Saturday, February 4, 2012

Re: What If: Life After Iran Gets The Bomb

If the US interventionist regime is prepared to stage military strikes
in Iran when they don't have a
bomb, what will they be willing to do if/when they do have one?

On Feb 3, 7:53 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Changing just a couple of words we have>>>>>
>
> So here's a
> question to those who want military strikes on Iran: If our regime is
> prepared to stage military strikes in Iran when they don't have a
> bomb,
> what will they be willing to do if/when they do have one? ****
>
> On Feb 3, 5:42 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >   ****
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> > [As the day approaches when Iran finally gets nuclear weapons, we're going
> > to be hearing a lot of "what if" scenarios comparing Iran's present
> > behavior with its future behavior after it gets the bomb. It's not a pretty
> > picture, and day-to-day life on planet earth is bound to grow more tense
> > and less secure - in ways we can't imagine yet - if Iran isn't stopped. df]*
> > ***
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> >  ****
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> >  ****
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> > WSJ editorial, 2/1/12****
>
> > *A warning on Iran*<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020474090457719550036471...>
> > ****
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> > Remember that bizarre story from last fall about an Iranian agent based in
> > Texas who allegedly sought to conspire with Mexican drug gangs to blow up
> > Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. in a crowded Washington, D.C.,
> > restaurant? The Justice Department insisted the story was true. Yet the
> > Administration's reaction was otherwise muted, and the press corps went out
> > of its way to cast doubt on the story. The Iranians can't be *that *crazy?**
> > **
>
> > Well, yes, they can be, at least according to President Obama's top
> > intelligence adviser. In testimony yesterday to the Senate Intelligence
> > Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned that
> > Iran's leadership, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, "have changed
> > their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United
> > States as a response to real or perceived actions that threaten the
> > regime." ****
>
> > Translation: Not only is Iran prepared to use terrorism in retaliation for
> > any military strikes against it, they're also prepared to get their
> > retaliation in first. "There is more to unfold here," he said. "They're
> > trying to penetrate and engage in this hemisphere."****
>
> > Mr. Clapper, a former Air Force general, is not given to flights of
> > exaggeration. That should give his warnings some weight, especially among
> > those who believe that, for all the aggressive rhetoric, Iranian leaders
> > conduct foreign policy in a prudent and rational way and are amenable to
> > negotiations.****
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> > Mr. Clapper's testimony comes as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is warning
> > that Iran is about a year away from having a nuclear bomb. So here's a
> > question to those who oppose military strikes on Iran: If the regime is
> > prepared to stage terrorist strikes in America when they don't have a bomb,
> > what will they be capable of when they do have one? ****
>
> > ###****
>
> > Dan Friedman
> > NYC****

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