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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: muman613 on September 09, 2009, 04:37:45 PM
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I knew that this would eventually happen. As Obama wants to sit on the fence he has allowed the Iranian menace to progress towards its goal of enriching enough nuclear material to build a nuclear bomb...
According to the latest American intelligence report... Iran currently has enough enriched uranium to build this nuclear weapon. It is just a matter of time before they strap it onto a missile...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/world/middleeast/10intel.html
Agencies Say Iran Has the Nuclear Fuel to Build a Bomb
By DAVID E. SANGER
This article was reported by William J. Broad, Mark Mazzetti and David E. Sanger, and written by Mr. Sanger. Additional reporting was contributed by Ethan Bronner in Jerusalem, Souad Mekhennet in Berlin, and Carle Hulse in Washington.
WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded in recent months that Iran has enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, sprint for sufficient enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. But in a series of briefings to President Obama, they say they believe the country is still holding off on taking the last critical steps in designing a sophisticated bomb.
In the first public acknowledgment of the new intelligence findings, the American ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency declared Wednesday that Iran had arrived at what he called a “possible breakout capacity” if it decided to enrich its stockpile of uranium fuel, converting it to bomb grade material.
The statement by the ambassador, Glyn Davies, was intended to add weight to arguments for far more severe sanctions against Iran this month, perhaps including a cutoff of gasoline to the country, if the country failed to take up Mr. Obama’s invitation for direct negotiations. But it could also complicate the administration’s efforts to convince an increasingly impatient Israeli government to give diplomacy more time to work. Israel has made it clear it would consider a military strike against Iran’s facilities..
In interviews over the past two months, intelligence and military officials, and members of the Obama administration, have said they are convinced that Iran has made significant progress on uranium enrichment. But the officials said they could only speculate why Iran has apparently not restarted an effort to actually design a nuclear weapon, one of the final steps needed before it could claim to be the world’s newest nuclear power. A National Intelligence Estimate in 2007 first made the case that the design work had been halted for years.
It is unclear how many months — or years — it might take Iran to complete final design work and then construct a weapon that could fit atop its long-range missiles. That question has been the subject of a series of sharp, behind-the-scenes exchanges between the Israelis and top American intelligence and military officials, dating back nearly two years.
The American position is that the United States and its allies would likely have considerable warning time if Iran moved to convert its growing stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to make it usable for weapons.
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So what happens now?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/SniperKid1/iran.jpg)
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I think Pee Pee Netanyoyo needs to press the button ASAP.
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Not Hussein Osama's fault, directly at least. Blame an Israeli people that fears him more than G-d.
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Wasn't American intelligence telling us before that they wouldn't have a bomb for years?
Yes, I do recall this.
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Wasn't American intelligence telling us before that they wouldn't have a bomb for years?
Yes, I do recall this.
So we just have to wait around and wait for something to happen?
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Wasn't American intelligence telling us before that they wouldn't have a bomb for years?
Yes, I do recall this.
RanterM,
Yes, you are correct.
Only, in the last two years, have some senior intelligence officers begun to come out and state that Iran would be able to produce a bomb in the very near future.
And, we both know, the "midget's" (Ahmedinajad), trigger finger is just itching to flip that switch.
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Iran is just a bad seed that is long due for a serious ass kicking. Reagan should have nuked 'em after the hostages came home in 1981.
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The more radical gets the problem, the more radical turns the solution.
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The more radical gets the problem, the more radical turns the solution.
Agreed. Someone once said that if a man wants to throw a bomb into your mothers house, throw a bomb into his house first. We need that mindset here.