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Poll Watch: 11 Per Cent Say United States Should Apologize to Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign as he waits for a meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Tehran, February 1, 2009
American voters ask: Apologize to Iran for what?Just 11% of U.S. voters think America should apologize to Iran for “crimes†against the Islamic country – one of the prerequisites demanded by the Iranian president before he will agree to meet with President Barack Obama.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 73% oppose such an apology.
Obama in an interview last week with al-Arabiya, a 24-hour Arabic language satellite network, offered to end nearly 30 years of bad relations with Iran if the Middle Eastern nation is ready to “unclench its fist.†Ahmadinejad responded by demanding an apology for U.S. “crimes” against Iran and calling for major changes in U.S. policies toward his country.
Other interesting results of the poll:
- 52 per cent of American votes view Iran as an ENEMY of the United States.
- 56 per cent believe Iran should be required to stop developing its nuclear weapons capabilities before a meeting is allowed between the presidents of the two countries – a precondition.
- 36 per cent believe relations between the two countries will get worse over the coming year, while 33% think they will get better.
- 77 per cent of American voters say Iran’s nuclear program is for weapons development.
Now what was President Obama saying about meeting and schmoozing the Iranians?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 1, 2009 – Not Taken. Given.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran and the Iranian Mullahs who run the Iran terror machine will have Barack Obama and Joe Biden for lunch. It will NOT be pretty.Because, APPEASEMENT never is because there are always consequences. Ask Bill Clinton.
Pre-Super Bowl interviews with Matt Lauer on NBC are one thing. Dealing with terrorist states who want to “wipe Israel off the map” is quite another.
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Kum Ba Yah Ahmadinejad
President Barack Obama writes a letter to HOLOCAUST DENIER and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Officials of Barack Obama’s administration have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks, the Guardian has learned.
The US state department has been working on drafts of the letter since Obama was elected on 4 November last year. It is in reply to a lengthy letter of congratulations sent by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on 6 November.
It would be intended to allay the Âsuspicions of Iran’s leaders and pave the way for Obama to engage them directly, a break with past policy.
State department officials have composed at least three drafts of the letter, which gives assurances that Washington does not want to overthrow the Islamic regime, but merely seeks a change in its behaviour. The letter would be addressed to the Iranian people and sent directly to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or released as an open letter.
Sounds like APPEASEMENT to Flap.
But, this is par for the course, since Obama has sold out Poland and the Czech Republic by appeasing Russia over a missile defense plan.
Don’t think this will play so well in Israel – and it isn’t.
Israeli election front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu told a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons ranks far above the global economy among the challenges facing leaders of the 21st century.
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Shocker: Iran Nuke – This Year
Matt Drudge has the siren up on this shocking development about Iran’s nuclear program. Is this a shock?No, the Bush Administration was unable to convince the world community and the United Nations in particular of the seriousness of Iran’s nuclear program. So, here you go – Iran is approaching BREAKOUT CAPABILITY.
Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts.
The think tank’s Mark Fitzpatrick made the announcement at today’s launch of its annual global review of military powers.
“During 2009, Iran will probably reach the point at which it has produced the amount of low-enriched uranium needed to make a nuclear bomb,” he said.
“But being able to enrich uranium is not the same as having a nuclear weapon.”
However, the survey reports doubts over US Intelligence estimates that Iran halted its work on nuclear weapons six years ago.
Nothing really NEW here. Everyone knows that Iran is advancing their ballistic missile capability in developing longer range missiles which is the delivery mechanism for a nuclear device AND they continue to enrich uranium, the building material for a nuclear bomb.
But, China and Russia block tougher sanctions in the United Nations Security Council and the Europeans talk but do little else.
It will be up to Israel and the United States to either block Iran or appease them.
So far appeasement seems to be winning out.
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The American Airborne Laser to Protect Israel from Iranian Missiles?
Boeings Airborne Laser (ABL) will locate and track missiles in the boost phase of their flight, then accurately point and fire the high-energy laser, destroying enemy missiles near their launch areas.Flap was thinking this morning about Israel’s pronouncement about the possibility of attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities and wondering what would protect Israel or other American allies in the Middle East from Iran’s missile retaliation?
The controversy regarding Poland and land-based missile defense has been discussed previously. But, this program is to protect the United States and will be limited in scope.
Then, Captain Ed pointed Flap to the Airborne Laser Program which recently accomplished another successful test.
Unlike its fixed-site cousins, the ground-based interceptors deployed in California and Alaska and (hopefully) Europe, ABL aircraft can be deployed where needed and are reusable.
Not only can they patrol off unfriendly nations, they would be quite useful patrolling our shores.
We have pointed out the dangers of an Iranian freighter launching a Shahab that would detonate its warhead high over the United States, unleashing an electromagnetic pulse that would send our high-tech economy back to the days of the covered wagons.
Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency, in announcing the flight testing of the ABL system in late 2005, said he welcomed critics’ comparison to the “Star Wars” movies.
He said at the rollout ceremony, in words that will make the Democratic opponents of missile defense cringe: “I believe we are building the forces of good to beat the forces of evil. . . . We are taking a major step in giving the American people their first light saber.”
Now, does the reader see the urgency to slow down the Iranian nuclear program while accelerating the testing and early deployment of such an airborne anti-missile system?
