2.3 million US Soldiers vs 11.7 million Iranian Soldiers = DRAFT
Some sobering advice from a fellow blogger at reigngame.com:
Alright, I know 90% of you guys follow politics so you've undoubtably read and/or heard about the current Iran situation. I'd like to briefly talk about the figurative war with Iran. For the sake of discussion, let's begin with the questionably optimistic assumption that no major country would forcefully oppose (economically or militarily) full-scale US military operations in Iran. Nevermind Iran's 12% imports with Germany and 10% imports with China - I'm sure Germany and China's economies don't want Iran's money anyway, right? Nevermind the fact that Iran exports 2,836,000 barrels of oil per day to various nations that depend on that oil. We can all just ride bikes until the 2 month war is over!As to the Iranians themselves, I'm sure they're just dying (no pun intended) to be invaded, er, `liberated` by Americans, considering the `horrid` 70% approval rating of Ahmadinejad and the `devastating` $8,700 gross domestic product per capita (8.6% better than China). I'm sure we'll be "welcomed in the streets" after we "shock and awe" all important looking buildings to Jahannum and back.
With a little help from the boys at GFP, I did some exploring into the military systems of America and Iran and what I found was alarming . . .
2,369,239 US Soldiers vs 11,770,000 Iranian Soldiers = DRAFT
The United States of America has 2.37 million soldiers capable of combat and available for mobilization. Let's compare with little ol' Iran! Iran has THE MOST military personnel available for combat in the entire world. In fact, Iran has more combat-ready military personnel than China and Russia combined. 11.7 million guerillas -- Talk about hell.The bottom line is, America can't even handle Iraq. At one point, we thought we would rush in, smite some nubs with dirks and bubble hearth back home in time for American Idol. Not quite. And with Iran, reality is going to hurt a lot more.America is War Stomping on Artificial Ice Above the Pit of Sparta
At the risk of loosing all my credibility, allow my concern to manifest itself in a less than mature way: Our economy is &%$#ed. We have a -862,300,000,000 dollar cash balance. That puts us LAST in the world for cash balance of our own currency. This is what people are talking about when they say deficit. But this is more than a deficit; this is an abandonment of the dollar. The conclusion? Changes. And not the type of changes 2Pac wanted. Big changes that will crash into the hull of the United States.
Nerf Executive Branch
America is tipping back way too far in her easy chair -- something is about to happen. This upcoming 2008 election is extremely pivotal. I'm not going to name any candidates because this isn't that type of article. But let the point of this entire post clear: If you think times are boring, think again. If you think the future is predictable, think again. My advice to everyone who reads this is to be thoughtful, be skeptical, be wise. Learn, test what you learn and share it. The future of your family tree is in the balance.
I leave you with a quote:
People skew facts to paint pictures they want to paint, and people open their minds to pictures they want to see.
You must trust only the wisdom that is yours, and seek truth at the cost of even life itself.
May the force be with you,
Ty (Reign Developer)
Too bad, it's not as simple as how many soldiers each side has.
The first thing that comes to mind is the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones is confronted by an angry Arab dressed in black brandishing an enormous, razor sharp sword.
Jones takes one look at the menacing figure then whips out a gun and shoots him dead.
End of discussion.
I know it won't be that simple, but the US does have nukes and presumably so does israel and they're just crazy and barbaric enough to use them.
when faced with threats of nuclear annihilation. Otherwise, the whole world would be bowing to the will of nuclear powers.
I just wanted to point out the folly of discounting that power altogether.
It must be factored in when preparing a plan of defense.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
When the oil theft pipelines into ziostan that I have written about many times are ready to open, the war with Iran will commence.
It will have the effect of drastically reducing world oil supply AND closing off the Persian Gulf at the Straight of Hormuz. It will decimate the oil infrastructure of Iran and all the Gulf states.
In the chaos that ensues and the resulting worldwide depression and population genocide, all oil traffic from those areas will be forced to market through "New Rotterdam" (Haifa).
The foundation of zionism corresponded with the discovery of oil in the middle east and Rothschild business interests there and has been the Rothschild's hidden motivation in every move they have made in ziostan. They intend to make ziostan the economic, religious, and political center of their world kingdom.
