Posted on 05/26/2008 8:01:57 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
FORMER US president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state's atomic arsenal.
Asked at a news conference at Wales' Hay literary festival yesterday how a future US president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Mr Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons held globally.
"The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union (Russia) has about the same, Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more. We have a phalanx of enormous weaponry ... not only of enormous weaponry but of rockets to deliver those missiles on a pinpoint accuracy target," he said, according to a transcript of his remarks.
While the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is widely assumed, Israeli officials have never admitted their existence and US officials have stuck to that line in public for years.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner said Washington should talk directly to Tehran to persuade it to drop its nuclear ambitions.
Years of US policy, including sanctions and a debate about the possibility of military strikes, have not persuaded Iran to abandon its ambitions to produce enriched uranium.
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Jimmy Carter is that crazy uncle who get away from nursing home Sorry AD that true LOL!
A silly old bugger, too!!!
The problem,to Jimmah,is that the Iranians have none.Didn't you hear Jimmah call just the other day for the US to establish "friendly ties" (his words) with the 9th Century knuckledraggers that currently run Iran?
Jimme Carter, the person that said “I believe we can work with these guys..” (right before they overran our embassy, or bombed the barracks.)
Olmertz beat him to it. Last December, he was the first PM of Israel to say that Israel has nuclear weapons.
I don’t know which of them is the bigger jerk. Jimmy just had a bigger stage to screw up on.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/migrationtemp/1536692/Olmert-admits-Israel-has-nuclear-weapons.html
Olmert later said it was a slip of the tongue. He meant to say that the U.S. has nuclear weapons. Duh.
Good. Maybe Israel's enemies will think twice about attacking them. One FReeper once wrote that if Israel ever had a serious attack launched against them, they "wouldn't go quietly". Now we know just how "loudly" they would answer.
They need about 1500 more.
When is Jimmuh releasing his scathing report on the Zimbabwe election?
“Olmert later said it was a slip of the tongue. He meant to say that the U.S. has nuclear weapons. Duh.”
LOL.
You know Jimmy I sure hope when your time comes that your wife decides againt a procession in DC. If not then I will be forced to go and show my (dis) respect for you and your anti American actions. One big bag of Great Dane poo ought to do it!
Carter -- The White Obama
Probably doing his best to accelerate the 2nd coming
THE THIRD TEMPLE’S HOLY OF HOLIES:
ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army (see appendix)
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/farr.htm
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8LPLR1G0&show_article=1
It’s not the caliber of the gun, it’s whose finger is on the trigger.
Jimmuh’s still teaching Sunday School at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, GA.
Here’s his schedule, in case you’re in the area this summer and wanna say “Hi!”:
Visitors are always welcome to attend Sunday School Bible classes taught by President Jimmy Carter at Maranatha Baptist Church.
The Sunday School Classes begin at 10:00 AM but the church building opens at 8:30am. It is recommended that you arrive early since the class does fill up fast.
Carter Sunday School Schedule:
June 1, 22, 29
July 6, 20
August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Oh...I didn’t know that.
Just in case the former president has never had the thought occur to him--or even if he has, yet has somehow failed to comprehend its implications--it really does matter who is in possession of nuclear weapons. The thought of Israel's having 150 or so nukes--which may be entirely accurate; I confess that I am unable to put a precise number upon it--does not leave me awake at night, with sweaty palms, in the morbid fear that a couple of nukes, with the Star of David emblazoned upon them, may be making their way at any moment toward Washington and New York.
If this semi-senile ex-president (and I feel that I am giving him the benefit of the doubt with the modifier "semi") really cannot differentiate between Israel's having nuclear weapons and Iran's (or even North Korea's) having nuclear weapons, one can only suppose that his thought process is steeped in a squishy moral relativism that ultimately results in a doctrine of moral equivalence. And it is probably at this point that the old axiom about the fireman and the arsonist should come into play.
Jimmy Carter is a paid agent of the Arab League. It’s just that funding goes to the Carter Center, otherwise he would have to register as a foreign lobbyist.
“When is Jimmuh releasing his scathing report on the Zimbabwe election?”
probably at the same time he releases his scathing report on the venezuelan election...
If I were Israel I wouldn’t let him back in their country
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