Iran Iran Iran Iran Iran is all I've been hearing about lately from the so-called "wise" men and they have all of you doing the same. All of the so-called "wise" men have everybody fearful of Iran. Syria has ALREADY SAID they were prepared to bomb the crap out of Israel if Turkey sent NATO troops into Syria to stop the bloodshed. Russia has responded to Syria's request and supplied them with long range missiles. Russia has also sent their Navy fleet to back Syria!
Yet, why hasn't anybody stopped to ask what kind of weapons Russia has recently supplied to Syria? Russia is a super power wtih 4,650 active nuclear warheads, Russia possesses the largest stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in the world. Bashar Assad, the Syrian dictator is a MADMAN that is fighting with full force to maintain power, murdered over 7,000 innocent civilians wtih Russia's support.
Our government, the media and most of the GOP presidential candidates, Dr. Ron Paul being the exception, have intentionally steered the publics attention to Iran and have completely IGNORED and are deliberately not talking about SYRIA! They want the world's attention on Iran.
Bashar Assad's Syrian regime has MURDERED over 7,000 INNOCENT CIVILIANS who have spoken up against the government, Syrian men, women and CHILDREN MURDERED in their homes and on the streets! and an unknown amount of political prisoners as well. I wish the media would stop referring to the Syrian people as Syrian rebels. You are making the Syrian people sound like they are armed militants. They are just regular people like you and me who were speaking up publicly against their government resulting in being hunted down by the government and being murdered by the brutal Syrian government who is in power and Bashar Assad's loyal supporters. To give you an example, it would be like me publicly speaking out against our government and the government sending in the military to my neighborhood and start firing missiles MURDERING everybody they "suspect" to be against the government including mother's, father's, grandmother's and grandfather's, aunt's and uncle's and children who were related to the people who had the courage to speak up against their government! The Syrian people are armed now with whatever they can get their hands on after they've witnessed their government murder their family members in cold blood. I call that self-defense!!!
My point is that Iran is NOT an immediate threat. It's no secret that Iran hates the United States of America and hates Israel. They've been very vocal about that for decades now. It's not new news. Why do think Israel has a strong military defense and I thank God Israel has experience defending itself for decades and is alert and prepared to respond if necessary. Israel is a sovereign nation and has the right to defend itself against ANY attack.
Iran with the help of the Obama administration (our government), the media and most of the GOP candidates are playing a sleight of hand distraction! Bashar Assad, the Syrian Dictator is Iran's BFF. They BOTH support Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinian's HAMAS, BOTH are Islamic militant groups. Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran need Syria to continue supplying weapons and funding. Who the heck do you think has been a boil on Israel's behind for decades? BOTH Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinian's Hamas Islamic militant groups! Who do you think put those boil's there? Iran by way of Syria!
If the "power's that be" were SERIOUS about cutting Iran's government off at the knee's, the Syrian brutal regime of Bashar Assad would be the way to go. But no, all we're hearing now are "rumors" of going to war with Iran and Iran hasn't done anything to us or to Israel other than the same spouting off at the mouth by the psychopath. Iran may have a large military, but it doesn't have the missile capability to strike the United States or Israel. But even if Iran somehow tested missiles without anybody seeing via the gazillion satellites in outer space, Israel has an air defense system designed to intercept Iranian missiles in the stratosphere, far away from Israel. You don't think we have the same kind of missile defense system? So don't let people like Obama, Santorum, Gingrich, Romney and all of the so-called "wise" men in the media make you fearful of any kind of missile attack by any country. What good would our "Homeland Security" be otherwise.
Please click HERE to see the "Estimated Ranges of Current and Potential Iranian Ballistic Missiles" from FAS: Weapons of Mass Destruction Around The World website.
If the "power's that be" were SERIOUS about cutting Iran's government off at the knee's, the Syrian brutal regime of Bashar Assad would be the way to go. But no, all we're hearing now are "rumors" of going to war with Iran and Iran hasn't done anything to us or to Israel other than the same spouting off at the mouth by the psychopath. Iran may have a large military, but it doesn't have the missile capability to strike the United States or Israel. But even if Iran somehow tested missiles without anybody seeing via the gazillion satellites in outer space, Israel has an air defense system designed to intercept Iranian missiles in the stratosphere, far away from Israel. You don't think we have the same kind of missile defense system? So don't let people like Obama, Santorum, Gingrich, Romney and all of the so-called "wise" men in the media make you fearful of any kind of missile attack by any country. What good would our "Homeland Security" be otherwise.
Please click HERE to see the "Estimated Ranges of Current and Potential Iranian Ballistic Missiles" from FAS: Weapons of Mass Destruction Around The World website.
