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Iran's Nukes: Apocalypse Soon?
IBD Editorials ^ | June 8, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 06/08/2011 5:28:33 PM PDT by Kaslin

Terror: Iran is speeding up its nuclear materials production and moving it underground amid reports that the regime is eight weeks from atomic bomb capability. Doomsday, anyone?

Tehran announced Wednesday that it will triple its production of high-grade uranium and relocate enrichment operations underground.

This comes just days after the Rand Corp. determined that the Islamofascist government is less than two months from being able to build a nuclear explosive, and that only an occupation force — not just airstrikes — can stop it.

On Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated his demand that Israel go away. "As long as the Zionist regime exists, if only on a small piece of land in Palestine, the region will not see tranquility," he declared at the grave of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Year after year, the American people have made it clear they view a nuclear Iran as an unacceptable risk, and the most recent results of the IBD/TIPP Poll, shown above, found that those sentiments remain strong.

Yet the poll also shows a loss of confidence in our government's ability to prevent this terrorist-sponsoring state from joining the nuclear family.

In the years during which Iran has moved toward weapons of mass destruction, the free nations have irresponsibly played a kind of nuclear "hot potato," expecting someone else — usually Israel — to stop Tehran. But Israel itself is not immune to the trigger shyness: Last month, ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan said an Israeli attack on Iran would be a "stupid thing."

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cowards; nazis; romans; traitors
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1 posted on 06/08/2011 5:28:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Israel will strike first. Count on it.


2 posted on 06/08/2011 5:29:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Iran will strike first. Count on it. Here’s some info from a few years ago.

S. Korea, U.S. verifying reports on test of new N.K. missile in Iran: source
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834307/posts
(4,000 kilometer range—will reach London and the Vatican—May 16th, 2007)


3 posted on 06/08/2011 5:43:09 PM PDT by familyop (Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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To: Kaslin

Everyone in the CIA and congress involved in the Leak claiming Iran has either ended their nuke program or it was more than 10 years away should be jailed for treason. The knew Iran was still working on their nuke but wanted to undermine Bush. They should all be jailed for a very long time.


4 posted on 06/08/2011 5:44:33 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy
You think Eastern Europe wishes they had Bush's Missile Shield?
5 posted on 06/08/2011 5:48:03 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Kaslin

World War 3 is inevitable, there really is no other way to clear all the rotting debt in the world. War always has and will always be the last refuge of the Bankers to cover their Fraud.


6 posted on 06/08/2011 5:58:44 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: familyop
So you actually believe Bibi will sit on his hands?
7 posted on 06/08/2011 6:01:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let them get it set up. Then drop a couple dozen bunker busters. “Whoops! Sorry!”


8 posted on 06/08/2011 6:06:06 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Kaslin

Drop a nuke on their site with one of our stealth bombers and claim it wasn’t us, Hey Iran must of had an accident, that’s what you get when you have camel herders with a 7 century mentality working on 21st century technology

Or just nuke Mecca and end that horrible religion, it’s probably only a matter of time before we have to do it anyhow might as well get it over with.


9 posted on 06/08/2011 6:11:19 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Kaslin

Project David released in 2003 dictates a policy whereby they must preemptively strike Iran to prevent them obtaining nukes because the land mass of Israel is so small it could not survive a nuclear strike. If Israel is nuked they will use the Sampson Option and nuke the 15 to 20 largest cities in the Middle East to “Level the Playing Field”. Otherwise they would be overrun and there would be Holocaust # 2. This would probably put a spike in the price of gas don’t you think? Thinking $37.50/gal. just to pull a number out of the air.


10 posted on 06/08/2011 6:14:48 PM PDT by Any Fate But Submission (How Long Can You Tread Water)
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To: qam1
Or just nuke Mecca and end that horrible religion, it’s probably only a matter of time before we have to do it anyhow might as well get it over with.

It won't be by Obama! He may not be a Muslim but he is definitely a Muslim Sympathizer!

11 posted on 06/08/2011 6:23:31 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"So you actually believe Bibi will sit on his hands?"

He'll launch, after Iran launches on Israel. Israel has good ABM defense systems, and Iran won't necessarily choose Israel as a first target. The mullahs want large numbers of Iranian casualties (1,000,000 or so, according to Iran's leadership a few years ago) in order to get the "Muslim world" fired up against the whole West, so launching on certain military and religious targets in Europe and/or the USA would probably be more to their liking.

More recent news...

Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2640111/posts

'Die Welt': Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2721122/posts


12 posted on 06/08/2011 6:25:37 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Dutch Boy

Don’t leave out the UN and the glorious peace mongers that dwell within.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0&oq=el+bara&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS428US429&q=elbaradei+iran+nukes

Doh!


13 posted on 06/08/2011 6:32:47 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (All the lands of the mid-east should return to their AD 609 borders)
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To: Dutch Boy

Don’t leave out the UN and the glorious peace mongers that dwell within.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=0&oq=el+bara&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS428US429&q=elbaradei+iran+nukes

Doh!


14 posted on 06/08/2011 6:32:47 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (All the lands of the mid-east should return to their AD 609 borders)
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To: Kaslin
Anyone remember Stuxnet?

A contrarian view: Isn't it strange that Iran's nuclear capability was apparently severly hampered, if not knocked out totally, by reports we were reading here just a few short months ago?

Isn't it strange, when all this newly found pressure is getting ramped up against Israel by the current US administration and the rest of the international community, that reports like this start to come out?

Could it be, that perhaps there are some wanting to goad Israel into a preemptive act of war? With the goal of (finally) getting international justification for direct military action against Israel?

Art of War, anyone?

15 posted on 06/08/2011 6:34:08 PM PDT by Sam's Army
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To: Sam's Army

I see it. I also posted hundreds of articles about Iran’s nuclear program a few years ago, but most commenters didn’t want to take the knowledge seriously. Most, being ethnically Euro-centered, wanted to keep the focus on Israel and Iran having a fight.

Also Gates is President Bush’s baby, and Rice worked very hard against Israel during her appointment. ...long list of links for evidence again, anyone?

IMO, a good retired Navy commander told me something to the effect that he was afraid that our nation no longer has the will to fight. He was right.

We need a default and some hard times in order to become Americans again, IMO.


16 posted on 06/08/2011 6:43:18 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Kaslin

Let’s see....given Iran is projecting testing of a nuclear weapon.....wouldn’t it be awful if it didn’t go as planned?

The headline would be sufficient for most....


17 posted on 06/08/2011 6:43:48 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: qam1

You are right about an anonymous weapons strike, but it will be done by Space Command’s assets, no stealth bomber to worry about being spotted.

And likely a weapon never deployed before (that leaves no chemical fingerprint), something along the line of Rods from God.


18 posted on 06/08/2011 6:52:51 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

they know about our busters. they designed for them.

the last strike plan i read about, said it was still possible, but it would require repeat hits on the exact same location. ...tough, when you’re being shot at.

other than that, i read only a tac nuc would work. and that would simply set them back a few years (and get tons of bad press for the Israelis... besides which, probably all the other countries would attack, including now Egypt, under M.B. control. and THEY have 400 M-1 tanks...)

remember, the Iranians are smart. they’re the ones who put together thousands of SCHREDDED documents, after they took our embassy...


19 posted on 06/08/2011 7:05:17 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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