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Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten
I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble viewing the video, because I value your input. I don't know offhand where it might be mirrored. I would try YouTube.
As it turns out, Isreal can't attack Iran without crossing over Iraqi airspace. Their fighter jets don't have the range to go around. It is my understanding that Iraqi airspace is essentially US military airspace. So the US military must explicitly authorize any third-party military personnel to cross Iraq's borders. That would mean a de facto declaration of war by the United States against Iran, as the US would be complicit in whatever actions Isreali forces took after crossing into Iran.
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I would assume that Israel would have a few tanker jets to refuel their fighters without going over Iraqi airspace.
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I believe that if Iran is indeed enriching plutonium beyond known quantities, it intends to use it first and foremost as a bargaining chip. They don't want to lose over a million people to disease, radiation-induced cancer and starvation, as Iraq apparently did when the US government imposed food and medical sanctions in 1991. (Ironically, the Bush administration claims that, in this same time frame, Iraq was somehow amassing WMDs in sufficient quantities as to be a clear and present danger to the United States.)
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ANY starvation and ummm radiation induced cancer (where did you pull that one out of) was NOT due to the sanctions but due to Iraq's corruption of the oil for food program and the willing accomplaces in the UN.
And 'food and medical' sanctions? Ummm I don't think we had sanctions on medicine and food.
I think you need to do a bit of reading beyond left wing propaganda sites if you think the above it true. I won't host this with a bunch of cut and paste links but I'd recommend google.
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Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten
That point about Iran's plutonium enrichment level is an important one, I think. It looks like they're nowhere near making weapons with it. It's too bad that they've used so much hostile propaganda that suggests otherwise.
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Just a side note here too, you don't need plutonium to make an atomic bomb. Its much easier to make one out of U235.