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Israel has '8 days' to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton
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Posted on 08/17/2010 6:41:37 AM PDT by Scythian

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.

Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia's help, on August 21, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant's core.

At that point, John Bolton warned Monday, it will be too late for Israel to launch a military strike against the facility because any attack would spread radiation and affect Iranian civilians.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; bomb; bunkerbuster; iran; israel; nuclear; nuke; tacticalnuke
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To: cookcounty
Look at it in Google Earth. It’s probably the most vulnerable target in Iran - it’s right on the coast. An Israeli sub could offload Special ops through a torpedo tube.

The fuel rods change significantly the first time the reactor goes critical, not in a loss of particular uranium isotopes, but in the addition of short- and medium-lived reaction byproducts. It's not so much the loading of the fuel as the next step, which might be rushed precisely to create an environmental propaganda victory, that poses a real danger that is different from that due to stored fuel rods.

41 posted on 08/17/2010 7:37:49 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Scythian

They have the ability...but the entire civilized world must pray that they have the *courage* as well.


42 posted on 08/17/2010 7:37:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: Pollster1

You’re correct of course: I was being colloquial about the torpedo tube. Call it “submerged deployment”.


43 posted on 08/17/2010 7:37:59 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Grunthor

“Great. I just got married and bought my first home and the world is going to end.

Awesome.”

I told you to go with the ARM and not the fixed rate.


44 posted on 08/17/2010 7:38:54 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I aspire to a large carbon footprint; just like Al Gore's)
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To: agere_contra

DONE.. lol


45 posted on 08/17/2010 7:40:06 AM PDT by davidosborne (I am SpartanSixDelta)
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To: agere_contra
Don't know what failsafe response this plant has - and how irretreivable the failsafe response is...

If it was designed by the Soviets you *know* that it will be "China Syndrome" time.

46 posted on 08/17/2010 7:40:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: Stayfrosty
It’s not going to happen

Agreed.


47 posted on 08/17/2010 7:40:49 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (YouTube My Space and I'll Google your Yahoo.)
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To: ikka
"Is Israel going to be making a declaration of war in order to strike a sovereign country inside its borders?"

Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia and others declared war on Israel in 1948 and have never signed an armistice, peace treaty or agreed to a cease fire. Syria has a cease-fire "understanding", but the legal state of war in still in effect.

As for Iran, Israel had relations, though somewhat cool, during the reign of the Shah, I don't know if they later made some sort of declaration of a "western type" but the public statement by the leader of their nation, "we will incinerate you, we will wipe you off the map" certainly sounds like a declaration of war to me.

You'd have to be dumber than Barack Obana to miss that.

48 posted on 08/17/2010 7:41:28 AM PDT by cookcounty ("From My House I can See November!" ---Sarah Palin)
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To: agere_contra
Look at it in Google Earth. It’s probably the most vulnerable target in Iran - it’s right on the coast.

It's almost as if they looked at vulnerability as a positive thing when they looked for a site.

Either way, IF the IDF hit the plant, the Iraniacs would mine the Strait of Hormuz so heavily as to shut down much of the transport of Middle East Oil. That'd be a serious blow to the world economy, of course, and I'm sure The Dali Obama would go ballistic.

If there's a way to stop them in The One's arsenal, rest assured, he'll use it.

49 posted on 08/17/2010 7:43:22 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: whence911

Bushehr is about 8/10 Miles to the NW. Nomenclature varies, but by UK standards it’s a town.

Aside from that, the area around the plant is like the moon for miles about.


50 posted on 08/17/2010 7:43:26 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Scythian

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51 posted on 08/17/2010 7:44:12 AM PDT by left that other site
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To: agere_contra

Hmmm...what’s Farsi for “Kick me!”?


52 posted on 08/17/2010 7:44:32 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: agere_contra

was thinking of the radiation issue for a later attack.


53 posted on 08/17/2010 7:46:12 AM PDT by whence911 (Here illegally? Go home. Get in line!)
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To: Pollster1

There is indeed a world of difference between an unprocessed and a processed fuel rod.

Perhaps the IAF will use that fact against Bushehr. Smash it up just enough that its own radioactivity will render key buildings useless, without creating an enormous, photogenic cloud.


54 posted on 08/17/2010 7:47:46 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Grunthor
LOL.
Post of the day, or at least until the Israeli pre-emptive strike occurs.
55 posted on 08/17/2010 7:48:25 AM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: whence911

There is a small city to the northwest of the plant. There is also an Iranian air base there too. It has aircraft bunkers paired off in two’s. The IAF will make very short work of that.


56 posted on 08/17/2010 7:48:34 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: agere_contra
Actually it would be better to post this pic on that location:

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57 posted on 08/17/2010 7:51:15 AM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: ikka
s Israel going to be making a declaration of war in order to strike a sovereign country inside its borders?

hmm. did we do that before we bombed Hanoi? - Or invaded Iraq? - Or Afghanistan? - Or Panama? - Or Grenada?

58 posted on 08/17/2010 7:52:54 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: prairiebreeze
... The world will soon have a nuclear Iran....

"time to move on"

59 posted on 08/17/2010 7:54:28 AM PDT by 1234 ("1984")
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To: ichabod1

A big piece of tungsten carbide properly shaped with a guidance device attached dropped at high speed would go through that containment dome, the reactor core, and right on down through the floor to damn near bedrock before it stopped.

No explosives needed... a kinetic kill has a beauty all its own.


60 posted on 08/17/2010 7:56:38 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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