[IceFire]

Originally posted by Zarax
You are overoptimistic my friend, overstretched as they are US troops right now are much easier pickings than usual.
Plus they don't have to mount a full scale offensive, just send a few platoons here and there so that air superiority won't  make too much trouble...

Still, if the Iranian army tried to move tanks and vehicles across the border in any sort of combined force you'd be sure that there would be a line of Abrams tanks and A-10s ready to take them out wholesale...such is the disparity of technology.  In the original gulf war an American tank group which I think was outnumbered 2:1 was able to successfully engage an Iraqi platoon and emerged with no losses.  I can't remember the details, only the fact that the Abrams was able to engage the enemy well outside of their range.

Plus, in terms of manpower, the MBTs like the Abrams aren't much use in cities anyways so they aren't going to be depleting that type of force.

Not that im arguing for any sort of action either way....just that if it was a conventional battle it could be won even "against the odds".  But in all likelyhood it would not be a conventional one...

[Zarax]

Yep, but you should assume that the iranians knows that too...
If i was in them i'd just have sent saboteur teams around, something that's quite difficult to counter.

[Gank]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041129/news_1n29bombers.html

[vyper]

Meh, the Yanks are training folk to follow their ideology, the Arabs are doing the same.

I just wish we (UK) could stay out of it. Meh.

[Gank]

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050129-iran-targets.htm

Love the last quote

[vyper]

heh.

[Rictor]

woah, their reasoning skills just blow me away. Truly, this is ironclad proof that Hersh was making it all up.

edit: you know it just occured to me that even if Hersh was pulling it out of his ass, the Pentagon will be so scared to try anything now, cause everyone would be like "nya nya, see, he was totally right". This story has raised quite a little ****storm, due to Hersh's prior record for being right about these sorts of things.

[Gank]

I dont think the hawks in the US administration are going to call off bombing Iran just to prove Hersch wrong

[01010]

I'd like to see Iran take the initiative and bomb the Whitehouse.

[Zarax]

I'd expect more Bush having CIA or NSA putting a bomb there and then blaming Iran.
They will make such a move sooner or later,,,