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   From: trdell1234@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:49:43 -0800, Tim Howard   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
      
     I always thought Iran would give a nuke to a terrorist group and   
   deny any fault.  Strange thing is I believe Iran would be destroyed in   
   either case.   
      
     I think what we have in Syria is a Proxy war.  The US and the Arabs   
   against China, Russia and Iran.   
      
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