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Monday, February 15, 2010
How much more humane!
Liberals were up in arms about the “evils” of the Bush administration, especially in regards to the efforts tied to GWoT. Evil American troops were ordered by Darth Vader to capture those downtrodden guys that are mad at capitalist America - explains why so many on the left empathizes with these guys, huh? – and stick them in those nasty “torture camps” like Club Gitmo. But because they were so successful at selling that idiotic meme, they painted themselves into a corner. Reversing course now brings with it the risk of looking like the idiots they actually are. Admitting that the holding facilities, while not a perfect solution, were the best option where no good one existed, simply is too painful. So instead of capturing them, since now that the leftists are in charge they can’t simply demand we “cut & run” because when the next attack happens we will all know to blame them and their idiocy for it, we are only left with the option of killing more terrorists. Case in point:
When a window of opportunity opened to strike the leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa last September, U.S. Special Operations forces prepared several options. They could obliterate his vehicle with an airstrike as he drove through southern Somalia. Or they could fire from helicopters that could land at the scene to confirm the kill. Or they could try to take him alive.
The White House authorized the second option. On the morning of Sept. 14, helicopters flying from a U.S. ship off the Somali coast blew up a car carrying Saleh Ali Nabhan. While several hovered overhead, one set down long enough for troops to scoop up enough of the remains for DNA verification. Moments later, the helicopters were headed back to the ship.
Now don’t get me wrong: most, if not all, of these bastards need a good killing. There are no compromises to be reached with them. It is us or them. They are not going to sit down with us and talk it out. Using drones to pop them when we can is a necessary step in curtailing their operations. But the largely unspoken fact is that since we aren’t willing to just wipe out everyone that lives in the swamps where these cockroaches are bred – thankfully so – we remain limited in our capability and responses. Our most important weapon, believe it or not, is intelligence. If we know what they are doing, hopefully, we can work against them. Thwart their efforts. Difficult under the best of circumstances, and even harder when you have these idiots in charge as the panty bomber proved. Sure Big Sis Napoletano will tell you the system worked, but we all know we got lucky there.
There is a big problem with this intelligence gathering strategy, as the article itself points out. No, it isn’t that we make more terrorists when we are aggressive and kill terrorists like the leftist idiots would like you to believe: it is that we are not gathering as much intel as we could because we are trying to avoid capturing terrorists. All because back when Bush was in charge, their BDS didn’t let these leftist tools see the difficult choices and options, leading them to denounce any and everything that was done by that administrations as not just bad but criminal. That stupidity has literally left them with no options of where to put prisoners now that they are in charge. Not unless they want to show how farcical and stupid their objections were in the first place. Nobody wants these bastards because they are real dangerous. They demonized Gitmo and are now looking like they were talking out of their rear ends when the promise to close it by went bye, and they are now left with no end in sight. So we are left with no options. If we are in the dark about what the enemy is doing, it makes it easier for them to do it.
So now, not only have we been forced to be more brutal – we now just kill – we are leaving a big intelligence gap that will come back to bite us in the wake of this all. But Bush was the cowboy moron….
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Monday, January 25, 2010
The enemy still wants to kill us
It looks like many now believe that the terrorists are gearing up for another attack and are pointing to Bin Laden’s own words for that. Despite the fact that “The Won” was supposed to fix all that anger evil Bush-Chimpy-McHitler had caused amongst the peaceful and tolerant muslim radicals, we keep seeing more and more stories like this one which shows how determined and hard the enemy has renewed their effort s to attack us. Now, I am not saying they did not try to get us when Bush was president, but they were not too good at it seeing as they went after our troops in Iraq and got massacred. Even in Afghanistan, where things are much harder and better for the enemy, the radicals were and continue to get clobbered. Maybe they are changing their MO now that it is obvious that fighting our troops is a death sentence and going back to trying more spectacular suicide attacks, but my guess is that they their likely motivation has more to do with the perceived weakness of any response to such attacks. After all, we are lawyering them up and giving these ununiformed enemy combatants that are at war with us our full legal protection to hide behind by treating them like common criminals, and too often, after the fact. And while I am not endorsing we throw away the Constitution and spy on our own citizens with drones like some are doing, we definitely should treat these people at war with us as such. I am not saying we should go as far as a Jewish friend of mine suggested – wrap the remains of every one of these bastards in pig skin and bury them upside down to deny them their illusion of heaven – we should stop making it so easy for them to come at us and try to kill us. After all, the Constitution was not a suicide pact, despite the best efforts of the idiots on the elft to make it so.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
What to make of this..
