U.S. Says Iran-Tied Terror Plot in Washington, D.C. Disrupted

[em2nought]

You see what happens when you start protesting on wall street.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

Ever since the end of WWII, the US has always been engaged in a military conflict somewhere in the world.

Oh its been since WAY before that...
1775 Revolutionary War begins
Minor wars and rebellions...
1801 Anti Pirate, Privateers, and (believe it or not) Islamic Terrorist actions
1783 Revolutionary War officially ends
1812 Duh
1819 USN begins anti slave trade patrol
(anti-pirate operations)
1846-48 Mexican American War
1849-1851 Operations against Turkey
(misc operations)
1853-54 Perry opens Japan
1854-59 Operations in China
1857 Utah war (Sailor Steve unsuccessfully tries to chase the Mormons out of Utah)
(misc operations)
1858-59 Navy sticks it to the Turks again for the killings in 1846-48
1861 USN ends anti slave trade patrol
1861-65 War of southern insanity
1865-77 North teaches southerns manners... with bayonets...
(misc operations... yea its like 30 years of stuff...)
1898 War of Teddy Roosevelt...
(misc operations in China etc)
1899-1913 Philippine American War
1912-41 The Sand Pebbles
1914 Blackjack Pershing and Old Blood and Guts hunt down Mexican Bin Laden.
1917 US Wins WWI
1918-1920 United States invades Russia, gets bored and leaves.
1919-1934 More crap in China.
??? OMG the 6 years when the US was NOT at war!!!
1941 Germany bombs Pearl Harbor: starts Vietnam War...
1950 North Korea invades South Korea. America sends Hawkeye, Trapper, Radar and Hot Lips to save the day. War continues in reruns so still officially on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...ary_operations

The United States is at war with everyone... We have always been at war with everyone!

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

1857 Utah war (Sailor Steve unsuccessfully tries to chase the Mormons out of Utah)

Wow. Sailor Steve probably was at the Battle of Bull Run after all.

[magicstix]

I find it funny all of the Europeans are on here talking about this being America wanting another war. The hilarious thing is that the European intelligence communities have a far grimmer picture of Iran's WMD ambitions than the US does. American intelligence agencies were saying Iran had stopped its nuke program in 2003, while German and French agencies have been saying "not so fast." It's obvious to anyone that Iran is up to no good, but it is puzzling as to the approach they're taking in their weapons program.

It's no secret Iran and Saudi Arabia don't get along. The Wikileaks cables already show Saudi Arabia has asked the US to attack Iran for them. The US plot wasn't the only one uncovered either; this was part of a larger coordinated set of plots involving South American embassies as well. I think this is far more likely to push Iran and Saudi Arabia to the brink of war more than the US and Iran. If the bombs had actually gone off however, things would likely be different.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The United States is at war with everyone... We have always been at war with everyone!

What do you expect when our National Anthem is about rockets and bombs and celebrates the glory of battle?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Platapus

What do you expect when our National Anthem is about rockets and bombs and celebrates the glory of battle?

In retrospect we probably should have gone with the anthem about stamp collecting and needlepoint.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Platapus

What do you expect when our National Anthem is about rockets and bombs and celebrates the glory of battle?

Set to the music of a drinking song.

[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Set to the music of a drinking song.

The only anthem that begins and ends with a question...

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by August

The only anthem that begins and ends with a question...

Only the last line of the first verse starts and ends with a question. The other three verses it starts and ends with a statement.

Nobody sings the other three verses that I've seen except for the start of the Superbowl in the movie The Sum of All Fears.

[August]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Only the last line of the first verse starts and ends with a question. The other three verses it starts and ends with a statement.

Nobody sings the other three verses that I've seen except for the start of the Superbowl in the movie The Sum of All Fears.

Maybe the 2nd through 4th do but the rest of the verses, including all the bawdy ones, all start and end with questions.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by August

Maybe the 2nd through 4th do but the rest of the verses, including all the bawdy ones, all start and end with questions.

From the Smithsonian's website:

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The 1st verse and the 1st half of the second and third are questions, all the other verses end with a . or a !

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Nobody sings the other three verses that I've seen except for the start of the Superbowl in the movie The Sum of All Fears.

Oh say can you see
That nuke below me?

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

1857 Utah war (Sailor Steve unsuccessfully tries to chase the Mormons out of Utah)

I KNEW IT! *grabbing my steel helmet and rush into next Bunker*

[August]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The 1st verse and the 1st half of the second and third are questions, all the other verses end with a . or a !

You must be wicked fun at parties!

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

You must be wicked fun at parties!

The CIA knows how to party