It happened in Russia ... would an accidental self Nucking destroy the whole Middle East???
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Why is everybody so paranoid about Iran having Nuclear .\nOther countries have nuclear too ,USA pakistan Israel UK,
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Absolutly.\n\nIran has already said that once they get a nuke they will destory Israel. If you look at the comments from Iran, their goal is not protection but to actully trigger the end of the world... no joke, read up on it. They want to cause a world war that will destroy the earth and bring "Allah" from heaven.\n\nThe rest of the world can not wait till this happens, because if we do nothing then Israel will HAVE to do something, and then we end up in an even bigger war because Israel will be attacked by every other arab nation for attacking Iran.\n\nChina and Russia are just causing trouble as usual because they want that oil money and the techology contracts... just like they did in Iraq.
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This must be a question for the left, because one must be on some serious hallucinogens to be able to visualize that.\n\nAfter all, according to the liberals... \nSaddamn was never a threat to anyone, Al Quida doesn't exist, and we're the only ones causing trouble and violence over there. \n\nJust a second, I'm going to go huff some aerosol....\n\nOkay, I got it. Back before we started that completely unprovoked Desert Shield-Gulf War B.S., the whole middle East was like Switzerland. \n\nChildren playing in the streets, women able to walk freely about without being harassed or forced to wear tents on their heads, the governments allowed newspapers and television to embrace our first amendment as their own, and Americans could visit freely, come and go as they please. Just read Den of Lions by Terry Anderson if you don't believe me.\n\nI grew up watching national news stories about Beirut. It was my childhood dream to visit that Paradise. Thank you, H.W. and son. You ruined the Middle East for all of us. \n\nMight as well let Iran have their nukes. With any luck, they'll blow the whole frigging thing off the map and we can start all over.
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who did it? well it wasnt the butler in the hallway wilh a candlestick. how many different arab leaders are there in U.A.E.?i wouldnt know.however, it had to be a terrorist group of the arab world. look at the names listed they were all arabic.as for the official story, what we read and saw on the tube was as official as it gets.information concerning this tragic day possibly was edited just to be on the safe side. what i mean is that the story probably had more to it than what was said ,but with the turmoil in the world today, the increasing price of oil and fingers pointed at everyone, why say anything to start trouble? personally i dont think our country is the most advanced in defense or technology.our computers are made up of japans experts and as far as i know our defense systems are made with the same technology. i think there a a few small nations in the world that have come a long way as we have but secrets must be kept.hopefully im wrong but,i have read and surfed the web,i had found many items of interest that are questionable.im not a trouble maker and i think any information gotten will be sufficient enough to sustain my curiosity. i served during vietnam and i enlisted and would do it again. this country is my home and i was proud to serve.
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Russia wanted Middle East oil alright, but they did it through legally negotiated contracts.  You know, *capitalism*, the thing the US claims to promote?  Then along comes the US, invading Iraq and tearing up legal contracts by forcing a puppet Iraqi government to sell oil (at a cut rate) to the US, effectively stealing Iraq's oil.\n\nMeanwhile, the US does nothing about Israel's well documented nuclear weapons yet makes a big deal out of a non-existent threat from Iran.  If any country in the Middle East _would_ use a nuclear weapon against another country, it's Israel.  Just look at the last 50 years of US-paid atrocities they've perpetrated.  \n\nAnd don't forget, the Gulf Stream goes west to east, so the radiation from an Israeli nuclear weapon would land on a half-dozen islamic countries plus China and India. \n\nIf you think Israel isn't that callous about other people's lives, ask the Lebanese about the million or more cluster bombs left unexploded in their country.  The US and Israel have refused to supply any money to defuse and remove those bombs; instead, Lebanon and the UN will spend billions of dollars clearing land over the next decade.\n\nAnd by the by, it was the US government which posted, on the internet, the technical specifications for building a nuclear weapon.  For more than TWO WEEKS, US government scientists protested and pleaded for the information to be taken off the website.  The Shrub Whitehouse said "No".\n\nDoes anyone _really_ believe anymore that Shrub _isn't_ working collectively with Osama?  (The Shrub and bin Laden families have been doing business for 20 years.)\n\n\n.
