Posted on 09/16/2012 7:14:34 AM PDT by Innovative
If Obama wins, he can move actively to block Israel from attacking Iran and assist the Islamists in attacking Israel by blocking Israeki supplies, intelligence and Israeli extraterritorial military movements.
Israel wiping out all the muslim nations would have a huge impact on the world. But if little old Israel is wiped out, it wouldn’t be near as big of a deal.
Wow, what you said there was bat-crap crazy.
Authentic and permanent political change has to come from the Iranian people or the leadership we kill off will be replaced by worse.They've tried it, continually for years, hasn't worked. They won't be able to do it without outside help.
“Literally Nothing?”——naah——not quite buying that. That 300 feet of bedrock can be sealed forever just for starters. It’s not quite true that 100 watts of electricity would produce bomb quantities of enriched U235. One of the major demands of processing is the huge amount of electricity required. Another requirement is water. Another is heavy transport. Plutonium, if desired, needs a supply of spent fuel.
Without a turbine powered power grid Amanutjob can’t even make rocket fuel let alone enrich uranium/ extract plutonium. Without oil to sell he can’t even pay his rent never mind buying stuff from Russia/China/Pakis/ or Norks. Remember that 100 SLCM’s we used to shut down Kdaffy? Works every time we need to use them. One bunker buster sticking in the side of Bushehr and there goes his plutonium. You gotta be a little more optomistic-—there are plenty of ways to put Iran back in the 19th century and keep them there for quite awhile. The Iranians are the source or at least the agravation of every single ME problem and need to be re-trained soon.
True...
Thanks for the ping, Gangalftb.
(Wondering out loud if the time period is even shorter. Needless to say, time will tell — unfortunately.)
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Maybe soon. Or maybe after blooms have fallen but before fruit has ripened. We’ll see. But Iranian leaders are determined to use brutal methods to stir things up. If they build nukes, they’ll propagate technologies and tools to other countries and launch them. Those kooks want casualties on all sides, because they want to inflame their like-minded comrades everywhere to hurt us.
What Achmeddinnerjacket must realize is that if he nukes D.C. and New York, Teheran, Qum, Isfahan, Shiraz and any place where Iran's nukes and mullahs are built and kept will all be vaporized, too.
The twelfth Imam may get his feelings hurt.
“Going after Iran for possibly building nukes is a fools game - at the end of the day (when it happens) it will cost each of us thousands of dollars (fuel costs) and very possibly result in the destruction of Israel, Iran and several other countries. In fact, the end of the world may be at hand.”
And what do you think will happen if we DON’T go after Iran?
It will blackmail the US, the world and it WILL destroy Israel, as Iran already said many times before.
Given about a year, a single centrifuge running night and day, starting with 19.75%, you would have enough fuel to light one off.
A fridge and a double car garage, that’s the footprint. You could scatter them all over Iran.
There are many factors that I haven’t mentioned that would hold them back regarding the weapons platform and the need for reflectors to increase the yield.
As I’ve said before, getting the fuel is the easy part.
Here’s something to cheer us all up: Iran has about 8,000 operational centrifuges and has plans for a full build out of about 52,000.....
Iran is not working on a plutonium based bomb that takes a large industrial effort because a new man-made element is being created.
Their nuke program is based on natural ore-based uranium. Once you get the molybdenum out it’s just a concentrating process.
Bushehr is uranium based also. Enriching is going on at Fordow and Natanz.
STUXNET set them back a ways...
That WMD was not neccessarily nuclear- it would be their chemical weapons, bioweapons, etc. Iraq did not have "nukes" ...(yet)... their nuclear program had taken a severe hit back when Israel bombed their Osirek faility, and took it again in Desert Storm.
What Iraq did have and which we did find was a prototype for a nuclear enrichment centrifuge, the scientists, engineers and techs they needed, tools for the tasks, lab facilities, volumes of research and drawings, and a guru of sorts, the Pakistani Qadeer Khan, and all his helpful minions, who was making himself quite popular in N Korea, Iran, and so on by proliferating.
Iraq also had a fully functional prototype for the nonnuclear portions of the bomb, requiring only the enriched fissionable matierial. And they were in the process of developing long range missiles, which are needed to carry warheads, some of which may have made it to Syria.
Our concern was that Iraq , if sanctions failed as they were in the process of doing, would then be free to go full bore on reconsituting their nuclear program. That was their intention- it is why they buried their prototypes and kept their scientists with a minder at all times, and scientists' families in compounds where they could be watched. In the end the Iraqis sent their scientists to Syria in the hopes Saddam would survive and live to fight again and recall them.
Indeed. obama has time to go on Letterman, do a radio interview with The Pimp with a Limp, and a campaign junket to Vegas, but can't meet with the PM of Israel. Maybe he's not sure if Israel is an ally ot not...
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