He should quit now.

Sir, their is a typo.

What the media did not tell you is that in this interview win Arabic with Al-Arabiya TV, he also said that Iran is able to produce one nuclear weapon in six months to a year.

After the mistake is correct please feel free to delete this post and #2.

Anything I can do to help.

WHAT THE F**K?!

Iran owns him. No surprise he tries to protect them.

Change!

At least he's promised to quit if somebody bombs Iran.

re: #5 Hard Right

UN is owned by thugs and terrorists

Six months to a year? Given the IAEA's track record, I suspect that Iran already has them.

Israel is spinning up.

NO NUKES FOR YOU!

I hope it's a joint op, or we do it. I think we can handle the heat a lot better.

In my view, a military strike would be the worst thing possible. It would turn the Middle East into a ball of fire.

Interviewer: It would be worse than sanctions?

Muhammad Al-Baradei: Much worse, because a military strike would mean, first and foremost, that even if Iran does not produce nuclear weapons today, it would implement a so-called “crash course,” or an accelerated plan to produce a nuclear weapon, with the agreement and blessing of all the Iranians – even the Iranians living in the West.

In other words, Al-Baradei does not want us to stop Iran from doing what Iran wants to do.

re: #6 Izzy Dunne

Change!

At least he's promised to quit if somebody bombs Iran.

Only because he'd lose his Iranian paycheck.

Iran will call it the ElBaradei in honor of his efforts.

It would need at least six months to one year. Therefore, Iran will not be able to reach the point where we would wake up one morning to an Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Those statements do not make sense

The IAEA, which is supposed to prevent proliferation, has all but resigned itself to accepting a nuclear Iran, despite its statements that it will seek to obliterate Israel and rain fire and brimstone on its enemies.

It doesn't see a problem with this, and it took 290 days to get around to investigating what happened in Syria on September 6, 2007. Nice.

(goodness gracious) - LOLOLOL! Great sense of humor, Charles. You've got it.

Inshalla, Israel will give him his reason for quitting!

re: #10 Honorary Yooper

You got to love the logic of "we have to see if they end up building nukes ^{(ed- let's not forget that once they have them its too late)} because if we do not, they will build them.

hmmmmm, so eitherway they get nukes? Best argument to bomb them I've heard....and I am someone who is against bombing them.

Muhammad Al-Baradei: In my view, a military strike would be the worst thing possible. It would turn the Middle East into a ball of fire.

Like his threat to resign, I'm not exactly seeing a down side.

re: #14 lawhawk

The IAEA, which is supposed to prevent proliferation, has all but dedicated resigned itself to accepting allowing a nuclear Iran, despite its statements that it will seek to obliterate Israel and rain fire and brimstone on its enemies.

It doesn't see a problem with this, and it took

Good thing a toothless watchdog is ... watching!

We get to find out when the rabid Jew-hating thugs can destroy whatever the heck they want.

Muhammad Al-Baradei: I don’t think that what we are seeing today in Iran poses a clear, imminent, and immediate danger.

Interviewer: But in a year or two, it could become...

Muhammad Al-Baradei: If this happens, it will be a different story, but if a military strike is launched against Iran now, in my opinion, I will have no choice but to...

I have to agree with ol' Al-Baradei: Iran is not an imminent threat, the UN is.

I am conferenced into the most boring effing meeting, lead by one of the biggest blowhards I have ever met. Thank goodness he can't see my face. Can you see eye rolling through the phone?

He's keeps talking about his quitting, as if this is of supreme importance!
Egomania!
Does he really think that the US and Israel are sitting around taking that into account? "Well, we could do this, but El Baradei might quit!" Picture it!

So, let me get this straight. ElBaradei is saying:

a. Iran is going to get nukes SOON!
b. Attacking them to stop them would be the worst thing possible!

So, what conclusion can we draw from this? Only two:

1. He WANTS Iran to get nukes;
...or...
2. He actually thinks, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that Iran can be "negotiated" out of building nukes. In which case he is insane.

Either way: He's GOT TO GO as UN weapons inspector. Get someone in there who has some teeth!

So let me get this straight...Iran is effectively six months to a year away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, and this asshat would only be disappointed if the U.S. and Israel act to prevent a radical, fundamentalist regime from getting to that point?

Could someone please explain to me what in the hell the mission of the IAEA was supposed to be when it was created? This is seriously, seriously messed up, and I'm having a very hard time self-censoring right now.

I'm sure Mohammed (el baradei - piss be upon him) must be proud.

He will be remembered as the "absentee" father of the Iranian Bomb, much like AQ Khan is the father of the Pakistani bomb.

