Posted on 05/27/2005 9:59:08 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
US Intelligence officials have told President Bush news that has left him stunned:
Iran has completed all elements required for an atomic bomb.
The intelligence information asserted that North Korea this year transferred components to Iran to assemble a plutonium based nuclear warhead.
The components were believed to have originated in Pakistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at geostrategy-direct.com ...
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"US Intelligence officials have told President Bush news that has left him stunned"
Must've taken a zot to the beeber.
"What do the mullahs think we're going to do if they nuke us? What do they think the consequences for them will be? Are they thinking?"
As usual anything mid-east, must include Israel in the equation. Iran wants to join the club based on parity. The same went with Saddam. Food for thought. A country does not sink the billions of dollars in R&D etc. to build a nuclear weapon with the primary purpose to then give it to some radical group that would use it. We should try to keep things in the proper perspective. Iran wants a nuclear bomb, in order to bolster it's image, provide a means to offset any hostile by Israel on them, and use it for esentially blackmail toward the west. We may tend to forget that they realize we could remove most of their cities and above ground infrastructure by conventional and nuclear strikes. Same goes for NK. And Pakistan had to become a nuclear power to offset India capabilities. Bottom line is it seems a bit absurd to think a country would invest so much into obtaining low yield atomic devices, only to give them to some group to do with it as they please. If anything I would be far more concerned with the badly policed/contained stock piles of Russian nuclear weapons falling in the hands of a terrorist group or being sold under the table to some group. For all we know this may have already happened.
Do you ever read stories like this and think "they're damn lucky I'M not in charge..?"
Speaking of Bolton, where is the vaulted UN IEAE and that Islamist that heads it???
Remember the Phil Collins video "Land of Confusion" where the mock Reagan as pushing the "Nuke" button instead of the "Nurse" button? I kinda wish that were true.
Ooops. Sorry we turned DPRK and Iran into kitty litter boxes.
If we nuke N. Korea, we won't have to bother with Iran. "Kill one to terrify 10,000"...
Stunned? Riiiight ... why do people think Dubya gave these two a prominent place on the Axis of Evil?
Journalists have no clue, even when the information is given to them in plain language.
You talking about "Slam Dunk" Tenant?
The very one.
If Bush was really stunned by this we are in big trouble.
First off stop taking this source as the gospel -(it isn't) and the tag (that it is BS speculative type reporting) is "left the President stunned" (please).
First off stop taking this source as the gospel -(it isn't) and the tag (that it is BS speculative type reporting) is "left the President stunned" (please).
I would be interested in what you think we would do? Not what we should do, but what you think we actually would do.
Somebody set them up the bomb.
The president mentioned soon to come fuel air bombs and predators today in his Annapolis address.
Gertz is usually pretty reliable but maybe something got lost in the Babbelfish translation? The story says: "NK this year transferred---" but then it says "---originated in Pakistan" Who the HE double hockey sticks provided this "intelligence"? I thot GW got rid of the guys who wrote BS? I'm having trouble taking the story seriously.
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