Comments on: Iran Update

By: TmjUtah

TmjUtah — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:03:57 +0000

CatherineAZ -

Uh…technical issues.

Next time I’ll save the template before getting clever. I’m not sure quite what happened; being more used to flint knives and anvils I appealed to the Infinitely Better Half for a little help and after both our efforts, the template became corrupted. Probably something I did.

I watched CNN’s 9/11 retrospective last night and found myself unable to do much after I watched the bodies fall…didn’t sleep last night.

We must win this war. In order to do that, we must win this election, and win it with such a margin that our domestic opposition is knocked back a few notches.

I have no time for Democrats any more. None. They don’t see dead men and women and orphans. They ask “what’s in it for me?”. No more.

Y’all have a fine day.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:39:28 +0000

TmjUtah,

Your link isn’t working! I’d love to see your blog.

Thanks,

CatherineinAZ

By: mongai

mongai — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:04:29 +0000

The North Korean tyranny was about to fall but Clinton sent Carter and his wife over for a propaganda session. One can’t underestimate the damage it does to opposition forces to see the U.S. sucking up to tyrants. Opposition forces which had believed they could count on America’s support. The state controlled media beamed pictures of the “Great Leader” and Mr. Future Nobel Peace Prize Winner and family hugging and smiling for the cameras for months on end. When the tyrant’s son took over Clinton soon sent Albright and staff over just to make sure the North Koreans knew nothing had changed. Thus helping to solidify the wacky sons hold on power. Albright did her best Carter, she even danced with the mass murderer, and not only do we now have nuclear weapons on the peninsula but also millions of deaths from famine and another million dead or perishing away in concentration camps as I write. Don’t even get me started on why Mondale was fired as ambassador to Japan. And now these same Democrats want to do the same thing with Iran and are criticizing Bush’s Northeast Asian policy. Unbelievable.

By: ambisinistral

ambisinistral — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:22:51 +0000

Eh, the article took me longer to find than I expected. The Chinese have been conducting exercises on the Yalu River building pontoon bridges and what-not. I also think some exercises aimed at Taiwan were canceled by the Chinese a couple of weeks ago. On another line of thought... if it was just another conventional explosion, coupled with the last one in NK and the one in Iran, is this a pattern pointing towards sabotage?

By: ambisinistral

ambisinistral — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:44:36 +0000

Global Security has an intertesting analysis of North Korea's problems in conducting a nuclear weapons test. If this were a test, and not just some monumental NK screwup, a crater would seem to suggest a tower was used in the test. That would throw a lot of crud into the atmosphere. I've also read that China has been moving troops onto the NK border. I wonder which way the wind is blowing?

By: Sandy P

Sandy P — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:35:25 +0000

I’ve thought for a few days that immediately after the polls close, w’s first word should be “Go.”

Win or lose.

By: David [.net]

David [.net] — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 04:56:17 +0000

This is linked on globalsecurity.com, Sunday’s NYT:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 – President Bush and his top advisers have received intelligence reports in recent days describing a confusing series of actions by North Korea that some experts believe could indicate the country is preparing to conduct its first test explosion of a nuclear weapon, according to senior officials with access to the intelligence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/international/asia/12nuke.html

By: lindenen

lindenen — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 04:42:02 +0000

Holy Jesus! If this is accurate, then the NorKs may have detonated a nuke in North Korea.

By: TmjUtah

TmjUtah — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:34:16 +0000

2005 is going to be a huge year. For Iran. For Lebanon. For Syria. For us. For the world.

The mullahs know the clock truly begins to run out shortly after November 2d.

Sorry, no subscript. I forgot that ball for my typewriter…

OT -

I have established a blog here. Little steps…

By: dougf

dougf — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:32:51 +0000

Candidly I think all this ‘jaw-jaw’ is a monumental waste of time.And the ‘students’ will likely NEVER dispose of this fantical regime rotten though it may be.

The mullahs are not going to give in to any of these ridiculous ‘demands’and we all know it.This is just a long running farce with Europeans running off to Tehran every few months to deliver strict warnings(of NOTHING WHATSOEVER)to an amused collection of theocrats who don’t even bother to conceal their contempt.

The question is: what does GWB do about it?

Is it a legitimate act of preventitive defense to obliterate Iran’s nuclear pretentions?Could this be done? What would be the results of doing so? Would this entail a 100% effort to overthrow the regime as well? What are the likely consequences and risks? Why are we not having this debate NOW?

The way things are going Iran will get nuclear weapons and I am totally convinced that sooner or later they will use them,simply because they are too fantatic not to do so.

This should be unacceptable but our public debate is simply avoiding the issue entirely.