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2004-11-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by God Save The World 2004-11-25 5:12:54 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dog and pony show. They want the world to believe these centrifuges are the key ones for their nuke program so they're making a big fuss about them being exempted. They'll cave on it after fighting for a long time and then everyone will say "look, diplomacy solved this crisis." And in the Iranians will be laughing the whole time because they will have succesfully diverted attention away from their real nuke program.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-11-25 12:13:55 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-11-25 12:13:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Personally I think the U.N. has full knowledge of Iran's nuke program but they are using this to give Iran some cover to develop their bomb. "See Iran is in full compliance with us!".

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-11-25 12:24:48 AM|| 2004-11-25 12:24:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 They my not get quite the "exemption" that they want. Faster please.

Posted by SR-71 2004-11-25 9:24:17 AM|| 2004-11-25 9:24:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 sure, but we need the GPS coords of those you want exempted *fingers crossed*

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-25 10:05:34 AM|| 2004-11-25 10:05:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Iran is a culture that haggles to the end. We will either destroy their weapons program or they will haggle right up to the day they have nukes mounted on long-range missiles. If that day comes, their bargaining power goes up by orders of magnitude. North Korea is playing the same game and winning at it. Iran has paid attention.

Posted by Tom 2004-11-25 12:35:49 PM|| 2004-11-25 12:35:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 North Korea is playing the same game and winning at it. Iran has paid attention.

Good analysis, Tom. Hang up on the "nuke 'em now" crap and keep up with this sort of concise assessment, please.

Iran is the next North Korea. Neglect any pre-emptive action now and be rewarded with yet another rogue nuclear state. The only difference being that Iran will cheerfully hand off atomic devices to all and sundry who hate the "great satan."

In an odd formula, America has everything to lose by not intervening in Iran and everything to gain by doing so.

Posted by Zenster 2004-11-25 8:25:09 PM|| 2004-11-25 8:25:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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