Sunday - January 07, 2007

Duke Nukem

The problem with all the bleeding heart liberals and anti-war activists here in the US is that they’re 10,000 miles away from the madness that is the Middle East. It’s one thing to prance around major cities in the US carrying signs and chanting crap. It’s an entirely different matter to live in the shadow of incoming rockets every day and listen to some asshat in Teheran say he is going to wipe you off the map.

The Israeli Air Force is composed of several hundred F-16I fighters while the Iranian Air Force consists of a few dozen F4’s, F5’s, F14’s and a handful of French Mirages - plus a slew of SAM-10 missiles (almost all of which are outdated and out of service for lack of parts).

Guess who wins?

My only worry is whether the Israelis should use tactical nukes. After due consideration, I have decided it is probably best that they do to make sure the bombs penetrate the hardened targets and stop this Iranian madness before it goes one step further. After all, the screams from the UN and other Arab countries will be just as loud if they use nukes or just throw rocks. They might as well go “whole hog” if they will pardon my metaphor.

As for the peaceniks in the US, let ‘em pound sand. Better yet, deport them to Israel and let them endure a few days of abuse from Hamas and Hezbollah - then let’s see how loudly they sing “Koombayah”.

I say to the Israelis, “Let’s roll!” What have they got to lose? If the pansy-ass Liberals in the US want to tie our military’s hands and help hand over the world to insane IslamoNazis then perhaps we need to keep encouraging our friends like Ethiopia and Israel to bring the hammer down for us.

It doesn’t matter how the job gets done, as long as it gets done. Peace is never an easy thing to achieve. It’s important to remember that you just have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. I’ll have mine over-easy.

Revealed: Israel Plans nuclear Strike On Iran
_{(TIMES - UK) - January 7, 2007}

ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.

Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.

“As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,” said one of the sources.

The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad’s assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years.

Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.

Israeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.

Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world.

Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in Iran’s nuclear programme:

• Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment

• A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels

• A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb

Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran’s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a “second Holocaust”.

The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map”.

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