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Saber rattling at it's finest...

TEHRAN, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has the capability to fire 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within one minute if the country is attacked, a top commander in the Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday.

"Within the first minute of any attack by enemies against our country, the missile and artillery unit of the ground force is capable of firing 11,000 missiles and shells at targets that are known to us,"

and

"A possible war will not last long, because within days we will reduce our enemies to ashes. The enemy must ask himself what losses he is prepared to suffer for his stupidity,"

But we know that the Iranian missiles can't really reach the U.S mainland.  Bases in Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, other Middle East countries, those would be on the list.

But my house payment I'd bet that most of those rockets would target Israel, even if Israel didn't attack Iran. That was Saddam Hussein's strategy when he was losing the first Gulf War. That's one of the reasons we went into Iraq the second time, because Iraq (and now Iran...well, nearly all of the Middle East's Islamic states want Israel out of Israel.)

It's beginning to look more and more like we will have to attack Iran, over the possibility of nuclear missiles. Four days ago, President Bush warned that if Iran's nuclear program isn't stopped, WW III could be the result. "I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them (Iran) from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush said."  Because Ahmadenijad and his masters are crazy Islamic Fascists who think a 12th Imam is buried somewhere in a well, and won't be released until Armageddon is unleashed. Religion of peace, indeed.

Bush's comments at a White House news conference came a day after President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran, where the Russian leader said he saw no evidence that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. Putin's trip to Iran for a summit of Caspian littoral states, the first visit by a Russian or Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin traveled to Iran in 1943, provoked concerns in the West over increasingly close ties between Moscow and Tehran. The summit resulted in a five-way agreement that no Caspian nations would allow the use of their territories for a military strike against any of them.

Vice President Dick Cheny responds today...

"We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,"

Such is the response of an administration unconcerned with the small things that trouble Democrats...polling data, re-elections, international pressure. We still have a crew in charge who has the 'nads to stop a nascent Hitler.

"Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. He said Iran's efforts to pursue technology that would allow it to build a nuclear weapon are obvious and that "the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time."

Hell, we knew that long ago. I hope our contingency plans are updated daily, we are in close secret contact with Israel, and our forces have the strength to get the job done.

Because we really need to win this one...