Iran builds advanced P-2 atomic centrifuges - exiles

Reuters (India) ^ | 24AUG06 | Anna Willard

[endthematrix]

Considering our miscalculations with Libya, I'd venture there's thousands of the spinning devices underground in Mullah wasteland.

[jeremiah]

That's OK, Bush has Rice negotiating furiously as we speak...........sarcasm off.

[beyond the sea]

Iran has built at least 15 advanced P-2 centrifuges, which could dramatically speed up its production of nuclear fuel

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is speeding up his demise.

[BIGLOOK]

MI ping

From the folks that can't even manufacture a bicycle.....

[Paul Ross]

That's OK, Bush has Rice negotiating furiously as we speak...........sarcasm off.

LOL!

Someday they will talk about this in the same apocryphal terms..."Nero fiddled while Rome burned..."

Bush postured, pontificated and called 9-11 for the U.N. to take care of things.

Those who once thought he was conservative or had a backbone...Any Questions?

[Paul Ross]

Considering our miscalculations with Libya, I'd venture there's thousands of the spinning devices underground in Mullah wasteland.

Agreed. They may already have assembled enough Special Nuclear Material to assemble some test bombs. And are simply awaiting acquisition of enough for actual weapons deployment before showing off.

[Pikachu_Dad]

How could he take action?

He has to build support for his action within our country and to some degree within the world or the action only immediately ignites WWIII.

So with Democrats taking Arab and Communist money and foaming at the mouth for him confusing our general population as to what is going on - until then, what is he to do?

Iraq was only possible because of the general (backdoor) agreement within the U.N. and the consensus within this country.

The Democrats having spent years villifying Saddam could not backpedal fast enough.

Unfortunately, now their backpedaling and their support of the Iranian suicide bombers in Iraq, public opinion has been blunted from our 9/11 anger.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Furthermore, we have a military designed for TWO wars in two places at the same time. That is currently ongoing.

How can we start a THIRD one now? which will may also ingite a FOURTH (North Korea/South Korea), FIFTH (China/Taiwan), and SIXTH (Venezuala/South America).

[Prost1]

We do not have be engaged in Iraq to the degree we are.

We can let them kill themselves and then we can kill the victors.

We do not have to be engaged in Tehran. The leadership meets once a month. We know the coordinates.

[Pikachu_Dad]

That sounds like the thinking that started WWI with an assassination.

[Names Ash Housewares]

[grey_whiskers]

That's why *WE* have nukes.

If we nuked N.K., who would really care?

If we took out the oil facilities in Iran (flammable materials, right? conventional cruise missles OK), they'd be out of money for adventurism.

If China goes after Taiwan, I suspect Japan would help us do something about it...

Venezuela we can ignore for the moment. They're pipsqueaks.

When there's a will, there's a way!

Cheers!

[familyop]

"Furthermore, we have a military designed for TWO wars in two places at the same time. That is currently ongoing."

Those aren't wars in the same context. A very small portion of our Army is doing monotonous, exhausting daily details in Iraq and Afghanistan. Almost all of their work is humanitarian in nature.

"How can we start a THIRD one now? which will may also ingite a FOURTH (North Korea/South Korea), FIFTH (China/Taiwan), and SIXTH (Venezuala/South America)."

The nations with largest Asian/east European forces have been complaining for years about being covered by a few of our carrier groups, bases and posts around them.

The real concern of business lobby interests and politicians (including those in China and Russia) is that of possible economic disruptions.

[FreedomNeocon]

Exactly.

If the job were to 'blow the shit out of' something, we could take on 3 more 'wars'.

The part we'd have trouble doing is putting lots of ground forces to 'hold' areas.

But if you are talking about just doing massive amounts of damage to facilities or infrastructure (pretty much the entire air force and navy), we have AMPLE supply.
Not to mention that 'special forces' by their very nature yield diminishing returns em mass, and we could spare some of the best for some 'adventure'

[adam_smith_76]

The resistence says a couple years till they have the bomb; the CIA says 10. If we've learned anything by listening to resistence movements, it is that they will say literally anything. If we've learned anything from the CIA, it's that they consistently get it wrong (remember North Korea?). In this case, I say err on the side of caution, which means assuming two years.

We need to take care of Iran before then and quit running to the *^@#@$% do-nothing UN! Every day, we fight Iran via their IEDs and military trainers stationed in Iraq. Why don't we escalate this situation? Building IEDs to kill our soldiers is an act of war. Which reminds me of something I read today. The sentence where the General said Iran's proxy attacks are "mainly a political challenge" made me furious (not at him). We can escalate this, and Iran is dumb enough to fall for the trap. The next time a soldier is killed, announce that an investigation showed the Iranians made the weapon. Fire cruise missles at politically sensitive targets. The Iranians respond. You get the idea. Liberals in Congress will be unable to stop it.

Liberal websites I've visited are convinced we are going to do this along with Israel's help, and they are of course horrified. One liberal was moaning about the radiation in the environment after we hit a nuclear facility. I guess he doesn't consider the radiation problem of an Iranian bomb going off in New York City.

[adam_smith_76]

Oops, I meant "resistance." That's what I get for relying on the grey matter spell checker. :)

[familyop]

Yes, I was referring only to stopping enemies' mobility long enough to train a large enough army for necessary occupations. We could do that in the event of such an emergency.

[familyop]

I agree that we should reply to Iran's infiltrations and attacks. Another way might be to put some of our posts in Kurdish areas that have been fired upon from the Iranian side. That should've already been done but wasn't.