Another carry over:
To: Oorang
>>>I am not ready to assume that Russia is ready or willing to attack the USA
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the United States most likely will face ICBM threats from Russia, China, and North Korea, probably from Iran, and possibly from Iraq. The Russian threat, although significantly reduced, will continue to be the most robust and lethal, considerably more than China's, and orders of magnitude more than that potentially posed by the others, whose missiles are likely to be fewer in number, constrained to smaller payloads, and less reliable and accurate.
The new missile threats are far different from the Cold War threat, which involved accurate, survivable, and reliable missiles deployed in large numbers. By contrast, the new missile threats involve significantly less capable forces. Even so, they are threatening, but in different ways.
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http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/us/cia/cia-walpole-nie.html >>>>
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Russian entities last year continued to supply a variety of ballistic missile-related goods and technical know-how to countries such as Iran, India, China, and Libya. Indeed, the transfer of ballistic missile technology from Russia to Iran was substantial last year, and in our judgment will continue to accelerate Iranian efforts to develop new missiles and to become self-sufficient in production.
Russia also remained a key supplier for a variety of civilian Iranian nuclear programs, which could be used to advance its weapons programs as well.
Russian entities are a significant source of dual-use biotechnology, chemicals, production technology, and equipment for Iran. Russian biological and chemical expertise is sought by Iranians and others seeking information and training on BW and CW-agent production processes.
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http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/us/cia/tenet-test-2-7-01.htm (snip)
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Center for Security Policy
DECISION BRIEF No. 00-D 90
20 November 2000
Over the weekend, the Iraqi News Agency trumpeted the arrival in Baghdad of the latest planeload of foreign visitors to breach what little remains of the Clinton-Gore Administration's effort to contain Saddam Hussein. According to the state-controlled press, a Russian-built passenger plane brought "around 100 prominent Bulgarians, including members of parliament, former ministers, businessmen, doctors and university professors." The question is: Was there something or someone else whose presence aboard went unmentioned by Saddam's wire service?
Unfortunately, Bulgaria joins a growing list of nations -- including the likes of Russia, Libya and Syria -- to take advantage of the United States' understandable reluctance to enforce the no-fly zone against unarmed passenger flights. No one in the West knows for sure exactly what coming into (and, for that matter, out of) Iraq via these flights but, given many of the regimes in question, it strains credulity that there is nothing untoward going on.
This is especially true in light of the fact that it is obvious to Saddam Hussein, and virtually everybody else, that the Americans' will to resist his comeback is falling apart. Less well appreciated in the West, at least, is how dangerous the latest erosion -- to say nothing of the complete collapse of the containment strategy that it portends -- may prove to be.
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http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/cfsp-00-d-90.htm 6,833 posted on 02/05/2004 11:45:23 PM EST by Calpernia (
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To: Revel; JustPiper
JP tried to get the thread name updated many times.
Just ensure, if a thread 3 is started that everyone is able to migrate.
6,834 posted on 02/05/2004 11:46:44 PM EST by Calpernia (
http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)I do believe Russia, China, N Korea, Iran AND FRANCE are serious threats to the USA and will be more so at some point in the not distant future.
Hi Cal, I think we are in some sort of time-warp thread loop. See my post #23 on this thread.