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To: Dark Skies
But time is running out. The threshold will soon be crossed when the Iranian facilities become "hot," meaning an attack on the sites would endanger the environment, most likely causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Iran. Can you say Chernobyl?

This is a witless piece of trash. Numerous reasons are given not to bomb Iran. And what's the downside if we don't bomb Iran? We might "endanger the environment"?

Oh, the horror!

Does this French idiot even considered what might happen if the fanatical leader of Iran, who thinks he's the Mahdi of the Last Days of the World, nukes Israel, or maybe New York and Los Angeles? Or would that help the environment by reducing the population?

6 posted on 01/12/2006 9:46:34 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
But time is running out. The threshold will soon be crossed when the Iranian facilities become "hot," meaning an attack on the sites would endanger the environment, most likely causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Iran. Can you say Chernobyl?

What he is saying is we need to strike now. If we wait, the collateral damage will be greater.

8 posted on 01/12/2006 9:52:12 AM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Cicero

I don't think there is a clean or easy "surgical" solution here.
The choices are Very Bad (see my last) or Even Worse.


12 posted on 01/12/2006 9:56:30 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Cicero
I agree. Allowing Iran to have usable nuclear forces means that we will be faced with a regime that envisions such weapons not as tools of deterrence and defense but as mechanism to destroy Israel and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans if they figure out how to get the warheads here. The national leadership of Iran is now firmly in the hands of people who are at the least dangerously unstable and at the worst in some cases perhaps certifiably insane.
This means the national defense decision process of Iran is fundamentally incoherent and unpredictable. The US literally faces an adversary where many of its leadership literally want to attack the US and plunge the world order into the maximum of chaos out of a rage of cultural/religious fanaticism and a desire to ignite the Muslim End Times scenario. For these reasons failure to do whatever, literally whatever, has to be done to deny a nuclear capability to Iran is the imperative US strategy.
13 posted on 01/12/2006 9:57:47 AM PST by robowombat
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To: Cicero

Let's see how rusty my French is....'Quel horreur!'


70 posted on 01/12/2006 4:05:38 PM PST by hershey
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