This system would deter Iran or any other nation, like North Korea from launching a surprise or retaliatory missile attack against the United States or any friend. It buys the attacked nation time to marshall resources for an effective counter-attack and creates uncertainty as to the effectiveness of the initial attack.
How many of these ABL systems do you think Israel will purchase from the United States?
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Israel Preparing to Attack Iran Without American Help
Map of Iran’s nuclear facilities
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is drawing up options to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities without the complicit help of the United States.While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.
“It is always better to coordinate,” one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. “But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination.”
Israeli officials have said it would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without receiving codes from the US Air Force, which controls Iraqi airspace. Israel also asked for the codes in 1991 during the First Gulf War, but the US refused.
So, they say, but, Flap does NOT believe it in the least.
This is a story to send a message to Barack Obama that it would not be wise to negotiate with the Mullahs before consulting Israel first.
Or?
Israel may go ROGUE.
A military strike against Iran would be tough for Israel since Iranian proxy clients Hamas and Hezbollah would then attack Israel from the north and west. Also, Israel will be attacked with Iranian chemically tipped missiles, putting American military defense systems to the test and Israeli cities at grave risk.
However, Israel will ONLY act if there is NO other option to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear WMD weapon that could wipe them off the map as Iran President Ahmadinejad has stated.
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Obama MUST Talk to Iran to Avert Nuclear Crisis
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Obama MUST Talk to Iran to Avert Nuclear Crisis
This prescription for appeasement of Iran by new President Barack Obama is a disaster waiting to happen.Iran poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to the new president with Tehran on course to produce a nuclear bomb in the first year of an Obama administration, an unprecedented coalition of top think tanks warned yesterday.
Barack Obama must follow through on his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis that could be revisited on the United States, the experts warned.
“Diplomacy is not guaranteed to work: it is not,†Richard Hass, one of the authors said. “But the other options – military action or living with an Iranian weapon are sufficiently unattractive for it to warrant serious commitment.â€
The warnings came in a report called “Restoring the Balance,†a Middle East strategy for the incoming president drafted by the Council for Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. Gary Samore, one of the authors, said the level of alarm over the “hornet’s nest†facing the new president in the Middle East, and the need for the swift adoption of previously untested approach, had inspired the unprecedented decision to write policy for him. “New administrations can choose new policies but they can’t choose next contexts,†Mr. Samore said. “This is what they inherit.â€
Direct talks with Iran by the American President as Iran reaches BREAKOUT CAPABILITY will DARE the new President to either bow down to the Mullahs or take military action. A force your hand scenario.
Remind anyone of the BAY OF PIGS?
Peace through WEAKNESS.
Some experts (The Council on Foregin Relations – BARF)? – not as if Flap has not been warning about this day for like over two years.
Want to bet that Israel ends up doing the dirty work with bombing raids on Iranian nuclear facilities?
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Iran Nuclear Watch: What is Iran Planning for Obama?
Map of Iran’s nuclear facilities
What is Iran planning for the incoming Obama Administration?Let’s see:
Iran says it now runs more than 5,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges
Iran has more than 5,000 centrifuges to process uranium at its enrichment plant, its nuclear chief said Wednesday, in the country’s latest defiance of U.N. demands that it halt the controversial program.
The Iranian official, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, said Iran will continue to install centrifuges and enrich uranium to produce nuclear fuel for the country’s future nuclear power plants. The number of centrifuges is up from 4,000 Iran said were running in August at the plant in the central Iranian city of Natanz.
Uranium enriched to low level is used to produce nuclear fuel. Further enrichment makes it suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
Iran has successfully launched a rocket called “Kavosh 2.”
State television did not give any further details about “Kavosh 2,” which means “Explorer 2,” saying details about the home-made rocket will be announced later. “The rocket was launched to register and send correct environmental data and (to test) separation of the engine from the body,” state radio said.
The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into space can also be used for launching weapons.
The Bush Administration over a year ago punted the Iranian nuclear problem and the ball is now landing for the Obama Presidency.
Exit question: Will Obama punt the ball and engage Iran in worthless negotiations (like Condi Rice and Bush) while the Mullahs further develop a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it?
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Shocker: Iran Has Nuclear Fuel to Make an Atomic Bomb
No, not really a shock since the United States and EU have been screwing around with Iran regarding their uranium enrichment program for years.Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.
The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.
Several experts said that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved.
“They clearly have enough material for a bomb,” said Richard Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades. “They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter.”
United Nations sanctions have been ineffective since China and Russia (Iran’s business and trading partners) have watered down the resolutions. Lately, the Bush Administration has downplayed any tougher measures to punish Iran.
The ball will now be in the Obama Administration’s court or in Israel’s military ability.
The danger now is that Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Syria (already has developed a program that Israel bombed with USA help) and Egypt will desire to develop their own nuclear programs to counteract Iran’s hegemony in the region.
An announcement from Iran of BREAKOUT CAPABILITY may be next.
Map of Iran’s nuclear facilities
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Another Worthless United Nations Resolution on Iran
Map of Iran’s nuclear facilities
The United States and Russia today agreed on a new United Nations resolution on Iran.The proposed new resolution appears to be a compromise—no new sanctions but a tough statement to Iran that Security Council resolutions are legally binding and must be carried out.
No new sanctions and worthless as usual. Clearly, the Bush Administration will be doing nothing further on Iran and the uranium enrichment centrifuges continue to spin at Natanz.
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