliant idea to start sending vast amounts of monetary aid to...Sunni terrorists?: Not to worry, the Kuwait "leadership" has a well rehearsed exit strategy. Not only that, but they seem to be on even friendlier terms with potential saviors than France. Pat |
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Iran launches "space rocket...or missile".
Fred J. McCall wrote:
If it really is routinely that high, why is Canada screaming about it now? The Canadian government isn't doing the screaming. Of course, we *do* have our newspapers which have editorial staffs which have the same mindset as your Boston Globe or Washington Post. And since *they* cannot be pre-occupied with "pull our boys out of Iraq", because our boys aren't *in* Iraq, they are instead pre- occumpied with "pull our boys out of Afghanistan". This would not fly in the U.S., because September 11, 2001 happened in the U.S., so even if Iraq is controversial, Afghanistan is *not*. In Canada, the view can be maintained that any soldier we send to Afghanistan is one soldier the U.S. can send to Iraq *instead* of to Afghanistan, for example. Other, even more viciously leftist, views can also be advanced in Canada, without those responsible placing themselves at risk of being torn limb from limb (or at least having advertisers boycott their newspapers), such as the claim that, despite several Canadians being among those who perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks, that Afghanistan is merely a United States concern. John Savard |
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