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2006-10-18 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by .com 2006-10-18 15:47|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Iran, soon to become the 10th nuclear power, is unlikely to jettison 20 years of secret efforts for a package of Western carrots. So either we learn to live with a North Korean and Iranian bomb -- or we turn to preemptive air strikes to retard both programs by five to ten years.

I'll take "Preemptive Air Strikes" for $1,000, Alex.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-18 17:12|| 2006-10-18 17:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a South Korean executive who met for over two hours late last year with Kim Jong-il, convinced the little dictator that only a crash program to test a nuclear device would deter the United States from invading a charter member of president Bush's "axis of evil."

Maybe he should've consulted with Muamar Qadaffi.

Posted by Bobby 2006-10-18 17:57|| 2006-10-18 17:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe NoKo should have been bombed in 2003

Posted by Kalle 2006-10-18 18:37|| 2006-10-18 18:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Personally, I don't think that air strikes will be a good long-term solution, unless you include space based weapons. That is why I advocate partitioning Iran to prevent their reconstituting their nuke program after we annihilate it.

The sooner we put a system like "The rods from god" into orbit, the sooner we can just order these countries to cut it out. Either nations go fully IAEA compliant, or they risk having their nuclear facilities obliterated.

There is no defense to such weapons as the RsFG, and no argument that they want to go nuke "for peaceful purposes only". If that is the case, they MUST be IAEA compliant.

You'll note that the US has NOT pointed out that all Iran would have to do is to fully allow all IAEA inspections and limitations, and they could make as much nuclear material for "peaceful purposes" as they wanted, like Brazil.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-18 19:44|| 2006-10-18 19:44|| Front Page Top

#5 If we can't "Rod from God" them, just mini-nuke them. That's it. Then tell them if they try it again they will completely vaporized.

Posted by Creresh Snaque5213 2006-10-18 19:49|| 2006-10-18 19:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Norks should have been bombed in 1994, but Clinton didn't have the cajones.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-18 20:14|| 2006-10-18 20:14|| Front Page Top

#7 In 94, Clinton was actually sabotaged by Jimmy Carter.

Although its doubtful that Clinton would actually have used military force, Carter's deal with the NORKs narrowed the US options to almost nothing.

Posted by mhw 2006-10-18 20:23|| 2006-10-18 20:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Just after I wrote that rods from god comment, a friend showed me an article on "deep digger", the bunker buster that plows past the 3 missile lengths limit by firing cannon in its nose cone.

That would seem to do it.

However, it is still to our advantage to partition Iran to prevent them from rebuilding their nuke program. Otherwise, all they have to do is wait until another weakling democrat president comes around.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-18 20:52|| 2006-10-18 20:52|| Front Page Top

#9 #7: "Carter's deal with the NORKs narrowed the US options to almost nothing."

Sorry, mhw - can't agree there. IIRC, ~~Weasel~~ Cahtah went there on his own, not as an official US representative. Clintoon could have told the NorKs (and the world, including Jimmuh) that that asshole's promises were just that - his promises - and our government wasn't bound by them.

So of course he didn't.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-18 21:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-10-18 21:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Coulda bombed while Jimmah was in Pyongyang. That would stop the freelancing.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-18 21:30|| 2006-10-18 21:30|| Front Page Top

#11 And killed .... er... taken care of - two birds with one stone....so to speak.

Posted by Bobby 2006-10-18 21:50|| 2006-10-18 21:50|| Front Page Top

#12 I bet ex-president/World's Worst Negotiator Mr. Dhimmi Carter is having a hard time sleeping these days. Iran's textbook version of the Napoleanic Complex is probably calling him day and night begging him to come negotiate an end to Iran's nuclear program.

I quote Dhimmi Carter "I was convinced of this, because for almost three years, Kim Il Sung sent me a steady stream of invitations and personal entreaties to come to Pyongyang to let him explain the North Korean position..."

I've never heard anything less surprising in my life.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim/interviews/carter.html

Posted by Lanny Ddub 2006-10-18 23:45|| 2006-10-18 23:45|| Front Page Top

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