IMPEACHMENT is increasingly important, starting with the Dark Lord Cheney… We can’t let them turn our country into a Pakistan-like “democracy.”

It’s sort of like the U.S., but not quite as bad, politically speaking.

One JDAM dropped on them will mean the end of life as we know it. That is, oil will almost certainly go to at LEAST $150 ppb;

Which will quickly be reflected in the stock market, and in everything that has anything to do with the price of oil. Which is, basically…everything. :o)

Our military will get to find out how the Iraqi Shia will react to bush bombing the Iranian Shia…

Those 5,000-odd brits behind the wire at the Basra Airport get to find out, too…

The republicans running for office in 2008 (and, Sen. Clinton, anyone else who has unapologetically supported the invasion of Iraq)
will get to explain $5 a gallon gas (If they’re lucky) to the voters next November.

Since the Iranians, according to our own CIA, got their hands on a few dozen of those Stinger missiles that raised such havoc with Russian helicopters and aircraft in Afghanistan, it’s a safe bet to say that, with the help of the Russians, they’ve cobbled up some pretty good upgrades, and if those start coming into Iraq, the price of air support poker will go through the roof, for Centcom…

Any country which supports the attack will find out if the Iranian missles are any good, AND will have to deal with Iran long after the bush presidential library has been established in Mooseturd, Alaska.

Our navy will get to find out how well those 225 mph Russian torpedoes work.

The rest of the world, already sick of this bloody, chaotic, useless war, and in no mood to “support” it by dealing with the worldwide increase in oil prices; will, economically speaking, fall on us like a ton of bricks. Sanctions can work both ways.

I’m not worried about Israel, either. The Iranians have repeatedly said that if they’re attacked by Israel, they will consider it an attack by the United States. And why not? They wouldn’t do it without junior’s permission.

And HOW would they get there? The Turks are concluding some SERIOUS energy deals with Teheran. Those will come to a screeching halt if Ankara is crazy enough to permit Israeli overflights.

If the Kurds are that nuts, those Peshmerga units masquerading as “the Iraqi army” in and around Baghdad, will be annihilated by Sadr’s militias. Inevitably, the Sunnis will get into it, and the Smilodon will be completely out of the bag.

Saudi Arabia? (I giggle…)

That leaves…taaadaaa…directly over Iraq, and won’t it be interesting if Iraqi airspace is used to attack Iran?

THAT could bring the Maliki government out from under their desks in the green zone, instanter.
It will also mean that SCIRI, or what used to be SCIRI, and Fadhila, and the Mehdis of Al Sadr, will have one hell of a common- denominator incentive to lay aside their differences and make bush pay, pay, pay…and Iran will no longer be the least bit reticent about giving them the hardware with which to do it.

But I think the biggest cattle-prod poised 1 inch from bush’s ass, is our own pentagon. They will have to pay the immediate price for another round of insanity, and not very many of them are stupid enough to
want to take this huge risk, in order to gin up gigantic fuckup #2, for bush to enfold gigantic fuckup #1 in it. They know perfectly well that their main duty in Iraq now, is trying to cover george bush and the GOP’s asses to give them time to hand the flaming ebola-turd to the democrats and get out of Dodge.

I don’t believe they want to take on another war, on top of that.

x174 @ 75

just now heard that Israel is calling for El Baradei to be removed from the IAEA.

What restraint. Expected it during the great Iraq WMD hunt.

Heh! See Prostratedragon at #117

FunnyD

just now heard that Israel is calling for El Baradei to be removed from the IAEA.

What restraint. Expected it during the great Iraq WMD hunt.

Googling Pakistani nuclear forces, 2006,
[http://www.sipri.org/contents/expcon/Pakistan.pdf], i found that the Shaheen and Ghauri (Hatf series) have ranges of 2500 km (though i didn’t see any payloads given).

At http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/israel.htm

they report missile delivery systems with 1500 km and 500 kg payloads for Israel, though i would question the accuracy of the published numbers.

There is also a Forbes article which describes a 2000 km range Shaheen: “Pakistan test fires long-range nuclear capable missile”

Heavy.

x174 @ 73

just now heard that Israel is calling for El Baradei to be removed from the IAEA.

What a transparently self-serving idea. How incredibly insulting. The man (and the team) are Nobel Peace Prize laureates, for heaven’s sake! Like they’d look the other way?? Like they’d do a half-assed job of monitoring?? Jeebus.

Love to see a link when you’ve got one.

Grrrrr.
FunnyDiva

I seem to recall that this kind of attack on El Baradei, though not necessarily from Israel, happened in the run-up to Iraq as well, more like in late 2001 to 2002. I think after the Bush people saw that they would be able to run over everyone in a line position, they just let it drop.

DeafByPills @ 109

I had spinal menagitis when I was around 9 or 10 months old. I was one of the first cases where doctors figured out how to treat it I guess. They overdosed on the antibiotics (granted, it was probably in liquid form), and I lost my hearing. So it’s just a twist on words. :)

A blessing in disguise… Did it cause further havoc, besides your hearing? If you don’t mind me asking? *g*

No, it was just limited to my hearing mostly. Without hearing aids, I can’t hear anything. I shouldn’t even be able to talk, but somehow I can despite the severity of the loss.

peanutbutter @ 101

Yup.

May I ask about the story behind your nome de plume?

I had spinal menagitis when I was around 9 or 10 months old. I was one of the first cases where doctors figured out how to treat it I guess. They overdosed on the antibiotics (granted, it was probably in liquid form), and I lost my hearing. So it’s just a twist on words. :)

A blessing in disguise… Did it cause further havoc, besides your hearing? If you don’t mind me asking? *g*

peanutbutter @ 101

Yup.

May I ask about the story behind your nome de plume?

I had spinal menagitis when I was around 9 or 10 months old. I was one of the first cases where doctors figured out how to treat it I guess. They overdosed on the antibiotics (granted, it was probably in liquid form), and I lost my hearing. So it’s just a twist on words. :)

Got it. Dunno, that still happens today (the treatment causing deafness). Doctors don’t seem to have figured out a way around it yet.