That doesn't mean Israel won't go it alone and then turn to us and say "Help."
This first article never saw print:
"Nuclear threat from Iran is not imminent, US tells Israel; Weaponization would take a year" by Mark Mazzetti and David E. Sanger, New York Times | August 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, citing evidence of continued troubles inside Iran’s nuclear program, has convinced Israel that it would take roughly a year — perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a “dash’’ for a nuclear weapon, according to US officials.
Yeah, that would be IF they were building a bomb -- which they are most definitely NOT!
Look, we ALREADY WENT THROUGH ALL THIS with IRAQ and FOOL ME ONCE.... ummmm.... we can't get fooled again!
For those Americans that care to vote, we ARE NOT!!
White House officials said they believe the assessment has dimmed the prospect that Israel would preemptively strike against the country’s nuclear facilities within the next year, as Israeli officials have suggested in thinly veiled threats....
So the fuel must be for a leap at Lebanon and the Litani River, 'eh?
After all, they wouldn't need it to keep on grinding down Palestinians.
Hell, that's already incorporated into the policies, budgets, and aid requests.
Gary Samore, President Obama’s top adviser on nuclear issues, said the United States believed international inspectors would detect an Iranian move toward breakout within weeks, leaving a considerable amount of time for the United States and Israel to consider military strikes....
So it isn't off the table.
It is unclear whether the problems that Iran has had enriching uranium are the result of poor centrifuge design, difficulty obtaining components, or accelerated Western efforts to sabotage the nuclear program.
But it's okay when we do it to a perfectly legal operation.
It is not even "terrorism."
Now, US and Israeli officials believe breakout is unlikely anytime soon, according to administration officials....
Translation: Attack put off until after November.
Israeli officials have indicated that if they saw a race for the bomb underway, they would probably take military action and encourage the United States to join the effort.
Does this mean anything to you, Israel?
Now, I have no doubt my slavish government will jump into the fray on the behalf of Israel and the American people will be offered all sorts of reasons to justify it.
It won't take this time, sorry.
Nuclear specialists agree that the hardest element of producing a weapon is obtaining weapons-grade material. And for Iran that quest, which stretches back more than 20 years, has not been going well, by most accounts....
The United States, Israel, and Europe have for years engaged in covert attempts to disrupt the enrichment process by sabotaging the centrifuges.
If Iran were to do such a thing here the MSM would be hollering for war!
Readers, THAT is TERRORISM!!
It's a POWER PLANT!
Officials concede there are potential vulnerabilities in their assessments. Chief among them is whether Iran has hidden another enrichment center somewhere in the tunnels it has dug throughout the country.
You know what?
SCREW YOU and your, WAR-MONGER, NYT!!!
Related:
"Israelis conducting covert maritime operations in Persian Gulf
Chinese and Japanese intelligence agencies, which closely monitor events in the Persian Gulf due to the dependence of both countries on oil from the region, report that Israeli Navy commandos have recently been active in creating maritime incidents in the Gulf that could be blamed on Iran.
Beware of another USS Liberty or Cole, America!!
So what DO I GET in my printed paper?
"Iran readies start-up of nuclear reactor" by Associated Press | August 21, 2010
BUSHEHR, Iran — Iranian and Russian nuclear technicians made final preparations to start up Iran’s first reactor today after years of delays, an operation that will mark a milestone in what Tehran considers its right to produce nuclear energy.
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Iran Goes Nuclear
Nationwide celebrations are planned for the fuel loading at the Bushehr facility in southern Iran, while Russia pledges to safeguard the plant and prevent spent fuel from being shifted to a possible weapons program.
Which means an USRAELI ATTACK opens the door to WWIII and draws RUSSIA and CHINA in on the side of IRAN!
Americans, we are ALREADY LOSING TWO OCCUPATIONS and the thought of FURTHER BATTLEFRONTS is NOT A GOOD IDEA for you!
“The start-up operations will be a big success for Iran,’’ conservative lawmaker Javad Karimi said in Tehran. “It also shows Iran’s resolve and capability in pursuing its nuclear activities.’’
The West has not sought to block the reactor start-up as part of its confrontations over Iran’s nuclear agenda, a clash that has resulted in repeated rounds of UN sanctions.
Israel is waiting to bomb it so they can benefit from the discharge of radiation that will kill more Iranians.
Washington and other nations do not specifically object to Tehran’s ability to build reactors kept under scrutiny.
However, the reactor is seen by hard-liners as defiance of UN Security Council sanctions that seek to slow Iran’s nuclear advances, which Tehran’s foes worry could eventually push toward atomic weapons.
Who are the "hard-line foes," MSM?
What concerns America and others, including Russia, is Iran’s refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to make fuel for nuclear arms.
Why would Russia be concerned?
They are helping them operate the thing.
The ONLY ONE TRULY CONCERNED is the "others(?)" -- and we KNOW WHO THAT IS!!
Amazing that my MSM sucks so bad when it comes to obfuscating for Israel.
Russia now must follow through with its agreements, signed by Iran, to remove spent fuel at Bushehr and ship it back to Russia for reprocessing.
Oh, I think they are going to do better than that!!
That would make it impossible for Iran to use plutonium, contained in the spent fuel, for weapons.
The uranium fuel used at Bushehr is well below the more than 90 percent enrichment needed for a nuclear warhead.What, what, what?
Why the WEB CUT, readers!!!??
