We could take out Iran N-sites: Israeli general

The Australian ^ | March 11, 2006 | Abraham Rabinovich

[Prophet in the wilderness]

AMEN !!

Your absolutely correct.

[umbagi]

It's the mad mullahs , their leadership who hate America, but, the average person ( for the most part ) is actually pro-America, but, you won't know it from face value.

I agree completely. I was in college just before and during the takeover, and had proud Persians seated on each side of me in a Political Science class. Great guys, both of them, left stranded by the upheaval. They were "into" their political scene, and we talked a lot about it.

I was in touch with one of them briefly a year ago, and he's involved with things happening within Iran, and excited about them.

Would you proclaim your pro-America -pro-west if you had the Mullahs as your government and lived in Iran ?

No way, until things came to a head with a chance of success. It's a very tightly-controlled regime down to the neighborhoods, not a nice place to be if you long for freedom.

[backhoe]

Old, but of interest:

The Samson Option-- what is known about Israel's Nuclear Weapons?

U.S. Air Force: Israel has 400 nukes, building naval force

The latter report is illuminating, given that it is 4 years old, and the most commonly-quoted number of Israeli warheads is 200... wonder how many they really have?

[Paul_Denton]

agree 100% You cannot negotiate with an enemy commited to wiping you off the planet. This talk with the UN/EU/IAEA is only buying them time to complete their bomb. The cost of action is far less than the cost on inaction.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

It's the mad mullahs , their leadership who hate America, but, the average person ( for the most part ) is actually pro-America, but, you won't know it from face value.

I would agree to a certain extent, at least with one particular fellow I know personally...

He came to the USA from Iran as a small boy with his parents. As a young teenager, he ran away to avoid returning to Iran with them. He wears pointy boots, Stetson hats, chews, drives a GMC 4WD with rifle racks in the back window, likes that Texas honky-tonk rockabilly music and you would think he is a Mexican or Native American cowpoke if you got a look at him.

He told me to never trust the Islamics. The sight of a mosque makes him cringe and grit his teeth. When seeing it that day in his face as we drove past one in Detroit on the way to a hockey game, I asked. It was a ten minute rant from a usually quiet, unassuming fellow I will never forget. He seriously hates the religion...

[Tommyjo]

The nuclear Popeye Turbo launched from Dolphin class are a myth. The whole myth was started with the story of Israeli Dolphin class subs testing with the Indian Navy. If you believe the stories then the two Israeli Dolphins at the time were in the Indian Ocean. They were actually still in port in Israel. It is a classic case of bogus rumors and stories getting out of hand. Consequently many individuals believe that Israeli Dolphin-class have this capability and can strike solely from the Med.

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

What do you think the likely hood is that Iran will be stopped? And who do you think will do it? US/ NATO/ Israel, NATO and Israel?

As long as the United States does not end up with a democrat President the probability of stopping Iran approaches a certainty.

As for who, it will be Israel and the U.S.; others may be permitted to join by invitation. The actual operation or operation may not be clearly attributable to any particular nation, service, methodology, weapon system, or device.

The actual mechanics of the operation by which Israel stopped Iraq's nuclear program may prove instructive.

Much has been made of the "impossibility of the task" on Free Republic and in the lame stream media. I lack Mark Steyn's ability to debunk that line of thought the way that Mark did "the brutal Afghan winters" but suffice it to say there was more truth about Afghan winters than about the invulnerabilities of the Iranian nuclear program. Keeping a nuclear weapons program going is a complex, risky enterprise with multiple points of failure. Even if we did nothing, the Iranians may be fighting a losing battle with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

I will admit that my analysis is colored by first hand experience with the response of the Iranian civil and military leadership to the election of President Reagan. The Three Stooges would have been more credible as civil leadership and the Keystone Cops would have been more credible as a military leadership.

[Thunder90]

and Preditors and Global Hawks.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Well, actually, I meant the average Iranian citizen who is not mooslim.
I meet a few Persians here in the USA and they are the nicest people you would ever meet.
If the population were to be allowed to express their views and how they really feel in Iran, it would be like that gentleman who we all saw on ( LIVE TV ) in Baghdad who took that sledgehammer to Saddam's statue.
Where people don't realize it or not, around 500 BC is was the king of Persia who helped rebuild Jerusalem and who restored the religion of Judaism.