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Larry David wants you to vote!
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DoD Sec Robert Gates on the military option in Iran
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today on a CNN interview:
“The reality is, there is no military option that does anything more than buy time. The estimates are one to three years or so. And the only way you end up not having a nuclear-capable Iran is for the Iranian government to decide that their security is diminished by having those weapons, as opposed to strengthened.”
Evan Bayh: Iran only respects strength
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments
Bayh says that getting the Chinese on board to sanction Iran could take ages. Bob Corker speaks about the classified material he saw regarding the nuclear site, and also suggests that we try to stir-up “certain movements” in Iran. He does not find the missile test scheduled by Iran tomorrow to be a provocation.
Iran Nuclear Timeline
Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments
Timeline of Iran’s nuclear ambitions from 1957 to 2007.
Condensed graphical chronology of Iran’s Nuclear developments 2002-2007
I didn’t realise the extent of US (and European) involvement in Iran’s pre-revolutionary nuclear program (see the first timeline). Between 1957 and the Iranian revolution in 1979 we all but forced nuclear technology down their throats — supplying the uranium, the plutonium, building the enrichment facilities, and even attempting to sell 8 reactors to Iran (a transaction that was only halted because the revolution got in the way). Thankfully, after the revolution, the Iran-Iraq war happened and Iraq managed to bomb many of Iran’s nascent nuclear projects. Of course, during the course of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) the US sold Iraq several anthrax cultures (and other pathogens) via the American Type Culture Collection. Then we spent the 1990s onward playing inspection games with both Iran (nuclear) and Iraq (bio-chemical) — which in neither case seem to have effectively curtailed the criminal ambitions of these nations.
Pure Iranian Vitriol
Friday, September 25th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments
Wow — just listen to this Iranian journalist debate with former US under secretary of State, Nick Burns. During the clip (from sept 24th) the journalist even claims that international nuclear inspectors have had complete access to all of Iran’s facilities. With today’s announcement (Sept 25th) we now know that Iran had been hiding a key nuclear facility.
Iran, Secret Nuke Research?
Friday, September 25th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments
In this clip we hear comments from a former key Israeli advisor.
In the clip below we here from Obama at the G20 summit today in Pittsburg - talking about Iran’s newly revealed Nuclear site. Obama says Iran is refusing to live up to its responsibilities and says the facility’s size and configuration is inconsistent with a peaceful program: › Continue reading
Pundit on General Stanley McChrystal’s Report
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments
This is from “PureLiberalRadio” — says that we haven’t learned anything from Vietnam, and that we were supporting tyranny. In his mind Afghanistan is the same problem: “American is not fighting for freedom…American is on the side of tyranny.” On and by the way, he also adds, “We need to destroy Islam…not radical Islam but very specifically mainstream, moderate, normal, average Islam” (at 4:31 in).
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