Iran is arming Taliban, U.S. envoy claims

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  • jlew24asu wrote:
    so its ok for them to be training and equipping people to kill our soldiers? and please, Iran doesnt stand a chance against us. no army does.



    actually we are arming sunni's too. I bet you didnt know that.
    http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6112208



    Iran doesnt stand a chance against us?? Keep dreaming.
    The US would NEVER EVER in a million years win a ground war in Iran. NEVER EVER.
    Keep dreaming and playing with your GI Joes.
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Iran doesnt stand a chance against us?? Keep dreaming.
    The US would NEVER EVER in a million years win a ground war in Iran. NEVER EVER.
    Keep dreaming and playing with your GI Joes.
    haha are you serious? we would turn that country into a parking lot with ever setting foot inside the country.

    NEVER EVER NEVER EVER. I noted the all caps. must be true.
  • jlew24asu wrote:
    haha are you serious? we would turn that country into a parking lot with ever setting foot inside the country.

    NEVER EVER NEVER EVER. I noted the all caps. must be true.

    There can never be success on the ground unless you ruthlessly wipe out the population...and that is just sick, disgusting and makes us monsters. There is always going to be resistance and the cycle of violence will go on and on, costing us more and more...especially with a stronger country like Iran.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    So...
    We hit Iran militarily... then, what? What is the plan afterwards? what will the results be? How do you deal with the aftermath? Turn Iran into a Democracy?
    Any fool with a gun can do what he wants... at first. It's dealing with the mess that he leaves that's the hard part.
    ...
    also... Iran has ALWAYS been the problem in the Middle East. Iraq was suposed to be a cake walk... look how that has panned out. We have given the upper hand in the region to Iran with our little adventure.
    ...
    Finally... what give you the confidence in this administration that they will be able to successfully execute a military campaign in Iran? The current and growing deterioration in Afghanistan? The bang up job in Iraq? The masterful response to the natural disaster that was Katrina? What?
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  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    jlew24asu wrote:
    haha are you serious? we would turn that country into a parking lot with ever setting foot inside the country.

    I'm not surprised that brings on an escalation of smugness in you.
    However, if you knew anything of ground fighting you would realise how this brave tactic can make the clearance job 10 times harder against a determined enemy. America doesnt have the discipline or the skills on the ground for this, and i suspect that Britain would not be helping them out this time.
    Good luck! and i promise you this, i would not reach half the level of smugness that you portray in every word while i was watching this happen, maybe if i thought you had the balls to actually be there, but then maybe i would have an ounce of respect for anything you say.
  • NCfan wrote:
    Iran is arming Hezbollah which is trying to overthrow the government in Lebanon. They are in bed with Syria, which assasinated the President of Lebanon. They are arming and training insurgents in Iraq. They are arming and training the Taliban in Afghanistan. They kidnapped a bunch of uniformed British servicemen not too long ago. They are manufacturing nuclear materials that can be used in weapons.

    Joe Lieberman recently said we should strike Iran, and I'm starting to agree....


    AP
    PARIS - A senior U.S. diplomat accused Iran on Tuesday of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan — the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking American official.

    Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, speaking to reporters in Paris, said Iran was funding insurrections across the Middle East — and “Iran is now even transferring arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan.”

    “It’s a country that’s trying to flex its muscles, but in a way that’s injurious to the interests of just about everybody else in the world,” he said. “I think it’s a major miscalculation.”

    In Afghanistan last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Iranian weapons were falling into the hands of Taliban fighters, but stopped short of blaming the government itself.

    Iran’s possible role in aiding insurgents in Iraq has long been hotly debated, and last month some Western and Persian Gulf governments charged that the Islamic government in Tehran is also secretly bolstering Taliban fighters.

    General, Blair weigh in
    In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, U.S. Army Gen. Dan McNeill said Taliban fighters are showing signs of better training, using combat techniques comparable to “an advanced Western military” in ambushes of U.S. Special Forces soldiers.

    “In Afghanistan it is clear that the Taliban is receiving support, including arms from ... elements of the Iranian regime,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in the May 31 edition of the Economist.

    Iran, which is also in a dispute with the West over its nuclear program, denies the Taliban accusation, calling it part of a broad anti-Iranian campaign. Tehran says it makes no sense that a Shiite-led government like itself would help the fundamentalist Sunni movement of the Taliban.

    Burns also criticized Iran’s perceived intransigence over its nuclear program, which many Western powers fear masks a plan to build weapons — though Iran says its intentions are to generate energy.

    Burns insisted new U.N. Security Council measures were needed “so that the Iranians don’t have business as usual.”

