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   From: tim.howard@suddenlink.net   
      
   On 2/11/2012 9:32 PM, Dånk 42Ø wrote:   
   > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:27:11 -0800, Tim Howard wrote:   
   >   
   >> Every network should be reporting this.  NBC is the only one with guts.   
   >>    US officials have finally admitted Israel is behind the assassination   
   >> of Iran's nuclear scientists.  Most US politicians will probably   
   >> applaud.   
   >   
   > Probably.  Think of how many Syrian lives could be saved if the CIA   
   > "solved" the problem of Bashar al-Assad.   
   >   
   > Given a choice between sanctions that won't work, a war that can't be   
   > won, or a single ten-cent bullet in the head of a genocidal dictator,   
   > which would you prefer?   
      
   That sounds so simple doesn't it?  I will leave aside for a moment the   
   facts that such an action violates international law and amounts to an   
   act of war, which would be unconstitutional if not approved by Congress   
   first.  You probably don't care about things like that.  What I will say   
   is that many times the US has acted militarily in the world without   
   caring what anyone else thinks and no matter how well it seems to turn   
   out initially, those things come back to haunt us.  Maybe not for years   
   or even decades, but they come back to haunt.   
      
   As for Israel, can we all admit to the fact the they have 80-200 nuclear   
   weapons themselves, and it would defy all logic for Iran to launch one   
   weapon at them, knowing they would get wiped out by Israel's 80-200?  By   
   not acknowledging this fact when discussing Iran, the US starts any   
   argument it makes about them from a knowingly false premise.   
      
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