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2007-12-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tu3031 2007-12-06 14:47|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Better count your fingers after shaking hands with the Iranians. The only thing that had better be believed is their stated desire to destroy the USA and Israel.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-12-06 15:38|| 2007-12-06 15:38|| Front Page Top

#2 NPR had a pair of writers who just published a book about this on for discussion this morning. The gentleman said that building a nuclear bomb is easy. It's getting the purified uranium that's difficult. So it doesn't matter if the Iranians stop working on a bomb, or even if they stopped working on the weapons side in 2003. According to the gentleman, once they have enough bomb-grade material, a competent machine shop can make the thing, and it should explode nicely (at which point I pondered the fact that the North Koreans cannot make even bicycles for the home market), just as we only did one test explosion in the desert before sending the bombs off to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-06 20:42|| 2007-12-06 20:42|| Front Page Top

#3 I trust them about as far as I can throw my thumb.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-12-06 21:46|| 2007-12-06 21:46|| Front Page Top

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