Posted on 07/03/2005 10:49:29 PM PDT by strategofr
They may as well. Europe will be affected in the near future by Iran's weapons projects, but we won't. By the time Iran's nukes have enough range to reach us, we should have our anti-ballistic missile defense working well and sufficiently staged, though.
DEBKA Alert!! My BS meter is pegged.
We have much to worry about.
"They may as well. Europe will be affected in the near future by Iran's weapons projects, but we won't. By the time Iran's nukes have enough range to reach us, we should have our anti-ballistic missile defense working well and sufficiently staged, though"
The purpose of iran's nukes is defensive. They make it unlikely the US will try to effect regime change, and allow Iran to proceed full speed ahead with support for terrorists.
In addition, Iran is simply being given Russian missles of ever-longer range (probably) and pretending to develope them. Their range is increasing very fast and we still don't have the technology developed for effective national anti-missle defense---or know when we will have it. in addition, a national anti-missle defense will be hugely expensive.
Correct.
....and they can sell them to terrorist orgs to do the dirty work.
The iranians have said repeatedly that it is their muslim duty to acquire nukes and use them on Israel as soon as they get them Hardly defensive only.
After applying my standard Debka credibility discount to the article, I give it a 1% probability score.
Missile Defense Agency
http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/html/mdalink.html
Consider the source before you go assuming too much.
Need sleep - save for tomorrow.
ping
Well this pretty well guarantees that Israel will blow them into the previous millennium. America can then solemly inform the glass parking lot which used to be Iran, "We told you so."
Irans nuke won't be delivered by missle ace. It will come in via a container ship. Probably but ot necessarily into N.Y. harbour.
Maybe the U.S. is a punk but I don't believe Israel will sit on their collective asses and let Iran nuke them.
Defensive purposes?
What planet you living on there sport?
Iran has three objectives:
1. Nuke Isreal
2.Nuke America
3. Mideast and Muslim world domination.
Russia's suitcase nukes have shown that a nuke does not need to be big, or overly heavy. Getting one of Mexico's knowledgeable coyotes to carry it across the border in an old Volkswagen and then set it off in, say, Dallas, would suffice. Iran doesn't even have to make the nuke on its soil; it can outsource the job to somebody else willing to be vaporized for Allah.
I missed this announcement.
Top officials Vice President Dick Cheney, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and national security adviser Stephen Hadley are therefore busy consolidating the administration’s achievements to date and working on stopgap remedies that will hold up until after the next presidential election. Bush will then wind up his presidency on a high note and the public will expect his successor to solidify his gains.
Whoever wrote this drivel should go sit in a corner and shut up. Sheesh, he even forgot the token "according to an anonymous WH source" to make this somewhat believable.
That's a bit generous, doncha think?
"Sheesh, he even forgot the token "according to an anonymous WH source" to make this somewhat believable."
This does not need to be added in DebkaFile, since nearly everything they write is from an annonymous source or a guess. A lot of people can't stand them because they have no proof for their statements.
However, I like reading them. It seems to me they generally "get it right". I'll admit, I haven't read them much.
But there's no doubt, for some people, skipping over their stuff is the way to go.
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