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2007-06-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel Seeking New Deadline on Iran Bomb

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Posted by ryuge 2007-06-09 08:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 AAhhh, Bring it On!! Skip the "next level" Israel, go straight to "The Final Solution"! Take no prisoners, have no mercy...do what MUST be done.

Posted by smn 2007-06-09 09:04|| 2007-06-09 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Somehow, I think the Jews might be averse to any operation called "the final solution". But I may be wrong.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-09 09:12|| 2007-06-09 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 The Israelis should know by know that if they seek to have the UN impose a new deadline and Iran doesn't meet it, the UN will spring into action and propose a new deadline.

Posted by badanov 2007-06-09 15:13|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-06-09 15:13|| Front Page Top

#4 "Technical developments for the Iranian nuclear program will not follow a linear progression," a clear warning that America's official estimate that Iran will not attain an atomic bomb for at least five years could be ~~dangerously~~ fatally optimistic.

There, fixed that.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-09 16:00|| 2007-06-09 16:00|| Front Page Top

#5 They never take into account the obvious, that nothing the Iranians are doing is unknown technology. This means that at no time can they say, "it takes this long", or "they can't do that yet."

It is the same mistake the French made at Dien Bien Phu, when they *knew* that the Viet Minh *couldn't* get artillery they *didn't have* into the mountains surrounding the French.

In the case of Iran, for example, anything they "have" to make they could have instead bought on the black market.

So their breakthrough in nuclear weapons may not be the ability to make a bomb, but the ability to mass produce bombs, a very different kettle of fish.

What if long ago they purchased a working bomb and have been reverse engineering it? That could take years off their program. Of if their entire enrichment program is a ruse, if they bought enriched uranium or plutonium elsewhere?

Just as important as their bomb is their delivery system. Their missile technology must be good enough to carry the bomb to its destination. So their missile program might be a good indicator of their nuclear program's progress.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-09 16:22|| 2007-06-09 16:22|| Front Page Top

#6 They never take into account the obvious, that nothing the Iranians are doing is unknown technology. This means that at no time can they say, "it takes this long", or "they can't do that yet."

It is the same mistake the French made at Dien Bien Phu, when they *knew* that the Viet Minh *couldn't* get artillery they *didn't have* into the mountains surrounding the French.

In the case of Iran, for example, anything they "have" to make they could have instead bought on the black market.

So their breakthrough in nuclear weapons may not be the ability to make a bomb, but the ability to mass produce bombs, a very different kettle of fish.

What if long ago they purchased a working bomb and have been reverse engineering it? That could take years off their program. Of if their entire enrichment program is a ruse, if they bought enriched uranium or plutonium elsewhere?

Just as important as their bomb is their delivery system. Their missile technology must be good enough to carry the bomb to its destination. So their missile program might be a good indicator of their nuclear program's progress.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-09 16:22|| 2007-06-09 16:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Somehow, I think the Jews might be averse to any operation called "the final solution". But I may be wrong.

If the Jews do indeed have such a plan (and they do, it's call the Samson Option), one thing is certain, Muslims are not at all fond of it's goals. As I have predicted before, it is Muslim obsession with genocide against Israel that will get them their own holocaust. Islam's intractable hatred and total recalitrance regarding any sort of reformation literally guarantees this.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-09 16:22|| 2007-06-09 16:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Somehow, I think the Jews might be averse to any operation called "the final solution". But I may be wrong.

If the Jews do indeed have such a plan (and they do, it's call the Samson Option), one thing is certain, Muslims are not at all fond of it's goals. As I have predicted before, it is Muslim obsession with genocide against Israel that will get them their own holocaust. Islam's intractable hatred and total recalitrance regarding any sort of reformation literally guarantees this.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-09 16:23|| 2007-06-09 16:23|| Front Page Top

#9 A winter attack would be much better. I oppose direct attacks on Teheran, because I think the regime is so vulnerable that loss of nuclear war preparations would result in its collapse. Attack nuke sites, then pick up the pieces. Iranians are mindful of the billions of private wealth that the Ayatollahs have acquired. The Shah of Iran removed only a few million dollars out of the country, after Jimmy Carter stabbed him in the back.

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-09 20:24|| 2007-06-09 20:24|| Front Page Top

#10 In order to get to the nuke program, the Joos are gonna have to take out Irans AA and airforce (if you can call it that). As long as their air defenses are smoldering anyway, we should destroy every military installation we can find and take any gold reserves they have.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-06-09 21:12|| 2007-06-09 21:12|| Front Page Top

#11 ... and take any gold reserves they have.

I'm really glad to see someone else subscribe to this notion. We need to begin backbilling rogue regimes for the damage they do and expenses we incur in being forced combat their nefarious enterprises. Israel should excise a vast sum out of all the Palestinian taxes they are holding to compensate families of bomb vest victims and those killed or injured in rocket attacks. Property damages and any other medical costs should all be chargeable as well.

Saudi Arabia is running up the biggest tab of all. I no longer have the least compunctions about America simply appropriating their Eastern oil fields as compensation for 9-11 and the bulk of costs related to fighting the GWoT.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-09 22:16|| 2007-06-09 22:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Taking their gold smells of too much accounts receiveable to me.

I would prefer we take it as a matter of policy. Anyone we invade is flat broke when we leave.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-06-09 23:33|| 2007-06-09 23:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Not only that, but they fund terror with that money, so we have additional reason to liberate their reserves.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-06-09 23:35|| 2007-06-09 23:35|| Front Page Top

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