Second really scary article

[zachor_ve_kavod]

G-d help us...

US intelligence: Iran will be able to build first nuclear bomb by
February
October 21, 2008, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)

US intelligence's amended estimate, that Iran will be ready to build its
first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in, is
disclosed by DEBKAfile's Washington sources as having been relayed as a
guideline to the Middle East teams of both presidential candidates,
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.
The information prompted the assertion by Democratic vice presidential
nominee Joseph Biden in Seattle Sunday, Oct. 19: "It will not be six
months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy."
DEBKAfile's military sources cite the new US timeline: By late January,
2009, Iran will have accumulated enough low-grade enriched uranium (up
to 5%) for its "break-out" to weapons grade (90%) material within a
short time. For this, the Iranians have achieved the necessary
technology. In February, they can move on to start building their first
nuclear bomb.
US intelligence believes Tehran has the personnel, plans and diagrams
for a bomb and has been running experiments to this end for the past two
years. The UN International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna last week
asked Tehran to clarify recent complex experiments they conducted in
detonating nuclear materials for a weapon, but received no answer.
The same US evaluation adds that the Iranian leadership is holding off
its go-ahead to start building the bomb until the last minute so as to
ward off international pressure to stop at the red line.
This development together with the galloping global economic crisis will
force the incoming US president to go straight into decision-making
without pause on Day One in the Oval Office. He will have to determine
which urgent measures can serve best for keeping a nuclear bomb out of
the Islamic republic's hands - diplomatic or military - and how to
proceed if those measures fail.
His knowledge of the challenge colored Sen. Biden's additional words in
Seattle: "Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember
anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a
generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Israel's political and military leaders also face a tough dilemma that
can no longer be put off of whether to strike Iran's nuclear
installations militarily in the next three months between US
presidencies before the last window closes, or take a chance on
coordination with the next president.
Waiting for the "international community" to do the job of stopping
Iran, as urged by governments headed by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert -
and strongly advocated Tzipi Livni, foreign minister and would-be prime
minister - has been a washout. Iran stands defiantly on the threshold of
a nuclear weapon.

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[jaime]

there's a simple solution: vote for McCain-Palin.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

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[muman613]

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Thank you.  Good point.

Shalom,

Sometimes I like the Blue Box around the quote... One way to get the box and big text is to do the following:

[quote][size=10pt]This is a test of the emergency broadcast system, this is only a test... Please don't be alarmed because this is only a test!
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Displays like this:

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system, this is only a test... Please don't be alarmed because this is only a test!

I use this when I want to quote text but have it large enough that most people will not lose interest in reading it.

muman613