Comments on: Do You Want This Man To Have The Bomb?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:52:53 +0000

dmac, I’m about to do a followup post…

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:41:39 +0000

This just in – Rep. Eric Cantor (R, Va.) just wrote a letter to Rice, outlining the reasons why Israel has the right to take out the facilities. Looks like the beginning of an official endorsement process here.

By: mtl

mtl — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:00:12 +0000

The breaking point for Russia is 2008.

Putin is in his final term, but could likely and successfully rewrite the constitution with his supporters and establish an unlimited term for himself.

I am sympathetic to Putin in that once you are no longer leader of Russia, history would tell you to get out quickly, but if he circumvents and does break thew idea of term limits, it would be a grave step back. US policy is geared towards making sure he will not become the next czar, destroying their ‘representative’ government.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:43:59 +0000

louielouie, you’re correct that Putin’s Russia is no friend to freedom…but our options appear pretty limited, at the moment…

By: louielouie

louielouie — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:35:34 +0000

one more thought.
i’ll bet the person watching this the most/closest is hugo chavez.
one hint of hesitation/weakness on the US side and he will need his source of peaceful energy generation.
think the rooskies will turn him down on a contract?

By: fatman

fatman — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:00:18 +0000

I don’t know, dmac. While I don’t doubt that the Israelis have the backbone to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, I don’t think their air force can operate at that range.

Unless, of course, we give them a little help, say with mid-air refueling.

By: Clint

Clint — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:13:36 +0000

dmac-

I hope you’re wrong.

Granted, they’ve got every right to do it — definitely an IMMINENT threat, but I’d rather see a more permanent solution, preferably involving truly free elections in Iran next year.

By: dmac

dmac — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:16:58 +0000

Watch the Israelis take it out before it becomes fully operational. Yes, everyone claims that most of their facilities are underground and cannot be reached by warplanes, but a good guess would be that they’ll use a bunker – buster bomb or something akin with that capability.

International incident? We’ll just yawn privately, while everyone else gets hysterical over the evil Joooos…

By: louielouie

louielouie — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:12:08 +0000

mark, stop taking the naive pills.
the blueprints are in cyrillic.
the scientists are russian.
russia is supplying the uranium.
the contracts to build the reactors and/at nine(9) different facilities, that we know of, were with mother russia.
russia helping with sanctions?????
you can’t be serious.
i agree mostly with “mtl”…….
except if the CIA was not so busy discrediting our own president they would realize that iran is the enemy here.
the UN is a non-item.
i would contact the massoud(sp) or MI5(?),
and do what was done to arafat, to the mullahs.
no elected official in the US has the balls to do what needs to be done.
and with russia and china firmly behind iran, who have no reason to hesitate once they give the device to hezbollah(sp), and they will, we have a very short fuse here. does anyone view china as friendly to the US?
does anyone view russia as friendly to the US?
blowing NYC away will only give putin more air time to state once again that “we stand with you and are here to help you.”
the one thing about “mtl” comments on delivery systems and sneaking a bomb into a country reminds me of the story cirulating in the ’60s about russia develping a suitcase nuke. the then effective CIA, sent a spy into russia to try and effect whether or not the claim was valid. after an extended absense the spy emerged from behind the iron curtain to proclaim that “yes” the russians had developed a nuke that would fit inside a suitcase. it was to be deployed as soon as they worked out the “bugs” in the suitcase.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:52:32 +0000

Other than trying to get the Europeans and Russia all on board for sanctions…no…perhaps there will be more impetus now…