"The foundation of zionism corresponded with the discovery of oil in the middle east and Rothschild business interests there and has been the Rothschild's hidden motivation in every move they have made in ziostan."
VIMP fact.
israelis are just a pack of greedy, power hungry bandits.
Jerusalem is no holier to them than Mecca is (they probably would have claimed Mecca as their long lost holy land had it been plausible).
BTW, they're still digging for oil in israel - all the way to kirkuk! - they're convinced that God intended to give all that oil to them.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
This guy did it, so can you:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cabal02062007.html
..nice! and a great idea, because they cannot, with any conscience, draft someone who is too mentally unstable to be trusted with WEAPONS! heck, if we could apply that standard to POLITICIANS, there'd be only a handful of 'em left to draft!!
..besides, it's a state of mind really, NO ONE CAN MAKE ME KILL INNOCENTS, i will only defend.
Numbers can be misleading as much as the nuclear weapons. In a soccer game the side with 11 players would definitely have an advantage over the other side that has lost 3 players, because they both still have to follow the same rules of the game. But not in wars.
Nuclear weapons are not really 'military' weaponry either. You can drop two nukes on two cities of the enemy and kill five million people in a few days. But that has no military value. There is no 'military target' or any target with 'military value' that cannot be taken out with conventional weapons.
Nukes are 'will power' weaponry which kills defenseless targets to beak down the will power of the leaders. If it doesn't, then nukes would be the most destructive useless weaponry ever invented by man, I mean mongurks.
The almighty powerful media has laid down the foundation of these horrors many decades ago.
An update on that image….the president of the World Jewish Congress is Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder Empire of women’s merchandise—as I noted in a recent satire. (http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4595 )
Edgar Bronfman Sr., the Canadian liquor king, was president from 1979 -- June 2007. In 2002, Bonfman’s deputy, Israel Singer, helped extort billions of dollars in “holocaust reparations”from Germany. In March 2007, Bronfman fired Singer for embezzling millions from the World Jewish Congress.
The WJC has been plagued with scandal after scandal. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jewish_Congress#Finances.2C_Irregular... )
When Zionists run out of Goyim to burn, they steal from each other.
I should have checked into that before throwing the picture out....
Yeah...I did read the satire and the comments.
A porous brain I have...I forgot.
I could blame my rotten little laptop....
..i hope you're not using one of those crappy little touchpads for a mouse! i know someone who got a ganglia within months of getting a new ibum stinkpad.. get an external keyb/mouse, even a monitor, then rock on :)
Before the draft is re-imposed, marital law will already have been declared.
That way, mercenary outifts like Blackwater will be able to patrol the streets of American cities, shooting at will, anyone who dary defy the emperor.
Thanks for all the advice on those accessories for this impish thing called a 'laptop'.
I haven't had time to getting a mouse to attach.
I am also trying to set things up where I can just have this square entity sit in one particular place, as its "convenient, so-called mobility" - is not so convenient after all.
I'll try not to keep a baseball bat close by.......or I will simply have flushed a lot of dough down into the "al aqeaeda".
..watch out, one swift knee and voilà; two craptops! hehe
..on a side note, i saw lou dobbs pushing pretty hard for a draft yesterday, as i passed by the idiot box, so it's no joke!
(i say there should only be a mandatory draft for the children of government officials who vote for war, also the children of all war-profiteers, especially bankers and weapons manufacturers.)
wikipedia states that there are an estimated 420,000 combat ready personnel in the regular armed forces. The Basij which is a primarily volunteer force in Iran have an estimated 90,000 full-time active duty soldiers, up to 300,000 reservists, and "a further 11 million men and women who could be mobilized" If you wish to count that figure then maybe we could factor a couple million americans who would undoubtedly take up arms against a hostile nation. Draft or not if americans felt legitamately threatned by any nation I believe they would be signing for armed forces up in greater numbers. but regardless of the figures the whole situation stinks of misinformation and outright lies... lets wake up and smell the crude oil, its iraq all over again.