The US Should Bomb Iran

[tabs]

The resulting financial roiling of the markets on a daily bases over whether or not the situation in Iran is getting more tense is hurting the US economy. Who likes paying over $4.00 a gallon for gas due to the ranting of a maniac in Iran Any bump in price due to hostilities would only be temporary and would soon decline to more reasonable levels shortly after we accomplished our mission over Iran. So let the United States get on with the business of protecting the world from a country that is run by religious fanatics bent on creating chaos. Let the US put an end to the Iranian military and Nuclear threat once and for all, the world would thank the US for it. Let the US start bombing Iran, we would all be safer for it. After it is all over the US and world can rebuild the economy in an environment free from the sword of Damocles that Iran hangs over our heads on a daily bases. Let the US start bombing now!

[Aurel]

By bombing Iran, do you mean all of Iran, their nuke facilities, their cities, their military bases? We need more specifics, Tabs. See, we bombed Iraq ad it did not turn out too well. The bombing is easy, it is the after-bombing that is more challenging. And how is russia gonna react to that? They too have nukes...

Aurel

[tabs]

You hit their Nuclear facilities, air defense, missile capabilities and anything that can impede the flow of oil through the straits of Hormuz.

Look to history for the relkationship between Russia and Persia...not too happy of one. The Russian might even be happy that the uS eliminated a potential Iranian threat to themselves.

[peppy]

bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran

[Rick Lee]

I don't think Iran is what's causing $4 a gallon gas right now. The Straits of Hormuz have been open all along, demand is increasing and supply is not. Yes, I think Iran needs to be hammered and better sooner than later. And that will hurt oil prices a lot. But I don't think Iran has been responsible for current price spikes.

BTW, how the hell can they close the Straits of Hormuz? Sure, they can harass us, but I don't see how they're much of a match for a carrier battle group. It'd be a suicide mission for them.

[David]

While the majority of Iranians probably believe their current govt is too controlling, the mood would change very quickly when their country is under attack. Look at how long the Iran/Iraq war lasted.

Sure, we could kick their a$$ given enough time, but they've had a lot more time to rebuild their forces since the Iran/Iraq war so I SERIOUSLY doubt it would be a cake walk.

We probably all believe that radical islamists are willing to do anything for their cause including detonating an atomic bomb, but also keep in mind that "Mutually Assured Destruction" is a very strong deterrent. In other words, "you detonate an atomic bomb and we turn the middle east into glass"

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by peppy

bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran

I laughed out loud at that.

I dunno, but for some reason I think maybe I'm the only one here that gets that reference (my wife is a fan).

Think Beach Boys guys.

[1967 R50/2]

Originally Posted by Aurel

The Straits of Hormuz is not very wide. I assume all Iran would have to do is bomb and sink a couple of oil tankers going through it, and it would be closed for months.

Aurel

Strangely, I figured this out once. It's wide and deep enough that if they sunk their whole merchant fleet and somehow managed to stack them one on top of another...still would not block the straight.

[Aurel]

Originally Posted by 1967 R50/2

Strangely, I figured this out once. It's wide and deep enough that if they sunk their whole merchant fleet and somehow managed to stack them one on top of another...still would not block the straight.

Right, I was confusing it with another strait. Deleted my post. I can`t recall the name of the one that is a narrow channel...

Aurel

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by tabs

After it is all over the US and world can rebuild the economy in an environment free from the sword of Damocles that Iran hangs over our heads on a daily bases.

All your daily bases are belong to us.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Aurel

Right, I was confusing it with another strait. Deleted my post. I can`t recall the name of the one that is a narrow channel...

Aurel

Can't get yer straits straight, eh?

[Mule]

Originally Posted by peppy

bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran

Hell bomb all the rest of 'em too & gas will be $1.

[Mule]

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

I laughed out loud at that.

I dunno, but for some reason I think maybe I'm the only one here that gets that reference (my wife is a fan).

Think Beach Boys guys.

[M.D. Holloway]

too much killing...

[old man neri]

Maybe all the oil producers should be bombed. Bomb Saudi Arabia, Russia, The US, Iran, Mexico, China, Canada, Norway...etc. Clearly the solution.

[Normy]

It's not Iran at all. They just stink is all.

-About two years ago, during my 747 Captain training, I flew with a training pilot who was originally from Iran. He left that country just before the revolution in 1979, and hasn't been back since. I didn't ask how he would have been treated if he returned to Iran: I didn't have to; he told me such before we left the ground. Our flight plan called for us to leave Dubai and fly over Western Iran en-route to Amsterdam, and he told me way in advance that unless we had flames in the cockpit...we wouldn't land in at an Iranian airport. If an engine failed...we would turn towards Baghdad or Kuwait or...drop altitude and land in Incirlik, Turkey. Those were the ground rules from the first moment we met. I obviously didn't have any problem with this!

-Well, of course that piqued my interest. What is odd is that once we reached our planned flight altitude and had completed all checklists and as such had nothing to do for a few hours, he turned to me [over Iran] and asked about my ancestry. People commonly ask me about my ancestry, a question I've always thought strange. I think I look pretty generic.

[My ancestry? My fathers family came from Austria-Hungary, though they were ethnicly slavic Czechs. My mothers family were a mixture of Scotts-Irish from Belfast and true Irish from Cork, along with a Hugenot French, a German, a Spaniard...and Cherokee or three. I am well and truly a "mutt". The result is that I can look like a lot of things.]

Well, I told him about our family history, and he was fascinated by the "barrel-maker" part, what my family name means in Czech. Most people are, since if I changed my name to the English language variant, it would be "Cooper". I then asked him about Iran. He told me that he'd like to go back to visit but since he was involved in the Shah's government, he can't go back until the current regime ends. Which he thinks will occur within 10 years or so. There is a lot of backlash against the "sharia" or Islamic laws, and he thinks that will eventually foment revolt.

-I asked him if he had met Iranians around the world, specifically flight crews, since we stay in hotels with them. He told me that he had, that they were always cordial to him...and that they always smelled bad! I'm like "What?" and he said "Yes, in my country, it is common today for people to bathe weekly. While most in the cities don't do that...in the countryside the notion of hygiene is very weak and you can smell the farmers farther away than their animals"

I don't think we should bomb Iran. I do think that we should probably send a fleet of B-52's with bomb-bays filled with deodorant bars over Tehran and perhaps send them a signal-

N!

[Jim Richards]

Bomb them until they're free of tyranny. Freedom is on the march.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Bomb them until they're free of tyranny. Freedom is on the march.

These colors don't run.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

These colors don't run.

Git-r-done!