Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Judah McAuley
Interesting. I also didn't know that James Blunt was a British Officer. I'll have to do some more digging later. Good reading but customers need fixing :) Cheers, Judah On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:37 AM, LRS Scout wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Pristina > > He was relieved f

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
When you are oprressing someone...don't be suprised when they call for your destruction. They have never had a fair shake, while Israel has always had sugar daddy America making sure that no action is taken agaisnt them. Do you realize that at the time if the 2nd Gulf War, that Israel had 3 time

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Well, to be honest, the guy was a douche officer, and he almost kicked off a war with Russia trying to make himself look good in eastern Europe." To become as highly ranked as he was, I don't have a problem believing that he was a douche bag. "I don't know if I buy it." I can respect that. W

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Pristina He was relieved from his position at NATO over it. My unit, C co 2/505th PIR was the first non special operations unit in country doing an air assault into Kosovo from Macedonia. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I hadn

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Judah McAuley
I hadn't heard anything bad about Wes Clark as an officer before. Do you have more info on the bit about almost kicking off a war with Russia? Cheers, Judah On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:25 AM, LRS Scout wrote: > > hmmm > > Well, to be honest, the guy was a douche officer, and he almost kicked off

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Judah McAuley
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:24 AM, LRS Scout wrote: > > Ok, they are people, living there, on the ground.  Cool.  I get it. > > If they stop calling for the destruction of Israel, stop lobbing rockets at > people, and sending of their children as homicide bombers, this could be > worked out. That

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
hmmm Well, to be honest, the guy was a douche officer, and he almost kicked off a war with Russia trying to make himself look good in eastern Europe. I don't know if I buy it. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "Or maybe Russia is getting ready to get 'their share' of t

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
Ok, they are people, living there, on the ground. Cool. I get it. If they stop calling for the destruction of Israel, stop lobbing rockets at people, and sending of their children as homicide bombers, this could be worked out. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I'm say

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Or maybe Russia is getting ready to get 'their share' of the country after an attack. Divided Germany comes to mind." I could totally see that. "Diplomacy in action. Looks like Obama doesn't want a war...yet." Of course not. September or October works much better with the reelection bid.

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Judah McAuley
I'm saying that there is a strong group of people whose families have lived in that area for many many generations, who possess a common identity and who are being fucked over by people who try to argue away their existence and rights based on lawyerly parsing of dubious minor points of history in

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
independent country ruled under a League of Nations > Mandate. > >>> >> > > >>> >> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:20 PM, LRS Scout > >>> wrote: > >>> >> > > > >>> >> > > A subset of the roman empire yes? > >>> >> > > >

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
t;> > > A subset of the roman empire yes? >>> >> > > >>> >> > > As in not an independent nation state? >>> >> > > >>> >> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Eric Roberts < >>> >> > > ow.

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
Original Message- > >> >> > >> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > >> >> > >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:59 PM > >> >> > >> To: cf-community > >> >> > >> Subject: Re: R

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Judah McAuley
independent nation state? >> >> > > >> >> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Eric Roberts < >> >> > > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> >> > >> Roma

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
; -Original Message- > > > >> > >> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > > > >> > >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:59 PM > > > >> > >> To: cf-community > > > >> > >> Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northe

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
t; > >> >> > > As in not an independent nation state? >> >> > > >> >> > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Eric Roberts < >> >> > > ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > >> >>

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
To: cf-community > > >> > >> Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border > And > > >> > Waiting > > >> > >> For A Western Attack > > >> > >> > > >> > >

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
gt; Romans called it Palestine after they sent the Jews on their > >> > diaspora...it > >> > >> wasn't a subset, but the entire area... > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -Original Message- > >> &g

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
>> >> > >> Romans called it Palestine after they sent the Jews on their >> > diaspora...it >> > >> wasn't a subset, but the entire area... >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> -Original Message- >> > >

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
t; Waiting > >> > >> For A Western Attack > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> When was it anything else but a subsection of another country? > >> > >> > >> > >> You know when? When it was Judea, that'

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
t; > diaspora...it > > > >> wasn't a subset, but the entire area... > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -Original Message- > > > >> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > > > >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
er country? >> > >> >> > >> You know when? When it was Judea, that's when. >> > >> >> > >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Eric Roberts < >> > >> ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
t > > >> wasn't a subset, but the entire area... > > >> > > >> > > >> -Original Message- > > >> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > > >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:59 PM > > >> To: cf-co

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread LRS Scout
is that? There is documentation going back to the Roman empire > >> > calling he region Palestine... > >> > > >> > -Original Message- > >> > From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > >> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 1:0

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Tony
n its own > >> right... > >> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:51 AM > >>

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread William Bowen
on state? >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Eric Roberts < >>> ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Romans called it Palestine after they sent the Jews on their >>>> diaspora...it wasn't a subset, but the

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Ras Tafari
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine > > -Original Message- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:51 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting > For A

RE: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Roberts
, April 17, 2012 6:51 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack durig the crusades it was its own kingdom. from 1918 through 1949 it was an independent country ruled under a League of Nations Mandate. On Mon, Apr 16,

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
- >> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:59 PM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting >> For A Western Attack >> >> >> When was it anything else b

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
but the entire area... > > > -Original Message- > From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:59 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting > For A Western Attack > > > Whe

RE: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Eric Roberts
is documentation going back to the Roman empire > calling he region Palestine... > > -Original Message- > From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 1:04 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran'