    Third U.N. resolution sought
    “We will have to move forward at the Security Council for a third ... resolution in a matter of weeks,” he said.

    The council imposed sanctions on Iran on Dec. 23 for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment despite U.N. demands, and modestly increased the sanctions March 24 when Tehran stepped up its enrichment program.

    “We believe that beyond (the third resolution), Europe and the Asian countries and Middle Eastern countries will have to adopt even harsher sanction measures outside the Security Council,” Burns added.

    Many have sought new sanctions after the International Atomic Energy Agency’s recent report that Iran’s enrichment program was expanding — and its warning for the first time that its knowledge of Tehran’s nuclear activities was shrinking.

    The prospect of council action appeared more likely after a senior Iranian envoy abruptly canceled talks Monday with the head of the IAEA.



    Thats a change isnt it? it used to be america who armed them. its a funny old world.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Thats a change isnt it? it used to be america who armed them. its a funny old world.
    ...
    And think about it... if there was a muslim military occupying Mexico... you can be SURE the U.S. would be arming and supplying the Mexican insurgents to kill Muslim soldiers. Just like if it were the Russian or Chinese Army in Iraq right now... we would be doing the same thing as Iran.
    The Middle East is Iran's neighborhood... seriously, what else would you expect?
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    There can never be success on the ground unless you ruthlessly wipe out the population...and that is just sick, disgusting and makes us monsters. There is always going to be resistance and the cycle of violence will go on and on, costing us more and more...especially with a stronger country like Iran.
    I don't think we would EVER go to war with Iran. as far as a full out invasion similar to Iraq.

    the only military response I see is bombing nuke sites and some camps near the Iraq border that are training fighters that go into Iraq.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Specifics wrote:
    I'm not surprised that brings on an escalation of smugness in you.
    However, if you knew anything of ground fighting you would realise how this brave tactic can make the clearance job 10 times harder against a determined enemy. America doesnt have the discipline or the skills on the ground for this, and i suspect that Britain would not be helping them out this time.
    Good luck! and i promise you this, i would not reach half the level of smugness that you portray in every word while i was watching this happen, maybe if i thought you had the balls to actually be there, but then maybe i would have an ounce of respect for anything you say.
    hahaha how does it feel to know I would turn you into a pretzel. probably not good I would imagine.

    you know why? cuz I am an almighty American ROAR!!!!!!!!!!

    hahahaha.
  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    jlew24asu wrote:
    hahaha how does it feel to know I would turn you into a pretzel. probably not good I would imagine.

    you know why? cuz I am an almighty American ROAR!!!!!!!!!!

    hahahaha.

    did you just smoke your first spliff little fella?

    Edit: it is good to see you're trying to be humorous, that one was a little bit embarrassing to read, but don't be put off, everyone starts somewhere, its cool
  • Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    And think about it... if there was a muslim military occupying Mexico... you can be SURE the U.S. would be arming and supplying the Mexican insurgents to kill Muslim soldiers. Just like if it were the Russian or Chinese Army in Iraq right now... we would be doing the same thing as Iran.
    The Middle East is Iran's neighborhood... seriously, what else would you expect?



    Hell, imagine the profit you could turn if you supplied both sides. Been done before. We could all use the money.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Specifics wrote:
    did you just smoke your first spliff little fella?

    Edit: it is good to see you're trying to be humorous, that one was a little bit embarrassing to read, but don't be put off, everyone starts somewhere, its cool

    this coming from the guy who ADMITS to having what was it?

    o yea, a small hard on. hahahahahaha.

    i'll be early awaiting your useless response. but I promise, I wont be baited anymore. I own you and you know it. have a good time. I'm going to go debate with the adults now.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Thats a change isnt it? it used to be america who armed them. its a funny old world.
    this argument is used a lot. you say this as if it were a bad thing. we armed these fighters (not the taliban btw, they later became the taliban) to help fight and invading army that was an enemy of us anyway.

    we supported a small country trying to fight for its freedom from a superpower.

    you see something wrong with this?
  • By the way. Give me a few reasons why I should believe them this time
  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    jlew24asu wrote:
    this coming from the guy who ADMITS to having what was it?

    o yea, a small hard on. hahahahahaha.

    i'll be early awaiting your useless response. but I promise, I wont be baited anymore. I own you and you know it. have a good time. I'm going to go debate with the adults now.

    are you having a nervous breakdown?
    so i've got a small cock? what about it?
    i've still got a girlfriend, who's fucking the one you had right now?
    i hope its not one of your "office buddies"

    Keep bringing it baby, your easy and its quite late here.....
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Specifics wrote:
    so i've got a small cock? what about it?
    um hahahahahahaha, O nevermind. hahahahahahaha. I love when you post.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    By the way. Give me a few reasons why I should believe them this time
    ...
    My best guess... because no one is that fucked up to be in such a horrible slump. The guy HAS to be due... right?
    ...
    Did I win?
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  • Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    My best guess... because no one is that fucked up to be in such a horrible slump. The guy HAS to be due... right?
    ...
    Did I win?



