Iran to "light up the sky" on August 22?

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

While supposedly the attack recently thwarted in the UK was being carried out by people of Pakistani extraction living in the UK, you have to wonder if it might have been the "fire in the sky" (exploding airliners?) the clown from Iran was speaking of (funded and assisted by Iran maybe?).

[cav58d]

Originally posted by eagl
You don't seem to have an opinion Charge.  You do however seem interested in making apologies for terrorists and trying to discredit or minimize the motivations of those involved in the actual fighting, and scoff at the idea that actions have consequences.

That makes you a pretty typical extreme international liberal.  You make no real contribution yourself, don't bother to actually educate yourself on the subject you spout off about, yet you deride and decry the words and actions of those who are actually involved.  You and your kind love to accuse the victim and make excuses for deadly behaviors of aggressive radicals who seek to spread their faith under a 'convert or die' mode of operation.  It is cultural relativism at it's worst.

Well said sir! ...Damn proud to have men and women like you flying the jet's that protect our country!

[soda72]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
While supposedly the attack recently thwarted in the UK was being carried out by people of Pakistani extraction living in the UK, you have to wonder if it might have been the "fire in the sky" (exploding airliners?) the clown from Iran was speaking of (funded and assisted by Iran maybe?).

maybe.....

[Edbert1]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
While supposedly the attack recently thwarted in the UK was being carried out by people of Pakistani extraction living in the UK, you have to wonder if it might have been the "fire in the sky" (exploding airliners?) the clown from Iran was speaking of (funded and assisted by Iran maybe?).

While I wont rule any crazyness out when discussing Iran...I doubt it.

Reports I'm reading about the UK plot center around our friends Al Qaeda, who are comprised of Sunnis, the arch enemies of Iran's favored international terrorist group Hezbollah which is comprised of S h i i t e s.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by Edbert1
While I wont rule any crazyness out when discussing Iran...I doubt it.

Reports I'm reading about the UK plot center around our friends Al Qaeda, who are comprised of Sunnis, the arch enemies of Iran's favored international terrorist group Hezbollah which is comprised of S h i i t e s.

Agreed. However, don't forget that Iran recently released OBL's kin and sent him to join Hezbollah in Lebanon. No, the two factions ain't holdin hands, but you can bet yer bellybutton they hate "us" a lot more than they dislike each other.

I'm not convinced either way by any stretch, we (the public) don't know enough yet.

[Charge]

"don't bother to actually educate yourself on the subject you spout off about, yet you deride and decry the words and actions of those who are actually involved."

Riiiiight. Somehow I'm really dissapointed. Sigh.

Involved? Actually we Europeans live on the same continent with these buggers, you don't. If the situation escalates for some reason the south Europeans and particularly the French and Germans live interesting times..the Brits do already.
 
-C+

[Nifty]

Originally posted by soda72
True, but without oil revenues for them to use it becomes much more difficult for those "cheekboness" to wage war.

I think it will make it worse. Taking their money away from them will make them far more desperate than they are now. They will view the West as directly responsible for the collapse of their economies.

[Edbert1]

Originally posted by Nifty
I think it will make it worse. Taking their money away from them will make them far more desperate than they are now. They will view the West as directly responsible for the collapse of their economies.

What economy? These people live in mud shacks with thatched roofs and sheets for doors. Unless you mean the rulers of these countries, they certainly have something to loose.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Nifty
I think it will make it worse. Taking their money away from them will make them far more desperate than they are now. They will view the West as directly responsible for the collapse of their economies.

Point is, they will no longer have the extra cash flow to toss millions of dollars to terrorist groups to buy weapons with. Nor will they have the extra cash to pay for the weapons, then hand them to the terrorist groups.

Eventually the oil will run out anyway, what the heck do the Arabs think they are gonna do then? Blame the West for buying all the oil? heh....actually, they just might.

How big of a threat were terrorists before the oil boom boosted thier coffers?

[GtoRA2]

Originally posted by Elfie
Point is, they will no longer have the extra cash flow to toss millions of dollars to terrorist groups to buy weapons with. Nor will they have the extra cash to pay for the weapons, then hand them to the terrorist groups.

Eventually the oil will run out anyway, what the heck do the Arabs think they are gonna do then? Blame the West for buying all the oil? heh....actually, they just might.

How big of a threat were terrorists before the oil boom boosted thier coffers?

Yep, they will go back to killing each other.    We can forget the whole region after.

[kamilyun]

Originally posted by tikky
If East vs West are going to war to start Judgement Day (TM), I'd move to East Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea, Philippines) where i don't have to deal with this religious suicidal crap on both sides.

Not China!  I work with a number of Chinese students and visiting scientists.  In Western China, they face problems with Islamic fundamentalists, too.  We just don't get to hear as much about it due to the whole government controlled media over there.

Erm...and don't forget about the little N. Korean thing either.

Phillipines?  Nope.  

Japan?  Remember their little subway gassing incident by the doomsday cult?

Nutcases with agendas are everywhere.

[BTW]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
While supposedly the attack recently thwarted in the UK was being carried out by people of Pakistani extraction living in the UK, you have to wonder if it might have been the "fire in the sky" (exploding airliners?) the clown from Iran was speaking of (funded and assisted by Iran maybe?).

That's the problem with metaphor - its real convenient. Could be, maybe not. But if it worked, they would've said it was. Don't mean it was or it wasn't.

[Gh0stFT]

Originally posted by Elfie
Eventually the oil will run out anyway, what the heck do the Arabs think they are gonna do then? Blame the West for buying all the oil? heh....actually, they just might.

They know very well how to spend the money today in the desert before
the oil runs out.
Today they build the best hotels and palaces in the world, like the Burj al Arab.

[Nifty]

Originally posted by Edbert1
What economy? These people live in mud shacks with thatched roofs and sheets for doors. Unless you mean the rulers of these countries, they certainly have something to loose.

Yes, I was referring to the rulers of the countries.

When the cash flow starts dwindling for them, these nutjobs in power are gonna do something. I don't know what they'll do, but they'll do something.

[ghi]

Originally posted by cpxxx
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This is not the end of the world.

  Not yet, the end is going to come after a  long and painfull  war.Nostradamus said 27 years

"""VIII: 77
 
L'antichrist trios bien tost annichiliez, Vingt & sept and sang durera sa guerre Les heretiques morts, captifs, exilez, Sang corps humain eau rogie gresler terre.
 
The Third Antichrist soon annihilated, Twenty-seven years his bloody war will last: The heretics dead, captives exiled, Blood soaked bodies, and a reddened, icy hail covering the earth."""