On 3 March 2015 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came before the U.S. Congress and once again painted a false picture of Iran and its ambitions. His vision was both apocalyptic and simplistic: the state of Iran is evil and the source of most of the aggression and terrorism in the Middle East; it is eternally hostile to the West and it aims at the destruction of Israel; the West, with the United States leading the way, must stop this evil regime before it gains the capacity to use nuclear weapons.
He has been saying this for at least twenty five years, and like the false prophecies predicting the end of the world, the alleged catastrophe never seems to occur. Iran never seems to come up with a nuclear bomb. However, Netanyahu never stops predicting it.
The truth is that the actions and motives Netanyahu assigns to the Islamic Republic are factually wrong. Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, has not carried on weapons research of this nature in over a decade, and is willing to commit itself to an inspections regime that will keep track of its good intentions in this regard. This stance is attested to by nearly every Western intelligence agency, and the Israeli intelligence organizations as well.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/06/the-apocalypticism-of-benjamin-netanyahu/
I think we are going to find this out perhaps even before Obama packs his bags and leaves the WH. I really do hope you are right poncho, really.
This time there is evidence to the contrary, Iran has a patience we don't understand in the west. If they themselves don't make it, their yellowcake (which they HAVE ADMITTED making) will probably end up in N. Korea.
The clincher IMO will be Iran with an ICBM capacity made a reality.
Someone is going to DO IT.
To be forthright, personally I have asked myself , who are we, the people with the greatest inventory of WMD on the face of God's green earth to tell another sovereign nation they can't have any themselves.
We, the only nation to have actually used nuclear devices in actual war and disintegrated almost 200,000 men women and children with two A-bombs in three day (and yes it ended a war which could have gone on for another 5-10 years and saved our nation).
Nuclear War: It's like a bad dream, a nightmare from which you awake only to realize its not only a nightmare its a reality.
To date Russia has the largest H-bomb
as far as we know - the 60 megaton "Tsar Bomba" one of which would create a blast hole 34 miles across of total annihilation.
That would have the potential to destroy the human population of the NYC Metro area.
Think about it.
Thank God there is a God.
Thank God He hears prayer.
HankD