Iran could have its nuke even faster if El Baradei's FedEx package is delivered on time.

re: #23 wolfie

Of course it's of supreme importance to the Ummah-if he quits, there is a possibility that an infidel could get the job.

Why doesn't he just say that he wants Iran to have nukes? A little candor at least would be refreshing. What a jack@$$!

Can we hold Mohammed to his promise toresign should someone bomb Iran?

..... and your reason for staying around is? GWB, by taking out Saddam, single handedly disarmed him from ever having nukes and in response, Libya coughed up their WMD program.

This guy reminds me of Marcia Clark when she was running all over cable TV explaining how to solve crimes and convict murderers....

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re: #24 zombie

I nominate John Bolton !

re: #33 wolfie

He should be John McCain's Secretary of State or National Security Adviser

I wish the guy would quit and someone would put a real man in the job, oh, say, Bolton, not some nuke-enabling girly man.

perhaps he wants any attack to take place after iran has nuclear weapons so not just the mid east is a ball of fire but the whole world....share the love..../

His name is Mohammed ElBaradei. He is just functioning as an agent of taqqiya for the Iranians, to delay military action until Iran has nukes. If he should fail in this mission, he will, of course, resign.

He will have failed.

If he succeeds, Iran gets nukes. He's now telling us this could be within the next 6 months.

Let's see what the Presidential Candidates say about this.

As John Bolton puts it: It's called UN's nuclear watch-puppy

This is a threat directed at the Americans – if you strike, I will resign.

Foresake me, my darling.

re: #36 phoenixgirl

perhaps he wants any attack to take place after iran has nuclear weapons so not just the mid east is a ball of fire but the whole world....share the love..../

That does sound like their kind of "love".

re: #39 chinesearithmetic

This is a threat directed at the Americans – if you strike, I will resign.

Foresake me, my darling.

2 birds with one stone.....

The Bush Administration will share the blame when Iran does get it's Nukes.

Condi Rice's and George Bush's policy of letting the EU handle it, and then letting Russia handling it, and then Germany, and then the UN, and now back to the EU has been a disaster.

Iran is six months from a nuc.

Iran is run by the cult of the 12th Imam.

The cult of the 12th Imam believes they can actuate the apocalypse and bring about the return of the Madhi.

Dinnerjacket has been pretty direct about "wiping out Israel."

As John Bolton put it: When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. Retaliation for them, which would obliterate their society, doesn’t have the same negative connotations for their leadership.

The only real question I have is why the ordinance to solve the problem is still in the storage depot.

In six months Barack Obama will have been elected president and all this misunderstanding will be cleared up by President Obama's brilliant rhetorical skills....and a whole lot of hope.

The Iranians hate us and are actively working to kill us, effectively in a state of war.

If we stand aside and do nothing, they'll hate us and kill us eventually

If we do anything to stop them, they'll still hate us, but be less able to act on it.

Choice seems pretty cut and dry to me.

What's with the comments? or lack thereof?

Is anyone else having problems with the site?

Has anyone reported that Miss Bunny's blogs have been removed at obama's site?

re: #46 NoSubmission

What's with the comments? or lack thereof?

We are busy digging out the fallout shelter's we filled in at the end of the cold war.

Going lunch...
BBL

re: #48 CoCo

Has anyone reported that Miss Bunny's blogs have been removed at obama's site?

Is she a furry?

Wazup ere?

ElBaradie is married to Aida Elkachef, the cousin of Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani. Former Iranian prime minister and close confidant to Ayatollah Khamenei. Presently, he is the Secretary General of the Combatant Clergy Association.

(neck deep)

Anyone home.......?

Hmmmm.

re: #54 NoSubmission

Anyone home.......?

Just you and I.

re: #56 Ringo the Gringo

Just you and I.

Did the world end and we are the only survivors?

We're having some kind of issue with the database server. Have a support ticket in to Hosting Matters.

re: #57 NoSubmission

A glitch in the matrix perhaps?

re: #57 NoSubmission

Did the world end and we are the only survivors?

I was on a con call. 15 people on a phone line where no one talks.

I am here

It's alive!

Ack!

[/Shaking]

Let's try this again:

'How the english speaking people of the world, through their unwisdom and good nature, allowed the wicked to re-arm themselves'

— A paraphrase of Winston Churchill's theme for his book "The Gathering Storm".

I hope we don't make the mistake again.

Oh darn - it looks like the possum is being thrown under the bus. Would that make the faux seal officially "roadkill"?

[Link: adage.com...]

Well we're back.