From my PRINTED PAPER:
Iran is already producing its own uranium enriched to the Bushehr level -- about 3.5 percent. It also has started a pilot program of enriching uranium to 20 percent, which officials say is needed for a medical research reactor.
So they are NOWHERE NEAR a BOMB and WE WOULD SEE IT if they WERE MAKING ONE!
And HOW WOULD YOU FEEL, American, if IRAN was denying your relative CANCER TREATMENTS?
Wouldn't exactly like 'em, would ya'?
Iran's envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said Thursday that any military attack against an operational nuclear power plant would be a direct violation of the UN charter.
And Lord knows the MSM would not want to call attention to any more Israeli war crimes!
It also would probably provoke international outrage by possibly unleashing dangerous radiation.
It sure as hell would even without the radiation!
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Time is growing short, and the Devil sends the Beast with wrath:
"Fuel loading begins at nuclear plant
BUSHEHR — Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel yesterday into Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. After years of delays, the fueling of the Bushehr plant in southern Iran marks the start-up of a facility for energy production that the United States once hoped to block as a way to pressure the country to stop separate nuclear activities of far greater concern."
That is the U.S. definition of terrorism!
And how dare Iran be REASONABLE!?
"Iran proposes nuclear fuel deal with Russia" by Associated Press | August 27, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran has submitted a proposal to Russia to jointly assemble the nuclear fuel for the country’s new power reactor and any future facilities, state media reported yesterday.
The move appeared to be an attempt by Tehran to gain some control over the nuclear fuel process at its Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant. With Moscow’s help, Iran began loading uranium fuel into the facility on Saturday.
The United States and allies lifted their opposition to the Bushehr plant after Russia pledged to handle all the nuclear fuel to make sure no material is shifted to a possible Iranian weapons program in the future. The latest proposal by Iran to have even a sideline role in the nuclear fuel process could stir backlash in the West....
Just LOOKING for a REASON to ATTACK!
An official at the Russian nuclear agency said the two countries have discussed the possibility of creating a facility to assemble the fuel rods for Bushehr. The facility would operate under Russian license on Iranian territory.
Ready for a war with Russia, America?
Points of interest:
1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.
5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.
6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.
7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.
8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.
9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran, leading up to Israel's bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.
10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as "Anti-Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.
We all need to be Joe Wilson right now. We need to stand up and scream, "LIAR!" at every politician and every talking media moron that is pushing this war in Iran. And we need to keep dong it until they get the message that we will not be deceived any more.
Israel wants to send your kids off to die in Iran, and YOU are the only one that can stop them." -- Wake the Flock Up
Okay, if the false nuclear issue make you rabid for war maybe the fact that the Iranians are just bad guys will:
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday inaugurated Iran’s first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an “ambassador of death’’ to its enemies.
The 12-foot-long drone aircraft can carry up to four cruise missiles and will have a range of 620 miles, according to a state television report, not far enough to reach archenemy Israel.
Translation: They are FOR DEFENSE!
U.S. can't really complain, can they, what with our drones clogging up the skies of the world?
“The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship,’’ Ahmadinejad said at the inauguration ceremony, which fell on the country’s national day for its defense industries....
Did the MSM translate that right?
Ahmadinejad added that the aircraft is for deterrence and defensive purposes....
Iran launched an arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq to compensate for a US weapons embargo and now produces its own tanks, armored personnel carries, missiles, and a fighter plane.
Even as Israel was moving them weapons as part of the October Surprise and Iran-Contra deals, but whatever!
All down the MSM memory hole!!
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"Covering opposition may be barred in Iran" by Associated Press | August 27, 2010
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian media have been prohibited from mentioning opposition leaders, including former president Mohammad Khatami, under a purported media directive that would further strengthen the government’s grip over the remaining news outlets....
Yeah, never mind that Iran's political system is the most open in the region (with a Jewish representative to boot)!
I'm sure our allies in Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are much better examples.
Why were my nostrils just invaded with the smell of s***?
If true, however, it would be another step by Iran to control the media....
What a WONDERFUL PHRASE for a POT-HOLLERING KETTLE of a NEWSPAPER! --more--"
Oh, yeah, and those allies:
"Saudi cleric reprimanded over fatwa" by Associated Press | August 27, 2010
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A conservative Saudi cleric was told to stop giving unauthorized edicts after he called for a boycott of a supermarket chain that employs women as cashiers, the office of the kingdom’s most senior religious leader said yesterday.
The move is the first public reprimand of a prominent cleric following a royal decree that limits the issuance of fatwas to the country’s most senior group of clerics. Fatwas are religious edicts that provide guidance in matters of everyday life to pious Muslims....
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam....
Sexes are segregated in schools and public places. Women are not allowed to drive or vote, and physical education classes are banned in state-run girls’ schools.
Huh.
Iranian women can drive and vote!
Saudi King Abdullah has been trying to clamp down on ultraconservative ideology, including allowing women to take up commercial jobs.
Yeah, he is a real trooper.
What is taking them so long to join the 20th century (never mind the 21st; one step at a time, right)?
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"DEADLY CLASH IN BEIRUT -- Some 1,000 people attended the burial of Hezbollah official Ali al-Jawad yesterday in the town of Kfar Fila. Jawad was one of four people killed Tuesday during clashes between Shi'ites and a Sunni faction (Boston Globe August 26 2010)."
See: The Redirection
Yeah, who would be trying to stir up s*** again?
Related: Muslims Send Message to Israel
Stoo-pid Israelis just won't get the message!