[faludeh_shirazi]

PING FREE IRAN ping

[icwhatudo]

Sunday Herald is who's paper? Australia? British tab?

Looking for some background-thanks!

[baseballmom]

Good news bump

[Pubbie]

If this is true - then Debka was the first News organization to break this story about how Gaddafi's decision hurts Iran an North Korea's nuclear weapon programs:

http://debka.com/article.php?aid=749

[EGPWS]

it is now clear that his decision has scuppered a secret partnership between Libya, Iran and North Korea formed with the intention of developing an independent nuclear weapon.

Add another notch to the "dumb Texans" grip and take away another one from the "smartest woman in the world".

Dubya' is the President with the most uncanny leadership since Churchill!

[xzins]

Israel will not give up its nukes.

The question is this: can they "appear" to do so?

[kayak]

fyi

[toddst]

Iran, which is now in the final stages of uranium enrichment for its program, is badly hit, having counted on fitting into place key parts of its WMD project made in Libya.

Boy is this big! Iran has been exposed and undercut. Way to go George W.!

[knak]

great news, thanks for posting

[fish hawk]

Not mentioned in this article but I feel important is this:

Now France and Germany and Russia are really out in left field. Important things happening for the betterment of the U.S. and the World but those countries have no credit and no glory for all that is going on. Let them sit on the sidelines and bitch about everything as our President and his people make the world a better and safer place for all. You watch, now, I bet they try to get involved somehow to try to save a little face. Hahaha It just tickles me to see what is going on. Not to mention the Dems, I bet they are steaming.

Merry Christmas and God protect our President and our Troops in harms way.

[Filibuster_60]

If true this means North Korea and Iran should be much easier for us to invade now. . . but if not does it mean North Korea & Iran will soon follow Gaddafi's example?

[DannyTN]

Well actually this makes a lot of sense for Libya.

We already new about the underground facility. The likelihood is extremely high that Iran is going to get the heck bombed out of it because if it's nuclear program. Korea is just as crazy.

Kadafi had to have realized that not only was he in bed with a couple of idiots crazier than him. He also had to realize that the West wasn't going to roll over if they had the bomb.

Libya couldn't win a nuclear exchange with the West, so why have the weapons? We will soon have missle defense capability anyway.

So why take the chance that Iran or North Korea does something stupid and Libya ends up implicated?

Restoring relations with the west is the smartest thing Kodafi could do.

[af_vet_1981]

This is simply fabulous news. Two great accomplishments occurred last week.

Gaddafi’s move also sounds a warning like good news for Israel. If Washington manages to dispose of Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s unconventional weaponry, a mortal threat to Israel will be removed and attention will focus on Israel as the only remaining Middle Eastern democracy.

[PISANO]

If this is true this is BIG BIG NEWS!!! Whether or NOT the US media picks it up.....the thought of Lybia turning in North Korea and Iran and preventing them from developing a NUKE should make ALL of our citizens feel safer tonite. Calling Dr. Dean.........Calling Dr. Dean!!

[FairWitness]

The news has delighted three American oil companies, Marathon, Amerada Hess, and ConocoPhillips whose Libyan leases were about to expire. They all pulled out of Libya in 1986 after the US imposed strict sanctions against the regime.

Predicted Liberal/Media Spin = "it's all just about oil for Bush & Cheney's cronies".

[FairWitness]

If the Nobel Peace Prize were not so debased by some of it's recent recipients I would nominate President Bush and P.M. Blair for the next one.

[Cicero]

Iraq was also a partner, according to the Debka article. If so, then Qadaffi had TWO reasons for giving in:

1) He feared he would suffer the same fate as Saddam.

2) He feared that Saddam would rat on him.

Saddam's capture was key for both these reasons. And this will now put a lot of pressure on China to stop helping their North Korean friends defy us.

[RoseofTexas]

Ping for later read! PTL!

[Enterprise]

"the Libyan leader has now opened the prospect of an end to sanctions and a return of US oil firms."

More bad news for the RATS.

[Guillermo]

Can you imagine Dean?

"Well I would have been for this only if France was for it."