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All hail the fatherland!  \n\n(to answer any other way may be dangerous) :)
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Drop a bomb on a young man's house and when he has returned home from work to find his sister, brother, nephew, aunt, uncle, child or his wife crushed in the ruble you have done one of two things - broken the man or created a "terrorist". \n Two questions for you:  \n\nHow many bombs has the US dropped in the middle east?\n\nWhat effect would such an unjust act have on you?\n\n\nEdit: to C Bass below. To answer your question about what we did to Iran to inspire hate. Perhaps you should read your history. Propping the despot shah for many years while he terrorized and robbed his people should be enough. How about inspiring a war between Iraq and Iran and then in the midst supplying BOTH sides with weapons (many of the same that are now blowing up our own in the form of IEDs). Tens of thousands of Iranians were killed in that war and yet in American school books barely a mention of the war or the cause is listed. \n\nSometimes you have to look deeper then what they tell you.
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In reference to another post there is no working star wars program in place, we are just as vulnerable to a missile attack today as we were fifty years ago, now the likelihood of a large scale nuclear attack is much much lower without the soviets runnin around, though it is always possible that by some computer error that a launch will take place from either us or the russian silos, afterwards if we don't convince each other that it was a mistake it would probably lead to a full scale nuclear exchange, now that covers the U.S. and Russia, but don't forget the other nuclear nations out there such as Pakistan and India which are pretty much where the U.S. and Soviets were twenty years ago, so on that side of the planet I would say within the next two years that there is a 20% possibility of a nuclear exchange barring any massive change in policy or major event such as some sort of military incident betweent those two countries. It is possible that there could be a nuclear device smuggled and detonated in the U.S. by some terrorist organisation but that would not lead to a nuclear war, unless the perpetrators of such an attack posessed a nuclear arsenal. Let me just say that with today's great technology a nuclear device does not have to be any bigger than a briefcase and with lax border control and nearly unlimited funding for terrorist organisations in addition to lack of intelligence on nuclear material around the world it is very possible that some terrorist organisation may suceed in detonating a device on American soil. Let's all hope that never happens
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It is a fact that US went into this war completely unprepared for the insurgency. US has never won a significant victory against an enenmy that employs guerilla style warfare and urban suicide terrorist attacks. Infact if you look at it no country, even Isreal has been able to do that with the Palestinian struggle. \n\nMaybe the US should consult Putin and see how he handles Chechnya. He seems to have better than average success so far.
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Interesting question... both are awful choices. I'm not sure what the point of the question is (nobody would seriously propose either), but I'll play along.\n\nEither outcome would lead to mass regional destabilization, though the Israeli option would probably be better since they would turn it back over within five years. The splitting option would push Turkey and Saudi Arabia into civil wars, and an Iranian chokehold on that much oil would be bad for the world economy.\n\nThe best completely unrealistic option, though, is to turn over Iraq to the Finns. If they won't take it, I'm sure the Russians or the Chinese will.
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This is America's war.. no one else has such a problem with the middle east. If they disrupt the UN and look down on Europe, we should just leave them to their own mess.
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hell yeh. at first i thought you were another misinformed prowar supremecy type but im down all the way. youre right. never count china out as a superpower. the bear (russia)is just sleeping. if we can secure the middle east in an arab union we'll be hella. we went astray somewhere & became the wrong kind of superpower. the republic we were supposed to be would have been the catalyst to solve most of the werlds' probs through the mind.
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Should we be worried?  No.  The guy himself said that the ingredients used are very rare and only available on the black market, and we already know that there is quite a bit of old soviet nuclear material about.  I'd question who the guy was, and how he managed to get hold of the rare materials.
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no we shouldnt have done it by air, then we would have probs on our own soil.  how would we have gotten saddam to trial by air??  how would we have stabilized their country by air??
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I ask a question on this earlier tonight. I think it is obvious Putin had him killed. He met with some government officials for lunch then later went to the hospital... poisoned.
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wow ,thanks for the link valadmir, its an awsome weapon....the russians are sure not for messing with.
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It's delicate. My guess is that Iran will take Russia's offer for enrichment at least for now. I'm quite sure their research will go on, which means sooner or later someone's gonna call their bluff and then it won't matter whether they've been onest about the purpose of their program.\nThe sad thing is Iran still has the NPT and international law on it's side since none of the accusers managed to prove its program is -not- entirely civilian. \nWar right now would be damn inconvenient for US since to most neutral countries it will appear and incessant bullying and some might rally behind Iran, Syria and Venezuela.\nUS can't exploit Iraq oil just yet. Of course US companies will be preffered for drilling and/or refining Iraq oil but they have to wait for the situation in Iraq and give the appearance of elections.