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Diplomatic Doom
IBD ^ | September 5, 2007

Posted on 09/06/2007 2:44:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

Iran: Diplomats have long viewed their job as preventing war. But when they delude themselves and the public about a deadly threat, as with Iran, their "peacemaking" becomes an appeasement of evil that risks conflict.


Iran's Islamofascist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel's destruction, announced Monday that his country has reached the key threshold of operating 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium — with a new set installed every week.

If all 3,000 centrifuges were operating at full capacity for one year, Tehran could enrich enough uranium for a nuclear weapon. Ahmadinejad's goal of 50,000 centrifuges could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb in only two months.

The pathetic response of some Western diplomats has been to run around telling reporters that 3,000 is an exaggeration.

But the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, in its latest Iran report, said nearly 2,000 centrifuges were in operation as of Aug. 19, while about 650 were being prepared.

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1 posted on 09/06/2007 2:44:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The only solution to the XXXXXXXX issue, which is in our hands right now, is dialogue, is negotiation, is engagement by the neighbors and by all the relevant parties

Thank you Neville Chamberlain

2 posted on 09/06/2007 3:11:11 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Kaslin

They fight wars — we play T-Ball....

New-Age PC will be the death of us......


3 posted on 09/06/2007 3:16:53 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (We has met the enemy, and he is us........)
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