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Old 07-10-2008, 02:30 AM   #1
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Threat or Fake


Well much was made of the threat of Iran's Missile test
but how much was made and...
how much was photo-shopped
you decide

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/arti...issile_Launch/

http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably...d-the-fau.html

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Old 07-10-2008, 03:38 AM   #2
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It's fake, but I still hope the war starts, World War 3, the final conflict.
 
Old 07-10-2008, 05:12 AM   #3
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...and WWIV will be with sticks and stones...

with leaders like Bush and Ahmadineyad it can be possible...
 
Old 07-10-2008, 07:46 AM   #4
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...and WWIV will be with sticks and stones...
Ha !!

I can gimp my stick bigger than your stick
who needs photo-shop anyway




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Old 07-10-2008, 08:00 AM   #5
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It's fake, but I still hope the war starts, World War 3, the final conflict.
Well I hope not, since now it seems the US keeps starting shit for no reason. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, there were no WMDs, and Al Qaeda wasn't there, BEFORE we invaded for no reason(oil?). We need a war with Iran, just like we need an economic depression of the 21st century.

The fact that if they did test these missiles, as far as I'm concerned was their right, since Israel was the first to 'practice' a war drill against Iran. Right now, it seems that only Israel is pushing the US to go to war with Iran, even when the US now realizes that their resources are stretched to the limit, and a third front would be disastrous.

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Old 07-10-2008, 08:33 AM   #6
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WW3 is unlikely or atleast wont be as spectacular as WW2.

The world is just going to crumple in a heap. Food shortage, oil depletion, global warming and a mass extinction of species is pretty inevitable and no country will have the strength to fight a big war.

The results will be somewhat like that of the ice ages.
 
Old 07-10-2008, 08:36 AM   #7
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War is for the little men with no intelligence who can't come face to face to agree to disagree. Bush has zero intelligence. He won't sit down with the Iranian President cause he knows Ahmadineyad is actually smarter than he is. I feel Iran is being provoked, which gives them every right to arm themselves for an invasion which I hope will not happen.
 
Old 07-10-2008, 08:38 AM   #8
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I don't see any reason to fake the videos of the missile launches. A few key points though:

1. this is not a new weapon in the Iranian armory - it's a weapon they had for some time. Ahmadinejad is just strutting and trying to look important.

2. Coondooleezzaa is making it look like a big deal and saying "see, we told you we need that 'missile shield'". The Russians won't buy that story and she's not pitching that BS at the Russians - she's pitching it at the American public in an attempt to keep citizens spooked; just more Dubbyah-like scare tactics to help convince the American public to surrender their rights to the despots in power.

3. Don't forget that Israel has nuclear warheads and missiles which in all likelihood have over twice the range of Iran's missiles (though it's payload capacity and speed that matter here, not ultimate range). If anyone launched a large-scale attack on Israel and it was decided that casualties would be too high to engage in conventional warfare, the war will be ended within 10 minutes and we get to see the devastating power of modern nuclear weapons. Have a look at the film footage of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - those bombs are mere firecrackers compared to the modern arsenal. The biggest, dirtiest bomb ever was built by the Russians: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html
The claimed ultimate yield (without an untampered third stage) is 100MT, the actual (tampered) blast was estimated at 50MT. The largest in the modern (global) arsenal is about 20MT. Most in the global arsenal are a much smaller yield, but still giants compared to the Little Boy (15KT) and Fat Man (21KT).

Obviously Ahmadinejad never bothers to read up on things - just opens his mouth and yaps. He likes to think he's playing with the big boys though. I'm extremely disappointed that the Secretary of State would take this as a great opportunity to play the American public though - then again maybe she's just as dumb as Ahmadinejad. Never underestimate stupidity.
 
Old 07-10-2008, 09:10 AM   #9
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I hope that nobody here actually believes these are not fake, I could GIMP better missile launches than those.
 
Old 07-10-2008, 10:57 PM   #10
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I hope that nobody here actually believes these are not fake, I could GIMP better missile launches than those.
There's an idea - make your own set of images to "prove" what you've got in your backyard arsenal and send them to the Iranian minister for foreign affairs. You might even show them the Autobots that work for you or something like that.

I was wondering whether the fake footage came from Iran or the CNN editing booth; it's pretty funny that extra missiles would be added to the video - what's the point? They're still massively outgunned.
 
Old 07-11-2008, 02:49 AM   #11
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The question is why would they do this ? They probably only faked one of those missiles, but they could have just as easily faked the rest, maybe it was filmed in Arizona, how the hell would I know. Either way, I don't trust them.

And yes I do have bots working for me, but I hired the Decepticons, they were always better. As for vids of them, nah, you'll see them first hand when I sic em on ya.
 
Old 07-11-2008, 07:31 AM   #12
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what's the point? They're still massively outgunned.
The exact reason why we should not invade or attack. Iran wants what 7 or 8 other leading nations have, nuclear technology and they claim for power purposes only. The U.S. is a large hypocrite when it comes to such things and who are we to go around and tell other nations what they can and cannot have.

Our attitude is, "We can have them but you can't!" It's like, let them build a nuclear power plant but if they build a bomb, then take action. But then again, the U.S. has the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Men will go to war for anything, quite silly. And the sad thing is, the ones who die really didn't have anything against each other, it's the silly leaders who don't see eye to eye who got such men to die for what? To prove a point of who's right and wrong? War is stupid on most occasions nowadays. Unless your quietly minding your own business and you get attacked, that's a reason to counter attack.
 
Old 07-11-2008, 07:48 AM   #13
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We need a war

Mmh I need a coffee
 
  


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