    I guess the odds ARE with him on this one


    It like fucking Nostradamus. You sit outside long enough, saying it's going to rain at exactly 3:45:01, you're gonna be right sometime.
  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    jlew24asu wrote:
    um hahahahahahaha, O nevermind. hahahahahahaha. I love when you post.

    You've embarrassed yourself ;)

    (i borrowed one of yours for once, you should feel a little honoured)
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Specifics wrote:
    You've embarrassed yourself ;)

    (i borrowed one of yours for once, you should feel a little honoured)


    hmmmm really?

    Specifics wrote:
    so i've got a small cock? what about it?


    I guess this is something to brag about. you must be quite the lady killer. now stop hijacking threads with your self embarrassing worthless posts
  • jlew24asu wrote:
    hmmmm really?





    I guess this is something to brag about. you must be quite the lady killer. now stop hijacking threads with your self embarrassing worthless posts



    What's he supposed to do if he does have a smaller than normal penis? It's not like something that a person can help. so he doesnt care because theres not a fuck thing that can be done about it. Unless you consider buying a gun and hummer doing something about it.
  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    jlew24asu wrote:
    hmmmm really?
    I guess this is something to brag about. you must be quite the lady killer. now stop hijacking threads with your self embarrassing worthless posts

    I HAVE THE WORLDS TINIEST LITTLE COCK!!

    Jeffrey, you can't beat a man, you don't have the weaponry, everybody knows it but you.

    i said what i had to say here:
    Specifics wrote:
    I'm not surprised that brings on an escalation of smugness in you.
    However, if you knew anything of ground fighting you would realise how this brave tactic can make the clearance job 10 times harder against a determined enemy. America doesnt have the discipline or the skills on the ground for this, and i suspect that Britain would not be helping them out this time.
    Good luck! and i promise you this, i would not reach half the level of smugness that you portray in every word while i was watching this happen, maybe if i thought you had the balls to actually be there, but then maybe i would have an ounce of respect for anything you say.

    now im just playing with ya ;)

    what you got? oh let me guess!

    (im not cruel to everyone but you're one of those types of people i love to see embarrass themselves over and over and over)
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    What's he supposed to do if he does have a smaller than normal penis? It's not like something that a person can help. so he doesnt care because theres not a fuck thing that can be done about it. Unless you consider buying a gun and hummer doing something about it.
    yea I guess I shouldnt be so hard on him. I do feel sorry for the little guy
  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    jlew24asu wrote:
    yea I guess I shouldnt be so hard on him. I do feel sorry for the little guy


    thank you jeffrey. Seriously hope you get over your ex-girlfriend soon, stop being a little bitch try and be a man, you might find that helps ;)

    Peace brother
  • Ahmadinejad has a massive set of balls...smart ones too.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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    ( o.O)
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  • Specifics wrote:
    I HAVE THE WORLDS TINIEST LITTLE COCK!!

    suddenly the phrase "Biddly-Boing" is taking on an entirely new meaning for me... :D
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • SpecificsSpecifics Posts: 417
    suddenly the phrase "Biddly-Boing" is taking on an entirely new meaning for me... :D

    Biddly-boings' not that funny :) but i find it amusing
  • drew2420drew2420 Posts: 61
    jlew24asu wrote:
    this coming from the guy who ADMITS to having what was it?

    o yea, a small hard on. hahahahahaha.

    i'll be early awaiting your useless response. but I promise, I wont be baited anymore. I own you and you know it. have a good time. I'm going to go debate with the adults now.



    Seriously is this guy 15?
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    drew2420 wrote:
    Seriously is this guy 15?

    I think you have to be 13 to qualify for posting privileges here, so...who knows?

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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    jlew24asu wrote:
    so its ok for them to be training and equipping people to kill our soldiers? and please, Iran doesn't stand a chance against us. no army does.

    The Vietnamese did a pretty good job on you. And, last time I checked, you weren't doing too well over there in Iraq either. Damn these popular insurgencies! When are people gonna learn to just accept being invaded and occupied? :rolleyes:
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