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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:04 PM
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Iraq is sooooo yesterday! IRAN, IRAN, IRAN
All these reports are from today....


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3301725

Dissident says Iran has 4,000 centrifuges

Nuclear watchdog agency holding emergency meeting
Associated Press

VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency held an emergency meeting today to assess Iran's resumption of uranium conversion, while an Iranian dissident said Tehran has manufactured about 4,000 centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to weapons grade.




http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433933.ht...

US accuses Iran of supplying Iraqi insurgent bombs

US intelligence believes that a cache of manufactured bombs seized in Iraq about two weeks ago was smuggled into the country from Iran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

"We believe they came from Iran's Revolutionary Guards," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The find is significant not only because of the Iranian connection but also because it indicates manufactured bombs are now being introduced in a conflict that has seen the use of mainly improvised explosive devices.

"I think we believe there is more of them out there, that this is just the first cache we've actually obtained," the official said. He said intelligence analysts had "fairly high confidence" that the bombs came from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.




http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?are...

Rumsfeld says Iranian weapons found in Iraq

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that weapons "unambiguously from Iran" have been found in Iraq, and said it was "unhelpful" of Teheran to allow such weapons to cross the border.

"It is true that weapons clearly, unambiguously from Iran have been found in Iraq," Rumsfeld told reporters.

He would not comment on whether there was official Iranian involvement in the transfer of weapons, but said: "It's a big border and unhelpful for Iranians to be allowing weapons those of types to be crossing the border."




http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/12340450.htm

Bush suspicious of Iran's nuke ambitions

Associated Press


CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush said Tuesday that he's deeply suspicious about Iran's nuclear ambitions, but that the country's new leader has indicated a willingness to negotiate.

Bush said he got word Tuesday that the newly elected president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said he is willing to work with other nations amid concerns that his country is developing nuclear weapons.

"Just as I was walking in here, I received word that the new Iranian president said he was willing to get back to the table," Bush told reporters at a brief question-and-answer session at his Texas ranch.

"If he did say that, I think that's a positive sign that the Iranians are getting a message, that it's not just the United States that's worried about their nuclear programs, but the Europeans are serious in calling the Iranians to account and negotiating," he said.


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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:05 PM
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1. So wehn is the shooting starting
and how many war boosters will ACTUALLY go FIGHT instead of getting a hard on from watching Teevee
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kahleefornia Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:06 PM
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2. I don't think as many people
are going to fall for it this time.
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:07 PM
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4. Oh, they'll blow up another train station and the sheeple will
fall for it readily enough.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush tol The Hague!
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:12 PM
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6. Will another attack work favorably for *co ?
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 04:08 PM
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15. Yes. Not only in the US but in all of the Western World.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:11 PM
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5. I hope you are right, and I hope
that public opinion actually matters to the bush warmongers. :scared:

and Welcome to DU!

:toast:
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:12 PM
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7. I have friends in Iran
well, I dated a guy once from there who has family, and I work with someone who has family so their my friends and I don't want to see them killed...Crap. By the way, welcome to DU!
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:06 PM
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3. We had really best by kicking up a humongous stink folks, or else
we're going to be forced to watch this country fight in another never-ending no-win war.

This raving bunch of lunatics have got to be stopped. This should be our next DU activist task.
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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:12 PM
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8. This goes back to the request Cheney made to plan nuke attacks...
...on Iran to 'prevent' them from getting the bomb. I'll see if I can 'source' my idea here...ah yes...

Quote from print version of American Conservative (Aug 2, 2005) by Philip Giraldi: (Daily Kos was my original source)

"The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections."
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:22 PM
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10. Sooo... let's use nukes so somebody else doesn't even THINK about it.
I mean, we wouldn't want ANYONE to unleash to horrors of nuclear weapons on the world (pay no attention to any 60th Anniversary memorials going on about now). We wouldn't want THAT to happen, now would we?

So let's nuke somebody to make sure nobody gets nuked.

Yep, sounds like freeper logic to me!
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:23 PM
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11. "We're nuking them over there so they can't nuke us here". (nt)
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kahleefornia Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 02:07 PM
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12. that was awesome, brotherjohn. LOL
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 02:22 PM
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14. Thanks! Scary thing is, that very well could become what they seriously...
...try to claim as justification for the "Iran War".

And...

WELCOME TO DU!!!
:hi:
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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 06:03 PM
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16. Exactly! :( sigh n/t
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 01:12 PM
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9. fulfilling the PNAC blueprint -eom
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 02:15 PM
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13. AAR news had Rummy talking about weapons coming from Iran
The buildup is obvious.
:nuke:
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