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| Iran: To Strike or Not to Strike? |
| 2006-05-22 |
| Symposium with: former director of the CIA James Woolsey, Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, Kenneth R. Timmerman Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran. Excerpt: If Iran used the 2,500 centrifuges they have acknowledged importing from the A.Q. Khan network in the 1990s, they could already have enough nuclear weapons material for 20-25 bombs. To believe that they do not have that weapons material, you must believe their official story: that they spent in excess of $600 million on the black market to purchase that equipment, risked international condemnation, and then kept the centrifuges in crates in a warehouse for eight years without ever touching them. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 C2CAM.com radio show had a guest named Col. John Alexander, whom despite the overt = public media lack of overwhelming info, was inclined to believe that IRAN does have nukes of a yet undetermined quantity, and that Iran as a sponsor of International terror is a de facto threat to the USA whether it has nukes or not. Alexander indic that nukes must be tightly controlled/ managed no matter whom has them, but that given the lifestyles of terrorists it is far easier, inexpensive, and MORE DESTRUCTIVE FOR RADICAL ISLAM, etal. TO USE ASYMMETRIC BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL WARFARE DEVICES THAN NUKES PER SE. One caller informed ALexander of his belief that AL QAEDA has a nuke or nukes, as based on his sources/research, and recalled to ALexander that of four men whom were caught by the Feds trying to procure "Dirty Plutonium" for an alleged nuclearized "dirty bomb" attack on NYC. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-22 22:25 |
| #5 In today's political climate I don't see Congress authorizing a strike of any overt kind on Iran. Is there some path Bush can take to attack WITHOUT Congressional authorization? I don't know of one, and kind of doubt there should be one. This is not to say such a strike is the wrong move, just that the American soil has to be fertilized first, and that, unfortunately, has to start with the MSM. (Note I do NOT preclude some kind of covert or deniable action.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-22 18:53 |
| #4 I would like to see an unknown terrorist group carry out the attack. Maybe in the name of something like the united peanut farmers.... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-05-22 12:50 |
| #3 That or it will become the example of what we should have done. Hope not, but it may be so, unfortunately. It's up to you hegemons, I guess. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-22 12:38 |
| #2 If there was ever an argument for exercising our first strike option this one has to be the textbook example. That or it will become the example of what we should have done. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-05-22 12:18 |
| #1 An old military axiom: He who hesitates is lost. Just saying... |
| Posted by: DanNY 2006-05-22 09:17 |