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The Guardian UK
written by Martin Chulov
Wednesday February 22, 2012
Residents of besieged city say they are preparing for final onslaught as tanks columns further bolster regime positions.
The bombardment of the city of Homs by the Syrian military continued unabated on Wednesday with at least 80 deaths in besieged enclaves, where residents say they are preparing for an imminent final onslaught.
Tank columns were on Tuesday seen streaming from Damascus towards Syria's third city and are reported to have reinforced positions that have already been barraging the suburbs of Bab al-Amr and al-Khalideyah for almost three weeks.
The relentless assault has taken on a new dimension in the past seven days, with increasingly heavy artillery fired as attempts have been made to negotiate a daily ceasefire and open a humanitarian corridor to allow aid into the neighbourhoods cut off from the rest of the city.
Up to 60 of those reported killed in Homs on Wednesday were killed in an afternoon artillery barrage. Activists said some military defectors who have joined a rebel army were among the dead.
"This was in one part of the city only," said one activist. "The shelling was with very heavy weapons. It was not mortars or rockets."
Up to 20,000 residents of the besieged areas remain unable to leave amid desperate shortages of food and water. Global campaigning group Avaaz claimed seven of its activists were executed on Wednesday while trying to bring medical supplies into the city to treat residents wounded by the shelling.
Only a small number of wounded have been able to flee the district of Bab al-Amr since the shelling began 19 days ago; most to the hinterland surrounding Homs, which is also braced for a regime attack. The two besieged neighbourhoods now lie largely in ruin, activists and reporters on the ground said, with most buildings damaged by the shelling.
In the tract of land south of Homs towards Lebanon and north towards Turkey, a raging insurgency is seeking to bring an end to the four-decade rule of the Assad clan and the Ba'ath party regime that underpins its power.
Clashes have taken place daily since the summer in much of this area. In Idlib, regime forces were again engaged on Wednesday in running battles with defectors who comprise the ranks of a new guerilla force, the Free Syria Army.
Up to seven defectors were believed to have been killed, along with a similar number of security force members. Defections have become commonplace throughout the lower ranks of the Syrian military. However the nascent rebel army remains lightly armed and without an effective central control. In Homs and elsewhere, it is operating as a loosely aligned series of franchises.
Russia on Wednesday maintained its support for the Assad regime, claiming extremist elements within the Syrian opposition were just as responsible for the savage violence consuming parts of the country as the regime military.
The US, meanwhile, appeared to leave the door slightly ajar for the supply of military aid to Syria's rebels, with White House officials suggesting new measures were being explored in the wake of the relentless regime crackdown that has killed more than 7,000 civilians and around 3,000 members of the security forces.
Assad has pledged to introduce constitutional reforms as soon as this weekend that would clear the way for multi-party rule in Syria. However opposition groups, along with western states, have insisted that the Syrian leader must leave power.
US officials had until recently been publicly opposed to arming an opposition that it sees as poorly defined and lacking discipline. However the alarming escalation in violence, which could spill to neighbouring states, has forced a reassessment. Veteran US congressman John McCain this week openly called for military assistance to be seriously considered.
The umbrella opposition group, the Syrian National Council said it was close to advocating military intervention. "We are really close to seeing this military intervention as the only solution," SNC official Basma Kodami told a press conference in Paris. "There are two evils, military intervention or protracted civil war."
Up to seven defectors were believed to have been killed, along with a similar number of security force members. Defections have become commonplace throughout the lower ranks of the Syrian military. However the nascent rebel army remains lightly armed and without an effective central control. In Homs and elsewhere, it is operating as a loosely aligned series of franchises.
Russia on Wednesday maintained its support for the Assad regime, claiming extremist elements within the Syrian opposition were just as responsible for the savage violence consuming parts of the country as the regime military.
The US, meanwhile, appeared to leave the door slightly ajar for the supply of military aid to Syria's rebels, with White House officials suggesting new measures were being explored in the wake of the relentless regime crackdown that has killed more than 7,000 civilians and around 3,000 members of the security forces.
Assad has pledged to introduce constitutional reforms as soon as this weekend that would clear the way for multi-party rule in Syria. However opposition groups, along with western states, have insisted that the Syrian leader must leave power.
US officials had until recently been publicly opposed to arming an opposition that it sees as poorly defined and lacking discipline. However the alarming escalation in violence, which could spill to neighbouring states, has forced a reassessment. Veteran US congressman John McCain this week openly called for military assistance to be seriously considered.
The umbrella opposition group, the Syrian National Council said it was close to advocating military intervention. "We are really close to seeing this military intervention as the only solution," SNC official Basma Kodami told a press conference in Paris. "There are two evils, military intervention or protracted civil war."
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