Posted on 08/17/2010 9:05:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said he didn't see "any signs whatsoever that President Obama would make the necessary decision" to strike Iran's nuclear reactor, speaking in an interview with Israel Radio Tuesday.
Bolton claimed Israel has only three days to strike before Russia "begins the fueling process for the Bushehr reactor this Friday," after which any attack would cause radioactive fallout that could reach as far as the waters of the Persian Gulf.
In an interview with Fox Business Network earlier Tuesday Bolton had said the deadline was eight days, but he revised it to three in the Israel Radio interview, saying Iran and Russia had announced they would begin fueling on Friday.
"It has always been optimal that military force is used before the fuel rods are inserted," Bolton explained. "That's what Israel did in Osirak in 1991, and when they attacked the North Korean reactor built in Syria." Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq in 1981, and a Syrian reactor in 2007.
However Bolton didn't see any indication that an Israeli strike was going to happen. "Obviously if Israel were going to do something it wouldn't exactly be advertising it. But time is short."
Bolton said that it would be "a much more dangerous world" if Iran were to gain nuclear capability. "That's why I think it's so critical. It won't stop with Iran. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, perhaps other states as well."
Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said earlier Tuesday that an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be an "international crime."
In an interview with IRNA, Salehi said that the impact of such a strike would be global. "This is stipulated in the resolutions passed by the IAEA and the UN Security Council as well as in the resolution adopted at the close of the NPT Review Conference," he stressed.
Russia, who is supplying the uranium fuel for the plant, announced last week that they will begin loading the Bushehr reactor on August 21.
In an initial interview earlier today with Fox Business Network earlier Tuesday, Bolton warned that once the Bushehr facility is operational it will be too late for a military air strike against Iran because such an attack would spread radiation and harm Iranian civilians.
"Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they're in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it," Bolton said.
"Iran will achieve something that no other opponent of Israel, no other enemy of the United States in the Middle East really has and that is a functioning nuclear reactor."
Bolton was critical of Russia for aiding Iran in the fueling of the nuclear reactor.
"The Russians are, as they often do, playing both sides against the middle. The idea of being able to stick a thumb in America's eye always figures prominently in Moscow," Bolton concluded.
I understand it’s getting “cloudy” over Dimona...
“We could all be huddled in the cold and dark, if the ‘international community’ doesn’t get its collective head out of its collective a$$.....”
I just purchased a 35 ton log splitter.........
“I’m pretty well convinced this world will “end” through a nuclear winter.”
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God says you’re wrong; read the book:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=5379618
” I just purchased a 35 ton log splitter......... “
And, that runs on??
Let's nuke the plant ourselves!
Step 1: Go to the High yield detonation effects simulator website at:Nuclear weapons effect simulator
Step 2: Next, Tab down to the Latitude, Longitude field and enter 28.82628,50.88727
Step 3: Enter your nuclear weapon yield.
Note:
1 = approx (@) 1 kiloton (kt) explosion, i.e. small, tactical nuclear weapon (>SADM, >davie crockett);
9= @10KT a medium tactical nuclear weapon (dial a yield 155mm/8" artillery shell, W80 warhead, non-boosted B61) Note: half the size of Nagasaki bomb, 3/4 size of Hiroshima bomb;
99= 100KT a small strategic nuclear weapon such as the W76 warhead (or boosted tactical nuke);
500= @500 kt or one-half of a Megaton (MT). Note: Most strategic nuclear weapons are between @300kt (W87) and @500kt (w88) today;
999= 1000kt or one Megaton (1MT). Most mid cold war weapons were in the Megaton range;
9999= 10 MT- Very large nuclear weapon (Titan II missile carried 9 MT W53 warhead);
15000= 15 MT- Castle Bravo test. Largest US nuclear test explostion. Note: Some estimates say 22MT!;
25000= 25 MT (B41 nuclear bomb) the highest yield US nuclear weapon in service. Now retired;
50000= 50 MT - Tsar Bomba Soviet test. 50 MT. Largest ever nuclear explosion;
99999= 100MT Theoretical yield limit of boosted Tsar Bomba.
Step 4: Enjoy "nuking" other locations. ("Drop" a 100 MT nuke (99999kt) on NYC and see what happens)!
Enjoy!
I am somewhat surprised that they have waited this long, but the real question is :
Who’s Side will B. Hussein Obama be on??? My money is Obama taking sides with his Blood Brother Imachithead.
Bolton said he didn’t see “any signs whatsoever that President Obama would make the necessary decision”........................................... Well Duhh, who woulda guessed? I hope America makes it to 2012 so we can unload this travesty we call the POTUS.
Neat page.
“Obama holds his Muslim/Persian brothers in higher regard than Americans.”
Iran is Shiite. Obama, and all other Middle Eastern Countries, are Sunni. Sunni want to eliminate Shiite. Nuff said?
So you say.
“” I just purchased a 35 ton log splitter......... “
And, that runs on??”
gasoline of course, but!
I plan to make a wood-gas generator. Endless supply!
Obama will shoot down the Israeli planes and defend the Nuke Plants!
That’s it—thank you!
No, not enough said. Iran (Shi’ite) funds Hamas (Sunni). Al-Aquaeda (fanatically Sunni) works with Iran (Shi’ite). The world’s not so black and white as you suggest.
“No, not enough said. Iran (Shi’ite) funds Hamas (Sunni). Al-Aquaeda (fanatically Sunni) works with Iran (Shi’ite). The world’s not so black and white as you suggest.”
If you study Muslim history you will see that they will work together, with others, untill the primary target is destroyed. i.e The Muslims have a priority list. They will side with Christian untill the non believers of any religion are destroyed. Then they will destroy the Jews. Not untill then will they destroy the Christians.
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