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Monday, January 12, 2009 12:00 AM

Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran

Last year, the NIE famously concluded with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Why did Obama say yesterday that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons?

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  • Monday, January 12, 2009 02:34 PM

    Bellatrix LeStrange

    Do you honestly think that Iran does not want to become a nuclear power? You can be certain that Iran wants to become a nuclear power, and once they do, the first thing that they will do will be to nuke-out Israel.

    The propaganda is strong in this one.

    The suicide-bombing mentality of the Islamofascist is particularly terrifying to world survival. At least during the years of the cold war the US and USSR never used nukes because of "mutually assured destruction".

    But what about the suicide-bombing mentality of those that invented suicide bombing as a strategy and have carried out the most suicide bombings of any one group? You know, the secular Marxist group the Tamil Tigers? How does that fit into your "MAD doesn't apply to Iran" propaganda line? Do you even understand the motivations behind suicide bombers? There have been entire books written about the subject. They do it to try and affect the foreign policies of western governments, i.e. their occupiers. When said occupier is of a different religion, suicide bombing in the occupied regions skyrocket. It has nothing to do with Islam, and everything to do with what the bombers perceive as foreign occupation.

    But what concern is "mutually assured destruction" to some brain-dead suicide bomber? With the 6 million Jews of Israel surrounded by 200 million Moslems, the Islamofascists might not even care that a few million Moslems were "martyred" in order to exterminate the "infidels" of Israel.

    Then what concern is MAD for the Tamil Tigers and other groups that use suicide bombing as a tactic?

    These horrible "imperialist" Jews, who have been living in Israel for only 4,000 years.

    Here we go. Now the fun starts... have you wiped the spittle off your monitor yet from cursing the Others?

    And don't think that it would end with Israel. Remember 9/11. With the Jewish scapegoats in Israel all dead, the Islamofascists would have to scrapegoat the USA, and a nuclear 9/11 would be next.

    Wait & see. If the lefties take over national security, we're all going to need lead underwear.

    I think it ends with your fearmongering propaganda.

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