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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (53039)	2/4/2006 6:50:07 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 93284

i hope u guys r right for once....I don't want to see the world economies implode in a grand epiphany of understanding...And i don't want to see the whole world suffer...But this is all getting sicker and sicker by the day... I hope bush slips on a banana peel and shits himself...

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (53039)	2/4/2006 7:54:53 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

I really don't expect much to happen militarily. As you point out, the Persian Gulf is critical to the world economy, and it's unlikely that any country that buys oil from there (which is every country that could do something) is likely to risk the consequences. Israel is really the only wild card. en.wikipedia.org

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (53039)	2/6/2006 12:49:03 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

But Iran is no Iraq. Yes. Iran is no Iraq. But the difference is miniscule. It is like the difference between a "team" of football-watching couch potatoes and a junior high school football team. However, it makes little difference when they are up against the Super Bowl champions. Both teams will get thrashed. They will cause havoc in the Strait of Hormuz and throw the world economy out of whack. In that case the other nations will intervene. The Dumbya gang will pre-empt that by grabbing a few hundred square miles of territory around the straits. The initial wave of attacks will be designed to take out Iranian forces in and around the straits and in the oil/gas producing regions. Unlike in the case of Iraq, there will be no shock and awe of Tehran to start with. Besides, Bush does not have the money. The Iraq war has been a big drain financially. That has never been the problem for Dumbya. Congress has given him a blank check to wage any war he wants and when it comes to funding them, they will vote for any amount, lest they be branded as "unpatriotic". However, in the long run, all this will be utterly ruinous. In that sense, we do agree. It is just that I disagree with you about whether the Dumbya gang will pull off an attack on Iran and whether they can get away with the financial consequences of that in the short-term.