From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Actually I WOULD expect the Iranians to have increased troops along the
border. One reason would be to keep the border secure from US and from any
refugees. Another would be to help supply the Shia in Iran.

I doubt they would plan to fight the US but things do have a tendency of escalating.

Bob Lewis

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
news:kaque0dj9uk8nskcr8nav93psej3npf3l3{at}4ax.com...
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:54:19 -0500, "Robert G Lewis"

> wrote:
>
> >I wouldn't be surprised. I'd hate to see it happen. Right now if we were
> >faced with the possibility of the loss of even 10-20000 I would expect
nukes
> >then God only know what would happen.
> >
> >Bob Lewis
> >
> >"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> >news:MPG.1b58f308171bcfe8989cb1{at}news.barkto.com...
> >> In article , r.g.lewis{at}comcast.net says...
> >> > Yep can't trust anything that comes from a member of a 
conservative
> >think
> >> > tank.
> >>
> >> I don't believe Gary even read the essay, or even my pullquotes from
it.
> >> There is nothing there that is impossible to conceive. I'm pretty sure
> >> the massing of Iranian troops is true. I have an Iranian friend who
told
> >> me the same thing last week.
> >>
> >
> No need to worry about any of that. All the stories are nothing but that,
> stories, and dumb ones at that. There are no confirmed reports that
Iranian
> troops are massing anywhere. Why on earth would they mass on the Iranian
border?
> Do they really intend to go to war with the US? Absurd on the face of it.
>
> The idea that there would ever be a joint Israeli-US attack on anything in
Iran
> is fantasy of the dumbest kind.  The US might possibly urge the Israelis
to do
> it on their own, but that too, under present circumstances, is
preposterous. And
> under the present circumstances, the US would be among the first to
condemn such
> as attack.
>
> I have seen some really silly stories floated around here, but this one
takes
> the cake.
>

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