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   From: trdell1234@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:08:03 -0800, Tim Howard   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
      I believe that.  Then again we should not underestimated the hate   
   of Religious fanatics.  We were surprised once already.   
      
   >   
   >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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