The days of terrorist and terrorism are numbered… A radio active rod is to terrorist what cross is to draculla..
Iran Toughens Stance on Nuclear Program
Sun Jun 13, 6:55 AM ET
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran - Toughening its stance in advance of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Iran on Saturday said it would reject international restrictions on its nuclear program and challenged the world to accept Tehran as a member of the “nuclear club.”
yeah, they're tough as nails all right. They'll submit to int'l pressure
^yep just like Pakis did not too long ago.. or kim did recentley... Hang in there it is gona be nice little show.... Now go figure a spin before its too late.
Re: Iran extends the length and diameter of its radio active rod.
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and challenged the world to accept Tehran as a member of the "nuclear club."
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Which international club would that be? Does Tehran claims to have working nuclear weapons now?
^ the club that has 40% unemployment, natural disasters that are a constant drain on the treasury, mad mullahs at the helm who are hell bent on destroying the country, exploding population which will have 60% of its people under the age of 30. yup…major accomplishment indeed. Well done Iran, now you can go and aspire to be like Kim and Mushy. 
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^ the club that has 40% unemployment, natural disasters that are a constant drain on the treasury
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40% unemployment?!? Surely you are kidding.
Anyway, back to the topic-under-discussion ... does Iran now claim to have working nuclear weapons?
I meant 40% of the population is under the poverty line. unemplyment is around 18-20%.
http://www.iht.com/articles/524983.html
WASHINGTON, China is sending nuclear technology to Iran in exchange for oil and allowing North Korea to use Chinese air, rail and seaports to ship missiles and other weapons, congressional investigators reported Tuesday.
Hallelujah
WASHINGTON - The United States Senate on Tuesday backed the Bush administration’s plan to study a new generation of low-yield and earth-penetrating nuclear weapons, rejecting concerns that the research could spur an arms race.
Voting 55-42, the Senate defeated an amendment pushed by Democrats to slash US$36.6 million ($59.4 million) to study so-called bunker-busting nuclear weapons that would be used to destroy underground facilities as well as smaller nuclear arms with half the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
"The spectre of nuclear war looms even larger with the ominous statements of senior officials in the Bush administration that they in fact consider these new weapons more ‘useable’,’ said Senator Edward Kennedy.
The Massachusetts Democrat said the smaller weapons still would kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people and leave vast areas uninhabitable for years to come.
Senate backs Bush on nuke research
Is this the a joke or what, these amerikkans talk about WMD`s and the need to cull them but they themselves have thousands stockpiled and planning to build more.
The united states should change its name to the United Hypocrites!
and perhaps we should change our names to despondent, dissipated, dispersed whiners.
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*Originally posted by Abdali: * Toughening its stance in advance of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Iran on Saturday said it would reject international restrictions on its nuclear program and challenged the world to accept Tehran as a member of the "nuclear club."
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It's a little bit too late to toughon up now. Everyone knows where they keep everything now. As soon as the inspectors have finished the spying drama, the cruise missiles will be coming in.
Is India better than Iran in any way?
400 Million chooray (untouchables) living in tents, but the government is more concerned about the low number of nuclear weapons it has compared to China.
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*Originally posted by Abdali: * ^yep just like Pakis did not too long ago.
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Errrr.... Pakistan started it's Atomic Bombs program on 20th January 1972, conducted the first test of a 'nuclear device' on 11 March 1983 and the big bomb went boom on 28th May 1998.
It don't matter anymore what Pakistan says it did decades ago, or reveals the secrets of it's activites in the nuclear drama, that happened while everyone else was asleep.
If (poverty stricken) Pakistan could withstand international pressure, how come (oil rich) Iran collapsed on it's knees so easily?
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*Originally posted by Faisal: * does Iran now claim to have working nuclear weapons?
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Iran has made no such claims, if it had, there would be no need for the inspectors to go in and prove that, Iran was lying that it did not have any.
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*Originally posted by Abdali: * China is sending nuclear technology to Iran in exchange for oil and allowing North Korea to use Chinese air, rail and seaports to ship missiles and other weapons,
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Nothing wrong with that.
Every country does it.
Quid Pro Quo comes first.
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*Originally posted by ak47: * The United States Senate on Tuesday backed the Bush administration's plan
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Can he be still trusted?
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*Originally posted by ak47: * to study a new generation of low-yield and earth-penetrating nuclear weapons,
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Does that mean Pakistan can test it's Hydrogen, Plutonium or Neutron bombs now?
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*Originally posted by ak47: * rejecting concerns that the research could spur an arms race.
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Last arms race took a man to the moon, this one might take a man to Mars. So it's all good stuff.
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*Originally posted by ak47: * Voting 55-42, the Senate defeated an amendment pushed by Democrats to slash US$36.6 million ($59.4 million) to study so-called bunker-busting nuclear weapons that would be used to destroy underground facilities as well as smaller nuclear arms with half the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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F-16s and B-52s are enough to bust the underground bunkers.
