by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker. Unnamed sources quoted by Hersh say that the Iranian nuclear facilities are dug in too deep to be taken out with bunker busters using conventional explosives.
The Iranian nuclear program must be taken out, and if the vicious current regime goes with it, so much the better. The risk, not only of the mad mullahs using nuclear weapons, but of their providing them to one of the terrorist groups they sponsor is too great. If it takes tactical nuclear weapons to accomplish the destruction of the Iranian nuclear threat, so be it.
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I think I read this in the American Conservative last summer. Why is anybody surprised? I'm only surprised the Iranian threat has been allowed to drag out this long.
Posted by: Homeland Stupidity at April 09, 2006 12:02 AM (FVbj6)
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Seymour Hersh is a Leftwing tabloid journalist. Take anything he says with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at April 09, 2006 12:41 AM (8e/V4)
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Why limit it to tactical nukes? The
Teheran Memorial Glowing Glassworks would make a fitting object lesson for the rest of the third-world subhumans who think they can tweak the tiger's tail.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 09, 2006 06:54 AM (0yYS2)
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Well, things are going so well in Iraq we have plenty of troops to deal with 100 million pissed off Irans and 1.5 angry, murderous Muslims around the world--some of whom have nukes of their own. Good plan, guys.
Posted by: Voice of Reason at April 09, 2006 07:43 AM (LNSpI)
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Make that 100 million pissed off Iranians and 1.5 billion angry, murderous Muslims.
Posted by: Voice of Reason at April 09, 2006 07:46 AM (LNSpI)
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I dunno. Bad idea I think.
Posted by: Howie at April 09, 2006 08:05 AM (D3+20)
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So the concensus is for more cowardly appeasement and permissiveness then? Anyone who is not willing to fight an enemy who has openly vowed to destroy them is a gutless coward.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 09, 2006 09:39 AM (0yYS2)
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>>>>Anyone who is not willing to fight an enemy who has openly vowed to destroy them is a gutless coward.
lol! Fighting the enemy is good, but not with nukes.
Nukes should be reserved for MADD, nothing more.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at April 09, 2006 11:47 AM (8e/V4)
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Nukes are our only option. Furthermore if we do not eradicate a minimum of 80% of the iranian population they will continue to pose a grave threat to the United States and world population.
No mercy for the wicked.
Posted by: The Vicious Truth at April 09, 2006 02:24 PM (y+196)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at April 09, 2006 02:34 PM (8e/V4)
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You do realise they're talking about bunker busters with a nuclear warhead that is used to destroy fortified bunkers buried deep in the ground, that cannot be destroyed with the conventional bunker busters explosive warhead.
They're not talking about Nagasaki here.
Posted by: davec at April 09, 2006 03:56 PM (CcXvt)
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Dave yes but people won't make that distinction I'm afraid. The goal I heard today was the change the govt. Now if that happens we have to hold out for unconditional surrender. tough in the short run on everyone but when it's over it's over. I'm afrid we can't say we are going small to lessen the motivation of an insurgency. No there
will be one and you had better not let it have room to breath. That being said we are in a long war have to think about pace so we have some left at the end. Balance that with no draft and the politics.
Posted by: Howie at April 09, 2006 08:44 PM (D3+20)
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Part of me thinks Bush spent all his capital in Iraq, but then the other says -- well he isn't running for re-election.
He said he would not allow Iran to have Nuclear weapons, I think we can take that at face value, at what he is willing to do to stop it.
Posted by: davec at April 09, 2006 09:16 PM (CcXvt)
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But Nagasaki and Hiroshima worked so well.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 09, 2006 10:36 PM (0yYS2)
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Improb.. LOL.. I love your posts. I tend to think along the same lines. I think I come across as extreme sometimes, but it's an extreme world we're living in and I have no problem with extreme measures to put the sociopaths in their place. The very idea of the Tehran Memorial Glowing Glassworks is hysterical! Of course, some think I've got a bit of a twisted sense of humor.. go figure.
Posted by: Richard at April 09, 2006 11:00 PM (7KF8r)
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Thanks Richard; it's good to be appreciated.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at April 10, 2006 06:28 PM (0yYS2)
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