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2009 Too Late To Stop Iran’s Nuke Weapons.

April 23rd, 2008 • Richard Cochrane

Filed Under: POLITICS

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If not stopped by next year, Iran will have “crossed the threshold of stockpiling fissionable material,” warns Dennis Ross who served as the director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H.W. Bush and special Middle East envoy under President Bill Clinton in remarks to Toronto’s Shaarei Shomayim Congregation that were reported by the Canadian Jewish News.

Not only did Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vow to “wipe Israel off the map,” but former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami has stated that it would “take only one bomb” to annihilate Israel, Ross told the gathering.

There are clear signs that the Bush administration will not wait that long and military action is imminent. Israel “is preparing for heavy casualties,” expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution following a U.S. strike. Saudi Arabia is reportedly taking emergency steps in preparing to counter any radioactive hazards that may result from an American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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3. Comment by Deb Della Piana on 28 April 2008:

   And you believe this guy? Honestly, I no longer believe anyone remotely associated with George W. Bush…particularly his father. He was the only guy who was almost as big a liar as junior. The other thing I don’t believe is this supposed video of North Koreans working in an Iranian nuke plant. Sorry, but this particular president is like the man crying wolf. He has lied so much now that I believe absolutely nothing the man says. This is something he has brought on himself. My new mantra is: If his mouth is open, he must be lying.

4. Comment by Ray Bright on 3 May 2008:

   You don’t need to believe Bush. But you may want to pay attention to what Ahmedinajad is saying, he seems sincere, and he is repeating again and again that he wants to wipe Israel from the map of the world. He has also said that “the world without America is not only possible, it is quite certain”. He has also said that there is no problem with sacrificing even the whole of Iran, for the sake of Allah.
   So of course Bush and practically all other politicians are liars, but Ahmadinajad’s intentions seem clear, we can trust him, and we must stop him.
   Stopping Hitler in 1935 may have cost 50,000 lives, while the cost of stopping him in 1945 was 60 million. Stopping Ahmedinajad in 2015 can cost
   200 million lives.

   So don’t wait, Nuke Iran’s nuclear facilities, and destroy their oil and gas production (this will set them back some 30 years).

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