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2016-09-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-

In leaked emails, Colin Powell says Israel has 200 nukes

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Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 That's a number that's been out there for some time--not too much of a leak.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-16 06:50|| 2016-09-16 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Good thing dammiyankees know nada about the quark bomb.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-16 06:58|| 2016-09-16 06:58|| Front Page Top

#3 "According to a 2014 report by the Federation of American Scientists, however, the Jewish state is believed to possess between 80 and 400 nuclear weapons, though that document’s authors estimated the figure was closer to 80."
The 80 figure goes back to the nineteen eighties.
It is believed that Israel now has enough neutron bombs to eliminate Dar al-Islam were Israel ever threatend with extinction. The Saudis know this, and as Mekka and Medina would be the first to be hit they act very circumspectly.

Posted by Shick de Medici6262 2016-09-16 07:45|| 2016-09-16 07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 whether it's 5,000 or 1. The difference is the will to use them to survive

Posted by Frank G 2016-09-16 08:58|| 2016-09-16 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 One of the most underrated outcomes of the last Bush administration is that we will never have to worry about a Colin Powell or Condi Rice GOP candidacy for prexy

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-09-16 09:09|| 2016-09-16 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Did Condi's name get so tarnished?

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-16 10:13|| 2016-09-16 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Tarnished by association with Bush.

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-09-16 10:32|| 2016-09-16 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Powell thinks the Mad Mullahs won't use a nuke because the Juice have 200 of them aimed at Tehran? What a fool. They don't call 'em Mad Mullahs for nothing. They really are crazy and there is no telling what they might do.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-09-16 10:52|| 2016-09-16 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 A Quark Bomb
A next generation atomic weapon, suggested in some scientific journals as possible.
Essentially it is a weapon which somehow splits open protons to release their quarks, the subatomic particles which make up protons, in theory releasing masses of energy. (possibly about 1200 times more energy than an atomic bomb of similar size)

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-16 11:45|| 2016-09-16 11:45|| Front Page Top

#10 That's a number that's been out there for some time--not too much of a leak

Speculation vs. confirmation from someone in a position to know, JohnQC.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-16 11:51|| 2016-09-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Powell thinks the Mad Mullahs won't use a nuke because the Juice have 200 of them aimed at Tehran?

Since they believe that if they are losing Allah will be forced to intervene to tip the scales in their favour, starting a nuclear war they are bound to lose is logical. Al Qaeda believed the same thing before 9/11; it was the massive damage that the Ummah recoved at the hands of George W. Bush's coalition that changed minds about that whole hard jihad of the sword thing until President Obama proactively left the battlefield.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-09-16 11:57|| 2016-09-16 11:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Also, some or all of the Ayatollahs are Twelvers - they believe that the 12th imam is hiding in the well and a nuclear war will bring him out. He will bring about peace, justice, and/or the end of the world. Which they think is a good thing.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-09-16 12:12|| 2016-09-16 12:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Condi also agreed with Powell's assessment of Benghazi a "witch hunt". She has been fully assimilated.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2016-09-16 14:53|| 2016-09-16 14:53|| Front Page Top

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