If iran gets striked than all hell will break loose in middle east.

-US troops can expect a nice flow of insurgents and advanced IED's into iraq.
-I wonder if the Shia northern alliance in afghanistan and mahdis in iraq will continue to collaborate with US.
-hezbollah goes mental raining hell on israel
-hamas gains more support
-Saudis/kuwait might see missiles heading towards the pipes

There's a saying that 'you don't put your hand in every hole,their might be a snake in one'.

Wow I must really need to get a new dictionary as either I have the meaning of the word Defense really backwards or the original poster does.

I had always been under the impression that 'defense' meant how you responded to being 'attacked' from someone's offense.

How defense gets construed into offense I don't know except perhaps by those people who imagine there is something offensive about a nation serious about defending itself against warrantless and baseless agression.

I doubt the Iranians suffer under the illusion of coined phrases like 'preemptive war or preemptive attack' as being defensive in nature.

It sounds to me like they are preparing for an offensive attack from the Israeli nation that won't let Interntaional Inspectors into it's nuclear facilities because Iran lets Inernational Inspectors into it's nuclear facilities.

Sadly because those International Inspectors can't find clear evidence of what they would like to find to justify a preemptive offensive war they just have to keep pretending that the world is in danger from Iran when it's pretty obvious to anyone of any reasonable intelligence the world is in danger from Israel and it's skewered notion of preemptive unilatteral attacks as somehow being defensive in nature, which is about as offensive to people of intelligence and common sense as offensive could be.

The meek sure aren't inhereting the earth any time soon with the Zionists running Israel that's for sure!

DUH!!!! Of course i meant Iran was preparing for DEFENSE. What else would you call it when i stated that Israel was getting ready to attack within 2-3 weeks.

Okay-let me spell this out for you S-L-O-W-L-Y:

Israel attacks (thats offense).

Iran is attacked and responds (thats defense).

The title of my Thread is "Iran to hold DEFENSE drill."

Not sure what you're missing here?

Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Wow I must really need to get a new dictionary as either I have the meaning of the word Defense really backwards or the original poster does.

I had always been under the impression that 'defense' meant how you responded to being 'attacked' from someone's offense.

How defense gets construed into offense I don't know except perhaps by those people who imagine there is something offensive about a nation serious about defending itself against warrantless and baseless agression.

I doubt the Iranians suffer under the illusion of coined phrases like 'preemptive war or preemptive attack' as being defensive in nature.

It sounds to me like they are preparing for an offensive attack from the Israeli nation that won't let Interntaional Inspectors into it's nuclear facilities because Iran lets Inernational Inspectors into it's nuclear facilities.

Sadly because those International Inspectors can't find clear evidence of what they would like to find to justify a preemptive offensive war they just have to keep pretending that the world is in danger from Iran when it's pretty obvious to anyone of any reasonable intelligence the world is in danger from Israel and it's skewered notion of preemptive unilatteral attacks as somehow being defensive in nature, which is about as offensive to people of intelligence and common sense as offensive could be.

The meek sure aren't inhereting the earth any time soon with the Zionists running Israel that's for sure!

[edit on 26-9-2009 by princeofpeace]

Being a 'level headed' individual, i have always managed to see past the hype and paranoia in these situations in recent years. However, this time i have an uneasy feeling that things may take a turn for the worst.

A strike on Iran, whether Israel or the US or any other allied nation will open a large can of worms.

It seems to me that the US has been relatively unchallenged in it's quest to 'rid the world of terrorism' so far.

Consider this, is world just going to sit back and allow the US and any ally systematically pick a rogue nation that it believes to be a threat to global security or a harbourer of terrorists ,invade them and try and convince the world that what they are doing is justified?

Do the PTB in the west have a crystal ball? Psychic ability? Perhaps they got a copy of the bible code by Michael Drosnin and decided it was 'better to be safe than sorry'

In the case of Iran, why must they not be allowed to produce a nuclear warhead when half the globe has possessed them since the sixties?

Just because no nation that currently possesses them has not thrown one in anger for the last 6 decades, does that qualify them to own them and deem another nation incompetent to do so?

This time, i think, it will be a step too far.

This is , of course, my own opinion. Reasons? References?

Well no! but i'd bet a truck load of cash that this time it will be different.

To throw out another theory, I don't think Iran is doing "defense drills" at all. Iran opened his mouth at the G20 and welcomed inspectors to his "new" site.

My guess is that they are staging the facility -- removing anything they don't want seen or inspected -- and doing it under the guise of a drill.

Nobody is going to notice what exactly is coming in and out of that facility if there is the pretense of a drill.

So my guess is that they are getting the facility "ready" for inspection..

And yes, it's a guess.....

Good point. I mean im sure the US's "eyes in the sky" are trained all over Iran, but this defense drill will most definitely muddy the waters a little right?

Originally posted by lpowell0627
To throw out another theory, I don't think Iran is doing "defense drills" at all. Iran opened his mouth at the G20 and welcomed inspectors to his "new" site.

My guess is that they are staging the facility -- removing anything they don't want seen or inspected -- and doing it under the guise of a drill.

Nobody is going to notice what exactly is coming in and out of that facility if there is the pretense of a drill.

So my guess is that they are getting the facility "ready" for inspection..

And yes, it's a guess.....

[edit on 26-9-2009 by princeofpeace]

Israel WILL hit Iran. Netenyau(SP?) as much as said so this week. Israel will not let any country overrun them. And since the president of Iran has continually denied the holocaust, he has infuriated the Jews, and the Christians who support Israel. Not to mention the WWII vets and survivors who saw the evidence for themselves.