Originally posted by Eagler
so to the lefties, this intel report is creditable even after similar intel reports about wmds in Iraq seemed to be not so accurate & have given them a political battlecry ( imo they were moved or buried) ... who would have thunk it...
as stated, Iran will never have to use a missile to deliver a nuke attack as they have two legged cheekbones morons who are dying for the "honor" to be the one to set off the first one.
to cripple the US and her allies, ie the financial markets, nothing larger than a half arse dirty bomb detonations in a couple of the right cities is needed. think that requires a full blown Iranian "Nuclear Weapons program"?
Don't worry lefties, Obama and/or Billary will fix everything ... LOL
I think the men in power in Iran would love to have the prestige of having a nuclear strike force at their command. It's like having the ultimate guy toy. They want to dominate the world for Islam and have said so many times. Know what? I believe them.
But they don't have it and the combined forces of Great Britain, Israel, France, Germany, India, and the US are never going to let them have it for justified reasons by anyone's measure.
Starting a war to take something away they don’t have makes no sense and would make the US look like it's run by a bunch of fascist-minded rookies.
Iran will have to open up for inspections for the world to be assured no weapons are being developed in the future.
Know what? I blame Bill Clinton for a lot of the mess we are in with Iraq.
On his watch, Bill let Iraq get away with permanently kicking out the WMD inspectors which lead to the belief that Iraq had WMDs which lead to justifying invading Iraq.
Work with them, manage them, control them to the extent necessary; don't shoot ourselves in the foot because we don't like them and would love nothing more than to nuke them into oblivion because of 911.
Although Iran is an exporter of crude oil, they don't have much of a refinement capacity...
I recently read Iran's own oil refinement capacity is around 180,000 barrels a day... not much for a populous nation of 65.4 million people as of July, 2007.
Iran has serious pollution problems from burning fossil fuels and their oil industry's pollution, according to the CIA's World Fact Book website -->
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html Iran needs energy as a nation and using nuclear energy allows them to have abundant clean energy to fulfill their nation's energy needs... and again its a prestige thing in my view... they are guys with accompanying male pride and they want the big boy's toys.
Iran having nuclear power plants also makes them more vulnerable in the event of an attack on them... think about it.
However, they have to play by the world's rules if they are going to have nuclear power for bona fide peaceful purposes. The world would be foolish to take their word for it without inspections/regulations in view of their stated world domination ambitions.
TIGERESS
Edit: BTW, anyone remember what they were paying for a gallon of gasoline prior to 911?
I do... it was about 95 cents a gallon.
