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I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face around Colin Powell. He's claiming that Iran should be the target of some Security Council authorized "punative actions". The cause of course is the enrichment "story".
Meanwhile, in an interview published today, Donald Rumsfeld claimed that money and people are channeled from Iran to fuel the insurgency in Iraq.
The question isn't "if", its "when".
So, putting on your little Ich-bin-der-Kissenger-tinfoilhüte, answer the following:
how many weaponized assemblies of fissile materials (aka "warheads") are possessed by the Musharraf Government of Pakistan (military dictatorship established by coup, domestically viewed as Americans-by-Proxy), and how much fissile materials not yet weaponized is possessed by the State of Pakistan? [Ans: 585-800 kg of HEU, enough for 30-55 HEU weapons, plus a small but unknown quantity of weapons grade plutonium, sufficient for an estimated 3-5 PU weapons. Extra credit for coverage of tritium (3H).]
same again for the Government of India (democracy)?
how many enemies, internal and external, does the Musharraf military dictatorship have now? how many when the Americans start offensive opperations in Iran? how many when the Americans attempt to invest Iran?
can the Soviet Union, er, the Federation of Independent States, afford to remain neutral when the Americans deploy stand-off munitions (cruise missiles) against strategic targets in a non-belligerant Central Asian State? when the Americans deploy aircraft and armor "at-will" against lightly armed infantry? when the Americans start urban targeting?
how will the introduction of surface-to-air weapons change the balance of forces in the Iraqi theater of operations? in the Iranian theater of operations? in the Pakistani theater of operations? in the Afgan theater of operations? in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza theaters of operations? in the Gulf States Forward Bases (Kuwait, Qutar, Saudi) theaters of operations?
how many nuclear weapons will be placed under the control of local commanders during the Central Asian War, and how many will be used, on what targets, and in what order?
One last question. Is starting a nuclear war the only way to stop a nuclear war?
Oops! one more last question. When, after all the dust, both the hot and simply bothersome, settles and no HEU, other than the HEU salted by the mainiacs in Pakistan, and the litter left by the Chinese, is found, how will Team America re-spin the exercise?
Update: Reuters reports that Hassan Rowhani spent two days in meetings in Holland, currently the presiding state of the European Union, and that in Parlimentary debate on the issue of Iran's enrichment program and IAEA inspections, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot warned that if the UN Security Council were to get involved in the controversy over Iran's nuclear program it would spell the end of inspections in Iran.
Inspections that yeild the wrong results have been a bother to the Bush regime. I understand why they want to get the IAEA out of Iran. They can't be trusted to get the right results.
Posted by EBW at September 8, 2004 09:22 AM
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