Report: Iran test-fires more missiles

The Iranian president is a madman! He is a true believer in the Khomeini's Islamic Revolution. Last month in Rome, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that the United States and Israel would soon be "annihilated," language he had not used so explicitly since October 2005 when he promised to wipe Israel "off the map" and urged Muslims to "envision a world without the United States." This week, his regime authorized a new series of Iranian war games. He ordered the digging of 320,000 graves to bury the enemies of Islam. To read more on this check out

Good points moonlighter, It's good to view that some people can read between the lines.

People should read more.

Also understand where Iran gets the ballistic technology - Russia.

What is the US doing to upset Russia? Pushing NATO east and north towards Russia - against the agreements the US made with Russia at the end of the cold war and collapse of the Soviet Union.

Look a little deeper between the lines and you might even see a link of Russia prodding Iran.

Another proxy war or the makings of one.

While reading between the lines I hope you took notes. Russia, China, and (we don't fight) France are all together on this with other Countries. Iran has a madman in charge. He is ruling the Country like the stubborn bully in the school yard that doesn't know when to give up. The Economics package that was presented to this Idiot would have given them nuclear power plants for electricity for the people. It would have helped with the building of Homes, schools, and hospitals. The only thing asked of him is to give up his Nuclear Weapons project.
No-one wants to see a war started over there that will undoubtedly kill millions of innocent people That said if he keeps pushing there are at least 6 different Countries that are gonna push back. I hope it doesn't come to that. I hope that the Horse's Butt will see reason before he gets his people killed.

Why don't we just hand out guns to the criminals. The police have them so the criminals should as well.

Thanks ComSen.

Todd, you don't hear the US saying we're going to wipe Iran off the face of the Earth or that we're going to annihilate another country for no reason.

That's right - justify an arsonist coming into possession of a flamethrower by saying that other people have it, so why shouldn't he. I guess you won't really be happy until he burns your house down.

Can anyone give JUST ONE INSTANT of Iran invading and occupation another country and committing GENOCIDE, during the past 100 years or two? The US has done both invaded other countries time and again and committed the BIGGEST GENOCIDE IN HISTORY - the GENOCIDE OF THE NATIVE INDIANS - all TWELVE MILLION OF THEM and have herded the remaining few into RESERVATIONS. So who is the ARSONIST.

Iran has rampant inflation and high unemployment - worse than anything the US is experiencing (Israel's economy is doing pretty well right now so these things aren't even an issue). Despite the money their country is making off the vastly inflated price of oil, shortages of refined petroleum products are chronic. Despite stringent enforcement of laws banning both, drug use and prostitution are wiespread, especially in major cities and especially among young adults.

Who is it that's really down and out here? It certainly looks like it's not Israel or the US.

no it wouldnt we actually buy very little oil from iran mostly china buys it. and in euro's not dollars that is why we went to war in iraq and that is why we are pulling @!$%# with iran.

our dollar is based on the oil trade. only thing that backs it. since alot of oil nations are now accepting the euro our stock market is on the verge of collapse. its just not something your going to hear out of the fed's mouth or on CNN.

Exactly cyan60,

This is not about the Iranian president and the testing missiles he is using because our crappy government and Israel have been provoking him for years. This is about their oil trade with Euro and not with Dollars (which is also the same reason Iraq was attacked), but ignorant people choose to believe liars like Bush and Rice. These ignorant people don't know how they are used through fear in order to submit all their rights to the government. When they finally wake up to reality it will be too late for all of us. They support and give power to the beast without them knowing it. They are caught up in the great delusion of lies and manipulations that help give rise to the beast.

Market Full Of Oil, Price Trend "Fake" - Ahmadinejad: Ahmadinejad is correct. Seen any lines? Any signs at gas stations saying they have run out? Seen any signs saying odd or even license plates only to buy gas today?

There is plenty of gas. The price is going up for two reasons. The first is the plummeting dollar. The second is that with only a few months left in power, Bush's oil corporation buddies are out to loot as much cash from Americans as they can, with Bush's enthusiastic help.

