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 290 days to get around to investigating what happened in Syria on September 6, 2007. Nice.

Tweaked

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.

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?

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.

re: #37 Iron Fist

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.

His interview makes it painfully clear. His job is to muddy the waters so that nukes can be produced. Does any thinking person believe that somehow Iran will first abandon the NPT, and then throw out the IAEA, and then, only after that 'begin' working on nukes? The fact that Iran has centrifuges galore, the fact that they have built hardened research facilities, and the fact that they have amassed significant uranium are all individually evidence that they ARE working on nukes.

But listen to the rest of what he says, how a strike would be a mistake because THEN Iran would start a crash program to get nukes. (umm, unlike what they are up to already how?)

And he claims that he would resign in the event of a military strike because then there would be no mechanism to defend. Just substitute Islamic Terrorist State for 'mechanism', and you will get his true meaning.

But he won't resign because there ARE other Islamic Terrorist States to defend.

As for the six months to a year number - yeah, if we are lucky it will take them six months from now, assuming the IAEA keeps muddying the water properly, and we all keep looking the other way.

re: #53 RTLM

RTLM -

Something tells me that the "Combatant Clergy Association" 'ain't exactly Army Chaplains.
In any case, if nothing is done - AND - "Iran" gets Nuclear Weapons - our position as regards the EU actually becomes stronger. Think about it, who else has workable Anti-Missile Systems except Israel, and we know the EU will NOT buy weapons from Israel. At that point, our response to the EU can be "WHO'S YOUR DADDY?" Discussion?

-S-

The solution is simple.

Iran claims it is not interested in building a nuke. El-Baradei says they aren't interested in building a nuke.

When Iran builds a nuke, they have to test one. As soon as they test one,: Step 1: arrest, and summarily execute El-Baradei.

Step 2:Israel and the US turn Tehran into vitrified glass. None of the surrounding countries will object. A nuclear armed Iran would be a worry for every surrounding country.

Step 3: Warn the surrounding countries to pull their head in.

Step 4: Dissassemble the United Nations General Assembly, and the Security Council, and start again. You don't get to be a member in the new body unless you hold democratic elections on a regular basis.

An added reason to do what needs to be done, Mo's threatening resignation if Israel actually does what they're threatening to do in order to end the Iranian nuclear threat. In fiction, naming the UN's nuclear watchdog Mohammed would be too much, but in real life, his name was very likely considered as an important factor in his appointment.

Mohammed ElBaradei is a "watchdog" in the sense that, as Iran's lapdog, he "watches" for his treats, while performing tricks at Iran's signal.

I'm trying to follow Al-Baradei's position. He seems upset that Iran won't let his inspectors in, this makes him think the Iranians are developing weapons. He thinks they should NOT have the weapons, otherwise he wouldn't care if his inspectors got in. He thinks the Iranians will have at least one weapon within 6 months to a year. He is not in favor of a military strike to stop this "bad thing" from happening. I haven't seen him say anywhere what his proposed solution is. He seems upset because his inspectors can't go in and confirm what he suspects, that Iran is building nuclear weapons. So if he finds out that they are building them, what does he think should happen?

I think if he was in Iran's pocket he wouldn't be saying some of the things he is saying. It's also obvious that if he really believed in doing what he is charged with doing he wouldn't be saying the things he does either.

Seriously, I can't figure out what his opinion or plan is. It seems his only goal is to get his inspectors in and that's it. All I can gather from his seemingly conflicting statements is that he is a huge egomaniac; the only important thing to him is that Iran recognize his authority and let his inspectors in.

Anybody got an alternate theory?

re: #106 littleben

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.

This goes to the point the "officials" appear to be determined to evade, namely that Ahmadhimwit is ideology-driven in a manner which is fueled, not deterred, by threats of violence. Nor does he care what happens to Iran. Getting rid of MA, the Ayatollah, the mullahs, and the imaginary troll in the well will probably go much further towards neutralizing the danger in Iran. Then we're free to worry about what the rest of Dr. A.Q.Khan's nuke smuggling network's customers are up to.

Why people know enough to lock up paranoid schizos in the general population but think diplomacy will work with the ones who are in charge of governments despite the many times it has been demonstrated not to, is a mystery.

re: #122 infidelia

Because they think they can change the psycho lunatic murderers into cute lil' bunny wabbits and hope they are not wrong.
That's Obamapolitics at it's finest.

We should thank ElBaradei.

Now he should go out into the desert with a pen - never to be seen again.

re: #123 sojerofgod

Because they think they can change the psycho lunatic murderers into cute lil' bunny wabbits and hope they are not wrong.
That's Obamapolitics at it's finest.

