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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Johnnie B. Byrd :: Townhall.com Columnist
Iran, John McCain, and the 'Great Satan'
by Johnnie B. Byrd
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General Jafari: “Supreme Leader, I have met with their agents in the Green Zone and they are indeed weaklings. We are ready, armed with state of the art weaponry – we are also armed with faith. The IRGC is capable of firing thousands of missiles and rockets within minutes of your order, and with our newly acquired Russian ‘Sizzler’ anti-ship missiles we can annihilate the U.S. 5th fleet as the Great Satan’s own war games confirm. The Great Satan will pluck their survivors from the sea and flee again in its helicopters as in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia…”

Supreme Leader: “Yes, soon enough, but for now we wait - until our nuclear arsenal and ballistic missiles are ready. Time is on our side. When Bush is gone, the Great Satan will flee before our might. Mark my word, when either the one called Obama or the Clinton woman replaces Bush, the Great Satan will run away.”

Minister Mottaki: “Are we forgetting the one they call McCain who spent five years in a North Vietnamese cage, the one who will stand against us like the great Reagan did in 1980?”

Supreme Leader: “Of course not, leave this to me. Have patience. I have issued a statement to IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei that the Islamic Republic of Iran is, based on Islamic Sharia law, opposed to the production and use of nuclear weapons. That, along with CIA’s new National Intelligence Estimate, should buy us the time we need. But pray the one they call McCain is not elected. We do not need another Reagan!”

As Reagan said, “History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” Who is going to stand up to those that would “bury us”? Obama, Hillary or the one man clearly prepared for such a time as this—John McCain.

 
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Johnnie Byrd is a lawyer and host of “Johnnie Byrd’s Weekend” heard on WGUL-AM 860 in Tampa Bay, FL.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Feb 20, 2008 - 7:08 PM EST
Feh.
You are an idiot if you see death threats and actual murders as shades of grey. It is not blustery confrontationalism to demand that others refrain from threats and assualts; it is self-preservation.

We turned down the offer of "help" from Iran for the same reason sane people turn down offers of a free meal from Hannibal the Cannibal: i.e. such offers are only vanishingly likely to be legitimate.

It only take one side to start a war, and Iran wants to kill us. They are killing our military in Iraq, and they are readying themselves to kill as many more of us as possible. They will undertake as deadly a sneak attack as they can arrange in the hopes that such an attack will prove fatal and unanswerable. Nearly every action that they have taken since I was ten years old supports this contention and practically none argue aganist it.

Talking is not going to dissuade them, because talking won't make us dead. Preventing them from obtaining the capability of launching that first strike is all that protects us, and jaw-jaw clearly isn't going to do it.

They either put and keep their hands where we can see them, or we should physically destroy their capabilities of attacking us.

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Reply # 2
Date: Feb 20, 2008 - 4:16 PM EST
Tim
"Death to America" means nothing absent the meaningful ability to act on the threat.

Again, and I do not know how many times I will have to say this, the choice is NOT between doing "nothing" and nuking Iran. That's a false dilemma people kepp bringing up because it makes them feel tough. Reality is much more complex.

Don't complain to me because the great military hero Colin Powell said that Hussein was contained. Well, go ahead, becuase it is clear now that we have bene in Iraq for years that he was indeed contained and had little or no capacity to threaten anyone. And he wasn't going to get it either, despite the continued fantasies of right wing chickenhawks.

The problem with the blustery, confrontational mindset you evince is that it tends to blot out very real options. For example, Iran was very helpful to us in Afghanistan and could have been very helpful to us in Iraq. We turned down offers from Iran that would have been much to our advantage becuase people like you were seeing the world in black and white, unable to recognize a shade of grey if it bit them in the butt.

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