Can US citizens regain control of our government?

Yes, they can but it requires direct action and involvement on their part. They can't simply sit around and hope that their next "representative" will be a little bit better. They should be the masters of their own destiny rather than allow "leaders" to decide for them.

There's so much we the people can do to stop them, but first people need to wake up and stop believing everything they hear in the media (the right arm of the beast). They want to scare us so we will have complete trust in their ways so they can have complete control over us.

never happen too many sheep in the heard

Peace? there is no profit in it. never going to happen

I agree. yet either way obama will be a powerless puppet remember the last president that stood up against the military industrial machine? Robert F Kennedy.

Iran is taunting the U.S. to invade. 10,000 to 1 bet he has no nukes lol. we will be made fools of again in front of the arab world.

and quite frankly if he did he wont use them NOBODY ON THIS PLANET WILL!!!!

its all saber rattling for profit. bush should have been removed from office 7 years ago.

Agreed that Bush is a complete idiot and that a chimpanzee would do better off in office then he has. We would probably be able to understand the chimpanzee better anyhow. Anyway point is, this all started with Bush, but Iran is still to blame. Iran is either trying to ruin the Americas by taunting us, or they do have nuclear warheads. I don't understand why Iran wont show our United Nations ambassadors what they are working on. The only reason to hide things from others is because they people hiding are up to no good.

The head Idiot in charge (Bush) actually is backing two plans first. The Economics stimulus Package and to put in place Sanctions. While he is an idiot he is going with the other Nations on this first. He also took the stance that if Iran pushes for a war that he will not hesitate to respond in kind. (Gees aren't you reading the whole article before putting foot in mouth).

Where does it say that the US put a gun to Ahemdinejad's head and forced him to develop nuclear weapons? Is there something in the Koran that commands Iran to develop a missile capable of traveling 1250 miles with a nuclear warhead?

Absent the threat of an Iran with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them there is no outside threat to the current Iranian regime's activities and as such no threat to Iran, real or perceived, from the US or Israel.

Stop copy/pasting that into every article. If you have nothing original or new to add to the conversation, don't.

Why is it that the only justification anyone can come up with for Iran having nuclear weapons is "well, Israel has them"?

There are people who demonstrate their total lack of common sense every day in the week. Does that mean that the rest of us should do that too?

What strikes me is that among all of Iran's apologists there is hardly anyone anymore that denies they are trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Nothing in life is free -- unless you're Bush or Cheney.

The Cuban missile crisis was about SOVIET NUCLEAR WARHEADS less than 100 miles from the U.S. mainland. The Iranian missiles have a range of 1250 miles according to the article and Iran has NO NUCLEAR CAPABILITY. Comparing these two events is apples and oranges.

If U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf -- international waters as you already pointed out -- start firing missiles at Iranian tests you won't be able to afford a gallon of gas no less a fill up. And with our economy in already dire straits thanks to the everything is free in life twins, Bush and Cheney, we can hardly afford another nail in the economic coffin they've built.

PS If you want to do something for your country stop supporting these two fascists and their money making ideas of perma-war profiteering.

yes history does have many lessons

lesson 1. the united states has NEVER successfully occupied another country.
lesson 2. they have had these missiles for years. and done nothing.

While some continue to bash and flame the Bush administration what about the other 5 Nations that are all in agreement about this?
This isn't saber rattling. This is about putting and end to a mad man's ambition. The leader of Iran wants a nuke and he has 6 Nations telling him "NO".

Cyan60

If you think Iran has done nothing with their missiles, ask Hezbollah where they got the missiles they fired at Haifa in the Summer of 2006.

Maybe we should follow your advice and wait until AFTER Iran does something with a nuclear capable missile before we respond. So what if it means that a part of the Middle East (or Southeastern Europe, or maybe someplace near you if this technology gets in the hands of a nearby terrorist cell) will glow in the dark for the next century or so?