Mmmph. More like 6 foot tall invisible bunnies named "Harvey".

If all we seem to get are corrupt and biased UN leaders, why can't they enrich and aid us with their malfeasance? They always waste their immorality and lack of ethics on little places that are hard to spell.

re: #126 David IV of Georgia

If all we seem to get are corrupt and biased UN leaders, why can't they enrich and aid us with their malfeasance? They always waste their immorality and lack of ethics on little places that are hard to spell.

"Dave IV" -

Are you suggesting that UN Officials can be "Rented?"
/s/

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re: #118 wanglese

The solution is simple.

Iran claims it is not interested in building a nuke. El-Baradei says they aren't interested in building a nuke.

When Iran builds a nuke, they have to test one. As soon as they test one,: Step 1: arrest, and summarily execute El-Baradei.

Step 2:Israel and the US turn Tehran into vitrified glass. None of the surrounding countries will object. A nuclear armed Iran would be a worry for every surrounding country.

Step 3: Warn the surrounding countries to pull their head in.

Step 4: Dissassemble the United Nations General Assembly, and the Security Council, and start again. You don't get to be a member in the new body unless you hold democratic elections on a regular basis.

El Baradei has been screwing us over as much as our leaders have allowed him to. The time to force him out was years ago. There is no case for doing anything to him after Iran gets its bomb.

The population of Tehran does not deserve to die. You should not post monstrous proposals like that. It will never happen anyway -- but statements such as those, besides being quite wicked, reflect badly on this site and can be put to use by its detractors.

re: #127 Dr. Shalit

"Dave IV" -

Are you suggesting that UN Officials can be "Rented?"
/s/

-S-

More like saying if we are going to have a cesspool in Lower Manhattan, it ought to either process our waste or be paved over. With few exceptions, all it ever seems to do is aid those who hate us. If we are going to pay for and aid corruption, we should at least benefit.

If you get rid of comment 118, I suggest getting rid of comment 128 as well. I should not have quoted #118.

re: #129 David IV of Georgia

"Dave IV" -

OK, I am in a "kick" mood tonight and WILL say it. The appropriate UN Officials were "RENTED" - and - STAYED "RENTED" - by Saddam Hussein al Tikriti - Until the "RENT" stopped. Getting it off my chest felt GOOD!

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I fear that the IAEA chief's statement makes the chances of Tehran's weather report of 5,000 degrees and cloudy much more probable. I pray and hope it's not so, but the Iranian government is heading the world into a terrible crisis.

Unfortunately it appears this is going to be what it takes to wake the American people up. I'm Rick James.....Duck and cover bitch.

Ok Everyone -

Have to give Windows Vista a "Kudo." Plugged my old Epson Stylus Photo 820 (M) to my new 'pute. It recognized the machine, and brought up the driver to make it work in about 15-20 seconds. Legacy stuff seems to connect and work quickly. I am impressed.

-S-

re: #133 kansas

Rick James?! You must be a superfreak! It's stanky time!

re: #10 Honorary Yooper

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

Its OK to turn the middle east into a ball of fire as long as little Israel is at the epicenter. (sarc)

re: #135 Independent Voter123

Rick James?! You must be a superfreak! It's stanky time!

"I-V123" -

Just tell me one thing, "Is Fred still Dead? Oh, that was Super-Fly - my bad.

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re: #137 Dr. Shalit

Rick James had body odor, but his tunes were oh so sweet! Check out Jermaine Stewart videos, too! Good tunes!

U.S. Ponders Diplomatic Post in IranOfficials say Bush administration floating idea of establishing de facto embassy in Tehran, first in three decades

This adminstration has lost their collective minds.

re: #122 infidelia

This goes to the point the "officials" appear to be determined to evade, namely that Ahmadhimwit is ideology-driven in a manner which is fueled, not deterred, by threats of violence. Nor does he care what happens to Iran. Getting rid of MA, the Ayatollah, the mullahs, and the imaginary troll in the well will probably go much further towards neutralizing the danger in Iran. Then we're free to worry about what the rest of Dr. A.Q.Khan's nuke smuggling network's customers are up to.

Why people know enough to lock up paranoid schizos in the general population but think diplomacy will work with the ones who are in charge of governments despite the many times it has been demonstrated not to, is a mystery.

Perhaps the same question should have been asked concerning Hitler back in the 1930's

re: #24 zombie

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!

Hopeless. The UN only Uses its teeth when condemning Israel.

