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Bolton: Military Intervention Or Regime Change Only Option For Iran

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Posted by RD 2007-06-27 13:17|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 How strange to watch Bolton go from UN heavyweight to a lone voice in the wilderness. It does not bode at all well. If ever there was a time for his sort of unvarnished language, it is now.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-27 14:57|| 2007-06-27 14:57|| Front Page Top

#2 I think Bolton was destroying the New Bush Vision of Peace by being realistic.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-27 15:02|| 2007-06-27 15:02|| Front Page Top

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Apr 25 10:33 AM US/Eastern
Iran's supreme leader said Tuesday that the country is ready to transfer its nuclear technology to other countries . Meanwhile, Tehran threatened to halt all cooperation with the U.N. atomic energy agency if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions, warning that it might hide its nuclear program if the West takes any other "harsh measures."

Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-27 15:28|| 2007-06-27 15:28|| Front Page Top

#4 By itself, Iran's threat to proliferate nuclear technology to other Muslim majority countries is enough justification for bombing the crap out of them right now. How brain dead do our leaders have to be in order to ignore this glaring fact?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-27 15:36|| 2007-06-27 15:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Do you really need to ask that of our Chamberlin loving leaders, Zenster?

They are gonna ignore it until we get hit.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-27 15:38|| 2007-06-27 15:38|| Front Page Top

#6 They are gonna ignore it until we get hit.

If that is so, then Srdja Trifkovic's words only ring all the more true:

The elite class has every intention of continuing to fight the war on terrorism without naming the enemy, without revealing his beliefs, without unmasking his intentions, without offending his accomplices, without expelling his fifth columnists, and without ever daring to win. Their crime can and must be stopped. The founders of the United States overthrew the colonial government for offenses far lighter than those of which the traitor class is guilty.
[emphasis added]

The current immigration bill is total confirmation of how out of touch this traitor class is with the average American citizen.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-27 15:50|| 2007-06-27 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7

Netanyahu: West must stop Iran from executing new Holocaust

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday passionately called on the world to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions in its tracks by imposing sanctions on the Tehran regime.

"I want to call on the world that didn't stop the Holocaust last time to stop any attempt this time and what needs to be done is divest genocide," he said in an address to the Herzliya conference, a yearly get-together of Israel's political and security elite.

Iran says its nuclear program is aimed only at producing energy, but it is widely believed by the West to be developing nuclear weapons.

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I know that Baker and his happy Diplo Dozen believe they can give the divirgent power centers in Iran a Secrete Wedgie but isn't the Hour for Diplo Wedgies getting rather Late?

Methinks as I Slouch Back in My Armchair that if our gubmint or Israel doesn't act real soon we will all be dumb witnesses to a test shot in Iran ala the Norks, Pakis, and India.

I do recall President Bush saying rather forcefully that Iran's Nuke program will be stopped, the Commander in Chief didn't rule force or any other means to do so, out. Perhaps President Bush should be preparing us [the CITIZENS] for the eventual use of the olde tool, the Military Wedgie.

Posted by RD 2007-06-27 18:20|| 2007-06-27 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Bolton is wrong, because regime change is not enough. This is because the typical Iranian on the street *wants* nuclear weapons. Whoever is in charge will be pushed to want them too.

For years now, ever since Iran's nuclear drive became known, I hoped that the US would launch a 24-hour satellite feed to Iran on the horrors of nuclear war. Documentaries, drama, the works. Because *as a people* they missed that lesson in their 20th Century history class.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-27 18:28|| 2007-06-27 18:28|| Front Page Top

#9 This is because the typical Iranian on the street *wants* nuclear weapons.

source, Moose? I call bullshit

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-06-27 19:04|| 2007-06-27 19:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I hoped that the US would launch a 24-hour satellite feed to Iran on the horrors of nuclear war.

I still maintain that America should produce a well-crafted video production showing a MME (Muslim Middle East) version of "The Day After Tommorow" nuclear holocaust video. Its introduction ought to feature Islamic terrorists enacting nuclear attacks against Western tagets in order to leave no doubt about the plot's causality. After showing vivid simulations of nuclear hits on recognizable MME landmarks, follow up sequences would portray the agonies of infrastructure collapse and massive human dieoffs resulting therefrom. Episodes should contain footage of familiar urban centers undergoing firestorms, fallout and the complete laundry list of nuclear horrors.

We need to air-drop DVDs of this production throughout the MME. Periodic broadcasts of the video should be forcibly piggybacked onto normal commercial broadcast channels like al-Jazeera and al-Manar.

The West must make it unmistakably clear to this world's Muslim population that their clerical elite is sheparding them to their doom. A singular failure of this administration is not following up its laudable pronouncement about "The Axis of Evil" with concomitant propaganda campaigns, the al-Hurrah fiasco notwithstanding.

We have spent many long years dangling carrots in front of Islamic barbarians who are sated only by their bloodlust. It is time to administer the "Big Stick". A "Big Ugly Stick" would be even better. Our failure to do so is guaranteeing the deaths of not just countless Americans but Muslims as well. This neglect of inevitably increased bilateral casualties resulting from current inaction is far more reprehensible than any calumny we might draw through aggressive prosecution right now.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-27 19:45|| 2007-06-27 19:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Frank G, the Paks celebrated in the streets when they got the bomb. They wanted it. I don't believe that they understand what it is. They think it's just a big bomb. I don't believe that the Mad Mullahs in Iran understand about radioactive fallout, how it causes cancer and doesn't respect international borders. How could they? All they ever studied in school was the Koran. They need to be stopped. They all hate us anyway so just bomb them and then at least they might respect us. What I don't understand is what Bush is waiting for. He invaded Iraq because they supposedly had WMDs but he won't do squat about Iran. What is he, nuts or something? Lieberman and Bolton understand. The Israelis understand. I would bet that deep in her cold, black heart even Hillary understands. Bush doesn't seem to. Is he really going to leave this problem for her? How does he know it won't be too late by then? How could the "intelligence" community that was so wrong about Iraq know how far along Iran's program is? Why take any chances? More and more he seems about as witless, naive and dangerous as Jimmuh Carter.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-27 19:50|| 2007-06-27 19:50|| Front Page Top

#12 How could the "intelligence" community that was so wrong about Iraq know how far along Iran's program is? Why take any chances?

Spot on, EU6305! Excellent questions, all around. Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons will go down in history as the single greatest strategic blunder of the 21^st century. The repercussions of a military attack upon Iran can, in no way possible, exceed the blowback of inaction.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-27 20:01|| 2007-06-27 20:01|| Front Page Top

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