I get a real kick out of people like you. You're among the first to complain about the US doing something to potentially prevent bloodshed and the first to complain about how the US let all those innocent people die because they did nothing to stop it. Try getting around your knee jerk anti-Americanism and dealing with reality for a change.

I agree Mary. and i am still wondering how those would be hijackers managed to strike the WTC towers with such precision that they both collapsed like a controlled implosion. hell of a bunch of pilots. And lets not forget silversteins on national tv admission that building 7 was "pulled" to avert the further lose of life. amazing how they were able to wire that building in a few hours to "pull" it

takes demo experts weeks to do that.

I have not been buying one dam bit of it at all. this administration for the last 8 years has done nothing but destroy this country in the name of national security or terrorism lets call it what it is profit and control.

Alot of investigating needs to be done. but then of course we all know Oswald acted alone. because government says so

I think you have your canards mixed up a bit. If anything, you showed how "the Jews" really had nothing to do with 9/11. After all, how much oil is there in Israel? How many Jewish controlled oil fields are there in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria or Venezuela? If your theory about the US government being controlled by the Jews is correct, then they should have benefited immensely from the increase in oil prices. I don't see where they did, do you? BTW, oil prices started going up in the summer of 1999, more than two years before 9/11.

I guess if it were up to you, EVERYONE would have nuclear weapons, because it's not anyone else's business.

It was the mutually assured deterrence possessed by the US and the USSR that prevented either one from ever thinking that they might benefit from launching a nuclear attack on the other. It was the SALT treaties that provided for a major decrease in their nuclear weapons inventories, and it was the NPT that made proliferation the business of its signatories, through agencies like the IAEA. Iran is a signatory to the NPT and as such, its nuclear activities are the business of others. Israel is not and as such has the right to keep its nuclear activities to itself. Iran can always withdraw from the NPT, but then again, that would be a tacit admission that their cover story about peaceful nuclear development is the lie everyone else already knows it to be.

Based on your post, I don't think you have the right to complain about anyone else being brainwashed.

Mary And Cyan please, please, please put the drink, the pot, and the cocaine down before you kill any more brain cells.
If it where up to people like you instead of the Police having guns we'd be giving them to crooks. We have 1 planet to live on. Your suggesting that anybody that wants a nuke should have it.
I don't drink and I've never done drugs and the amount I would have to consume of both in order to see your way of thinking would surely leave me brain dead.

oh my god. after the first gulf war it was determined before and after there were NO weapons in iraq.

you my friend are so brainwashed. the oil companies are telling us the profit margins remains the same whether oil is $70 a barrel or $150 a barrel. 7%. and after everything else is taking out its only 3%. remember congress grilling the oil execs a month ago or so?

look up a market called ICE. Intercontinental Exchange. find out who is behind this unregulated and unreported exchange.

Then, in January 2006, ICE Futures in London began trading a futures contract for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, a type of crude oil that is produced and delivered in the United States. ICE Futures also notified the CFTC that it would be permitting traders in the United States to use ICE terminals in the United States to trade its new WTI contract on the ICE Futures London exchange. ICE Futures as well allowed traders in the United States to trade US gasoline and heating oil futures on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

Despite the use by US traders of trading terminals within the United States to trade US oil, gasoline, and heating oil futures contracts, the CFTC has until today refused to assert any jurisdiction over the trading of these contracts.

Persons within the United States seeking to trade key US energy commodities – US crude oil, gasoline, and heating oil futures – are able to avoid all US market oversight or reporting requirements by routing their trades through the ICE Futures exchange in London instead of the NYMEX in New York.

Is that not elegant? The US Government energy futures regulator, CFTC opened the way to the present unregulated and highly opaque oil futures speculation. It may just be coincidence that the present CEO of NYMEX, James Newsome, who also sits on the Dubai Exchange, is a former chairman of the US CFTC. In Washington doors revolve quite smoothly between private and public posts.