Well, today is the anniversary of Obama’s promise to close Gitmo. The spin about why Obama and his team can not keep yet another core campaign promise started a while back. Obama, we are told, has slowly realized that Gitmo is a complicated issue, a temporary “best case” solution to a “worst case” problem, and is impeded from making good on his promise. Of course, Bush was an evil moron for coming up with what I believe is a brilliant solution to an impossible problem. Oh the left is still claiming they are going to shut Gitmo down eventually, but I believe that reality will kind of intrude on that fantasy. I am also going to predict that those NYC show trials that Obama’s team promised us would end in convictions are going to meet with some serious difficulties. The terrorists are at war with us. The left seems to think that if they pretend otherwise hard enough it will cease to be the case. Anyway, glad to see team Obama’s actions, not their meaningless talk, again making Bush look right and good on this whole GWoT thing. Think the MSM will point out that Obama failed on yet another big promise?
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Friday, December 04, 2009
START to expire.
It looks like despite the fact that the START treaty is about to expire at midnight tonight without a replacement agreement, that the Russians and the Obama admin have a tentative agreement to stick to it. While this is no loner a big deal these days - the Russians win big getting rid of all their older and crappy missiles that from what reports were leaked by our people would be just as likely to blow up right at launch time if not launc at all with this deal anyway - it is nice to see that Obama and his crew are not getting snowed on this issue as they have on practically everything else. At least not yet, or obviously.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I TOLD YOU SO!
Time to gloat a little. Maybe a lot. I pointed this exact issue out to many that then proceeded to made fun of me and joked that I should tell them such things as what lotto ticket to buy after looking into that glass ball I used to glean this tid-bit from. There is another prediction here: Club Gitmo will not close next year either. Obama’s refusal to give a new date all but proves that these bumbling idiots have realized after the fact that Gitmo was a stroke of brilliance when confronted with a near impossible situation. Suck on that lemons you losers.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Circus comes to New York..
Well it looks like Holder has decided to bring the terrorists behind the 9-11 attack to justice in a US courtand people already are pointing out the politics and stupidity of this move. I watched Holder get lobbed a bunch of softball questions while working out at the gym this AM and simply could not believe the crap he was saying. First off, I was baffled how he talked about bringing them to justice and having a fair and impartial trial, only to then assure the mouthpieces playing at reporting that expressed the concern that trying war criminals (my words not theirs) in a civilian court could see them getting off, that he was certain they would be found guilty.
Of course Holder avoided answering what they would be tried for and kept mouthing off that he was going to ask for the death penalty. But in the end there was no clear charges mentioned, and that was obviously on purpose. And the obvious thing to me here is that this is all a meaningless but dangerous political act of contrition intended to appease the left, and it shows. Obama, have no doubt that even though Holder is doing the talking that Obama is pulling the strings, is going to give the left that circus to paint America as the bad guy he promised. I wonder if they no longer feel this sort of stuff makes terrorists like they used to tell us back when Bush was in charge and we tried to fight these terrorists.
Also, what nobody also asked was how long this Kabuki dance would take to play out. Considering the back and forth that is sure to follow between the lawyers defending these scumbags and the Justice Department, it could take a decade or more before these trails happen. In the mean time Obama and Holder are not just (hopefully) likely to be long gone, but they score cheap political points by claiming they brought these terrorists to trail even if they are going to be locked away for another decade or more, put us all at in danger. Remember that Bin Laden pointed out the reason he chose the Twin Towers was that he wanted to amongst other things punish us for trying the other bearded camel humper that tried to blow the place up in 1993. I wonder if these Ivy league geniuses know that or simply don’t care?
