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1 posted on 04/30/2009 4:16:14 PM PDT by SJackson
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OK......so let’s just let them do whatever they want? I don’t believe it.


2 posted on 04/30/2009 4:18:26 PM PDT by RC2 (WE ARE A REPUBLIC.......act like it.)
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Israel will see that statement as it is up to them to show the world otherwise.


3 posted on 04/30/2009 4:20:39 PM PDT by Godzilla (TEA: Taxed Enough Already)
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I hope he's talking about an Israeli attack, if America's military capability is only "temporary and ineffective", we are in trouble.

As someone on this earth only temporarily, there's nothing wrong with temporary. Our victories in WWII and the Cold War were only temporary too, as was the attack on Osarik and the Syrian nuclear installation, and freeing Iraq. Nothing lasts forever. I recognize that thought wouldn't occur to the Obama administration.

4 posted on 04/30/2009 4:21:32 PM PDT by SJackson (Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Rep. Bobby Rush)
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Use of the military option to force Iran to halt its nuclear program would only yield temporary and ineffective results, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday.

Now we know one reason Hussein kept him.

5 posted on 04/30/2009 4:22:29 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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sanctions, oh yea, they’ve worked great so far/s


6 posted on 04/30/2009 4:23:19 PM PDT by peace with honor ( they)
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The benefits are only temporary if you do it once. But, if you make it clear to the mullahs that we will come back everytime they try...then the benefits become longer term.

Israel's raid on the Iraq nuclear plant was hugely successful and curtailed the Hussein and the Iraqis for 15 or more years.

That's markedly better and more effective than all of the "negotiating" and sanctions have been on Iran for the last 6-8 years.

7 posted on 04/30/2009 4:27:32 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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“Temporary” and “ineffective” don’t necessarily go together. Temporary means some time is bought. That seems like just about the best outcome we can hope for short of incinerating Teheran.


9 posted on 04/30/2009 4:34:47 PM PDT by arthurus (ACORN + Amnesty = Venezuelan Democracy in the USSSA)
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So then check out the pres and learn the proper bow and stance, what side of the street is appropriate to walk upon and the going rate for the Dhimmi tax.


10 posted on 04/30/2009 4:38:31 PM PDT by freedom9
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Straw man argument. Doing “X” won’t solve problem “Y” forever, so we shouldn’t do “X”. This is the same Nancy Pelosi and her left-wing supporters used to “demonstrate” that we shouldn’t drill for our own oil in our own country and in its territorial waters.


12 posted on 04/30/2009 4:49:02 PM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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Sanctions have a great track record. Iraq, Cuba.


14 posted on 04/30/2009 5:03:57 PM PDT by Raycpa
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Regime change.

Probability? ~0%


15 posted on 04/30/2009 5:06:39 PM PDT by Starrgaizr
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I got it.

Let’s send a strongly worded memo.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.


16 posted on 04/30/2009 5:07:12 PM PDT by sauropod (If you tell people you're "on Twitter" does that make you a Twit?)
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Use of the military option to force Iran to halt its nuclear program would only yield temporary and ineffective results, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. Sanctions would make more sense, he said. Gates said a military attack on Iran would merely send the country's nuclear program further underground. Instead, the United States and its allies must convince Teheran that its nuclear ambitions would spark an arms race that would leave the Islamic republic less secure.
Not mentioned is the likelihood that the US will back the lifting of sanctions against Iran, probably before the end of this year.
18 posted on 04/30/2009 5:42:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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It depends *how* Israel attacks. If Israel really wants to play hardball, then its first attack should be a covert operation and very discreet.

Upwind of a major city, Israel should set up some vehicles that would spray large amounts of radioactive particles in an invisible cloud that would contaminate the city, then remove all trace of the vehicles. In a few days, hundreds of Iranians would go to the hospital in a panic, with radiation burns on their skin and other symptoms of radiation poisoning.

The purpose of this would be to convince the Iranian people that a horrible nuclear accident had taken place. Assuredly the Iranian government would deny this, and in turn this would create tremendous popular unrest.

It would also show the Iranian people an example of the horror that could result from a nuclear war.

Before you reel in disgust, consider the alternative of the deaths of thousands of Iranians during a conventional armed attack.


19 posted on 04/30/2009 5:49:52 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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That’s the ticket....give them more time, more sanctions, more rope....and in the not so distant future, Iran will have enough rope to hang us all.

Every citizen of Israel should be disowning their friends and family in the U.S. who voted for Obama and his cohorts.


22 posted on 04/30/2009 6:08:59 PM PDT by CaribouCrossing
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Okay, first I thought Hillary and Bob Gates were the only two major appointments worth anything. Then I thought it was just Gates. Now...I like Bo.


24 posted on 04/30/2009 6:18:53 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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Attack the regime and support the uprising that follows..

When Iran becomes a democracy they can have all the nukes that they want.


25 posted on 04/30/2009 6:35:41 PM PDT by Blue State Insurgent (NO, YOU CAN'T.)
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its just a clever head fake.

cruise missiles getting new paint jobs right now.

26 posted on 05/01/2009 6:09:03 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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