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To: jeltz25
So, Iran getting nukes will not be worse than others who have had them.

Try selling that BS to Israel.

3 posted on 09/27/2009 11:07:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

I didn’t say it wouldn’t be as bad, but I don’t think it would be worse.

Iran has had chem weapons and long range missiles for years and hasn’t launched them at Tel Aviv. I don’t think they’d be sending nukes that way either.

But, they would likely hold up the nukes as their ultimate trump card and just have Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorists step up attacks secure in the knowledge that Iran’s nuclear umbrella protects them from any serious reprisal. A Hamas backed by a nuclear armed Iran in Gaza and the West Bank(and possibly Fatah in the West Bank would ally with Iran as well) and a Hezbollah backed by a uclear armed Iran in Lebanon would be very dangerous.

They’d use them to give themselves leeway to conduct a way more agressive foreign policy and to dominate the Gulf. Gain sway over Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States.

My only point was that the writer was making it seem like a nuclear Iran would be the worst thing ever and my point was that a nuclear armed Mao and Stalin were pretty bad, too.


6 posted on 09/27/2009 11:25:13 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: smoothsailing

I guess what he might’ve meant is Iran getting nukes will not be worse for the US than others who have had them.


16 posted on 09/28/2009 1:39:55 AM PDT by truthfreedom
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