Posted on 01/14/2006 11:41:48 AM PST by wagglebee
In his sharpest comments to date on the Iranian nuclear crisis, President Bush warned Friday that Iran is seeking to produce nuclear weapons and intends to use them to destroy Israel.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Washington, D.C. with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bush warned:
"I want to remind you that the current president of Iran has announced that the destruction of Israel is an important part of their agenda. And that's unacceptable. And the development of a nuclear weapon, it seems like to me, would make them a step closer to achieving that objective."
The president said that Iran's nuclear ambitions pose a threat, not just to the Jewish state, but to the world.
"Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a great threat to the security of the world. Countries such as ours have a great obligation to step up, working together to send a message to the Iranians that their behavior, trying to clandestinely develop a nuclear weapon, or using the guise of a civilian nuclear program to attain a nuclear weapon, is unacceptable."
For her part Chancellor Merkel added, "To Germany, it is totally unacceptable, what Iran said recently, especially regarding Israel and the Holocaust."
Last month, Iranian president Mamoud Ahmadinejad said that historical coverage of the Holocaust had been "exaggerated." In October he urged that Israel be "wiped off the map."
Russia has already given them nukes.
It is important to remember that nuclear weapons were developed over 60 years ago - - before computers, chips, and color television. The technological advances that have been made in everything since the development of a-bombs is simply beyond any rational description or deliberation. It's like comparing a magnifying glass to the Hubble. A-bombs are dinosaurs.
We also have the capability to detonate atomic bombs from space. If Iran or any other country attempts to launch a nuclear weapon at the US or an American ally will succed only in bringing apocalypse upon itself. The only question is whether we detonate the weapon on the ground or at the optimal latitude for maximum destruction.
I watched the press conference, and this is what President Bush said. His words were something to the effect of "Iran's stated policy is the destruction of Israel, and Nuclear weapons brings them closer to this objective." Seems close enough too me.
I noticed it. I wonder why?
Very very deep cover, if one must live near potential target areas. Fallout shelters if one lives farther away.
Don't forget that we will also be targeted using small nukes, either in containers, by rail, ship in several large cities..........
The problem is, they know that they may get nuked also, and.......the idea of being Martyr's complicates matters. One nation with nukes vs another with nukes is a standoff......because most nations find being a Martyr is not a good idea. This is the problem.......the get virgins in heaven.....or wherever they end up....
Could you ask all the innocent Iranians to move to one part of the country, and all the guilty ones to move to another part of the country?
I am curious what you feel would be the appropriate response to a nuclear attack on Israel?
During the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union well understood what would occur if one side attacked with nuclear weapons.
As far as I know, Israel has not threaten the survival of any of it's neighbors. The threat of first use of nuclear weapons has only come from one side.
So, if Iran managed to explode a nuclear weapon in Israel, what should the rest of the world do?
The only explanation I can see is that traders are worried about a mideast conflict soon
Well, that's always a strong probability. Part of the price of doing business with them. But, I think you got it: a big one is imminent. I hope we're both wrong.
All of the entrances/exits can be destroyed by conventional weapons. Then, it doesn't matter what's underground if you can't get to it.
I think Israel will send in some brave pilots to destroy Iran's facilities.
Remember that is what happened in the early 80s -- the Israeli fighter pilot Ilan Ramon who destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981 later became an astronaut and died in the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/columbia/story/0,12845,888025,00.html
"This is America giving Israel green light and the EU resigning itself to what must be."
Great point, Sam. It is also the U.S. telling Iran pointedly that time is running out, and that this talk of the UNSC is not really the critical issue for Iran. Keeping bombs off their head is the critical issue for Iran.
The Left has selective hearing. It doesn't matter what the Iranian Prez said. The left will twist it, pretend he never said it, etc.
They have effectively taken strong US response off the table with their blathering about Iraq. But if Iran does something truly sinister the left will blame Bush for not doing anything (the very measures they have taken off the table).
I don't think Iran is that close to a deliverable nuke.
I saw one of Fox's military analysts say that the bunkers are spread out and deep, and that even airstrikes would probably require some type of low-level nuke to do the job.
We can only wish.
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