The threat from Iran grows ever graver

When the Cold War ended more than two decades ago, the shadow of nuclear catastrophe lifted on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This year, that era of relative comfort could well draw to a close; alternatively, the West’s efforts to prevent that from happening could trigger a crisis of such gravity that countless millions will be affected.

If that sounds like an alarmist prognosis, consider the situation in Iran. Despite an ever-tightening net of economic sanctions – not to mention a covert campaign of sabotage – Iran is drawing inexorably closer to achieving the ability to build nuclear weapons. At the last count, 6,208 centrifuges were enriching uranium inside a previously secret plant at Natanz, defying six United Nations resolutions which ban the regime in Tehran from operating a single such machine. Meanwhile, a further 412 centrifuges have been moved to another once-secret installation. The latter facility, known as the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, was discovered only by the skill of British, American and French intelligence agencies. With enough space for 3,000 centrifuges, it lies beneath hundreds of feet of rock, meaning that it could be immune from military attack.

Iran’s scientists may soon be able to present their country’s obdurate and ruthless leaders with an invulnerable means of constructing a nuclear arsenal. As William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, warns in his interview with this newspaper today, any such decision on the part of the regime would trigger a “new Cold War in the Middle East without, necessarily, all the safety mechanisms”.

I hate to say this, but “W” should’ve handled Iran years back. Of course speaking from hindsight, they are a much bigger threat than Iraq ever was.

Why hate stating the truth? I've been saying this for a while now, and the ugly truth is, GWB screwed the pooch when it comes to the 'War on Terror' because after taking out Saddam, he lost his balls so far as Iran and North Korea were concerned (the other two 'legs' of that 'Axis of Evil') and for all his yammering about "not allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapons capability", he ignored the advice of Dick Cheney AND John Bolton and failed to take action against Iran to neuter their nuke program before it got to this point.

Anybody want more? After meeting with the North Korean defector and author who wrote 'The Aquariums of Pyongyang', detailing the sufferings of his family in Kim Jong Il's concentration camp system, GWB was allegedly asking what could be done to help the North Korean people, and after long consideration, decided the best way to help those poor bastards was to sell them up the river by taking North Korea's regime OFF the list of terrorist supporting nations maintained by the State Department.

My conclusion? There just might be more than mere speculation when it comes to the rumor that the only reason GWB wanted to 'get' Saddam so badly was that he viewed it personally after Saddam had reportedly planned to assassinate Poppy RINO on a visit to Kuwait many years before.

Now there were benefits to overthrowing Saddam, no question of that because if Saddam were still in power, we would have THREE regimes in the region pursuing nuclear weapons, Iraq AND Iran (because Saddam was not about to let the Iranians gain the upper hand, especially in the nuclear field) plus LIBYA because Gaddafi only turned over his nuke program to the UK and the US because he feared that after Saddam, he might be next.

The bottom line? GWB left the job undone, just like Poppy did after the first Gulf War when he sold out the Kurds and allowed Saddam to remain in power.

The Iranians will be involved in the terrorist nuking of a European, Israeli or American city in roughly the next 12 years. They have an agenda and now they have the means, our leaders have failed us for over a decade. It is not fortune telling, it is simple deductive logic. Islamic extremists hate Israel and the West, they need to reinforce their beliefs with dramatic actions, the regime in Tehran keeps getting more radical, they have access to smugglers, they have access to ships, they have many nationals abroad and now they have the ability to make nuclear bombs. I just wonder what a nuclear terrorist attack will do to the world's economy, I can't even begin to think of the innocent victims.

Yes, Iran cut off the UK from their oil today.

Time to send in the AMERICANS!

The EU through NATO will use us for cannon fodder and to foot the cost of war. We will be sending in troops on some trumped up excuse so Britain France and Germany don’t have to RISK anything or anyone from their own countries.

“The threat from Iran grows ever graver...”

Shhhhh! No one mention this to the President of the United States; he’s got his head in the sand and is hoping the problem will just go away.

Oh, except that if the Israelis handle it on their own, he’ll throw them under the bus and, after they’ve solved the problem on their own, make speeches about how “they shouldn’t have done it.”

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