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
That’s how you do it: money for nothing and chicks for free!
Remember when the democrats where all up in arms that evil BushMcHitler sent our troops to Iraq without adequate equipment? The endless stories about the lack of body armor, mine resistant trucks, inadequate armoring on Humvees, the overstretched military which lacked enough manpower, bad MREs, or adequate internet connections so the troops would not have to watch slow loading porn? OK, that last one was a joke, but you get my drift. All that sudden caring about the troops, seemed to take a back seat to the obvious fact that it was these same democrats that defunded and drastically reduced the size and fighting capability of those troops they now worried about, so the money could be funneled elsewhere. Increased social spending that buys them votes, being the most obvious and likely target. And we will avoid the whole rigmarole about if they actually were worried about the troops or just playing politics and hurting the troops efforts because they had a vested interest in making the mission fail for now, because this would just cloud the issue I want to bring up.
Anyway, so now that they are in power and able to “help” those troops fill those gaps they agonized over and do their jobs better, this is how they choose to do it:
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis. Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
While earmarks are hardly new in Washington, “in 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year,” said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats. He is now a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information, an independent research organization.
I guess those democrats really knew what the troops really needed now that they are in charge. Educational institutes named after the U-Boat commander of Chappaquiddick and museums are essential war fighting materiel. And I am sure the MSM will report how much better off our troops are, now that they are still fighting a war these people tried their best to make us lose, with these guys calling the shot. Don’t worry though! Just like the big O plans to use the power of government to make jobs - because this has always worked so well every time it was tried and never ended up costing the tax payer a fortune while bloating up government with more useless people that just happen to vote for democrats – I am sure he will magically find a fix for this stuff too.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Here comes the new spin…
Here comes the left’s new spin on why Iranian nukes are actually going to be a great thing. Suddenly the nutjobs are no longer demanding a nuke free world - with the US of course being the first to unilaterally disarm, as a token of good faith, and a fantasy that this will somehow make brutal and evil thugs follow along - but embracing the reality that in our world nukes now serve an indisputable function. In fact, now that Iran is heading that way and none of their jabber-jabber has made a difference, they are all for it:
President Barack Obama was surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize “primarily for his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament,” according to Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician who served on the award committee. Valle told the Wall Street Journal that the stewards of the prize wanted to “support” Obama’s goal, as expressed recently at the U.N., “of a world without nuclear weapons.”
It’s tough to think of a goal more widely espoused than the dream of an H-bomb-free planet. President Ronald Reagan and activist Jane Fonda, political opposites, came together on this one — in his second term, Reagan stunned his advisers and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev by suggesting a treaty that would take nuclear arsenals down to “zero.”
As long as a nukeless world remains wishful thinking and pastoral rhetoric, we’ll be all right. But if the Nobel Committee truly cares about peace, its members will think a little harder about trying to make it a reality. Open a history book and you’ll see what the modern world looks like without nuclear weapons. It is horrible beyond description.
During the 31 years leading up to the first atomic bomb, the world without nuclear weapons engaged in two global wars resulting in the deaths of an estimated 78 million to 95 million people, uniformed and civilian. The world wars were the hideous expression of what happens when the human tendency toward conflict hooks up with the violent possibilities of the industrial age. The version of this story we are most familiar with is the Nazi death machinery, and we are often tempted to think that if Hitler had not happened, we would never have encountered assembly-line murder.
Yeah, really. A nukless world is suddenly wishful thinking – and yet Obama is lining up and giving away the game to everyone in the hopes he can convince the Russians to lower their warhead count so we can do the same (and my bet is this idiot reduces our arsenal even if the Russians don’t because he is just that full of himself) – and these twerps sudden understand the role of nukes. Know what this talk reminds me off? The whole “détente” bullshit that these same leftists bring up when discussing SDI and our scrapped Missile Defense plans. Do they even realize how stupid this 180 looks like?
