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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Thank you Neville Chamberlain
They fight wars — we play T-Ball....
New-Age PC will be the death of us......
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