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2016 Postmortem

cilla4progress

(24,718 posts) Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:12 AM Feb 2012

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Are the Hawks actually talking about going to war

in Iran?

What - permanent war?

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Are the Hawks actually talking about going to war (Original Post) cilla4progress Feb 2012 OP

Uh... Yeah they are actually. The Republicon's in Congress are pushing as hard as they teddy51 Feb 2012 #1

Have Rmoney's boys sign up for service yet? Historic NY Feb 2012 #2

drop Romney by parachute into some thorny trees in Iran Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2012 #7

This won't end well. cilla4progress Feb 2012 #3

They're talking about bombing them into submission Hippo_Tron Feb 2012 #4

there`s no reason and we can`t afford a war madrchsod Feb 2012 #5

The right have been salivating about Iran's oil Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2012 #6

Permanent war - isn't that what they've been planning and working towards for decades? saras Feb 2012 #8

PNAC? Yes, yes they are. Ruby the Liberal Feb 2012 #9

"PNAC"? cilla4progress Feb 2012 #10

That is my hope as well. Ruby the Liberal Feb 2012 #11

teddy51

(3,491 posts)

1. Uh... Yeah they are actually. The Republicon's in Congress are pushing as hard as they

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:13 AM

Feb 2012

can for an attack on Iran.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

2. Have Rmoney's boys sign up for service yet?

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:14 AM

Feb 2012

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)

7. drop Romney by parachute into some thorny trees in Iran

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:12 AM

Feb 2012

cilla4progress

(24,718 posts)

3. This won't end well.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:29 AM

Feb 2012

Wonder if Obama has the cojones to hold them off.

Hippo_Tron

(25,453 posts)

4. They're talking about bombing them into submission

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:04 AM

Feb 2012

After the Iraq clusterfuck, the Neocon nation-building type war has gone out of fashion. This is more of a Henry Kissinger type of solution.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)

5. there`s no reason and we can`t afford a war

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:10 AM

Feb 2012

the main reason is we can`t afford to piss off south east asia and china

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)

6. The right have been salivating about Iran's oil

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:11 AM

Feb 2012

now that they've got Iraq's (and control of the pipelines)

saras

(6,670 posts)

8. Permanent war - isn't that what they've been planning and working towards for decades?

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:45 AM

Feb 2012

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts)

9. PNAC? Yes, yes they are.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 01:54 AM

Feb 2012

They live for this.

cilla4progress

(24,718 posts)

10. "PNAC"?

Reply to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #9)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 11:59 AM

Feb 2012

I don't believe Obama would support taking military action in Iran, and ALL of his top advisers - military and civilian - are opposed (as I understand it). I'm "assuming" he will do the sane thing and resist the PUBLIC and NEO-CON pressures to go in?

What the H is wrong with the majority of Americans who say, according to polling, that they want to attack Iran? This, immediately after the downturn in support for our junket in Iraq?

Honestly, I attribute these ridiculous dangerous attitudes to the defunding of public education: our populace seems to be uneducated, unaware, ignorant, and to have very poor judgment, much less memory! The rest of the world scorns these attitudes in us.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts)

11. That is my hope as well.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #10)

Sat Feb 25, 2012, 04:27 PM

Feb 2012

PNAC = http://www.newamericancentury.org/

"Think tank" (if you want to call it that) that dreamed up the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. In places where oil exists, that is.

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