[Anyone] Boom!

Sat Sep 2 20:12:12 MDT 2006

A rich white guy...I think it was Ted Kennedy.

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>Where did you get this one, mikeintaos?
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>On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Mike in Taos wrote:
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> > It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of
> > history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary 
>has
> > to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world
> > peace.
> >
> > Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
> >
> > Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the
> > Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to 
>destroy
> > Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal. It is, 
>sadly,
> > the only response that this repugnant and acutely dangerous political 
>entity
> > will understand.
> >
> > The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran's 
>missiles
> > and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by men with 
>the
> > highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the Tehran regime. 
>They
> > are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.
> >
> > Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom 
>to
> > those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a limited 
>nuclear
> > attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of lives.
> >
> > The spasm of reaction from many will be that this is barbaric and
> > unacceptable. Yet a better response would be to ask if there is any 
>sensible
> > alternative. Diplomacy, kindness and compromise have failed and the 
>Iranian
> > leadership is still obsessed with all-out war against anybody it 
>considers
> > an enemy.
> >
> > Its motives are beyond question, its capability equally so. It is 
>spending
> > billions of dollars on a whole range of anti-ship, anti-aircraft and
> > anti-personnel missiles, rockets and ballistic weapons:
> >
> > The Shahab 3ER missile, with a range of more than 2,000 km, and the BM25 
>and
> > accompanying launchers, which are so powerful that they can hit targets 
>in
> > Europe. Raad missiles with a range of 350km. The Misaq anti-aircraft
> > missile, which can be fired from the shoulder. The Fajar 3 radar-evading
> > missile and the Ajdar underwater missile, which travels at an
> > extraordinarily high speed and is almost impossible to intercept. The 
>Zaltal
> > and the Fatah 110 rocket, the Scud B and Scud C and the BM25 with a 
>range of
> > 3,500 kms.
> >
> > Iran is also developing enormous propellant ballistic missiles and began 
>a
> > space program almost a decade ago that will enable it to bomb the United
> > States. It is also assumed in intelligence circles that Tehran has 
>Russian
> > Kh55 cruise missiles stolen from Ukraine which are now being copied in 
>large
> > numbers by Iranian scientists.
> >
> > Comparisons to the Nazis in the 1930s are unfair -- to the Nazis. Hitler 
>had
> > the French army, the largest in Europe, on his border and millions of 
>Soviet
> > infantry just a few hours march away. Iran has no aggressive enemies in 
>the
> > region.
> >
> > Its fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controls a brutal police 
>state,
> > finances international terror and provokes bloody wars in foreign 
>countries.
> > It is unimaginably wealthy because of its oil revenues and is committed, 
>in
> > its leader's words, to "rolling back 300 years of Western ascendancy" 
>and
> > wiping another nation, Israel, from the face of the earth.
> >
> > A conventional attack would be insufficient because Iran and its allies 
>seem
> > only to listen to power and threat. Better limited pain now than 
>universal
> > suffering in five years.
> >
> > The usual suspects will complain. The post-Christian churches, the 
>Marxists
> > in Taos including Tommy Myers, the fellow travelers and fifth 
>columnists.
> > But then, the same sort of people moaned and condemned in 1938. They 
>were
> > clearly wrong then. They would be just as wrong now.
> >
> >
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