This picture is funny but did you know that when Hillary Clinton visited Iraq, the Army Blackhawk helicopter used to transport her was given the call sign “Broomstick One.”
… And they say the Army has no sense of humor!
Oil Rich, Energy Independent, Iran Starts Installing New Nuclear Centrifuges; that is the headline the “Main Stream Media” should have plastered all over the place. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that an oil rich nation like Iran has no need for Nuclear power. That’s right they don’t need it. Their ultimate goal is to obtain nuclear weapons so that they can destroy Israel and Western Theologies. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been saying this for years but the world has refused to take him seriously.
Well the clock is ticking and it is getting so loud that the world must act now. United Nation sanctions are useless folly designed only to either buy time or continue collecting payoff monies from Iran.
If I can simplify this for all the misguided Liberals, the only realistic way to handle such a brutal regime is to turn Iran and all its inhabitants into glass parking lot. We and Israel have the power to do it and eventually we will have to. Time is not on our side.
Iran starts installing new nuclear centrifuges
Iran on Tuesday said it had started work to install thousands of new centrifuges to enrich uranium at its main nuclear plant, angering world powers who fear Tehran wants to develop an atomic weapon.
“Today, the phase for installing 6,000 new centrifuges at the facility in Natanz has started,” the state broadcasting website quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying at the atomic plant.His announcement came as Iran marked its “national day of nuclear technology” on the second anniversary of its first production of uranium sufficiently enriched to make atomic fuel.
Iran has already installed around 3,000 P1 centrifuges at an underground enrichment facility at Natanz, in central Iran, according to the latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog, and tripling this number would mark a major expansion of its nuclear capacities.
The West fears Iran could use enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon, and Tehran’s refusal to suspend the process has been punished with three sets of UN Security Council sanctions and US pressure on its banking system.
World powers responded swiftly and with concern to Ahmadinejad’s latest defiant announcement.
Gregory Schulte, the US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said “today’s announcement reflects the Iranian leadership’s continuing violation of international obligations and refusal to address international concerns.”
The British foreign office said that by announcing the installation of new centrifuges Iran had “chosen to ignore the will of the international community.
“This is despite the fact that Iran’s enrichment programme has no apparent civilian purpose, and shows that Iran is making no effort to restore international confidence in its intentions,” it said.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the international community must consider “reinforced” sanctions if Iran does not respond to concerns about its nuclear programme.
Ahmadinejad also inspected a “new generation” of centrifuges being built at an above-ground research facility at the plant, the official IRNA news agency reported.
These are Iran’s version of the more efficient P2 centrifuges — the IR-2 — which can enrich uranium considerably faster than the standard P1s. The reports did not say how many of these centrifuges Iran has built.
Ahmadinejad said he would announce more “good news” at a major ceremony at 1600 GMT at the headquarters of Iranian state broadcasting in Tehran alongside the head of Iran’s atomic energy organisation Gholam Reza Aghazadeh.
State television was repeatedly playing patriotic music while children at schools around the country chanted the familiar mantra of “nuclear energy is our natural right.”
Tehran has repeatedly insisted that it has no intention of making concessions over calls for it to freeze enrichment, leading to deadlock in the standoff with the international community.
Iran insists that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and solely aimed at generating energy for a growing population whose supply of fossil fuels will eventually run out.
The United States has never ruled out military action to bring Tehran to heel, and Iran’s arch enemy Israel has expressed alarm about the nuclear drive, especially after Ahmadinejad predicted the Jewish state is doomed to disappear.
Underlining the tensions, Israel’s National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned on Monday that Israel would respond to any Iranian attack by destroying the “Iranian nation.”
The Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that envoys from world powers would meet in Shanghai on April 16 to discuss how to end the standoff over the Iranian nuclear programme.
But Iran is also believed to have experienced difficulties in utilising its existing centrifuges to full capacity.
Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, has said it was “natural in this kind of industry that there are ups and downs once in a while.”
In a warning to Ahmadinejad’s domestic rivals, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that Iran had handed former nuclear negotiator Hossein Moussavian a two-year suspended jail sentence for “harming national security.”
Moussavian was a leading nuclear negotiator in the moderate team that made a deal with EU countries to temporarily suspend enrichment during the presidency of reformist Mohammad Khatami until 2005.
Here are some scenarios comparing the year 1968 to 2008. Although they are just scenarios, the differences in the outcomes do highlight the politically correct and morally deficient state our country is in today.
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into high school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1968 – Vice principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his own shotgun to show Jack.
2008 – School goes into lock down, the police are called, Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors are called in to assist traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1968 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 – Police are called, SWAT team arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. They are charged with assault and both are expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: David won’t sit still in class, disrupts other students.
1968 – David is sent to the principals office and given a good paddling. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 – David is given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra state funding because David has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1968 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario: Mark has a headache and takes some Aspirin to school.
1968 – Mark shares Aspirin with the school principal.
2008 – Police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high-school English.
1968 – Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2008 – Pedro’s cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. American Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover 4th of July firecrackers, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up an anthill.
1968 – Ants die.
2008 – Police and the Hazmat Team are called and Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. FBI investigates parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny’s dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls during recess and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him.
1968 – Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing.
2008 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in federal prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy.
I don’t know how much coverage this will get from the “Main Stream Media” but The Jerusalem Post is reporting that an upcoming joint US-Israel report will claim that Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to Syria.
This should be front page news if and when it does come out and may alter the outcome of our Presidential election. It’s probably something the Democrats don’t want to hear.
‘Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria’
An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein transferred weapons of mass destruction to the country, Channel 2 stated Monday.
Furthermore, according to a report leaked to the TV channel, Syria has arrested 10 intelligence officials following the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh.