Get used to gaps like this, if Iran gets its nuke.

re: #57 NoSubmission

Did the world end and we are the only survivors?

Is it safe to go outside?

Um. Hello?

Now Online: 3,118
Logged in: 329

Did algore quit his job?

Um. Anybody want to talk about ID vs evolution?
Bueller? Anybody?

re: #70 VegasRick

Um. Anybody want to talk about ID vs evolution?
Bueller? Anybody?

I thnk you should have an ID- a driver's license will do

re: #47 MJ

Is anyone else having problems with the site?

It was down for a couple hours for me.

re: #24 zombie

He's GOT TO GO as UN weapons inspector. Get someone in there who has some teeth!

I know a way to make that happen...;)

(waiting two hours to post that during the maintenance... lol)

re: #72 rawmuse

It was down for a couple hours for me.

It said "routine maintanence" -I think Charles was letting the hamsters have a nap while he got a haircut.

Use the godamn F22's.

They are good for other things than fighting Ironman and Transformers.

Muhammad Al-Baradei: I am not doing this for material profit. If I was working in the private sector, I would... I am doing this out of the conviction that I am defending shared values. If we deviate from these shared values...

What, pray tell, might these glorious "shared values" be?

re: #66 Ojoe

Well we're back.

Get used to gaps like this, if Iran gets its nuke. Obama wins.

Can we say "Fairness Doctrine"?

Is he going to resign after Iran's first nuclear test? I think the answer is no.

It would be fair if he did. The test would confrim that "the international system has begun to collapse," which he said is a circumstance that would force him to resign; not to mention it would mean that personally, he utterly failed at his job. His official day job I mean, not that other job that he doesn't talk about.

I agree with the view that he should resign yesterday.

All international organs, IAEA, UN, etc., should be disbanded now. It's way too clear that totalitarian, Islamic regimes have entirely too much power to be allowed to participate.

We should start over with true democracies, i.e. no islamic countries, barely any countries in Africa, and then let the dictators see how much business we mean when we're not being fettered by them.

Also, in what way is getting a weapon in six months to a year not a "crash progrm?"

In a fair world, he would be forced out for incompetence and dereliction of duty, but it will never happen.

re: #71 madisonsfriend

I thnk you should have an ID- a driver's license will do

I updated my voter registration today. No Id required. No proof of anything required. And I was hoping they would make me show my passport or birth certificate or something.

I think my dead grandparents ought to vote this year.... j/k

hard to believe that he is completely incompetent --- he must be in cahoots re: #53 RTLM

ElBaradie is married to Aida Elkachef, the cousin of Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani. Former Iranian prime minister and close confidant to Ayatollah Khamenei. Presently, he is the Secretary General of the Combatant Clergy Association.

(neck deep)

up to his eyeballs in cahoots

re: #76 ironbill

Muhammad Al-Baradei: I am not doing this for material profit. If I was working in the private sector, I would... I am doing this out of the conviction that I am defending shared values. If we deviate from these shared values...

What, pray tell, might these glorious "shared values" be?

Why, bringing back the 12th imam, silly. ;)

re: #75 pegcity

Use the godamn F22's.

They are good for other things than fighting Ironman and Transformers.

We should use B-1 bombers in the role they were originally designed for.

Why make new weapons when you are not getting the full potential out of the ones you've already got? -cf. Jack Handey

re: #43 jcm

"ordnance"

spell check won't catch it.

re: #48 CoCo

Has anyone reported that Miss Bunny's blogs have been removed at obama's site?

So you're saying the rabbit died?

re: #65 pianobuff

Oh darn - it looks like the possum is being thrown under the bus. Would that make the faux seal officially "roadkill"?

[Link: adage.com...]

So they killed the baby seal?

/sorry, i couldn't resist

Seems to me Iran would get the greatest impact by detonating a bomb in downtown Baghdad.They already have a delivery device and would hit the "Great Satan".I hope Bush again acts before the threat is imminent!

re: #84 David IV of Georgia

We should use B-1 bombers in the role they were originally designed for.

Why make new weapons when you are not getting the full potential out of the ones you've already got? -cf. Jack Handey

Thanks to Jimmy Carter, the B-1 never fulfilled its potential.

Time to warm up the F-16Is.

re: #14 lawhawk

The IAEA, which is supposed to prevent proliferation, has all but resigned itself to accepting a nuclear Iran, despite its statements that it will seek to obliterate Israel and rain fire and brimstone on its enemies.

It doesn't see a problem with this, and it took 290 days to get around to investigating what happened in Syria on September 6, 2007. Nice.

