Worthy News: Pentagon calls Iran missile claim an exaggeration - Washi

[George]

Iran tested an older Scud missile variant last week and often exaggerates its military developments, the Pentagon said yesterday in response to Tehran's reported testing of new advanced weaponry.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtont...3-103808-5027r/

[Guest AngelicBeliever]

Maybe they are trying to take the heat off of their nuke program. Iran seems to be trying to say.....we're ready for the battle to begin.

[Marnie]

You cannot trust anything that comes out of the "government." They are rougues and thugs.

[ted]

Their claims are kinda like a little dog's bark: It sounds a little scary at first, but all you really have to do is punt the thing across the room one time to shut it up.

t.

[O'Dannyboy]

Its all posturing and propaganda. Without a doubt, Iran is flexing what muscle it has in an attempt to discourage any possible military action. In the same light, the U.S. government is attempting to reassure everyone that Irans "bark is bigger than its bite" as previous posts have stated.

[Guest yod]

you mean they lied???

say it isn't so!!!??

[Razberry]

Maybe they are trying to take the heat off of their nuke program. Iran seems to be trying to say.....we're ready for the battle to begin.

I agree angelic. I think it seems Iran is daring the world, "just try and stop us." Their 'insinuations' shouldn't be shrugged off, imo. They're an extremely dangerous threat to Israel and the U.S.

[Old Timer]

This is a situation that should not be taken lightly.

Iran controls (dominates) the Strait of Hormuz . It is about 20 miles wide with only two 1 mile wide shipping channels and through those channels pass 40% of the Mid-east oil supply. Granted, U.S. does not heavily rely on this oil but that much oil being put in jeopardy to the rest of the world could lead to dire implications.

The U.S., Israel, and the rest of the world are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to Iran.

[ted]

Sure, they are to be taken seriously. Every threat should be, but they are not supernatural, nor unbeatable.

I keep thinking back to the first gulf war, when the opposition voices filled our tv screens with cries of "we will start WWIII if we go into Iraq" or "This ain't no Panama, these guys will whip our butts" (in reference to the recently completed Operation Just Cause). We went in and breezed through the 4th largest army in the world, simple as that.

Then, all the nervous jitters came back around just before we went in to Afghanistan: "These guys whipped the Russians, we can't possibly win over there" or "It'll be another Vietnam" or "No foreign invaders have ever taken Afghanistan, not even Alexander the Great!" (which is false, btw)...but you get the picture. The same voices popped up again before Iraq II.

Now, we begin to hear it again with Iran. Blah, blah, blah. Do we not have any confidence in our men and women in uniform?

Think of it this way: Perhaps Bush will lie again (in some people's minds) and he will simply claim massive amounts of WMD's are in Iran. When we take that little country, and find none, all will be well, right?

Just kidding, sorta.....

Anyway, I'm not under-estimating what Iran may do or how hard it will be to take them because, most likely, I'll have to go and be a part of it.

What I'm saying is that listening to a country's leader talk about how tough they are is getting laughable. Of course they are going to puff out their chests. If they don't, one of their aides will claim that they are weak and take the country over. Anyway...

They get wiped out in days, and then all they have left is a few roadside bombs and some lucky shots for a few years.

That's hardly a cause to run around saying that the sky is falling.

Their threats are no justification for us not to do what we know needs to be done. That was the failure of the UN and many nations when it came to Iraq II, and hopefully, they have learned their lesson.

Even the French are talking tough with Iran. That should be all the justification we need, right?

As long as some of the bigger European nations thinks it's cool to do it, true?

Wasn't that the big argument against going into Iraq- the fact that other nations didn't think it was right?

Iran, despite their threats, will either come to the conclusion that they cannot go on as they plan to, or they will be reduced to the list of formerly semi-powerful nations that blew their chance to make something of themselves in modern history.

Perhaps this time, the world will step up and do the right thing. Sadly, like Iraq, I think too many have their hands in the cookie jar, and will fall on weak knees.

t.