We should nuke Iran

Toronto Sun (Canada) ^ | Saturday, September 2, 2006 | MICHAEL COREN

[Ouderkirk]

This form the Toronto Sun ???? Will wonders never cease.

[Bon mots]

Not just Iran.

[RightWhale]

They can't move fast enough. Our military can burn their infrastructure to the ground the same day that they begin to move.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Put the fear of God into 'em. Show them that our God is more powerful than their god. Sounds primitive but it worked with Japan and it would work again.

[pipecorp]

hmmm reminds me of an old classic....

bomb, bomb, bomb
bomb, bomb Iran.

[OSHA]

1. Find out when and where the Iranian government is meeting.
2. Put a cruise missile through the window.
3. Rinse, repeat as often as necessary.

[zook]

I have no problem with this.

[Ouderkirk]

Nukes should be an absolute last tactical option.

Wrong...nukes are a primary weapon for Imanutjob and if he wants them then we should have no reservations about showing him just what they can do.

[Capt. Tom]

Where is Canada going to get a nuke? I don't see them n the list. - tom

Countries with Nuclear Weapons Capability

Acknowledged: Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, United States

Unacknowledged: Israel Seeking: North Korea,1 Iran2

Abandoned: South Africa—Constructed but then voluntarily dismantled six uranium bombs. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine—When Soviet Union broke up, these former states possessed nuclear warheads that they have since given up.

[caddie]

I agree with the total destruction of their plant and infrastructure, the sooner the better, so they don't scatter it around a la WMD in Iraq.

But it is not necessary to use nukes to do this, just a whole lot of conventional ordnance, such as daisy-cutters and JDAMS.

Why the finnickiness? Nukes are a threshold, largely psychological, that we don't want to ANYONE to cross. Dresden showed how conventional ordnance can accomplish the same thing.

Plus, we want to keep the oil spoils clean once we own Iran.
Talk about the energy crisis being over! Ten cent a gallon gasoline again. And the US as a member of OPEC.

Now you're talking.

[Springman]

Canada has Nukes? Guess you guys have been doing something with the nuclear waste from the Candu(sp?) reactors;)

For the record, I think this may be the Free Worlds only option. Iran has to be stopped, and very soon!!!

Thank you James Earl Carter, for letting Iran go down this path, now 25 years later, we have to clean up your mess!!!

[lionheart 247365]

Let the games begin !!

[SuziQ]

No, we shouldn't. If we were inclined to kill some Iranians, we need to go after Mr. Iwannajihad and his cohorts. Most other Iranians are not complicit in his plans and machinations, so why punish them for the actions of their leaders?

[tricky_k_1972]

I love words like Dasiy-cutter and Thermobaric, almost as much as the smell of Napalm in the morning.

[rodeocowboy]

Thank you James Earl Carter, for letting Iran go down this path, now 25 years later, we have to clean up your mess!!!

Let's assess, fairly, to all whom blame is due: Carter, Bush I, Clinton, and thus far, Bush II. Same goes for North Korea.

[jonrick46]

What is troubling is that the UN Atomic Energy Commission is trying to Poo Poo Iran's nuclear capability by saying that they are a decade away from a nuke. Are they saying that this gives them lots of time to yak about the problem before having to actually do something?

I say take out Iran's nuclear capability now. There is a dynamics that the UN does not want the world to understand. Iran is using the tactic of spreading their resources out a wide as possible and putting what they have in hardened bunkers near population centers. Getting at these bunkers may require atomic bunker busters; hardly something you would want to set off in a population center. If they were to start producing nukes, guess where they would be? We need to derail their production operation by hitting the processing plants and the material already produced. Such would put a huge economic dent in the production operation. The longer we put off this necessary the harder it gets. Like the doctor said, "If we don't cut off the fingernail now, it will be the arm later."

[rodeocowboy]

No, we shouldn't. If we were inclined to kill some Iranians, we need to go after Mr. Iwannajihad and his cohorts. Most other Iranians are not complicit in his plans and machinations, so why punish them for the actions of their leaders?

This is the same logic that is losing in Iraq. Don't we ever learn! In WWII, many innocents died because of their leaders; and in Iran, they elected this animal. We need to not worry about those very civilians that empowered this animal and worry about the rest of us who love peace and a world free of a nuclear Iran.

[GMMAC]

"Where is Canada going to get a nuke?"

Presumably "we" refers to the West collectively as in 'we intend to eradicate the Taliban in Afghanistan'.

Plainly, only the U.S. and likely the UK possess the technology to remove the threat of Iranian Islamofascism once and for all.

[Laserman]

I agree with this assessment. Sooner or later this will be required. If we act soon it will just be their nuclear and military sites. If we wait, it will be Tehran too.

[aculeus]

Wow! In Canadian MSM no less!