Really?

[kierthos]

Iran admiral says that "If needed, they can get Iranian naval vessels within three miles of New York City."

... did they hire Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to write this shit? (For those who can't be arsed to click the link, that's the old Iraqi Minister of Information, who provided so many hilarious quotes during the 2003 Iraq war.)

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[cuddlycthulhu]

Yeah...they might be able to get a boat to within three miles of New York City, but it'll have no fuel, it's crew will have probably starved and the Atlantic portion of the US Navy would be surrounding the boats with grins that sad "OH HAI!"

I'm worried about this as much as I am North Korean building a rocket.

[kierthos]

*nod* There was an article on how in their recent 'parade of military might' a lot of the rockets/missiles the North Koreans showed off were almost certainly props.

[cuddlycthulhu]

Yeah. I've talked to a few people who are more into rockets and physics than I and they've said that ICBMs are actually very difficult to construct and that it wasn't a shock that North Korea's rocket pretty much fell to pieces. The fact that they then basically blamed the rest of the world for the failure and threatened to nuke South Korea over their coverage was hilarious.

Most of the nation is starving and I've read reports that even the army is suffering now. It'll only be a matter of time until they get so desperate they do something stupid and not even China's support will keep the rest of the world from stepping in.

[thedeadcat]

*snickers* Yeah, not happening. If the military didn't get them first, there are a lot of post 9/11 New Yorkers who would swim the shit out there and tear apart an Iranian (or anyone else making threats) vessel with their bare fucking hands.