So you wake up one morning and all over the news everywhere is the big news that Tel Aviv has been nuked, casualties expected to be very high.

Do we really want this scenario to become a real possibility? That fatalistic islamist regime in Iran believes that with the destruction of Israel they will become the darlings and natural leaders of the region.

Attacking Iran's nuke capabilities won't be easy. I don't think Israel has the capabilities to do it alone, only the USA, unless Israel opts to go the nuclear route.

And if that extreme action must be taken, expect all kinds of surprises you weren't thinking about, and some of them very painful.

The biggest single question remaining, since we know that we cannot wait until Inauguration Day 2009, is when would this happen? I would appear to be after the election has been decided, but not a whole lot later.

Well, no time to waste then.

re: #128 Wm T Sherman

El Baradei has been screwing us over as much as our leaders have allowed him to. The time to force him out was years ago. There is no case for doing anything to him after Iran gets its bomb.

The population of Tehran does not deserve to die. You should not post monstrous proposals like that. It will never happen anyway -- but statements such as those, besides being quite wicked, reflect badly on this site and can be put to use by its detractors.

I agree 100%. But what if the regime decides to place their facilities in population centres? I have seen this type of tactic before amongst Hezbollah.

If Iran manages to produce a nuclear program/bomb, it challenges my thinking process to wonder what they’ll do with it. At first they may just pound their collective Shia mumbo-jumbo chests and threaten their so-called enemies, and the UN nuclear attack-kitten, El Baradei, might quit his job; that would be monumental (not). The rest of the world will jump up and down condemning and/or praising their efforts, depending upon their position with Iran. And then there’s the 12th Imam mumbo-jumbo. Wouldn’t it be interesting, if after Iran puts in place a nuclear weapon program to bring about the “last days”, that the Mahdi jumps out of the well and turns out to be a woman? That would be poetic justice if you ask me.

If the Iranian mumbo-jumbo council and president choose to lob one or more off, how can they guarantee that the technology they received from A.Q. Khan, Russia (think Chernobyl), et al will actually work precisely? They’ve stated repeatedly that Israel would be their first target, and then probably the Great Satan, the US. Can they really trust that the sellers of such technology/weapons would not have ripped them off? Maybe a launch such as that will just wipe out the entire Gaza Strip. That will fix the Israel/”Palestine” question; there might just not be a Palestine after that. One aimed at the US might just hit Cuba. I don’t know if the Iranians have ever heard of “Murphy’s Law”.

That would just be for starters, if they chose that route. The blowback for them from the first nuclear attack in more than 60 years would not go unretaliated. Persia would cease to exist except in history books like ancient Rome, much less Iran and the Mahdi. So much for mumbo-jumbo.

And yes, a lot of people who didn’t earn or deserve a rotten and violent death would cease to exist. The most unique gift the Almighty gave to humans is the ability to think abstractly. Those who use that gift to glorify Him are blessed. Those that use it to believe in Allah the Deceiver’s mumbo-jumbo are complicit in their own, and others, downfall. Those who support that with their funds, presence, belief, verbal commitments, and prayers are not “innocents”. Maybe the Shia Iranian population is not as innocent as we give them credit for. Iran had a revolution almost thirty years ago. They could have another one and get rid of all the mumbo-jumbo and turn their nation into one of peace and prosperity. That remains to be seen.

Just Grandma’s $.02 on a lovely Carolina evening. Have a nice day and tell your friends.

I can't believe that the MSM didn't report the small detail of Iran possibly having a nuke within six months. It must have been an innocent oversight.

Wink wink.

re: #142 really grumpy big dog Johnson

So you wake up one morning and all over the news everywhere is the big news that Tel Aviv has been nuked, casualties expected to be very high.

I expect that if this should come to pass you would probably also be hearing reports that Tehran, Damascus, and multiple other large cities and military bases in the Middle East had suffered retaliatory strikes. Unless of course you were to catch it as it was breaking news. In which case you'd learn of the retaliatory strikes shortly thereafter.

re: #106 littleben

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 virgin DEMONS with anvil-shaped genitalia; Five Million for arranging eternal Viagra free bliss Hellfire K-Y for the Ayatollah.

Other suggestions are welcome.

There, fixed that for ya!

re: #145 Grandma

The Iranian PERSIAN People's time is running out...either depose the Mullahs and Mr. Dinner Jacket...or you go down in flames along with them!

re: #25 BGOH

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.