The Syrians needed to give time for Assad to hide all the evidence and build a baby milk factory in its place.

And ElBaradei is clearly stalling until Iran gets nukes. They shouldn't wait for him to resign; he should be fired. And he and the UN should be sent the bill for cleaning up Iran; if they had done their jobs, Iran wouldn't be this close.

Good thing it looks like Ol'merde will be gone in less than 6 months. He'd send the Iranians coordinates for delivery.

But there is a section in the Prophets that prophesizes enemy armies preparing to invade Israel, when they are wiped out by something that sounds like what would happen if an Iranian nuke went off course and hit them instead.

re: #76 ironbill

Muhammad Al-Baradei: I am not doing this for material profit. If I was working in the private sector, I would... I am doing this out of the conviction that I am defending shared values. If we deviate from these shared values...

What, pray tell, might these glorious "shared values" be?

Why the values of the Caliphate, sharia, etc.

re: #89 Ward Cleaver

Thanks to Jimmy Carter, the B-1 never fulfilled its potential.

There is that whole conventional vs. total war thing...
You know, the one bomber, one won war thing?

ya,,

but we need amnesty,
but, we need national govt. health care

ya
but, we need to up the taxes on the oil companies

ya
but,
global warming is real

f'n loon two party evil money cult whores can not stop sucking up the money, while the bomb is being loaded on the rocket..

f'n dumb bastards in D.C.

re: #89 Ward Cleaver

Thanks to Jimmy Carter, the B-1 never fulfilled its potential.

Were it only that. It's amazing how much chaos and mischief a failed one-term president can unleash upon the world. Remember that if BO becomes president...

re: #94 taxfreekiller

ya,,

but we need amnesty,
but, we need national govt. health care

ya
but, we need to up the taxes on the oil companies

ya
but,
global warming is real

f'n loon two party evil money cult whores can not stop sucking up the money, while the bomb is being loaded on the rocket..

f'n dumb bastards in D.C.

Everyone else is too smart to go thru what they do to get the job.

I think if LGF existed before WWII we had warned about Hitler's arms program and nobody would care.

The IAEA is to Iran's ayatollahs as the MSM is to Obambi: in the tank. When Allah's candle lights up Israel it's a safe bet that ElBaradei will be no where to be seen.

There is no imminent threat. Read my lips. None. Iran will have nukes in as soon as six months (maybe a year), but that's a long time. Really long time. Heck, my dog only lived to be 18, so that's like 1/36th of her whole life. We're talking a long time.

What a tool and a fool - sure, if you attack Iran, then they'll have a reason to build the bomb that may be ready in 6 months to a year, but if you leave them alone, they'll finish the aforementioned bomb in about 6 months (to a year).

We have a mineshaft defecit. If this were Dr Strangelove, it would be funny. Coming from the voice of the world on nuclear proliferation, it makes you cry.

This really makes me very very angry. El Baradea et al are toying with my children's lives. Thank God we at least have some type of missile defense shield in place. But I live on the east coast between NY and DC, and this is rediculous. Just because liberals like living on the edge of crazy in many aspects of their lives, the rest of us, don't. I've had it with these people, these liberals, these tyrants. My children's lives are more important than all of them.

To the people of Iran, I say, help us help you free yourselves from the genocidal monsters.

To the members of LGF I say: buy two of all you grocery purchases and store one for for food storage.

Distant Thunder #100. You got that right. I don't care if they call me a hoarder or what, but I've been storing food for a while now. It would be wise in a stable world because you might have a family emergency. In our very precarious world, it's a necessity. Just look at how quickly store shelves are emptied just before a hurricane. Now imagine things 1000 times worse, and we are in deep trouble.

re: #100 DistantThunder

This really makes me very very angry. El Baradea et al are toying with my children's lives. Thank God we at least have some type of missile defense shield in place. But I live on the east coast between NY and DC, and this is rediculous. Just because liberals like living on the edge of crazy in many aspects of their lives, the rest of us, don't. I've had it with these people, these liberals, these tyrants. My children's lives are more important than all of them.

To the people of Iran, I say, help us help you free yourselves from the genocidal monsters.

To the members of LGF I say: buy two of all you grocery purchases and store one for for food storage.

Maybe the Illudium Q-37 explosive space modulator can take care of Iran, then.
Seriously, I hope it is Amadmanonjihad that is asking "Where's the Kaboom? There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!" And then it blows up in his face.

I wonder how the oil futures are faring right now? It looks like Israel will have to attack Iran more sooner than later. They US won't/can't (politically).