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*Originally posted by ak47: * "The spectre of nuclear war looms even larger with the ominous statements of senior officials in the Bush administration that they in fact consider these new weapons more 'useable',' said Senator Edward Kennedy.
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Sounds like they want to test them on a country.
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*Originally posted by ak47: * The Massachusetts Democrat said the smaller weapons still would kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people and leave vast areas uninhabitable for years to come.
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The number of people is not important to Americans as aircraft 'screws' are, as demonstarted in Iraq.
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The number of people is not important to Americans as aircraft 'screws' are, as demonstarted in Iraq.
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You can say that again the way the senator says these bombs will kill a few hundred thousand people, that is just plain sick like the people are not even significant!
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*Originally posted by ak47: * You can say that again the way the senator says these bombs will kill a few hundred thousand people, that is just plain sick like the people are not even significant!
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They don't like it when one or two of their own goes down like that.
On the mark… read below. Terrorist must read and read carefully.. Its just a matter of time… Its not IF but WHEN… As someone once said, the question is not IF Iran will become a nuclar power BUT when it becomes one what kind of regime will be running the show.
A Uranium/Plutonium radio active rod is to terrorist what a cross is to draculla…
The Wrong War
by Patrick J. Buchanan
There exists “no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.”
There were contacts between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but “they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship.” In 1994, Baghdad rebuffed approaches from bin Laden to establish terrorist training camps inside Iraq. So the 9-11 commission has concluded.
And so, with no weapons of mass destruction yet found after 18 months of searching, the second pillar of the president’s case for war falls to earth. Iraq was an unnecessary war.
** Yet, now we have 138,000 soldiers there, with casualties mounting, the cost rising and the hostility to America’s presence growing. Every attack on U.S. troops or contractors, even when they involve Iraqi dead and wounded, seems to be cause for jubilation.
Yet, George Tenet of the CIA excepted, the men who told President Bush the war was necessary, that it would be a “cakewalk,” that the Iraqis would welcome us with candy and flowers and take to democracy like kids to ice cream are still in place, still in power.
In his now-famous 2002 State of the Union, President Bush named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an “axis of evil.” He vowed that America would not allow any one of the three to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
In 2003, we attacked and invaded the only one of the three that did not have a secret nuclear program. And since that State of the Union, the other two have accelerated their programs to acquire the atomic weapons President Bush said they would not be permitted to have. At this point, the Bush Doctrine has to be judged a limited success.
Given the mess in Iraq, neither the American people nor the White House appears to have the desire or will to force an end to the Iranian or North Korean bomb programs. The Iranians, who are threatening to crash the Nuclear Club, are bristling with defiance. Tehran seems to have concluded that America has no stomach for another war.
Tehran may be right. But if North Korea already has an atomic bomb and Iran will not be stopped from acquiring one, what does a new world of 10 nuclear nations, six of them in Asia, mean for U.S. foreign policy? We had best begin to consider the possibility.
No nation that has acquired nuclear weapons has ever been invaded – for a reason. The strategic base camp for any Normandy, Inchon or Desert Storm invasion could be turned into an inferno in minutes by atomic weapons.
This suggests that in confronting a nuclear-armed North Korea or Iran, U.S. Army and Marine bases in South Korea and Kuwait, and U.S. naval bases on Okinawa and on the south shore of the Persian Gulf are becoming strategic hostages and not strategic assets.
Put bluntly, if Pyongyang and Tehran acquire atomic weapons, there are no more axis-of-evil nations with which we can risk war. For there is nothing to be gained from such a war to justify running the risk of nuclear retaliation on U.S. bases in Asia or the Middle East, or on Israel, an almost certain target in any war with Iran. ** :biggthumb:
During the Cold War, both sides accepted outrages that might have been casus belli before atomic weapons. The United States did not use on Chinese armies in Korea overrunning our troops the weapons Truman unhesitatingly used on Japanese cities. For Stalin, too, now had the bomb. Nor did we intervene to halt the massacre of Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956, or the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Carter’s response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a wheat embargo and a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
Moscow, too, was inhibited from taking action in Berlin, where it was strong, when the United States used tactical and theater superiority to force the Soviet missiles out of Cuba. And Moscow also failed to respond to Reagan’s seizure of Grenada and aid to the Afghan resistance.
As they used to say in the West, “God may have created all men, but it was Sam Colt who made them equal.” Nuclear weapons are the great equalizers. They concentrate the mind of a statesman wonderfully. And with North Korea and Iran plodding along toward the building of these awful weapons – in blatant defiance of the Bush Doctrine – the president and Sen. Kerry should be thinking about the world that will exist in the next presidential term. For by the end of that term, Iran and North Korea could both be full-fledged members of our nuclear fraternity.
If they are, the idea of an American empire will become as outdated as the British Raj.
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