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2006-05-25 Britain

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 See DRUDGEREPORT.com and WND.com for numerous current articles on Iran crisis, espec WND.com article where Israeli official claims Iran will reach "point-of-return" in three months.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-25 00:22|| 2006-05-25 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 STRATEGYPAGE also has a good article on Iran's testing of its SHAHAB-3 missle. The article strongly hints that Iran may had already gotten working nuke warhead designs from CHINA and RUSSIA - iff true, goes to show that AMERICA IS NOT JUST DEALING WID INDIVIDUAL ROGUE NATIONS BUT WITH A POTENTIAL COLLUSORY GROUP OF DEDICATED, ANTI-AMER, HOSTILE NATIONS ENGAGED IN GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY-VENTURES AGAINST THE USA-WEST. Regional-Global Caliphate = China taking over Taiwan-East Asia = de facto decline in American geopol power and influence > ENEMY ARMIES WILL INEVITABLY ATTACK AND INVADE AMERICA ITSELF, e.g. "George Washington Prophecy", etal.
FTLG, STAY ARMED!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-25 00:59|| 2006-05-25 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 You can't just attack the U.S. that triggers a response from NATO. And I would tend to disagree with these guys about it being inevitable. If we bomb the dogshit out of Irans nuclear facilities(even the ones with civilians around them) then they would be set back for 10 years. Ten years is a long time.

Posted by Snater Wharong3609 2006-05-25 01:14|| 2006-05-25 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 If we let these A-holes make themselves a bomb, we might as well just give everyone a free pass. Venezuela, Sudan, Brazil, everyone will just thumb their nose at the U.S. and U.N. and go balls-out for their own nukes.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-25 01:16|| 2006-05-25 01:16|| Front Page Top

#5 All is lost! We'd better all convert, then.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-25 06:42|| 2006-05-25 06:42|| Front Page Top

#6 But who do we surrender to? What do they want? How can we give it to them? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by Bobby 2006-05-25 07:11|| 2006-05-25 07:11|| Front Page Top

#7 "But who do we surrender to?"

I think the answer would be among the 1500+ aimpoints that Gen McInerney has spoken of recently.

Posted by Ebberemp Phinens2648 2006-05-25 07:26|| 2006-05-25 07:26|| Front Page Top

#8 You can't just attack the U.S. that triggers a response from NATO.

Perhaps I've become cynical, but I no longer trust that NATO would actually choose to respond to an attack on the US -- of any sort -- with much beyond diplomatic posturing. Look at the reluctance to go into Afghanistan, and the even greater reluctance to continue the effort there. With individual exceptions, for the most part it's been all arm-twisting and teeth-pulling, and all sorts of "Evil America" dramatics.

Individual countries, yes. But not NATO. Not so long as France is stuck in its self-created morass, Angela Merkel can't seem to shift Germany out of self-destruct mode, and both want the rest of the EU to swallow the costs of their fiscal recoveries.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-25 08:39|| 2006-05-25 08:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Iranian nuclear weapons 'inevitable'

So is the American responce, once we have definitive proof we will send in the missles. First to destroy their nuke capability and second to destroy their military.

We are so gunshy since the Iraq nuke fiasco we will probably wait another year until we can capture one of their weapons or show undisputed proof. Cutting it too close for me.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-05-25 08:40|| 2006-05-25 08:40|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree it is inevitable. But then I think the Iranians already have enough HEU for several bombs. They are known to have bought, since 1997, enough centrifuges for 2 bombs per year.

The default posture of democracies is to do as little as possible. As long as the Iranians provide the thinnest veneer of deniability, nothing will happen. Even with Iranian admission, I believe nothing can happen in this political climate.

The interesting period will come in 15-20 years when the mullahs think they have enough bombs to destroy western civ. But by then, dozens of states will be nuclear armed because they will have figured out there is little downside of arming themselves with nukes, and a lot of downside not having them when your next door neighbor is so armed. It's gonna be a real unstable world. Globalization will be history. Closed borders and regional blocks will be the norm.

Posted by ed 2006-05-25 08:55|| 2006-05-25 08:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Israel will not allow it to happen. Period. So much for 'inevitability'. If the US is not able to solve the problem, just watch and wait for the Israeli 'solution'.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-25 09:05|| 2006-05-25 09:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't bet on it. Unless Israel is gonna nuke Tehran, Israel is more vulnerable to attack than is Iran.

Posted by ed 2006-05-25 09:08|| 2006-05-25 09:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Didn't Israel just elect the wimpy team to lead them ? We need some kind of clash to start things up. A Gulf of Tonkin move.

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-25 10:15|| 2006-05-25 10:15|| Front Page Top

#14 NATO, RIP.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-05-25 17:36|| 2006-05-25 17:36|| Front Page Top

#15 It sure looks like they want nukes, so I guess we ought to just give them to them. 3-2-1 BOOM

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-05-25 18:54|| 2006-05-25 18:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Not sure this "think tank" isn't a stinky tank.

Of course, Russia and China being locked into the room makes the conclusion self serving, doesn't it?

The fact is that once they master the capability, the task of defusing Iran becomes extremely complex.

Posted by Captain America 2006-05-25 19:18|| 2006-05-25 19:18|| Front Page Top

#17 Any organization that includes International in its name is automatically suspect of being agenda driven. These guys sound driven to get another grant.

Posted by RWV 2006-05-25 19:57|| 2006-05-25 19:57|| Front Page Top

#18 International Institute of Handwringers and Future Buggery Victims

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-25 20:29|| 2006-05-25 20:29|| Front Page Top

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