A glance at the price for Brent and WTI futures prices since January 2006 indicates the remarkable correlation between skyrocketing oil prices and the unregulated trade in ICE oil futures in US markets. Keep in mind that ICE Futures in London is owned and controlled by a USA company based in Atlanta Georgia.

In January 2006 when the CFTC allowed the ICE Futures the gaping exception, oil prices were trading in the range of $59-60 a barrel. Today some two years later we see prices tapping $120 and trend upwards. This is not an OPEC problem, it is a US Government regulatory problem of malign neglect.

By not requiring the ICE to file daily reports of large trades of energy commodities, it is not able to detect and deter price manipulation.

And bush signed it!!!

I completely agree with you, and I must correct myself. Bush tried to finish what his father started. But again, Bush is an idiot and isn't capable of using that child's toy where you put the shapes in the right hole. So he lives in his own little world and didn't want to believe that Iraq didn't have missiles.

Oh and by the way, if you have been following recent news, the margins for oil companies are absolutely ridiculously high compared to last years margin. The stock shares have acquired so much more money. And they continue to blame oil distribution over seas.

cyan60

So you really think that there were no WMD's found in Iraq after the Gulf War?

The US recently removed 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq. Where do you think it came from?

"The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions."

- as reported by the Associated Press, July 6, 2008.

As for the rest of your post, you give a very good illustration of how parts of the commodities markets work and how vulnerable they are to speculators, but nowhere did this substantiate your assertion that oil company margins are not constant regardless of the price of oil. More to the point, nowhere in Anonymous' post did he ever say that those profit margins were not related to price (it's obvious that they are).

Steve-312468 - Agreed.

If it WAS Osama who did 9/11, why cant he do a REPEAT? Whats stopping him? Did he have only those few AGENTS in ther US? doesn't he have anymore? If he can create such HAVOC in Iraq and Afghanistan why can't he do the same in the US? Why are their no SUICIDE CAR BOMBINGS in the US? These are all points to be considered very carefully.

Interesting post -

Why in your opinion do the Iranians need nuclear weapons to defend themselves from the US and Israel, if it is precisely Iran's development of nuclear weapons that invite attention from the US and Israel in the first place?

There is no threat to Iran from either of those two countries, absent Iran's interest in developing nuclear weapons.

BTW, I think the word you are looking for is 'explore' not 'implore'.

First off Mary, why are you yelling. Enough with the caps-lock, did you forget to take off cruise control? Anyway, I am very educated and I closely follow the occurrences in the middle east. No one was blamed, there were no scapegoat. The United States government, was unsure of who did it and looked for evidence. Hours after the incident of 9-11 a tape was found by CIA officials, where Osama Bin-Laden claimed all responsibility for the attack, hence a culprit was found. Please get your facts straight, you are constantly posting heinous comments that are complete opinion based.

You're right Mary, God will fix it in his own time.

And, the like of you Neo-Nazi Marcionite pariahs out there will burn in eternity.

Israel and Jews are just ripe to be scapegoated again, and you're just the type of girl to do it. Zieg Mary!

Ben Gurion said that? Really?

When and where? Maybe you found it on the 'PA funded 'Media Monitors' website?

Are you going to tell me that it came from Ian Lustick's 'Arabs in the Jewish State?'

Maybe if you were familiar with the book, you would know that there is nothing even remotely resembling the quote anywhere in that book, never mind that anything even remotely like it that can actually be attributed to David Ben Gurion. Lustick's book does not put Israel's dealings with the Arabs of the Galilee in a positive light, but nowhere does he use the quote you mention, much less accuse Israel of wanting to expel Galilean Arabs.

Then again, why let reality get in the way of your Israel bashing?

Steve-312468 is very correct in his rebuttal to I.A.M.'s comment, not once nor through speech or scripture has Ben Gurion said "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." On top of this indignant comment, you have absolutely no cited backing. Please reply a cited example of said quote, from a legitimate source.

You were over in iraq recently?

so tell us alex is iran supporting anything over there? do the iraqi's really want us there?

Since when is the Czech Republic 'Russian territory'?