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2005-09-22 Europe

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Posted by ed 2005-09-22 07:12|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That cave came quicker than I expected. I figured the charade would go on for another month or so.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-22 07:56|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-22 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 At least the Russkies and Chinese know how to play hardball. Too bad it's for the other side. The "EU3" need to go back to the sandlot.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-09-22 08:06|| 2005-09-22 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't bluff for too long when you're politically impotent and have no military stick even if you wanted to use it.

Posted by MunkatKat 2005-09-22 08:14|| 2005-09-22 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 ZZZZzzzzz. ZZZZzzzzz. ZZZZz ZZZZzzzz.

Posted by Curt Simon 2005-09-22 09:04|| 2005-09-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's see --
China depends of Iran's oil.
Russia is selling Iran nuclear goods.
The EU is useless.
Nope, no news here.

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-22 09:14|| 2005-09-22 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 You forgot the surprise meter graphic.

Posted by VRWconspiracy 2005-09-22 09:24|| 2005-09-22 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 When the only thing you have is soft power then the only line you can adopt is a soft line. Even when the perspective is a bunch of dements with nukes, missiles who can reach you and who have publically told they would provide nuclear technology to the highest (islamic) bider

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-09-22 09:26|| 2005-09-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The EU had a hardline stance? Who knew?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-09-22 09:32|| 2005-09-22 09:32|| Front Page Top

#9 When the only thing you have is soft power then the only line you can adopt is a soft line and when the only thing you have is a soft dick then you are condamned to impotency.

Sorry for the language but I am real mad about the eunuchs who are endangering with the lives of my children.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-09-22 09:33|| 2005-09-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

#10 JFM, Can't blame you for being irate. Come on over. We have plenty of states hurricanes never reach.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-22 09:36|| 2005-09-22 09:36|| Front Page Top

#11 The US has done no better. We knew this day has been coming for several years. Instead of building up forces to invade/destroy the mullahs, the US has done nothing. We used to be able to fight 2 1/2 major wars simultaneously. Now the US can't even handle 1 occupation and 1 war.

The Iranians will go nuclear and nuclear weapons will spread to every little Bumfukistan. The West will stand and watch and Russia and China will do anything to gain an advantage. I expect in my lifetime to see multiple nuke off over US cities.

Posted by ed 2005-09-22 09:53|| 2005-09-22 09:53|| Front Page Top

#12 EU drops hardline stance on Iran

EU backs down demand to-> UN = a new property of softness.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-22 09:57|| 2005-09-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#13 ed - nukes are so mid-20th century. With the human gnome decoded, the US and a couple of other countries have the means, just not the will, to develop a designer plague and its antidote. Make the antidote and keep it for your side. Tell everyone else to enjoy their record in history. After about the second nuke on the US, the attitude of its either us or them is going to make it them.

Posted by Elmaigum Glunter5343 2005-09-22 09:57|| 2005-09-22 09:57|| Front Page Top

#14 Yep, it's not a question or IF but of WHEN: this century or the next ?

Posted by Poitiers-Lepanto">Poitiers-Lepanto 2005-09-22 10:25|| 2005-09-22 10:25|| Front Page Top

#15 an IAEA vote would have been abotu 20-15 in favor of referral - it would have highlighted the split between the West including the EU on the one hand, and the Russians, chinese, and most of the third worlders on the other. We have good reason to want that split out on the table - the EU3 are trying to hide it.

Basically in an a staring match between Putin and the EU, the EU blinked. Unfortunately this isnt much of a surprise.

The fact that the price oe oil is high, strengthenig Putin, and Germany is without a govt, are also factors.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-09-22 11:12|| 2005-09-22 11:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Good stuff. Many countries have nuclear power - including the USA. Why shouldn't Iran?

G.

Posted by G. 2005-09-22 11:48|| 2005-09-22 11:48|| Front Page Top

#17 A little taste G:
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"If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world", Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran.

"Jews shall expect to be once again scattered and wandering around the globe the day when this appendix is extracted from the region and the Muslim world", Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani warned, blaming on the United States and Britain the "creation of the fabricated entity" in the heart of Arab and Muslim world.

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"Death to America" is the mantra of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It has sponsored numerous attacks on Jews and Americans. How about the USA applying "Death to Iran" before the former can be implemented, or are only muslims allowed to do that?

Posted by ed 2005-09-22 12:05|| 2005-09-22 12:05|| Front Page Top

#18 The UN continues its unfettered descent into irrelevance ...

Posted by doc 2005-09-22 12:09|| 2005-09-22 12:09|| Front Page Top

#19 WW III comin' right up.

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-22 13:11|| 2005-09-22 13:11|| Front Page Top

#20 If we had toasted the whole mid-east right after 911 we could have got away with it. A real shame!

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-22 14:20|| 2005-09-22 14:20|| Front Page Top

#21 Good stuff. Many countries have nuclear power - including the USA. Why shouldn't Iran?

Why shouldn't they? After all, it probably doesn't affect you directly, does it?

I suggest you take a trip to the opthamologist for an examination.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-22 15:39|| 2005-09-22 15:39|| Front Page Top

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