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We really do need to stop them...

The extravaganza opeing talked of peace and passion, yet they have neither. Craven.Appeaseniks.All.

Yes, FRance there will be some deaths. Yes, Allemagne, you will be siding with the Jews. Yes,Angleterre,you will need to conjure up back-bone.

Surely, the Nuke prep plants need water for cooling and electricity for power. Can't the Brains figure it out where it is coming from and splat those utilities now?

Who hard is that? (they want to be sufficent on nucke power anyway, we'll just help it along faster.)

Big L-if Iranian imports of refined oil products were blockaded, the entire country would grind to a halt within weeks or days. The country is an oil producer, but not much of an oil refiner.

I just want to remind everyone that John F Kerry wanted to give Iran light-water nuclear reactors and fuel. He said so in one of the presidential debates.

Iranian Jews criticise Ahmadinejad for saying the Holocaust was a myth. That takes guts.

Wow.

I hope they don't arrest innocents in on chages of "spying" now.

oy. that was meant to say "arrest more innocents on charges of .."

It's my understanding that a very high proportion of Iranian oil is shipped via the Kharg Island terminal. That should be relatively easy to knock out.

Oh, now it would be really funny if their first test nuke hits Kharg Island by mistake.

Just on a historical note:

it's worth remembering the lesson of the ancient Greeks-the world-beating civilization that was able, displaying admirable heroics, to prevent the far more numerous forces of Persia from successfully eradicating it. Unfortunately, the Greeks didn't manage to remain a viable concern, and their Olympics perished for thousands of years before a successor Western civilization revived them.

It was Alexander who demolished Achamenian Persia and conquered the known world. It's the Persians who never recovered.

Greece fostered Rome and gave it an alphabet. Greek was the official language of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Greeck Civ co-fathered Christianity with Judaism. The Byzantine Empire was a Greek Empire and lasted until 1453.

Greece defeating Achamenian Persia was one of those sad and rare events in history where one force for progress defeats another force for progress. Ancient Greek and ancient Persian philosophers and scholars were known to each other. The reason you can rattle off the names of half a dozen ancient Greek philosophers and probably can't name one ancient Persian philosopher or scholar is that history is written by the winners and Greece defeated Persia.

I hope everybody has prepared some sort of fallout shelter, and/or has a safe place to retreat to.

I really do think this might be the end.

(So, if there's anything you've really been wanting to do, and have been putting it off, do it now, before it's too late. Believers, make some sort of peace with G-d, however you envision the deity; non-believers, make peace with yourselves, do what seems best to you, etc.)

And I hope that G-d does help and preserve us all. But it doesn't look good at this point.