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2006-06-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2006-06-06 14:35|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I got $20 that says they still will turn it down.

Short the whole world agreeing to either pay Dimni dues or straight up convert the Iranians are solid in thier path to waking up the 12th imam by way of war.

Posted by C-Low 2006-06-06 15:11|| 2006-06-06 15:11|| Front Page Top

#2 There's giving nuclear technology and then there's GIVING nuclear technology

Posted by kelly 2006-06-06 15:44|| 2006-06-06 15:44|| Front Page Top

#3 One warhead at a time? Or time-on-target?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-06-06 16:24|| 2006-06-06 16:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Is't this what Clintoon did with the Norks? It seems more and more like the administration has been infested by pod-people.

Posted by SR-71 2006-06-06 16:49|| 2006-06-06 16:49|| Front Page Top

#5 They can't do much with light water reactors.
The plutonium produced is not readily usable (has too much Pu 241 in it) and they lack the reprocessing capacity anyway.

What needs to be stopped is the centrifuge program and the heavy water reactor.

Posted by john 2006-06-06 17:00|| 2006-06-06 17:00|| Front Page Top

#6 This is like one of those bad dreams you have after a fifth of Jim Beam and a couple of bad sausages.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-06 17:02|| 2006-06-06 17:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Jim, we tolja not to eat them damn sausages.

Posted by GK 2006-06-06 17:08|| 2006-06-06 17:08|| Front Page Top

#8 It won't matter what tribute is offered, it will be rejected. The same is true for the other side. No matter what the US concedes, the Euros, Russia, China will not agree to any action. All it does is create more delays to make more HEU.

The options are to attack and drive the Persians into the stone age, see the Arabs become a Persian hegemony, or leave and let the Euros and Russians (and Israelis) deal with it or live with the threat of nuclear attack. I'm torn, since I see opportunities in each course of action.

Posted by ed 2006-06-06 17:12|| 2006-06-06 17:12|| Front Page Top

#9 I wouldn't be so sure they will reject this. This might be an opportunity to do exactly what the Norks did. Accept long enough to get the "goods" and then change your mind.

The Norks did a good job of showing the world how to get massive amounts of free sh!t from the U.S.

Posted by Mike N. 2006-06-06 17:40|| 2006-06-06 17:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Bolton commented that you can't believe everything you're hearing from the European press who have no better access to the "package" than we do.

Personally, I don't believe Bush will pull a Clinton.

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-06 19:28|| 2006-06-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

#11 My guess is we give them the technology and they continue their program in secret after "giving up" some of their sites while hiding others. Hell, it worked before, and Americans are so naive it's almost hilarious. I feel I could shout this from the rooftops and just get told to shut up. I've been there and done that. People over in that part of the world think the world goes to the last man standing. And they're probably right in a way. Too bad there's nothing left for that one man to inherit.

Posted by grb 2006-06-06 19:55|| 2006-06-06 19:55|| Front Page Top

#12 This smacks of appeasement reminiscent of the darkest days of Byzantium when the barbarians were at the gates, but internal divisions had weakened the state to the point that the politicians had no choice but to offer tribute in the hopes that the problem at hand would go away.

Posted by WITT 2006-06-06 21:47|| 2006-06-06 21:47|| Front Page Top

#13 What Washington wants and will accept, however grudgingly, is for Radical Iran to publicly accept limits in numbers and types of centrifuges coupled with annual or more unlimited-access UN inspections. DUBYA WILL NOT ACCEPT MOUD'S WORD ONLY. Remember, the USA accepted and supported pre-Radical Iran's right to dev peaceful nuclear energy vv the days of the Shah. IFF IRAN DOES NOT ACCEPT UNLIMITED-ACCESS UN INSPECTIONS ANDOR UN INSPECTIONS WHERE US PERSONNEL ARE INCLUDED, WAR WILL BE LIKELY. I doubt Dubya and Bolton will give Iran the many many chances Billary gave to Saddam. SPENGEL, vv ASIATIMES.com, believes the US/West will attack Iran regardless, and as soon as near to end-of-year 2006.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-06 22:22|| 2006-06-06 22:22|| Front Page Top

#14 I think that Joe is onto something here. The US is giving light water reactor tech in exchange for full inspections, anywhere, anytime. Iran will reject this as out of hand. This offer is a total waste of time, but a sorta necessary waste of time. It's a slow cornering of Iran. I hope that it works, but we better be prepositioning and doing target planning. It will eventually wind down to that. Iran has made some serious threats. The EUniks may dismiss them and float down Denial, but Israel cannot dismiss them, and neither can the US.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-06-06 23:08|| 2006-06-06 23:08|| Front Page Top

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