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2006-04-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2006-04-12 00:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yea, he's a gonna get "clubbed" all right.

Posted by Captain America 2006-04-12 00:31|| 2006-04-12 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't there a bit of hazing involved with this fraternity?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-04-12 00:31|| 2006-04-12 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 He's jumping the gun here. Only Japan is in that club as of now, though he has good reason to be optimistic Iran will soon join.

Posted by JAB 2006-04-12 00:35|| 2006-04-12 00:35|| Front Page Top

#4 WND.com has a promo for Mr. Jerry Corsi, author of ATOMIC IRAN, whom argues that Iran may only be 4 months away from having the ability to dev indigenous, enriched uranium-based nuke devices. IFF MR. CORSI IS CORRECT, RUSSIA-CHINA will be behooved to do something NOW against Iran [pre-2008 US elex]in order to prevent Iran's Radicals from having an arsenal suffic powerful and in quantity to threaten Russia-China. Moscow-Beijing can no longer afford to wait for the Clintons and the Dems. China in particular, with enuff manpower reserves to supp a multi-front conventional war in NorKor, Taiwan, and ME, and wid both JAPAN and SOUTH KOREA modernizing or re-arming, may choose to take immediate mil action in one or more theaters, i.e against IRAN in the name of Internat peace and the universal fight againt Radical Terror; and TAIWAN [Norks as diversionary "holding front"], which in essence/reality would be China's super-PC opening move in "rebellious Taiwan" = US-China War for control of the Pacific. WE ALL KNOW THE GOP AND USA WILL GET THE BLAME NO MATTER WHOM STRIKES WHOM FIRST. Remember, the GWOT is more than a "CLASH OF IDEOS" BUT A FINAL WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD, CONTROL OF THE FUTURE OWG-NWO, AND WHAT -ISMS WILL DOMINATE SAID FUTURE WORLD AND OWG, which the DemoLefties say can not and must not be DEMOCRATIC/FREE CAPITALIST SOVEREIGN AMERICA - you know, PATRIOTISM!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-12 01:44|| 2006-04-12 01:44|| Front Page Top

#5 They're going to do it. They will make their A-bomb. I doubt anyone will stop them.

Posted by Thairt Crinert8214 2006-04-12 04:39|| 2006-04-12 04:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Bush will stop them, at least for a while. I think he recognizes this is a pay me now or pay me later situation. He's not the type to pass it on to the next guy. Nobody except maybe the Chinese, wants the MM with nukes. Let's polish that ATO.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-12 07:28|| 2006-04-12 07:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Sung to :
"I Am the Walrus"
Lennon-McCartney

I am he as you are he as you are me,
and we are all together.
See how they spin, centrifuges now!
U-2-3-5
I'm cheering.
Waiting on some yellow cake.
Waiting for the van to come.
Isotopic distill, holy missile launch day
Man its been a long time,
So let your beard grow long.

I am the madman
they are the launch men
Ahmadnejad-man!
Goo goo g' joob

Religious rockets sitting
pretty little missiles in a row.
See how they fly like birdies in the sky
See how they sail
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow cake ore-man
Put out the blasphemer's eye
Stone the little harlot
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you showed your hair to all

I am the madman
they are the launch men
Ahmadnejad-man!
Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an Persian garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get the sand
from standing in the Persian wind

I am the madman
they are the launch men
Ahmadnejad-man!
Goo goo g' joob

Expert, UN, inspects equipment,
Don't you think the imam laughs at you?
See how they smile knowing what's coming
See how they sneer!
I'm cheering
Rocket that's launching
climbing up the Persian sky
Elementary children singing Allah Akhbar
Man, you should have seen them reading
Omar Khayyam too

I am the madman
they are the launch men
Ahmadnejad-man!
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
juba juba juba
juba juba juba
juba juba juba juba
juba juba

Posted by Ogeretla 2006 2006-04-12 12:11|| 2006-04-12 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree with TC8214. The Iranians will have nuclear weapons. So will their richer neighbors. The trick will be to limit any detonations to within muslim lands.

Actually, I think this a dog and pony show for the natives and a sleight of hand for western audiences. I think the Iranians already have enough U-235 for one or more bombs. They are known to have had for several years parts for 3000 centrifuges and can manufacture thousands more.

It's quite easy to hide centrifuge cascades in tunnels. They don't use anything like the electrical power of the Manhattan project. I read somewhere that a centrifuge uses about 40 watts each and UF6 sublimates into a gas at 120°F at 1 atmosphere (triple point at 133°F).

Posted by ed 2006-04-12 12:20|| 2006-04-12 12:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Above or below ground test to see if it works?

If above ground in whose port on what tanker?

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-12 12:39|| 2006-04-12 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 No need to test. Copy exact. The Pakistani's already did the testing and know which design variations work.

Posted by ed 2006-04-12 12:45|| 2006-04-12 12:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Why is Khan still alive?

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-12 12:50|| 2006-04-12 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Iran is about to join the club of "Countries that got bombed by the U.S."

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-04-12 13:05|| 2006-04-12 13:05|| Front Page Top

#13 One can hope so.

Posted by wxjames 2006-04-12 13:29|| 2006-04-12 13:29|| Front Page Top

#14

But they even have an
Allah Akhbar Atomic Banner ^TM
Look behind Ahmadisnutz

But that is an atom of Beryllium (4 electrons) on the flag

Maybe it might not be such a good bomb after all?
LOL

Posted by BigEd 2006-04-12 13:47|| 2006-04-12 13:47|| Front Page Top

#15 That is IAEA symbol on the flag...

Posted by john 2006-04-12 14:47|| 2006-04-12 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16

Posted by john 2006-04-12 14:48|| 2006-04-12 14:48|| Front Page Top

#17 That is IAEA symbol on the flag...

jebus john,
Mahmoud has hair to fly that freak flag.

Posted by RD 2006-04-12 16:02|| 2006-04-12 16:02|| Front Page Top

#18 You don't have to test a critical-mass uranium bomb. Oppenheimer didn't. The physics is known and understood. IIRC, about 200 KG of moderatly enriched uranium, or a little as 20 KG of highly-enriched uranium - slam 'em together with a small explosive charge, and ... boom.

Posted by Bobby 2006-04-12 21:43|| 2006-04-12 21:43|| Front Page Top

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