Anyway, get used to it. These collectivist apologists are laying the ground work for the Obama administration to drop the ball on Iran: letting them go nuclear. I wonder why the leftists that love to claim the North Koreans went nuclear with Bush at the helm, ignoring bill Clinton’s role in that affair, don’t give him the honor of the same defense. And credit the Bush administration with never trying to pull this ridiculous line that a nuclear armed North Korea – or Iran - was a good thing.
So, after the left has tried to talk strong while acting as weak as possible, showing strength only when they could help prevent any action against Iran that might have made a difference, they now drop even that pretense. Now a nuclear armed Iran will suddenly help bring stability to the world! I am sure that’s why the Saudis told MI-6 they would allow Israeli over flight to attack those facilities even if they later denied they said so. They still have to keep appearances for the locals I guess. But in the mean time the left is getting ready to make the Middle East become a much more dangerous place, and this article showing the left suddenly engaging the nuclear reality is nothing but the precursor to our capitulation on this issue. Talk failed.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
We might say GWoT is over, but the enemy is still fighting
The news that a nuclear scientists working for the CERN project with connections to North African Islamic terrorists linked to al-Qaeda was arrested for plotting attacks should really give them Europeans, and maybe even our current domestic crop of appeasist leftists that tell us the GWoT is over with, some concern.
Fears that al-Qaeda is planning an attack on the nuclear industry in Europe were renewed yesterday after French secret agents arrested a physicist working at an atomic research centre. The 32-year-old man, who was detained with his brother, 25, is suspected of providing a list of terrorist targets to North African Islamic radicals. He worked for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, according to French police sources. Agents were said to have intercepted messages in which the physicist, a Frenchman of Algerian origin, had suggested targets in France. He is believed to have been in contact with members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an Algerian-based terror organisation that joined Osama bin Laden’s network in 2007.
“He had expressed a wish or a desire to commit terrorist actions but had not materially prepared them,” an intelligence source said. After he was identified, during an investigation into a French network that had sent Islamic radicals to Afghanistan, the man was put under surveillance for about 18 months. Last month Judge Christophe Teissier, an investigating magistrate specialising in terrorism, opened a formal inquiry into his activities. The brothers apparently came to the attention of the secret services when agents monitored the internet as part of the inquiry into the recruitment of extremists to fight in Afghanistan. Several exchanges were recorded between the brothers and suspected al-Qaeda contacts.
The stupid people, the once that believe Obama deserved that NPP, might think that if they but back down the enemy will give up its ambitions to conquer or kill us all. After all, they believe that the enemy’s grievance – that they believe their part of the world sucks so bad because we have done it to them, not because their cultures are corrupt, tribal, and so dysfunctional that it can’t do any better – is the real reason they are all angry at us, and such. If we but show them our good will and leave them alone they will finally let us be. That’s why the world wanted Obama. But ever since Obama got elected however, all I hear is that more and more terrorist cells are getting busted for putting their plans into motion. How do this demented view by these appeasers and the fact that the enemy seems to have gone into overdrive square? I would love to hear that explanation.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Great…
I am sure cleric Mojtaba Zolnour, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative in the Guard, was misquoted. And since it was not A-jad saying this and the Iranians are just responding to aggression by anyone trying to stop them from getting a nuke, I am sure the usual suspects will tell us we can not point out that these people are dangerous and not to be trusted. Especially with a nuke. I wonder if they are talking about all those Iranian rockets in the hands of Hezbollah and Hamas? Don’t worry though! We are in good hands!
