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2007-05-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb

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Posted by gorb 2007-05-16 02:59|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 He's right.

Posted by JerseyMike 2007-05-16 07:20|| 2007-05-16 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Near as I can tell, our Iran plan can best be described as the Tel Aviv Memorial Counterstrike.

Posted by Varmint Ulomp6468 2007-05-16 07:41|| 2007-05-16 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 The Bolton for Secretary of State, I think. Imagine the frisson of fear felt by all current and former denizens of the U.N. should their former nemesis become the big boss of their next nemesis... not to mention the writing up of resumes at the State Department. Especially if it's Mr. Giuliani or Mr. Fred Thompson sitting in the Oval Office.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-16 08:07|| 2007-05-16 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 That doesn't say to me, therefore you don't take out regimes that are problematic.

Ahhyyee Captainthe best diplomacy is a fully loaded Phazer Bank.
Montgomery Scotty Scott, Chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-05-16 08:27|| 2007-05-16 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's face it, after Iraq the U.S. and the EUnicks are going to screw around until Iran has a working bomb. We are being a bunch of pussies and we're going to get burned for it.

Posted by Graviper B. Hayes9926 2007-05-16 08:32|| 2007-05-16 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately, I agree with #5. Bush has decided to kick this can down the road.

Posted by Infidel Bob 2007-05-16 10:19|| 2007-05-16 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Economic sanctions "with pain" had to be the next step, followed by attempting to overthrow the theocratic regime and, ultimately, military action to destroy nuclear sites.

BINGO!

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-16 10:29|| 2007-05-16 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 "We should nuke it from orbit. Just to be sure."

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2007-05-16 10:50|| 2007-05-16 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I agree w/#5 too.

As the man said, "Imagine what it would be like with a nuclear Iran . . . "

Posted by ex-lib 2007-05-16 11:31|| 2007-05-16 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 That's a classic, Varmint.

Have to shake my head at The Bolton's comment on handing over responsibility to the Iraqis more quickly, however. This idea makes no sense whatsoever in light of our actual experience. It's precisely the rapid return to sovereignty followed after the Jan 05 elections with the fantasy of a quick handover to the Iraqi security forces that got us where we are today.

Bolton & Co. are exactly right in their strategic calls, and fantastically courageous in trying to do what they know is the percentage move - but this bizarre idea persists that we can intervene without really intervening or taking responsibility.

TW, your scenario is as uplifting as the current reality and what seems the likely near future are crushingly bleak (we're talking US leadership class and their performance).

Posted by Verlaine 2007-05-16 11:41|| 2007-05-16 11:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Bomb the bastards now! Do not wait. We gave diplomacy a chance and it failed. The Mad Mullahs only use diplomacy as a means to stall for time. Do not talk to the UN. Do not talk. They hate us anyway so just bomb. That way maybe at least they'll respect us. Carpet bomb the hell out of Qom in the middle of the night. Bomb the oil refineries. Bomb the bridges. Bomb the harbors. Bomb the mosques. Bomb Natantz. Do it now.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-16 11:52|| 2007-05-16 11:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I agree entirely with Mr.Bolton, but a attack on Iran is going to play hell with fuel prices in the States and elsewhere.

This in itself is a greater reason for having more domestic oil reserves and refinery production. Unfortunately, Green Peace and Sierra Club is going to continue to make it difficult.

BTW, anyone know if any of the U.S. presidential candidates have a position on lesser reliance on foreign oil and wants to build refineries? I haven't seen much about it in the news.

Posted by Delphi 2007-05-16 11:55|| 2007-05-16 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 No mileage there, Delphi - just worries about abortion and that nasty little business in Iraq.

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-16 13:00|| 2007-05-16 13:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Candygram for Aquavelvajad!

Posted by doc 2007-05-16 15:24|| 2007-05-16 15:24|| Front Page Top

#15 "If the choice is them continuing [towards a nuclear bomb] or the use of force, I think you're at a Hitler marching into the Rhineland point. If you don't stop it then, the future is in his hands, not in your hands, just as the future decisions on their nuclear programme would be in Iran's hands, not ours."

End of story. I have always found Bolton's plainspeak utterly refreshing.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-16 17:12|| 2007-05-16 17:12|| Front Page Top

#16 "Mr Bush remains adamant that he will not allow Iran to become armed with nuclear weapons."

Then, Mr President, you know what you have to do, and which orders you have to give to your well-trained and well-equiped army.

Just do it soon, please, for the sake of the free world.

Posted by Leroidavid">Leroidavid 2007-05-16 20:12|| 2007-05-16 20:12|| Front Page Top

#17 John Bolton is a great man.

Of course, here in France, he has been constantly vilified.

French people don't like courageous leaders who call for the fight against criminals, terrorists, dictators.

Maybe is this going to change a little, now that our president is Sarkozy.

Posted by Leroidavid">Leroidavid 2007-05-16 20:18|| 2007-05-16 20:18|| Front Page Top

#18 I agree with n°11 (Ebbang Uluque6305).

The only thing islamonazis understand is bombs.

Bombs on their empty heads.

Posted by Leroidavid">Leroidavid 2007-05-16 20:19|| 2007-05-16 20:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Economic sanctions would have to be severe enough to cause the collapse of the Iranian regime, but they might work. Bolton is definitely right that we need to be prepared to do whatever is necessary.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-05-16 21:13|| 2007-05-16 21:13|| Front Page Top

#20 A Winter attack would have been better; Iranians would have turned on the Ayatollahs. It should have been done last November. Without local support the task of taking out large numbers of mobile missile launchers, over a huge area, would be difficult, unless a counter missile campaign followed escalation scenarios.

Future generations, who would suffer extreme strategic consequences should the death-to-America chorus be in a position to target America with ICBMs, will look back on the generation that could have prevented it with deserved contempt. Damn any current consequences, and damn the UN; load, lock and launch, ASAP.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-05-16 21:20|| 2007-05-16 21:20|| Front Page Top

#21 Future generations, who would suffer extreme strategic consequences should the death-to-America chorus be in a position to target America with ICBMs, will look back on the generation that could have prevented it with deserved contempt. Damn any current consequences, and damn the UN; load, lock and launch, ASAP.

Word, Sneaze. Perhaps not nukes, but a shitload of Tomahawks, fer sure.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-16 21:29|| 2007-05-16 21:29|| Front Page Top

#22 Lest we fergit, was it not TED KENNEDY himself whom loudly orally argued before his peers + TV crews a few years ago that a NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN or RADICAL ISLAM-TERRORISTS was absolutely undeniably categorically unequivocally, .........
...................@etal., you-betcha-boy, intolerable unimaginable incomprehensible un-reasonable and un-acceptable in the wake of 9-11 = Terror attack on a major US city, and ditto for any and all such possible FUTURE TERROR ATTACKS ON AMER CITY(S)???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-05-16 21:47|| 2007-05-16 21:47|| Front Page Top

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