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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 11:16 AM
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8. Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons
To say that they do or assume that they do and base arguments upon that assumption is disinformation.

Even if they had one or two nuclear weapons, which they don't, it makes absolutely no sense that they would use them in light of the fact that they would be annihilated. It's called deterence and has been the foundation of nuclear power politics for several decades. In fact if any party were to surreptitiously deliver a nuclear weapon to Iran or any terrorist organization whether related to Iran or not they would be playing directly into the hands of neo-con war mongers. I don't think the Chinese, Russians, or India would allow that to happen. Can't say the same for Pakistan.

Of course there are those who choose to ignore the mechanics of deterence because it suits their defense contractor objectives.

The truth of the matter is that peaceful enterprise is what the neo-cons fear most from Asian nations. They are burying us economically and the globalist free traders and their corporatist bankrollers gave them the shovels to do it. Iran, Russia, and China have peaceful economic plans that spell trouble for American power and influence. Americans are facing a financial crisis. No one knows exactly when it will be triggered. American corporate elites hope to use coercion to fend it off.
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