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Sarah Palin on North Korea’s Missile Test and Obama’s Missile-Defense Cuts
If there is one thing that Sarah Palin understands that King ACORN doesn’t it’s Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of “Peace Through Strength”. The video at the bottom of this post is just as relevant today as it was back in 1980.
Responding to the missile test by North Korea, Governor Sarah Palin today reaffirmed Alaska’s commitment to protecting America from rogue nation missile attacks.
“I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program which has clear potential of impacting Alaska, a sovereign state of the United States, with a potentially nuclear armed warhead,” Governor Palin said. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we continue to develop and perfect the global missile defense network. Alaska’s strategic location and the system in place here have proven invaluable in defending the nation.”
Governor Palin stressed the importance of Fort Greely and the need for continued funding for the Missile Defense Agency. The governor is firmly against U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ proposed $1.4 billion reduction of the Missile Defense Agency. Greely’s isolated location in Alaska as well as its strategic location in the Pacific allows for maximum security and development of the country’s only ground-based missile defense complex.
“Our early opposition to reduced funding for the Missile Defense Agency is proving to be well-founded during this turbulent time,” Governor Palin said. “I continue to support the development and implementation of a defensive missile shield based in Alaska. We are strategically placed to defend the critical assets of the United States and our allies in the Pacific Theater.”
Governor Palin also requested stimulus funding for the Kodiak Launch Complex. The Kodiak Launch Complex is a commercial rocket launch facility for sub-orbital and orbital space launch vehicles owned and operated by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation, a public corporation of the State of Alaska.
“To preserve our peace and our freedom we must maintain a margin of safety. Not numerical superiority in arms and armament , but a margin of safety that is a combination. A balance of a strong economy, mutual respect and unity among our great allies and a revitalized up to date military capability. History has taught us only too well, that tyrants are tempted only when the forces of freedom are weak, not when they’re strong.” ~ Ronald Reagan
Did Iran Test a Nuke?
The Israel Insider is reporting that Iran may have tested a series of nuclear weapons underground.
If there is any truth to this story, then we may need to gird our loins… especially if Obama gets elected.
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. … Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” ~ Joe “The Perpetual Gaffe Machine” Biden
Iranian source: “Quake” Saturday was nuclear bomb test
Israel Insider exclusively reports that a seismic event this weekend in southern Iran may in fact have been a massive underground nuclear bomb test. According to the USGS, the tremor measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale took place Saturday night, October 25 just before midnight Iran time, with its epicenter at 26.70°N, 55.02°E, just north of the strategic straits of Hormuz, opposite Abu Dhabi.
Zoomable map source: Google Maps.The claim that the tremor was in fact a nuclear test came from an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims to be working in uranium enrichment for the project. A report published by Israel Insider on Friday, October 24 included a captionless map that portrayed the area of the seismic event that occurred the following night, based on location information previously provided by the Iranian source.
Israel Insider’s source reports that the test is in fact the second in a series. A 4.8 Richter scale event occurred on October 21 with an epicenter (26.70N, 54.96E) within 5 km (3 miles) of the October 25 tremor.
Israeli and foreign sources have long speculated that Iran has been in possession of ready nuclear bombs but would only begin testing them when a full production line for nuclear weapons is in place.
The source indicated that Iran is being assisted by China and North Korea. Israel Insider’s Iranian source reports that two “nuclear rockets” have been completed and are intended for use against the Jewish State in the coming months.
The site of the test and the development facility are believed to be in close proximity. The location appears to have been carefully selected. The area is exposed to significant seismic activity, which could serve to mask nuclear tests, although the recent spike in activity in that specific area significantly deviates from historical trends. A tremor measuring 6.2 struck the area on September 10, 2008 (its epicenter was 80km or 50 miles due west), the largest seismic event in the area in more than 33 years.
Source and additional data:USGS
The location on the Persian Gulf near the straits of Hormuz would also facilitate delivery and transport of material and personnel. the strategic importance of the immediate area may also be intended to deter potential strikes against the facilities, which could close down the flow of a substantial percentage of the world’s oil.
Iran Will Have Nukes This Year
If this news is coming from Israel, it can’t be good. Their intelligence is usually right on the mark.
The time has come to send Mahmoud Ahmadinejad off to meet the 72 virgins. They can’t possibly still be virgins, can they?
‘Iran may get nuke technology this year’
Iran will likely have nuclear bomb technology in 2008, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said Wednesday, citing an updated Israeli intelligence assessment.
However, Mofaz, a former defense minister and IDF chief of General Staff, said in a speech at Yale University, Connecticut, that Iran could have the know-how to build nuclear arms within months.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office would not comment on Mofaz’s new assessment of the Iranian program.
In his speech on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the transportation minister went on to say that while the diplomatic channel was the preferred and correct option to stop Iran becoming a nuclear power, if sanctions do not prove effective, that option must be removed from the table. He said every scenario must be prepared for and that any means of ensuring Iran does not go nuclear would be valid.
Referring to the Holocaust, Mofaz said that everyone has learned that history sometimes repeats itself but that now the world had an opportunity to ensure that it doesn’t. He said “this time,” the Jewish people would not let it happen, expressing hope that the world, too, would not let it happen.
An Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 410 kilometers south of Teheran.
He called the Iranian regime the central threat to humanity in the 21st century.
Mofaz was in the US heading an Israeli delegation, which was holding meetings with US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, within the framework of the Israel-US Strategic Dialogue.
Oil Rich, Energy Independent, Iran Starts Installing New Nuclear Centrifuges
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.
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