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Old 09-17-2009, 03:04 PM
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Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

The document drafted by senior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that the agency's leaders share Washington's views on Iran's weapon-making capabilities.

It appears to be the so-called "secret annex" on Iran's nuclear program that Washington says is being withheld by the IAEA's chief.

The document says Iran has "sufficient information" to build a bomb. It says Iran is likely to "overcome problems" on developing a delivery system.
Are we still going to stand by and watch?
Remember, it's not just Israel that's threatened by this. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spoken out against the US also. He'd love for someone to smuggle a bomb into the US and blow it up.
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Sucks to be Israel.
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Old 09-17-2009, 03:09 PM
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I would figure the missile part is much easier than the nuke part.
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Sufficient information is not the same thing as sufficient resources, and anyone with a B.S. physics can understand how nuclear energy works.
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Are we still going to stand by and watch?
Remember, it's not just Israel that's threatened by this. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly spoken out against the US also. He'd love for someone to smuggle a bomb into the US and blow it up.
And then see Iran annihilated by the US? Right.
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Maybe Israel should use their nukes.
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And then see Iran annihilated by the US? Right.
Not if the only people left behind are you anti-war people willing to pay tribute to Ahmadinejad...

By that I mean, Peace always Tuscon.
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Maybe Israel should use their nukes.
If someone said they'll wipe America off the face of the map, what do you think we'd do? Oh wait, we did that in Iraq. But Israel doesn't have the assets to do that to Iran, they have nukes and their bff has them on ignore. You do the math.
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Wow, maybe the United States should never have involved itself in the Middle East in the first place! What a novel thought.
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Wow, maybe the United States should never have involved itself in the Middle East in the first place! What a novel thought.
Ya, then every Jew in the region would of been killed circa 1947. Nice follow up to the Holocaust.

You're amazing compassion is only superceded by the selfish perspective that it isn't worth one American life to give others the oppurtunity of hope.
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