I wonder if Ahmadinejad ran to the well and asked Mahdi "WTF?"
Posted on 10/07/2007 5:19:04 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Reading comprehension alert: The article actually mentions "least UNlikely" events, not "least likely".
Russia had to know the security system sold to Syria and Iran was crap. How could they not?
Ahhhh. And therein lies the conundrum. How can one fight a successful WOT if you don't know who or what is coming across your wide open borders?
I’m honestly not too concerned about Hillary in the White House as far as this sort of thing is concerned. She loves power and loves herself, and has no interest in getting nuked or having to take up long-term residence in a bunker. She’s as smart as she is unscrupulous, and she’ll do what’s needed in the international security arena. However, she’d be a domestic policy disaster and an overall ethical disaster, so I view keeping her out of the WH as a top priority — just not for international security reasons. President Bush is already reportedly cluing her in on the reasons he’s taking the positions he’s taking, and she’s backing off any serious opposition to his foreign policy actions.
Kerry and Gore would have been a whole different story. They’re both as stupid as they are unscrupulous, and could screw up things like this with truly earth-shattering consequences. Edwards may technically be smart, but I think he’s so thoroughly obsessed with idiotic things that he’d be prone to taking his eye off the ball with equally disastrous consequences. Obama is too weak to matter. In the unlikely event that he wins the WH, the Hillary machine will actually be running things.
He's trying to make it sound like that would be a bad thing.
It only makes sense if it were low level nuclear material that would require much additional processing to make into a bomb. By letting it reach the intended destination, you get a twofer.
I doubt if it were a warhead, they would have let the ship sail, much less go anywhere.
Syria already has the components for a nuclear warhead. In the facility that we have satellite photos of and that the Israeli’s bombed. We watched the Russians take the stuff there just prior to our liberation of Iraq from Saddam.
What they didn’t have was the means to launch it and reach England, France, the US,and especially Israel without getting shot down (an ICBM with evasive capabilities).
This is what NK likely supplied. This is what NK has been testing. (remember Lil Kim’s missile tests a few months ago?????)
“God bless Israel”
I was moved to speak those words to an IDF JAG officer and her husband at the Judge Advocate General School in 2005.
They looked at each other, smiled, then said to me,
“God bless America!”
:^)
P.S. We didn’t stop them at sea because,
If we did, what would we find?
A Missile. An ICBM. So what.
No law against having those. It didn’t have a nuke mounted on it.
We would have ended up with a major diplomatic blunder on our hands, and no chance to do a darn thing about it. (we being US and Israel).
So. Now you know. A FR exclusive.
PPS.
This is the big ‘threat’ that Ahm-a-jackhead has been sputtering off about for the past few months.
It is why he and Beshear have been so kissy-face recently.
Iran would be ‘innocent’ since the missile would come from Syria, and Iran figured that the Coalition forces would blame Iran and attack, drawing in most of the middle East, and possibly NK, China, etc.
They waited until they had the soil samples to prove it was nuclear. That’s what the story says anyway.
Well, let's see.
NK gives Syria the components they still needed to go nuclear - and they are lock step with Iran.
They are intent on wiping Israel off the map...no secret there. Ahmadinejad has repeated almost as a mantra that he will "wipe Israel off the map" and he has said he dreams of "a world without America".
Ahmadinejad is not insane, he is dedicated. He really believes his mission on earth is to carry out the actions needed for Mahdi - the promised one of the Shiites' who, since age 9, has been hiding in a well for over a thousand years, to return. They believe Mahdi will come back and they will rule the world.
Ahmadinejad, who makes regular visits to the well and drops messages to Mahdi, believes he has been chosen to get the world ready, as it were. This means widespread destruction and bloodshed. He has voiced all this many times. We find such beliefs 'unbelievable' and so we hardly hear them or dismiss them.
WE should not.
They are puffed up with their infallibility - Iran's military is one of the largest in the world. Syria and Iran also thought they had, with their new Russian detection equipment, safety from retaliation no matter what they did. They are also mad enough to do it - but now they know they are blind and that everything they do is seen...
I had a friend years ago who worked in National Safety - some 30 years ago - and even then, he said if the people on the street knew one tenth of the dangers that we have faced and that have been thwarted, we'd never sleep.
I tend to believe the writer in that if we knew how close we came ... there would've been panic.
In addition, had the mission not been conducted in secret, there would've been so many people posturing and demanding this and that - much of it in hopes to gain personal and political power - that all hell could've broken loose. Myself, I'm glad we have the grownups in the WH. GW plays a mean hand of poker. And he does not have the psychotic need, as did our former pres., to be front and center, taking the credit for every move. His objective is to get what needs to be done, done. End of story.
WE must wake up and realize that there is a culture out there that wants us all dead. The danger is real. And they are NOT people either interested in sitting down and talking things out - nor, indeed have the thought processes that we can understand...all we need to remember is, they want us - all infidels in the world - dead.
They want to win though, not lose. This incedent on sept 9 proves that israel cannot lose.
They did. And they also had a pretty good idea of what kind of future revenue stream they could depend on when upgrade time came...
And if the Israeli raid failed to destroy the target, (potentially a dirty nuke warhead or low yield nuclear device), the Syrians would have been compelled to use it quickly. Use it or lose it. That was possibly the risk of a greater 'Armageddon' type scenario. It seems odd that 20 to 40 North Koreans would be present just to handle a dirty nuclear device. They must have been doing much more then just playing with a big bomb surrounded with radioactive material.
I wonder if Ahmadinejad ran to the well and asked Mahdi "WTF?"
President Bush is already reportedly cluing her in on the reasons he’s taking the positions he’s taking, and she’s backing off any serious opposition to his foreign policy actions.
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I’ve been thinking about this too. You know ol’ slick willie has taken alot of heat over letting bin laden go and he really gets mad when the subject comes up. If hillary got in, I really don’t think she’d back off on the war. At least not for a few years. I think she’d find some way to show that bush is a dummy and screwed up royally and now she’s going to take care of it the right way once and for all.
It’s just a hunch.
Russia got the money, Syria and Iran got stiffed.
If the ship was from NK a known nuclear power attacking a ship flying under its flag is an act of war and NK may have made it nuclear. By waiting for the shipment to enter Syria, it made NK no longer involved and the nuclear threat off the table.
I agree if this was a bullshit attack you would have seen people in the streets chanting death to Israel. But they didnt because the Isralies took out their nuclear factories that they told the UN they did not have.
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