"Bomb Iran"

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I'm filing this for myself in my "watch them carefully, watch them always" file. Just when you think you can breathe a tiny bit easier, the PNAC/American Enterprise/Heritage Foundation crew pokes their heads out of the sewer to remind us to be ever wary of Shrub and his cronies.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-muravchik19nov19,0,1681154.story?coll=la-opinion-center
CONFRONTING IRAN
Bomb Iran
Diplomacy is doing nothing to stop the Iranian nuclear threat; a show of force is the only answer.
By Joshua Muravchik
JOSHUA MURAVCHIK is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

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WE MUST bomb Iran.

It has been four years since that country's secret nuclear program was brought to light, and the path of diplomacy and sanctions has led nowhere.

But that's whistling past the graveyard. The reality is that we cannot live safely with a nuclear-armed Iran. One reason is terrorism, of which Iran has long been the world's premier state sponsor, through groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Now, according to a report last week in London's Daily Telegraph, Iran is trying to take over Al Qaeda by positioning its own man, Saif Adel, to become the successor to the ailing Osama bin Laden. How could we possibly trust Iran not to slip nuclear material to terrorists?

Another reason is that an Iranian bomb would constitute a dire threat to Israel's 6 million-plus citizens....

Even if Iran did not drop a bomb on Israel or hand one to terrorists, its mere possession of such a device would have devastating consequences. Coming on top of North Korea's nuclear test, it would spell finis to the entire nonproliferation system.

And then there is a consequence that seems to have been thought about much less but could be the most harmful of all: Tehran could achieve its goal of regional supremacy.....

Iran might seem little match for the United States, but that is not how Ahmadinejad sees it. He and his fellow jihadists believe that the Muslim world has already defeated one infidel superpower (the Soviet Union) and will in time defeat the other.

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[Orrin_73]

1. Unbelievable what a warmonger

I dont understand why LA times runs editorials of these warmongers? I thought LA times was a liberal newspaper.

[Roland99]

2. "Wouldn't Iran retaliate in Iraq or by terrorism? Yes, probably."

"That is the price we would pay."



:wow:


Fucking batshit insane!!!!

[WinkyDink]

3. I guess this dude can't see how BUSH helped IRAN by invading

IRAQ?!
Morans, the lot of them.

[No Exit]

4. I'm thinking the Bushistas and their friends the Israelis are playing a double game

Seems to me I've read lately that they make nice with Iran in private (certain business deals, for example), while screaming "U.S. must bomb Iran!" in public. If there is a double game, it wouldn't surprise me at this point.

For example, Chalabi is an interesting case study. Isn't he friends with Iranians? Yet he was the leader the Bushistas and their Israeli friends would like to have placed in Iraq?

It reminds me of our "relationship" with the Taliban: one minute we're wining and dining them in Texas and Washington, the next minute we're supposedly fighting them... yet we allow their leader Mullah Omar to escape and we never even bother to look for him.

The whole thing is so phony. Yet real people are DYING.

(For those who wish to attack this post, I don't claim to know everything about the suppositions I made above. I'm just trying to figure out what's really going on. The way the Bushistas and their Israeli friends constantly double-deal, it's difficult to know what's really going on.)

[Orsino]

5. PNACkers have no business using the word "reality." n/t

[pretzel4gore]

6. it's pressure

much like the 'loonie lefty' supposedly forces moderates over to the left, if only to shut them up, these rightwing crazies do the same; but unlike the loonie lefty, the vile nazipooh rightwingnuts get treated with somber consideration by the pigmedia...who are in fact the real loonie righty in this scenerio - the 'war' advocated is on the american people! too bad not one of them does anything about this goof 'muravchik' (of the famous muravchik family/clan of midlands, texas(?)) or limbah-humbug, or bellow really, or woof blitzer, or laura ingrams, or robert novak or brite hum or bill schneider or.....will it take a mushroom cloud over some usa city before anyone does?