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
lling > he region Palestine... > > -Original Message- > From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 1:04 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting > For A Western Attack > >

RE: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Eric Roberts
How is that? There is documentation going back to the Roman empire calling he region Palestine... -Original Message- From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 1:04 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Borde

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Larry C. Lyons
It seems to me that those slavering most for a war are those who will not be fighting it. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:23 PM, PT wrote: > > Iran has a pretty decent infrastructure.  Something like 3/4 of the > population are college educated, women have more rights than in a lot of > other Islamic

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread PT
Iran has a pretty decent infrastructure. Something like 3/4 of the population are college educated, women have more rights than in a lot of other Islamic states, and they even build all of their own military equipment. They wouldn't be a bad country to have as friends if they didn't have a d

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Maureen
Minor correction: The decisions are being made by politicians who are owned by the weapons manufacturer and oil companies. Iran and Ahmadinejad are just that latest bogeyman. If they conceded to all the current requests, next week there would be a new one. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mi

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
The decisions are not being made by the weapons and oil businesses alone. I'm not even convinced that they are making the decisions at all. Circling like vultures to take advantage maybe but not actively pushing. A vague 'They' is an overly broad brush to use in any case. I see one bat ass crazy

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Maureen
True. But those who are rational and sane aren't making the decisions. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > No one rational wants war. No one sane wants war. > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Maureen wrote: >> >> Those who manufacturer weapons and supply the militar

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
No one rational wants war. No one sane wants war. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Those who manufacturer weapons and supply the military slaver at the > thought of war, and right now they are one of the most powerful forces > making decisions in the US, right behind the Petro

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
Not a single comment, no one wants to refute anything I've said? Agree with anything I've said? "Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:03 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > Agreed. > > That's why the way I see out of this mess requires us to u

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Maureen
Those who manufacturer weapons and supply the military slaver at the thought of war, and right now they are one of the most powerful forces making decisions in the US, right behind the Petroleum industry, which wants the land in the middle east. It is very naive to say no one wants war. On Mon,

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
No one has tried it? You have been reading the news for the last X number of months/years, right? Offers of deals to help out Iran, requests for them to live up to their signed agreements as per the nuclear non-proliferation act, etc. Before there were sanctions there was diplomacy and even now th

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
Agreed. That's why the way I see out of this mess requires us to use overwhelming force against them. To the point of capitulation. This won't work as a one nation solution though. Ok, look, I have spent years of my life in Muslim countries. Not just Afghanistan, but places like Egypt, Kuwait

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Maureen
It's hard to know how well diplomacy would have worked in situations over the last 20 years, because no one has tried it. Certainly it was rejected out of hand by the Bush administration prior to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even when Saddam offered to have discussions, Bush refused. On Mo

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread GMoney
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > Look, we screwed up, overthrew their government and put a tin pot dictator > in power. They revolted and created their bat shit crazy Islamic > republic. It should have and could have ended there. I mean it took us a > while to get ove th

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Judah McAuley
You may remember a little thing called the War of 1812. Yeah, took awhile before relationship between the US and England normalized. In general, though, I totally agree with you. But are we going normalize relationship by going to war with them again? You know that we won't even do a real war. We

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
Look, we screwed up, overthrew their government and put a tin pot dictator in power. They revolted and created their bat shit crazy Islamic republic. It should have and could have ended there. I mean it took us a while to get ove the revolutionary war, but now we're the best of friends with Eng

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Diplomacy in action. Looks like Obama doesn't want a war...yet. > Go Go USA! > Starting Wars is the way! Events do not wait as Obama plays a delay defense By Jackson Diehl, Published: April 15 Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy in this election year might be best summed up by William F. B

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread GMoney
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:52 AM, LRS Scout wrote: > > I have something of a personal stake in the this. > > Two of my friends were killed by an EFP mine with Made in Iran all over > it. Look they started a war with us back in the 70's over some admittedly > bad shit the CIA did, and they haven

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
I have something of a personal stake in the this. Two of my friends were killed by an EFP mine with Made in Iran all over it. Look they started a war with us back in the 70's over some admittedly bad shit the CIA did, and they haven't stopped, and they aren't going to. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
It won't even take a full scale war, Israel has proven that in the past. We don't need to nation build here folks, don't need to even land troops. Just break shit and take lives, we're good at that. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > I se

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I see constant and ongoing attempts at diplomacy. Attempts that fail against Iran. War is the last resort, but in some cases it is a valid resort. > Irrelevant. > > Going to war with the country isn't the answer, clearly. ~| Ord

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread LRS Scout
Because diplomacy has worked so well in the past right? On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Vivec wrote: > > Irrelevant. > > Going to war with the country isn't the answer, clearly. > > On 16 April 2012 11:22, Michael Dinowitz > wrote: > > > > Because Iran with a Nuke will bring world peace! > >

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Vivec
Irrelevant. Going to war with the country isn't the answer, clearly. On 16 April 2012 11:22, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > Because Iran with a Nuke will bring world peace! > >> Go Go USA! >> Starting Wars is the way! ~| Order th

Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
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Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Dinowitz
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Re: Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-16 Thread Vivec
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Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack

2012-04-15 Thread Jerry Barnes
Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran's Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack ( http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-09/news/31311454_1_russian-defense-ministry-military-action-dmitry-rogozin?id=4949 ) The Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the s