I'm guessing that through all the smoke and mirrors, Israel --who gets a dose of terrorism-reality daily -- will make the strike rather than allowing a Hamas nuke go off in Tel Aviv. We sold them 10 bunker-busters just for this reason.

We will be facing $6.00 per gallon by the time McCain/Obama starts his term.

(I close my eyes and dream of a day when oil is an expensive non-necessary luxury item for obsolete gas-powered cars, and we can turn the Arabian peninsula back into "just a desert" again.)

re: #17 WrathofG-d

You got to love the logic of "we have to see if they end up building nukes ^{(ed- let's not forget that once they have them its too late)} because if we do not, they will build them.

That struck me as well.

To paraphrase ElBaradei:

"They could have nukes in 6 months to a year, therefore there is no justification whatsoever for military action."

So, if I follow him, we're supposed to wait until Iran has the actual means to unleash all the death, destruction, chaos, and necessary to trigger the return of the Mahdi before we dare them to do so with a military attack.

Any attack taking place prior to that major milestone would prevent Iran from being able to achieve its glorious objective of the destruction of Israel and global Islamic rule.

Therefore, the West should wait to attack until Iran is in a position to actually trigger the Apocalypse and usher in this golden age.

"If there is a military attack, it will only motivate them to accelerate their already urgent and clandestine efforts to develop a nuke."

So, he's recommending that the UN put Iran on double-secret probation to prevent them from putting their program on double-frantic-acceleration.

No wonder these guys get the big money...this sort of high-stakes political gamesmanship makes no sense at all to me.

well, now we know how close iran is to having a nuke.
our window of opportunity is closing. time to act and stop them.
the last thing we want is to be left doubting their intentions when a bomb goes off in israel.

Some constructive suggestions for Israel;
1.Jericho Missile to the well housing the 12th Imam; destroys DinnerJackets command and communication system;
2. Arm the Iranian Kurds and foment a guerrilla warfare front;
3.Offer a Ten Million Dollar prize to the Iranian who sends Dinner Jacket to his 72 Houris; Five Million for arranging eternal Viagra free bliss for the Ayatollah.

Other suggestions are welcome.

re: #101 kathyn

And ammo too......

I can't say if i were Iran Id trust a north korean missle as a delivery system, its a 50-50 shot between it blowing up on the launchpad or over Syria

Implicit in el-Baradei's 6-to-12-month projection is the assumption that Iran's current membership in the NPT and the presence of IAEA inspectors has in any way hindered its enrichment and bomb engineering programs, and that these haven't been going on in secret all the while that el-Baradei has been running interference for the Iranians.

I doubt the time frame is 6 to 12 months from some hypothetical future point of break with the West. I believe it's 6 to 12 months from some definite point in the past when the Iranians decided to go for broke in advance of any potential Israeli or American military strike. And that point might have been more than 6 or 12 months ago....

re: #108 pegcity

Wouldn't that be a pity.

Nuke the 12th imam or flatten the Hibs Balla SRO Iranian snake pit in Dimashq first? Choices, choices. Decisions, decisions. Will America's enemies act before the election? Will America's friends act afterward?

re: #108 pegcity

I can't say if i were Iran Id trust a north korean missle as a delivery system, its a 50-50 shot between it blowing up on the launchpad or over Syria

Which is why I say the prophecy of an invading army wiped out by something that sounds a lot like a nuke could happen that way.

Of course, if an Iranian nuke landed on Syria, the UN would still blame Israel.

The bankruptcy of the Bush administration is shown by their giving any credibility to this buffoon.

The current members of Israel's Knesset do not want early elections because they know they will be thrown out.

The best thing that can happen for Israel's and America's joint interests is the election of Bibi Netanyahu who will launch a missile-based strike on these Iranian bastards who are helping to kill our soldiers in Iraq.
F the Saudis Georgie. It's time to grow a pair.

ElB never does make much sense. You always have to read between the lines.
He doesn't mention how much (if any) work his organisation to try to determine exactly where Iran is with their nuclear programme. He only seems concerned that he might have to resign if Iran proves that it has a nuke. And where, pray, would he get a job outside of the UN?
If that's not bad enough he thinks the ME will go up if there is a military raid but on the other hand he doesn't think it will make any difference to Irans' ability to produce a nuke in 6 mths+ if it does go ahead. It's either a pile of poo or he knows more than he's letting on.
He is not the man to be investigating this at all.
He is not on the side of the world at large.
His affiliations are way too suspect.
Too many cahoots and no cajones.
Bad news all round.

Muhammad Al-Baradei: I am not doing this for material profit.

That sounds... credible. Someone pinch me.