Posted on 12/07/2005 11:51:30 AM PST by JZelle
Do you remember back a few months when it was reported that the CIA had determined that Iran was probably 10 years away from being able to develop a nuclear bomb? It was in all the papers, and made almost everyone feel much relieved. It certainly put those hot-head alarmists and warmongers in our places. We had been citing Israel's assertion that by the spring of 2006 Iran could have the bomb. My, how time flies. This week Mohamed ElBaradei, the chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed Israel's assessment to the British liberal newspaper the Independent, and stated that if Tehran indeed resumed its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take Iran only "a few months to produce a nuclear bomb." Keep in mind, Mr. ElBaradei is not some wild bomb-thrower (so to speak). He is the same diplomat who the Bush administration recently, and unsuccessfully, tried to block from being reappointed chairman of the IAEA because he was insufficiently assertive and too inclined to understate the danger of nuclear development in Muslim countries.
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The same CIA that has consistently tried to undermine this administration is wrong again. It's obvious they're more concerned with leaking classified information to the NY Times than with accurate intel.
I think we will have to do something about it. I'm sorry that the Libs want to wait until a holocaust before doing anything about it. What they fail to recognize is that this holocaust won't occur over a period of several years. 3 bombs 6,000,000 dead Jews and the obliteration of Israel in minutes is why Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. I pick April Fools Day 2006 for the strike.
This is why our stopping Saddam was so important. IF you listen to the Dems, we were wrong to go after Saddam because there was no WMD (even though he had had them, had used them, and was planning on building it up again once the sanctions were gone.) The Germans and French had started to push for sanctions to be removed, but 9/11 happened. Had 9/11 NOT happened, Saddam would still be in power, with nukes just like Iran, threatening his neighbors and us. Had we NOT stopped Saddam, we would be facing TWO Islamic nations, Iraq and Iran, with nuclear abilities.
Bottom line...the Dems never want to stop nations from getting nukes until AFTER they already have them, at which time they say it is "impossible" for us to stop them militarily. They then urge "diplomatic" measures, as did Carter, which of course DOESN'T work (see North Korea) and our national security is compromised.
I shudder to think what the world would be like if we had not gone into Iraq.
Bingo! But let's face it...even when we are doing as well as we are in Iraq...and we ARE...the Dems are treasonously against our own military and certainly against President Bush. Though we SHOULD do something about Iraq, I don't believe Bush will be able to do more than what he's doing now. And Iran KNOWS this. They listen to CNN and know that they can say and do what they want. Again...the Dems show how utterly incapable they are of defending our national security.
Moreover, any such state that cares to expend the resources can distribute their program such that its component pieces will be exceedingly difficult to find, much less to stop. I believe Iran is such a case. And I don't see this ending in any other way than an Iranian nuclear weapon and an arms race in the region. One is reminded of the naval arms races between the Great Powers and of the futility of the League of Nations in stopping them.
The questions that must then be asked are (1) how crazy is Ahmadinejad, and (2) can the Israelis assemble a counterstrike credible enough to constitute Mutual Assured Destruction? As to the first, I certainly believe he's crazy enough to nuke Tel Aviv and take what comes. He may even be stupid enough. If he is both the second question may be moot.
Of course we can stop it. The question is are we willing to pay the price? I think the price will be much higher later if we don't.
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