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08-12-07, 08:39 PM | #221 |
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I'm no Bush lover, Jack, except by comparison to you.
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08-12-07, 10:03 PM | #222 | |
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say what?
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I have always been under the impression the steps needed to create the components for a nuclear warhead are vastly more complex than those of nuclear power generation... I believe a lot of it is to do with the refinement process of the uranium ? It's always going to be hard to decipher the truth amongst all the propaganda when it comes to facts on nuclear weapons, so the level of technology and science might not be as much as I would imagine ... but I sure I have heard repeatedly that it needs to be pretty high. |
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09-12-07, 02:07 AM | #223 |
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To make fissile material generate heat in a chain reaction is easy. Example: the first nuclear reactor was little more than a pile of uranium surrounded by a hand-stacked wall of graphite bricks. But making use of nuclear energy efficiently, safely, and controllably does take a high degree of sophistication. So I'm not saying that the bar for making nukes is low, I'm saying that Iran has set the bar high for themselves. It wouldn't be too far out of their way to build a nuke once they got a reactor online.
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yes, it is easier than I thought Is the difficult part is getting it all to fit in a bomb then? |
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The GOP's Iran option is off the table
Rudy Giuliani was counting on Iran as a weapon of mass distraction in the '08 race. But the flailing Republican right has just been disarmed. Dec. 11, 2007 | The conclusions of the latest National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran's lack of a nuclear weapons program will have a profound impact on the 2008 presidential campaign. The report may well prove a key element in throwing the election to the Democrats. Republicans have used the alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran to scare the American public and to turn attention away from Iraq, economic troubles and Republican scandals. But the NIE findings have pulled the rug out from under the Grand Old Party. Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani initially dismissed the NIE, but on Sunday he backtracked substantially on "Meet the Press." He said of Iran, "And of course we don't ... want to use the military option. It would be dangerous; it would be risky." He added that it would be even more dangerous if Iran did acquire nuclear weapons, but immediately put on a mien of sweet reason: "We should utilize sanctions. We should utilize as much pressure as we're capable of." Now he represented the military option as a tool of diplomacy. This is, of course, the same Rudy Giuliani who while campaigning has all but pledged to bomb Iran if elected. It is a "promise" and not a "threat," he has said, that if Tehran appears close to getting a bomb, he will "set them back eight or 10 years." While Giuliani hasn't specified how he would do so, he likely means launching military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities such as the one at Natanz. That message has been accompanied by bluster from Giuliani worthy of a World Wrestling Federation ham in spandex: "We will not beg to negotiate with them. We're going to make them beg to negotiate with us." Such Hulk Hogan-style boasts may play to the Republican base, but Giuliani now seems more aware of the possibility that the war-weary public may not embrace his reckless bravado if he wins his party's nomination for the general election. ...More |
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So basically, multi, your article is saying that Giuliani's threats against Iran weren't a liability against his campaign until after this report came out? What a silly claim. The report changed nothing because before it came out no voter wanted war with Iran anyway.
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12-12-07, 01:03 AM | #229 | |
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12-12-07, 03:44 AM | #230 | |
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September 11,9/11 ,911 ,11 of September and I could also mention 9-11.
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14-12-07, 12:00 AM | #231 |
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I think those people want to wipe the middle east off the map so we wouldn't have to make war there, vern.
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14-12-07, 08:27 AM | #232 |
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No. I think these are the people that were raised on violence and whose first response to conflict will usually be violence. These are people who have never experienced war first hand and so the thought of war has no serious negative connotations or implications. It's just another way to deal with a problem.
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14-12-07, 09:00 AM | #233 |
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Nope, those are just people who are familiar with the long, continuous history of particularly vicious violence firmly embedded in middle eastern culture and conclude that the world would be a better place if the whole region was exterminated.
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14-12-07, 03:44 PM | #234 |
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then what?
you will never build another society there like the the US did with Japan after WW2. No big nasty bombs dropped yet but the troops are returning home with radiation poisoning anyway? so.... a good part of the M.E. gets wiped out by the US and Israel, then bloody what? that will not get rid of all the radical Islamics in the world. I would bet there would be just a few left in Pakistan and Southest Asia.. all probably very pissed off. Ah... I love a good crusade ! |
14-12-07, 06:32 PM | #235 |
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I'm glad you know my friends better than I do, Albed. What would I do without you to show me how to be intolerant.
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14-12-07, 07:12 PM | #236 |
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You'd be stupid and tolerant.
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14-12-07, 07:23 PM | #237 |
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christ your "civilised" christian west has butchered more people in the last 100 years than the muslims have in the last 1100. these followers of mohammad have a lot of catching up to do just to equal our barbarism. we've set a fine example. 8-|
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14-12-07, 10:04 PM | #238 |
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Well you can just hop right on over there with your drinking habit and western music collection and start endorsing gay marriage and finally be free of the barbarous western culture with it's murderous oppression of nazi germany, facist japan and the like.
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15-12-07, 02:31 AM | #239 |
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There was intent in suppressing the oppression of nazi germany & facist japan and it was not to end up becoming them ( or possibly something far worse)
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What????
And leave you all alone in the world. That's a tempting offer. Will you buy one for me as well. Want my Paypal link? Or are you lying? Your not a credible source,I don't belive anything you say.
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