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
How things change…
Remember not too long ago how the left called on the military to stand up and “resist” the illegal regime they did not like - not because it was illegal or anything, but because the guy in the WH was not one of the true believers - to take arms against their officers, to rebel against being sent in harms way, to speak truth to power about the fascists and their plans of empire, to point out how bad the policy coming out of was? Well, now that the guy in the WH is a true believer, suddenly the military is expected shut up, and sit down. Now I know this is a common theme with these dolts. Dissent went from being patriotic to an act of racism. Saying you hope Obama and his policies fail, is akin to doing anything in your power to actually make our military fail while engaged in military action where our soldiers dying. And so, any comments from the military that the CinC is screwing the pooch, are no longer wanted. In the mean time, we get to see first hand why so many where excited about the prospect of an Obama presidency.
At least the WH is sticking by this one promise, and not doing the about face most liberals that supported Afghanistan back in the day to give themselves some credibilitycover and not come across as the losers they really where, when denouncing the Iraq war, are doing now. My fear is that these idiots will screw this up no matter what. In that case I would much rather pull out our troops. Even when I am certain this guarantees that the US military will have to return there in a decade or so to clean the mess up again, and then with the situation on the ground in much worse shape, but at least I hope with someone that isn’t a total dolt at the helm.
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Friday, October 02, 2009
I know why he did it!
The Messiah has crashed and burned, and there will be no Chicago Olympics: it is going to Rio. With Obama jetting there, I thought this was a done deal. But it seems that my belief Obama was just going to capitalize on the given, was wrong. One is now left wondering WTF he was thinking. This is an epic fail, and the left is already blaming the right for it. I think I know the plan though, with horrible unemployment, the deteriorating Afghanistan situation, the mounting deficit spending, a Nuclear Iran, the Public Option failure, ACORN going down in flames, taxes going up, and yet another public sector crisis in the making, this trip to Copenhagen to fail was being done to distract from these things. Everybody will be talking about how the world, which we were all told would love us again if we elected Obama, just dicked us, this weekend. And in the mean time the democrats will continue to destroy the country without any worries as all are distracted by this crap.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Vultures lose interest in dead soldiers..
Since the election of Barack Obama many things have changed in this country. Practically all of them for the worse in my opinion. But amongst the most blatant changes is the way the media has been treating and reporting the wars we are engaged in and fighting. Iraq, where we won despite the left’s efforts to incur a loss, has been all but forgotten. Air strikes against terrorists now focus on killing terrorists instead of accusing the US of killing civilians. Even more telling is the fact that al-Qaeda and the Taliban are now real bad guys instead of freedom fighters. And now we are no longer making that many excuses for Iran, and actually reporting that they are trying to build nukes, even if we ignore the fact Obama has known about this since he became president and continues to treat them as if they where gold buddies. And Afghanistan, the only war the left felt was justified because of Bin Laden, has now lost its just cause. Obama, whom promised to get us out of Iraq and to commit troops to Afghanistan to “get” Bin Laden has treated it and its new commander like a leper. The calls of quagmire are not too distant. But one of the most telling things is how suddenly the media’s fascination with showing dead soldiers has become passé.
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President Bush of trying to hide the terrible human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“These young men and women are heroes,” Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. “The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong.”
In April of this year, the Obama administration lifted the press ban, which had been in place since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Media outlets rushed to cover the first arrival of a fallen U.S. serviceman, and many photographers came back for the second arrival, and then the third.
But after that, the impassioned advocates of showing the true human cost of war grew tired of the story. Fewer and fewer photographers showed up. “It’s really fallen off,” says Lt. Joe Winter, spokesman for the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where all war dead are received. “The flurry of interest has subsided.”
Since now they would have to point out Obama is the CinC, and blaming Bush would be too obvious of a ruse, the interest has died. Change indeed…
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Obama to break another promise.. But it is Bush’s fault!
Well, it looks like the WH, and the left, are finding out that in the real world wishful thinking is not enough. There are consequences to actions, and such. Making promises you can’t or are not intending to keep can also make life miserable for you.
With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind schedule and left them struggling to win the cooperation of Congress.
