Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

[Anoush]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Dear Eddo and KanadaHye,

The above article is quite scary. Wow the lingo is all propaganda and pushing for war. This guy is saying with belief that Iran wants to control the world (Oh my God what a propaganda)? I don't believe whatsoever that Iran wants to control the world - it's really crazy to even say it.

I'm afraid KanadaHye it's more likely greed on Israel's part than a mere sinister plot to mess with the markets and oil prices by playing on the fear and greed of people.

It is indeed a very scary situation however. I'm also afraid of our Republic that is so near to all of this.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Dear Eddo and KanadaHye,

The above article is quite scary. Wow the lingo is all propaganda and pushing for war. This guy is saying with belief that Iran wants to control the world (Oh my God what a propaganda)? I don't believe whatsoever that Iran wants to control the world - it's really crazy to even say it.

I'm afraid KanadaHye it's more likely greed on Israel's part than a mere sinister plot to mess with the markets and oil prices by playing on the fear and greed of people.

It is indeed a very scary situation however. I'm also afraid of our Republic that is so near to all of this.

Oh yes, Iran wants to control the world when the Pentagon currently owns or rents over 700 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories. Like you said, it's really crazy to even say it.

The worldwide total of U.S. military personnel in 2005, including those based domestically, was 1,840,062 supported by an additional 473,306 Defense Department civil service employees and 203,328 local hires. Its overseas bases, according to the Pentagon, contained 32,327 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and 16,527 more that it leased. The size of these holdings was recorded in the inventory as covering 687,347 acres overseas and 29,819,492 acres worldwide, making the Pentagon easily one of the world's largest landlords.

These numbers, although staggeringly big, do not begin to cover all the actual bases we occupy globally. The 2005 Base Structure Report fails, for instance, to mention any garrisons in Kosovo (or Serbia, of which Kosovo is still officially a province) -- even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel built in 1999 and maintained ever since by the KBR corporation (formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root), a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation of Houston.

The report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq (106 garrisons as of May 2005), Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, even though the U.S. military has established colossal base structures in the Persian Gulf and Central Asian areas since 9/11. By way of excuse, a note in the preface says that "facilities provided by other nations at foreign locations" are not included, although this is not strictly true. The report does include twenty sites in Turkey, all owned by the Turkish government and used jointly with the Americans. The Pentagon continues to omit from its accounts most of the $5 billion worth of military and espionage installations in Britain, which have long been conveniently disguised as Royal Air Force bases. If there were an honest count, the actual size of our military empire would probably top 1,000 different bases overseas, but no one -- possibly not even the Pentagon -- knows the exact number for sure.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=12824

[Anoush]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Thanks for all the information KanadaHye, I didn't know all these numbers. The US really takes control of the world, doesn't she? Democratically mind you.

[hipeter924]

Re: Israel a threat to the region, a threat to the world

First and foremost, we should stop listening to media outlets run by an Israeli agenda and form our own opinions instead of regurgitating the exact same crap we hear from CNN and FOX news. Israel has nukes, so do a lot of other nations. The only way to peace is balance of power. The world leaders should be working towards disarming themselves instead of playing the "my nuke is bigger than yours" game. And we all know who those nations are. Let me give you a hint. Haiti isn't one of them.

I consider any nation with nukes as terrorists.

Then you believe that France, The United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, United States, Russia are all terrorists. What planet are you on again? Also no one wants to give away their nukes and never will.

[hrai]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Oh yes, Iran wants to control the world when the Pentagon currently owns or rents over 700 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories. Like you said, it's really crazy to even say it.

The worldwide total of U.S. military personnel in 2005, including those based domestically, was 1,840,062 supported by an additional 473,306 Defense Department civil service employees and 203,328 local hires. Its overseas bases, according to the Pentagon, contained 32,327 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and 16,527 more that it leased. The size of these holdings was recorded in the inventory as covering 687,347 acres overseas and 29,819,492 acres worldwide, making the Pentagon easily one of the world's largest landlords.

These numbers, although staggeringly big, do not begin to cover all the actual bases we occupy globally. The 2005 Base Structure Report fails, for instance, to mention any garrisons in Kosovo (or Serbia, of which Kosovo is still officially a province) -- even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel built in 1999 and maintained ever since by the KBR corporation (formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root), a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation of Houston.

The report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq (106 garrisons as of May 2005), Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, even though the U.S. military has established colossal base structures in the Persian Gulf and Central Asian areas since 9/11. By way of excuse, a note in the preface says that "facilities provided by other nations at foreign locations" are not included, although this is not strictly true. The report does include twenty sites in Turkey, all owned by the Turkish government and used jointly with the Americans. The Pentagon continues to omit from its accounts most of the $5 billion worth of military and espionage installations in Britain, which have long been conveniently disguised as Royal Air Force bases. If there were an honest count, the actual size of our military empire would probably top 1,000 different bases overseas, but no one -- possibly not even the Pentagon -- knows the exact number for sure.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=12824

Kanada, some years ago I was on holiday in northern Scotland (beautiful land) and trekking through a forest close to the coast happened to come across a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire, walking round to try to get past this I came to signs warning trespassers. This facility was stated as US Coast Guard. (!!???!!)

[hrai]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Thanks for all the information KanadaHye, I didn't know all these numbers. The US really takes control of the world, doesn't she? Democratically mind you.

Anoushka, the US military will never forget to give the world Micky Ds, BurgerKing, Popeyes, shrapnel and napalm.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Then you believe that France, The United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, United States, Russia are all terrorists. What planet are you on again? Also no one wants to give away their nukes and never will.

I know what planet I'm on... and I'd like to see it have a future. I know which countries are responsible for oppressing the weaker countries. I'm not comfortable living in a world where everyone is controlled, are you??

Anoushka, the US military will never forget to give the world Micky Ds, BurgerKing, Popeyes, shrapnel and napalm.

It is reassuring to find all those elements in over 130 countries

[Anoush]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

Anoushka, the US military will never forget to give the world Micky Ds, BurgerKing, Popeyes, shrapnel and napalm.

Yeah really hrai, let's see; first they bomb the city and then they give away Micky D's, BurgerKings, Popeyes and what have yous.

[Anoush]

Re: Israel a threat to the region, a threat to the world

Also no one wants to give away their nukes and never will.

Just Armenia does, thanks to the likes of Serzh and Edward.

[hipeter924]

Re: Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

I know what planet I'm on... and I'd like to see it have a future. I know which countries are responsible for oppressing the weaker countries. I'm not comfortable living in a world where everyone is controlled, are you??



It is reassuring to find all those elements in over 130 countries

I am an internationalist KanadaHye, that could only come with a democratic world government. But right now that seems impossible. Who would give up nuclear weapons in a world where a nation could develop them and hold the world to ransom. Do you suggest we remove the nuclear weapons and wait for a North Korea to nuke us? I think not. True Nuclear disarmament can only happen in a rational world dedicated to peace and I don't see that happening this century if not the next.