Our Repug paper did a front page

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story making the case for war with Iran today. They also had a breakdown of all the military personnel and equipment Iran has.

Battle tanks 1613
Armored personnel Carriers 640
Helicopters 628
Combat aircraft 281
Warships 156
Army personnel 540,000
Air Force 52,000
Navy 18,000


I remember the same such articles before the Iraq war, it certainly looks like the attack on Iran will be coming soon to me.

[Joanne98]

1. That's pathetic!

[zulchzulu]

2. Gee! Look, Wally! It's a neato video war on the teevee! Whoopie!

:sarcasm:

[1corona4u]

3. They're wrong...

Iran's military(boots on the ground)is 1 million strong...and more can be mobilized;

The Islamic Republic of Iran has two kinds of armed forces: the regular forces Islamic Republic of Iran Army, Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, Islamic Republic of Iran Navy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), totalling about 545,000 active troops. Iran also has around 350,000 Reserve Force totalling around 900,000 trained troops.

Iran also has a paramilitary, volunteer militia force within the IRGC, called the Basij, which includes about 90,000 full-time, active-duty uniformed members, and a further 11 million men and women who could be mobilized This is the largest number of troop mobilization in the world.

I think Bush is fucking with the wrong country...

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4. The paper lists those numbers as their active

military, they make no mention of reserves. I would guess we have the capability to totally destroy their entire arsenal from 30000 feet using conventional weapons. It's the occupation of the country where we would run into even more trouble than Iraq. I saw John Bolton the other day on Tweety's show and he said we would be welcomed as liberators. Hmmm! Where have I heard that one before?

[1corona4u]

6. Yeah, no doubt...

same old story...

PS; Bolton's an ass....

[AndyTiedye]

5. Even With Their Numbers, Attacking Iran is Madness

Unfortunately…

[1corona4u]

8. Well, guys, look at it the way I do....

if Bush is stupid enough to attack Iran, republicans will be done in DC for a long, long, long, time.

[silverojo]

9. Those pictures scared me till I'm constipated!!

The Cheney one, particularly! What insane madmen!!

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10. Great pictures of our fearless misleaders, they

should in straight jackets. Those are two crazy looking mofo's.

[spag68]

7. It almost doesn't matter

What kind of military Iran has. The fact is, they can shut down shipping in and out of the gulf, and that would be really bad. One of their biggest gripes is that we won't sell them replacement parts for their planes. Seems silly to me, as I think we should sell them anything they want since it's all old stuff that we can defeat anytime we want.

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11. Do they really have the capability to shut down

shipping in and out of the gulf? I doubt it.