In todays PC world we will have to wait until the mushroom cloud is looming over a U.S. city before we will take action…but as one poster already correctly put it the left and the rest of the world will just blame Bush…

Arab guy: “My people blew up two of your buildings.”

Carlos Mencia: “Oh yeah? MY people blew up two of your COUNTRIES!”

Arab guy: “My people are trying to create a nuclear bomb and might use it.”

Carlos: “MY people INVENTED the nuclear bomb! And we ALREADY used it! TWICE! ‘Cause that’s how we play, bitch!”

Our grandchildren will thank us for it. If we don’t do anything, we may be someday debating over how they were able to sneak a radiological device or even a nuke into the country (through the southern border) and destroy an American city. Maybe if that city is San Fran the left will finally get mad enough to fight back.

Nah, they’ll just blame Bush.

I’m thinking all of these little ignorant balls need a 50 megaton reminder, starting with Iran’s nuclear facilities… and ending with the areas in Pakistan where we think Osama is hiding.

I haven’t been able to get tuesday’s IAEA report yet (it isn’t yet on their website), but this could be referring to the HEU found earlier this year. We’ll have to see.

As I said previously, the 5MW research reactor in Iran that we (the USA) built for them in 1967 used weapon’s grade HEU fuel until it was reconfigured to use LEU fuel in the mid 1980′s. The first batch of used fuel for that reactor was, as far as I’ve been able to tell, never returned to the USA because of the revolution. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq was attacking Tehran with airstrikes and SCUDS and the Iranians moved this spent fuel to prevent a nuclear accident. The contamination, at least the HEU contamination, was most like from this batch of used fuel (which can no longer be used for weapons, btw).

The plutonium contamination is something new and is a cause for concern. The PU contamination could be from the same spent reactor fuel, although HEU fuel does not have a lot of U-238 available to convert to plutonium. For those who may not know, plutonium is made from uranium-238 inside reactors.

Whatever the case, chemical tests of the contamination will probably reveal the source and how the contamination occured. We’ll know the truth when the results are eventually released.

Just one quibble in the post. Bushehr, once it becomes operational, will not be a source of plutonium for weapons. Although plutonium is created in all nuclear reactors, high quality uncontaminated plutonium for weapons is ideally make in a heavy-water reactor and by using specific procedures to make the material. Extracting plutonium from a LWR like Bushehr, while not completely impossible, is sufficiently difficult that the Iranians don’t have the technical expertise to do it alone. In addition, it would be pretty much impossible to do covertly.

Arak is really a reactor, once completely, that would give the Iranians a real plutonium production capability. So far, no reprocessing facility has been identified in Iran, which is a required component in any plutonium weapon program.

I’m one of those that include Korea and Vietnam as part of the Cold War. Heck, you might even make an argument that Desert Storm was the last battle of the Cold War. US-Alliance vs. Soviet-trained and equipped Iraq, in a battle for arena superiority.

(Although… the ChiComs are still REDS…)

How cute that today, the progeny of those communists in our intelligentsia refer to the U.S. as imperialistic. I always have to ask, which country that we have defeated did we subsume under U.S. rule? /tangent

It was war, but because any openly hostile conflict was feared to result in a nuclear exchange, it was a war of non-hostilities.

…I should make a call!

Bush planted the plutonium.. wake up neocons.

He planted some by Mother Sheehan’s uterus in Texas, too. A glow-in-the-dark liberal uterus tree! WoooHooo!

Today we have an enemy who has a nationally mandated program to build reactors nukes and has promised to use them in the name of Allah, yet we twiddle our thumbs in the face of Armegeddon.

Those who don’t learn from history ………..

You know the rest.

Three final points.

- Those bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of lives – Japanese and American.

- The war ended and Japan surrendered.

- Today, Japan and her people are both friend and ally, and live in a thriving democracy.

No one would have thought that possible 60 years ago.

I guess I’ve only shied of considering it WW III because it didn’t seem like a world war. Though, the USSR certainly built up an empire of its own.

Actually, I believe it came from Karl Rove’s plutonium machine, which I believe he keeps next to his weather generator. I could be wrong, though.

I see it that way. Probably because we actually won it. Not that the dims or the MSM were any help.

As to WWIII… or IV… or XII or whatever….

The seeds were planted in 1979, and they’be been building the power base through Madrasas since then… an entire generation.

But you can’t have a real war without a declaration of War, somthing this political climate can’t, or won’t, allow.

I want my Cowboy President back!

Actually, it is WW IV, and it has already started.

Something tells me the Israelis aren’t going to wai that long. If Bush continues to fiddle, they will do what is necessary to deprive Ahmedinijihad of his nuclear arsenal.

They have no other choice, really.

Ooooo, augmented modalities.

Trolling the blogs today, I noticed something. It seems like everything in the news is pointing to the same thing. Get your cowboy hats ready. Yeeeehawww!!! Let’s start in Iran: “This year’s Ten-Day Dawn (February 1-11) period will mark the……

The IAEA couldn’t find the butts with both hands…

…er..butt with their hands…butts with all their hands…do they have one collective butt? How do you frame this metaphor when you’re talking about multiple people, each with a butt and hands (presumably)?

…OK…they couldn’t find their p*ckers with a flashlight…er…flashlights…p*cker with flashlights…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!