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Red Star Tribune on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
The Red Star Tribune is at it again, yet another attack on the Bush Administration and Republicans in Genera, this time over the threat of Nuclear Weapons in the hands of the Ayatollahs running the totalitarian government of Iran.
Stop us if you've heard this one: The Bush administration and Republicans in Congress believe, or want to believe, that a serious nuclear threat to the United States is developing in the Middle East. To make that case, they need help from U.S. intelligence agencies. And those agencies' analysts don't believe the threat is nearly as worrisome as the Bush clan does. So the Republicans begin beating up on the intelligence types, trying to force them to change their view. Over at the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld sets up his own separate group to produce independent analysis of the threat. The race is on to document a dire nuclear threat that probably doesn't exist.It is not probable and it certainly does exist. More below.
Stop, you say; we're talking about events leading to the war in Iraq.Well, we could be, but we're not. This time it's Iran. The administration wants proof that its tough-guy approach to the Persian state is justified, but the pros in intelligence analysis aren't having any of it. Iran, they say, doesn't have the capability to produce nuclear weapons now and probably won't have for another five to 10 years.
The Red Star Tribune fails to note that it took the United States four years to go from theory to bomb during World War II. The technology available to Iran is far superior than what was available to the Manhattan Project of the 1940s. These guys at the Red Star Tribune need to stop smoking so much dope and read a few good books on the subject. But they are too busy hating the President and his administration, not to mention Republicans in general to get learn a few basic facts before the bloviate on a topic.
That's not very convenient for the Bush administration, because today Iran will run out the clock on a U.N. Security Council resolution requiring that it stop its nuclear weapons programs -- mainly uranium enrichment. Not only did Iran not comply, it went out of its way to defy symbolically the Security Council: It began a new enrichment effort -- of a small amount of uranium to a low-enrichment level not suitable for weapons.
Sure, today it is low-level enrichment…what will they be producing next week. How long will it be before their refining efforts yield sufficient quantities of Uranium 235, shape it into charges and sell it to al-Qaeda?
We know that Iran is enriching Uranium, the process to separate Uranium 235 from Uranium 238. Iran has stated on numerous occasions that it wishes to obliterate Israel from the face of the Earth. This will take nuclear weapons. The zealots running Iran, Syria and the Palestinian Authority, as well as their supporters and the various terrorist organizations they have fostered, do not care what this will cost in regards to human life, including their own lives. We know that al-Qaeda in particular wishes to get its hands on nuclear weapons.
How long will it be before they can acquire what they need to carry out an attack on New York or Tel-Aviv with nuclear bombs? Less than five years, probably, less than ten years, certainly.
And we know that they have willing zealots fully prepared to die carrying out such missions.
And it isn't that hard to do, especially since numerous articles are floating around in books, magazines and the Internet on just how to do it.
The editorial also ignores the fact that North Korea, thanks to former President Jimmy Carter and the Clinton Administration now has several nuclear weapons. What is preventing them from brokering a deal with al-Qaeda, supplying them with sufficient quantities of U-235 or, assuming they are moving in that direction, Pu-239, so that al-Qaeda can carry out their mission of hate.
When you look at the thousands of tons of illegal drugs that are smuggled across our borders every year, not mention the 10s of thousands of illegal aliens, how easy will it be to smuggle a few softball sized packages into the United States and nuke San Francisco?
It could happen. And in less than the five to ten years the Red Star Tribune's editorial staff seems to think it will take.
All this from an organization that has now switched from the cry of "There were no WMDs in Iraq" to "Iraq had no nuclear ambitions," both of which have been proven wrong, from the recovery of over 500 chemical weapons, the discovery of botulinumtoxins in 2003, tons of precursor chemicals posed to restart chemical weapons programs, and nuclear waste left in a fashion to poison our troops in the field, all of which has been reported in the Main Stream Mediaand then ignored.
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