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Showdown with Iran
The Washington Times ^ | 2-8-06 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

Posted on 02/08/2006 11:43:20 AM PST by JZelle

Saturday's resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council for further action is not just a slap on the wrist, as skeptics of the United Nations might legitimately suspect. On the contrary, it demonstrates a remarkable consensus among nations few would consider as U.S. allies that Iran's nuclear weapons program poses a clear and present danger to the world at large.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; chavez; china; communism; hugochavez; iran; islamofascism; nuclearweapons; nukes; oil; russia; un; venezuela
I like this Bolton guy.
1 posted on 02/08/2006 11:43:22 AM PST by JZelle
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So did W and rightly so. Great out of session nomination and another Democrat mistake in derailing his formal nomination.


2 posted on 02/08/2006 11:50:36 AM PST by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
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To: JZelle
Saturday's resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council for further action is not just a slap on the wrist, as skeptics of the United Nations might legitimately suspect.

We'll see when the Security Council meets. I don't think that the USA will go it alone again. It's Europe's turn.

3 posted on 02/08/2006 11:51:34 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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"President Bush was blasted by Democrats for not mentioning global warming in his State of the Union address. They just weren't listening. This morning, the Weather Channel announced that the long-range forecast for Iran is ten thousand degrees and cloudy."


4 posted on 02/08/2006 11:52:00 AM PST by nativesoutherner (Maj, Inf, Aviation, USA (Ret))
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By the time the UN acts on this crisis, it will be too late.


5 posted on 02/08/2006 11:52:38 AM PST by lormand (...the wrong person came out of the water that fateful night in Chappaquiddick)
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In her press conference, one of the foreign policy experts complimented Condi on keepint the five permanent members of the Security Council together on this.


6 posted on 02/08/2006 1:02:34 PM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: JZelle

Perhaps, just perhaps, these idiots and appeasers will connect the dots between the cartoon crazies and the terrorists in charge of the Iran nuke program. Same folks. Same worldview. Regardless, we simply cannot allow these crazy mullahs to have nukes. Allowing Pakistan to have them is bad enough. Iran is another story.


7 posted on 02/08/2006 1:04:12 PM PST by crionlion
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Just you wait - like in '79, Russia will try to save the Iranians agains anything meaningful at UN. Bolton guy is OK, though.


8 posted on 02/08/2006 2:44:45 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Mike Darancette
The only bad thing about Europe or the UN's involvement in prosecuting this matter militarily is that more of our troops would die. Shock and awe would be replaced by slap and run. The smack down that needs to be, would never happen. They should just let us do it and we will send them the bill.
9 posted on 02/08/2006 3:58:54 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Diversity is divisive. E. Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one))
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10 posted on 02/08/2006 4:46:18 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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11 posted on 02/09/2006 8:47:57 AM PST by FreeKeys (“Civilizations die from suicide, not murder” -- Arnold Toynbee)
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