To be fair, his stated position is that while Iran could build a weapon in that amount of time, he doesn't think they will. He thinks the whole program is a matter of national pride. They need nuclear electricity, see, and they don't want to be dependent on the outside world for the enriched fuel.

It's OK to be dependent on the outside world for the turbines, the generators, and so on. That's not a matter of national pride. It isn't very urgent either. By and by, Iran will purchase what it needs for its nuclear electric generation. For the moment, the thing is to have one's very own independent capability to enrich uranium to fuel-grade levels. Or further, if it were to become necessary. As befits an historically mighty empire.

How can this alleged grownup tell this story with a straight face and expect his audience to swallow it?

re: #145 Grandma

If Iran manages to produce a nuclear program/bomb, it challenges my thinking process to wonder what they’ll do with it. At first they may just pound their collective Shia mumbo-jumbo chests and threaten their so-called enemies, and the UN nuclear attack-kitten, El Baradei, might quit his job; that would be monumental (not). The rest of the world will jump up and down condemning and/or praising their efforts, depending upon their position with Iran. And then there’s the 12th Imam mumbo-jumbo. Wouldn’t it be interesting, if after Iran puts in place a nuclear weapon program to bring about the “last days”, that the Mahdi jumps out of the well and turns out to be a woman? That would be poetic justice if you ask me.

If the Iranian mumbo-jumbo council and president choose to lob one or more off, how can they guarantee that the technology they received from A.Q. Khan, Russia (think Chernobyl), et al will actually work precisely? They’ve stated repeatedly that Israel would be their first target, and then probably the Great Satan, the US. Can they really trust that the sellers of such technology/weapons would not have ripped them off? Maybe a launch such as that will just wipe out the entire Gaza Strip. That will fix the Israel/”Palestine” question; there might just not be a Palestine after that. One aimed at the US might just hit Cuba. I don’t know if the Iranians have ever heard of “Murphy’s Law”.

That would just be for starters, if they chose that route. The blowback for them from the first nuclear attack in more than 60 years would not go unretaliated. Persia would cease to exist except in history books like ancient Rome, much less Iran and the Mahdi. So much for mumbo-jumbo.

And yes, a lot of people who didn’t earn or deserve a rotten and violent death would cease to exist. The most unique gift the Almighty gave to humans is the ability to think abstractly. Those who use that gift to glorify Him are blessed. Those that use it to believe in Allah the Deceiver’s mumbo-jumbo are complicit in their own, and others, downfall. Those who support that with their funds, presence, belief, verbal commitments, and prayers are not “innocents”. Maybe the Shia Iranian population is not as innocent as we give them credit for. Iran had a revolution almost thirty years ago. They could have another one and get rid of all the mumbo-jumbo and turn their nation into one of peace and prosperity. That remains to be seen.

Just Grandma’s $.02 on a lovely Carolina evening. Have a nice day and tell your friends.

Sorry, but wiping out nations isn't something to be done lightly. That's a lot of people to just go and kill. It's cruel and extravagant. Precedents would be set, and down the road, more nations would get incinerated. Still other nations, fearing that fate, might be driven to extremes they would not otherwise risk. Let's not go there if there's any other choice.

If Iran were to make a relatively ineffectual nuclear attack on somebody, would it not suffice, as a preventive to more such attacks and an object lesson to interested third parties, to mount a gloves-off conventional military attack on Iran with the war aim of capturing or killing anyone who had anything to do with the attack, and disabling the economy so thoroughly that no nuclear program could be reestablished for decades?

The leadership would not easily find safe haven abroad. Shia Islam's center of power is Iran. There is no "Berzerkistan" just over the horizon offering sanctuary. This same leadership would not easily find safe haven in a guerrilla war. We have that game figured out. Colonels, technicians, Imams, Ministers and members of parliament---all would have to serve 25 year sentences. Ringleaders would be executed. Everything useful to their weapons program would be destroyed, most particularly all generators and power distribution infrastructure. That would be the price of having used it to commit mass murder.

He should be fired if Iran gets the nuke

He said he will quit if Iran is attacked.

Um, is that a promise?

Muhammad Al-Baradei:

If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least... Considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has...

It didn't take long for the Mullah's to take the que from ElBaradei's script: Iran being pressured to quit NPT: official

Muhammad Al-Baradei: 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.

Orwellian doublethink. It takes a lot of education to make someone so stupid.

"Iranians living in the West" - does that include the ones who fled for their lives?re: #10 Honorary Yooper

Oh, thank god I have six months to live. And here I thought there was something to worry about.

Whew.

> He should be fired if Iran gets the nuke

Yes. Out of a Navy gun.