Luca K Is correct. The Saudi's have a total of 75,000 ground troops--and many of them are tied up in efforts to suppress insurrection inside the "Royal Kingdom".

Obama is truly an evil genius. He can assure his re-election (and instant neo-con silence of not outright support) by attacking Iran. He will most assuredly do so between now and November, probably within the next 60 days.

In point of fact, the altogether unlikeable president of Iran has NEVER called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." What he did was quote an old speech by the late Ayatollah Koumeini which opined that the Israeli regime would eventually "disappear from the pages of time," just did the former Soviet Union.

Repeating a Lie a thousand times, a favorite technique of American Neocons and the Likuds whom they support, does not convert it to truth. The steadily increasing propaganda drum beat advocating an military attack on Iran is conjured up by exactly the folks who invented Iraq's weapons of mass destruction--and for the same reasons. In point of fact, Iran is the only Middle Eastern nation that has not attacked one of its neighbors in more than a century.

Our new President is about to reap the harvest of ignorance sown by the Welfare State and its "educational" institutions. Gemerations of Americans have been taught that the Federal Government is responsible for economic success and everything necessary to life. It is apt to be bloody when these benighted fools are starving to death in the streets.