That babble by the WaPo authors is code for “Obama is going to break this promise too”. See, just promising to do so in a vacuum, and then finding out that you can’t make the problem magically go away, even if you believe the hype by the MSM and the left that you are the second coming, is crimping Obozo’s style! Talk is cheap.
Even before the inauguration, President Obama’s top advisers settled on a course of action they were counseled against: announcing that they would close the facility within one year. Today, officials are acknowledging that they will be hard-pressed to meet that goal.
You mean the ideologues that thought Bush had come up with Gitmo, just for kicks, and was refusing to get rid of the place, because he is an evil Hitler-wannabe, did not take warnings that they had to deal with the reality when they promised the impossible? Why must reality disrupt these noble people huh? Is it some evil conspirator that just likes to screw the progressives and favors the evil conservatives? Maybe some thousand plus page bill passed without anyone reading it can solve this problem too?
Here is a prediction: they won’t meet this goal next year either. In fact the only way they meet this goal is if they make bad choices that put our lives at risk. Not saying they won’t do something like that, they are progressives after all, and the cause comes first, but even they must worry about how bad things can go for them personally.
The White House has faltered in part because of the legal, political and diplomatic complexities involved in determining what to do with more than 200 terrorism suspects at the prison. But senior advisers privately acknowledge not devising a concrete plan for where to move the detainees and mishandling Congress.
Right! This WH is struggling with near insurmountable complexities - legal, political, diplomatic, and otherwise – and the lack of any kind of concrete plan, making it hard for them to shut down this den of evil. But the Bush WH created and kept Gitmo around because they are evil, inept, and simply didn’t want to deal with those complexities. I guess the point is that no real plan and unfulfilled promises by progressives are better than plans of any kind – especially those that work but can also be used to score cheap political points - by the opposition.
Don’t you lose any sleep over it though. I am sure this team of crack geniuses will come up with some nice “Hope & Change” answer to this conundrum. Hopefully one that doesn’t set these terrorists – oops, I mean alleged, they need their day in court before we can call them terrorists even if they were caught in the act – free.
To address these setbacks, the administration has shifted its leadership team on the issue. White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig, who initially guided the effort to close the prison and who was an advocate of setting the deadline, is no longer in charge of the project, two senior administration officials said this week.
Now this new guy can claim he needs another year to get this done, then a few months before then claim he is still wrangling with the complexities and the lack of any kind of serious plan, and pass it off to a new guy to solve. Rinse and repeat for the next 2 years too.
The rest of this WaPo article is all apologia and bull meant to confuse the issue and create the ridiculous misconception that the problem is not with the fact that closing Gitmo has real world consequences nobody can address, but that evil Bush and his gang rigged it so Obama and his saints could not fix this either. I wonder how much longer it will be before even these losers pick up on the fact that the “Bush did it” excuse, isn’t convincing anyone anymore.
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The clock is ticking….
Guess the Obama team now has to worry about Iran’s new nuclear facility. Go figure!
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25—President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain on Friday blasted Iran’s construction of a previously unknown uranium enrichment facility and demanded that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law or risk the imposition of harsh new sanctions.
I am sure the Iranians will do just that. After all, this time they blasted Iran in anger. It is not more of the same useless talk with nothing to back it up, and I am sure Iran realizes that this time they really, really mean it.
Iran acknowledged the existence of the facility for the first time on Monday, in a letter to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The letter said “a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country,” said Marc Vidricaire, a spokesman for the watchdog agency. “The letter stated that the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent.” Vidricaire said the agency responded by asking Iran to quickly provide more specifics about the facility—“to assess safeguards verification requirements.” He said Iran told the IAEA “that no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility.”
Hey, why not take them at their word? Is it because we know they are just kidding when they say the Holocaust never happened and that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the planet that we think they are not being honest now?
Ahmadinejad insisted that Iran is using nuclear technology only for energy and medical purposes and has no interest in acquiring nuclear weapons. He said he wants to buy enriched uranium from the United States that would be used for medical purposes.
Oh, that settles it. Nothing to see here. All is just fine.
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