Originally posted by corsair: Haven't seen that video anywhere else, withholding any judgement other than...them some emotional folks over there.
Iron Eagle? It used to be on TBS on Sundays all the time I loved Lou Gossett Jr in it.
Jesse
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January 07, 2020, 08:26 PM
Fed161
If all the Iranians did was to rearrange some sand in the desert with no casualties and minimal or no property damage, I would have no problem with considering the matter closed. To be clear, I was 100% supportive of the decision to take out the Iranian general.
January 07, 2020, 08:27 PM
P220 Smudge
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Originally posted by Skins2881: Iron Eagle? It used to be on TBS on Sundays all the time I loved Lou Gossett Jr in it.
He's talking about this. It's Ayatollah Khameini losing his ever-loving mind.
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January 07, 2020, 08:32 PM
Flashlightboy
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Originally posted by Fed161: If all the Iranians did was to rearrange some sand in the desert with no casualties and minimal or no property damage, I would have no problem with considering the matter closed. To be clear, I was 100% supportive of the decision to take out the Iranian general.
Or perhaps consider the possibity that Iran truly targeted those bases with the intent to kill many people but the US interfered with their targeting systems to make the missles fall in the middle of the desert.
Iran knows they were messed with and holds off launching more since it's a PR disaster to have every missle miss as part of their revenge.
Just saying...
January 07, 2020, 08:34 PM
Skins2881
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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
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Originally posted by Skins2881: Iron Eagle?
He's talking about this. It's Ayatollah Khameini losing his ever-loving mind.
[FLASH_VIDEO]
I missed that one, holy cow...
Jesse
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January 07, 2020, 08:35 PM
wcb6092
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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
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Originally posted by TigerDore:...
Yes. Like it or not, Iran is at, and has been "at war" with us for a long time.
Or, we can let the termites quietly eat until the house falls on our heads.
I agree with the Monkey. This started in the late 70s and Jimmy Carter allowed it to happen. The boil has festered for 42 years.
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January 07, 2020, 08:39 PM
ChuckFinley
And the media presents Trump as unstable...
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January 07, 2020, 08:55 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by Flashlightboy:
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Originally posted by Fed161: If all the Iranians did was to rearrange some sand in the desert with no casualties and minimal or no property damage, I would have no problem with considering the matter closed. To be clear, I was 100% supportive of the decision to take out the Iranian general.
Or perhaps consider the possibity that Iran truly targeted those bases with the intent to kill many people but the US interfered with their targeting systems to make the missles fall in the middle of the desert.
Iran knows they were messed with and holds off launching more since it's a PR disaster to have every missle miss as part of their revenge.
Just saying...
It was just a few months ago when Iran sent those very same missiles into Saudi Arabia and precisely hit those oil facilities. They missed tonight on purpose.
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January 07, 2020, 08:56 PM
Doc H.
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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
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Originally posted by TigerDore:...
Yes. Like it or not, Iran is at, and has been "at war" with us for a long time.
Or, we can let the termites quietly eat until the house falls on our heads.
This. Since 1979. And long before. You don't get to decide who you're "at war" with, when the other party calls for your death, and the death of all your friends, and at every opportunity demonstrates that they mean it. Look at the man in the video. The US may not believe it's at war with Iran, but they most certainly believe they are at war with us. And the only reason they haven't destroyed every living thing on this continent, is because they can't. Yet. Chamberlain couldn't appease the dragon, and neither can we, and it will eventually grow up and eat you if you let it.
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
I agree with the Monkey. This started in the late 70s and Jimmy Carter allowed it to happen. The boil has festered for 42 years.
Yep.
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January 07, 2020, 09:46 PM
Balzé Halzé
Hmmm...
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January 07, 2020, 09:51 PM
ensigmatic
According to the "news" on TV this evening, the US has prohibited (US?) commercial traffic from flying in Iraqi, Iranian, and nearby airspace for now, due to the danger.
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January 07, 2020, 09:57 PM
KMitch200
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Originally posted by P220 Smudge: That video is stunning. The news radio today was saying that Khameini "teared up a bit." They didn't say he went bat-shit hysterical ripping off and stomping on his hat, slapping his face and tearing at his beard. Ho-lee shit.
That’s actually a pretty typical Iranian reaction to grief in my experience. What looks wacko batshit crazy to us is well known territory to them.
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January 07, 2020, 10:24 PM
corsair
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Originally posted by KMitch200:
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Originally posted by P220 Smudge: That video is stunning. The news radio today was saying that Khameini "teared up a bit." They didn't say he went bat-shit hysterical ripping off and stomping on his hat, slapping his face and tearing at his beard. Ho-lee shit.
That’s actually a pretty typical Iranian reaction to grief in my experience. What looks wacko batshit crazy to us is well known territory to them.
Isn't it a Shia-thing and not necessarily a Persian thing? They're the ones that do the self-flagellation using whips and flails tearing their backs open.
January 07, 2020, 10:26 PM
cslinger
Wanna bet somebody’s AA shot that plane down in a panic/high alert whether us or Iran or Iraq.
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January 07, 2020, 10:30 PM
medic451
Video of plane going down in flames, they fucking shot that down for sure.
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