Can we fight Iran without a draft?

[trancepriest]

What do you think? My personal opinion is hell no.

[V. Barbarino]

We will not invade Iran, just bomb the day lights out of them. So no draft required.

[DeepHouseMan]

Drop the fucking atomic bomb on them already!

If we do get to the point that we do need a draft, I say that would be the perfect incentive for all the illeagals that are here to become documented.
Go to war! Defend the country you want to be in and beleive in, and when you get back to the states after the war, you can become a citizen!

Even better, have military recruiters stand along the invisible fence we have at our borders and when you step on American soil, we will ship your ass to Iran/Iraq/North Korea...where ever we go next for 2 years!

But shit, who would cut my hedges?

[trancepriest]

Have you served in the military?

[obby]

Bush Budget Plans for Iran Attack

Monday, October 29, 2007 8:29 AM


An item buried in President Bush’s latest request for $190 billion in emergency war funding offers telling evidence that the U.S. could be preparing an attack on Iran.

The Defense Department has asked for $88 million to retrofit B-2 Stealth bombers so they can carry a 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb called the massive ordnance penetrator (MOP), which has the capacity to destroy deep underground targets.

The Administration says the request is in response to an “urgent operational need from theater commanders.”

Some observers might conclude that the Pentagon is seeking weaponry to strike Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in their caves in Afghanistan.

But as Gerard Baker, U.S. editor of the Times of London, points out in the New York Post, that would not require Stealth bombers.

“The Americans own the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq and could, if they wished, blanket the two countries with all manner of bombardment from a few thousand feet in broad daylight,” Baker notes.

Instead, the more likely targets are the subterranean nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran, according to Baker, who writes:

“The debate in Washington about what to do with the increasingly recalcitrant and self-confident Iranian regime has taken a significant turn in the past few weeks. And the decision to upgrade the bombing capacity of the military is perhaps the most powerful indication yet that the debate is reaching a climax.”

The Pentagon request confirms an earlier report that first ran on Newsmax.com in July, which disclosed that the Pentagon was planning to modify the B-2 Stealth bombers so they could carry the bunker buster bombs – “a move that could be a prelude to an attack on Iran and its nuclear facilities.”

The Newsmax report revealed that Northrop Grumman, the Air Force’s prime contractor on the B-2, would retrofit the bomber to carry the new 30,000-pound MOP.

“The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Stealth bomber would be able to attack and destroy an expanded set of hardened, deeply buried military targets” using the MOP, the company said at the time.

Regarding the likelihood of an American attack on Iran, Baker observes that the U.S. now “thinks it has the intelligence and the military capacity to undermine the Iranian threat seriously…

“The only real question about the next phase in this war is whether an escalation by the U.S., in a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, would further American – and Western – objectives, or impede them. The evidence is increasingly suggesting that the costs of not acting are equal to or larger than the costs of acting.”

[pod]

Originally Posted by DeepHouseMan

Go to war! Defend the country you want to be in and beleive in, and when you get back to the states after the war, you can become a citizen!

Service guarantees citizenship?





http://wonkette.com/politics/notag/i...all-269339.php

[cire]

Air attack, no ground invasion, at least no time soon. If we go to war with Iran with an all out ground and air attack, we should enact the draft and invade every country in the Middle East. Stop picking around the edges and just go right for the throat of the Holy Land. Take it all or take nothing.

[trancepriest]

What DeepHouseMan is proposing would likely lead to the death of western civilization.

[cire]

Our death is a slow one right now, China gaining massive strength, a dwindling dollar, and oil prices which will never go down, western consumption is already killing us.

[trancepriest]

Originally Posted by cire

Our death is a slow one right now, China gaining massive strength, a dwindling dollar, and oil prices which will never go down, western consumption is already killing us.

You are right on those points.