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   From: tim.howard@suddenlink.net   
      
   On 2/12/2012 11:46 AM, MattB wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   They would never smuggle it out of Iran without us finding out about it.   
      
   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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