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Down Under
Downer urged to oppose military strike on Iran
2006-04-29
A group of silly peace and goofy environment campaigners has banded together with a number of federal MPs to urge the Federal Government against supporting military action against Iran.

Friends of the Earth Australia spokesman John Hallam says Foreign Minister Alexander Downer should go one step further and rule out the use of military force. "If military action against Iran is not ruled out, then it will have an entirely perverse effect," he said. "It will guarantee positively that we get the very thing that we say we don't want, namely a bitterly hostile, nuclear-armed Iran."
As opposed to a bitterly hostile, broken Iran.
In a letter to Mr Downer, the group says the Federal Government needs to do everything in its power to discourage the US from any reckless course of action. "The possibility of military action and indeed, still the possibility of even a nuclear strike is very real," Mr Hallam said.
And he would know, inside sources, all that.
"That's not to say that it's going to happen and I hope and pray and trust that it won't but it's on the table and it shouldn't be on the table.

"It needs to be taken off the table."
Posted by:Oztralian

#4  What a downer.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-04-29 12:44  

#3  I've got the solution: human shields. Your burkas are waiting.
Posted by: Perfessor   2006-04-29 06:44  

#2  Would these people be willing to put their lives on the line, like they want the rest of us to do, by allowing islamic imperialists to arm with nuclear weapons. Would they pledge that in case Iran gets nuclear weapons that they and their families volunteer to have their heads chopped off? Seems the least they can do for sentencing millions to die in the coming nuclear fires.
Posted by: ed   2006-04-29 01:10  

#1  Iranian dissident Nassir Rashidi has argued that what Iran wants is RECOGNITION, vv possession of nuke weapons. Glitch/SNAFU is, by Iran's overt support of radical groups around the ME + World, alleged "recognition" is not the only thing MadMoud and Iran's Mullahs want. THEY WANT EMPIRE, REGIONAL THEN GLOBAL,TOTALITARIAN, AND EMPIRE AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHER MUSLIM INTERESTS OR NATIONS. Meanwhile, FREEREPUBLIC and WND.com quotes the Muslim reporter whom interveiwed Osama THAT IRAN HAD BOUGHT QUANTITIES OF SUITCASE NUKES FROM THE RUSSIAN MAFIAS/BLACK MARKET, THAT SAID NUKES WILL BE USED TO ATTACK AMERICA IFF IRAN IS ATTACKED, THAT MANY SAID NUKES MAY ALREADY HAD BEEN PRE-POSITIONED INSIDE AMERICA, AND THAT IRAN AND BIN LADEN MAY HAVE HINDREDS OF "SLEEPER AGENTS" vv PRO-AL QAEDA US-BASED/DOMESTIC RADICAL GROUPS-MOSQUES WAITING FOR ORDERS TO ATTACK. IOW, as said before Hillary and the Dems will be POTUSes becuz they weirdly and mysteriously survived GOP-caused/blamed new 9-11/s = Amer Hiroshimas, where Dubya, the GOP, and anti-Clinton/OWG Congress were felled in PC assassination attempts disguised as "decapitation strikes" or "massed terror strikes". OH, DUBYA, CAN WE HAVE A DRAFT NOW!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-04-29 00:53  

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