ElBaradei says they’re is six months out from the bomb. The mullahs have repeatedly declared – most recently this morning – that not hell, high-water, nor economic pressure will stop them. So naturally the State Department has chosen now……

What if the UN – and ElBaradei – is playing a game of “let’s get Israel so paranoid they pop off the first nuke?”

Think about it: Iran has, as a stated goal, wiping Israel off the map. If Israel fires first at Iran, Iran would be ‘justified’ (in the eyes of the world) in obliterating Israel with it’s own nukes. Not only does Iran – and the rest of the Islamic world – get what they want, they can merely claim self defense. Plus, they turn Israel into the bad guy. And in the process, Iran can usher in the 12th imam…

Thing is, if Iran really is months away from being able to put together a bomb, they would want to wait until Iran is able to ‘defend’ itself. That could explain why ElB is so adamant that “a military strike would be the worst thing possible” – it negates the timetable.

Nah – I don’t believe in conspiracy theories…

ElBaradei says Iran could make a bomb in six months to a year

Conventional wisdom says the U.S. could obliderate Iran in less than 30 minutes.

Persian ashtray anyone?

Bomb Iran, now. Just their nuke facilities and their military bases, especially the Quds training bases.

MEMRI, always on top of the big stories

First he says ‘no imminent threat’, then in the same interview says ‘oh, about six to 12 months’.. and then to top it off, nope, military intervention is just plain bad all round

mind numbing.

In an ironic way, Obama may be the only person who can indeed take out these facilities.

E.g., Nixon going to China, Reagan to Reykjavik, et cetera.

SteveMG on June 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM

uh, right…

Nixon and Reagan both cared about this country and wanted to do the right thing to protect it…Obama…not so much.

Quite a statement for a country that will use the same term on someone else if they get the bomb.

History is going to judge a number of folks much more harshly than Chamberlain regarding Iran. The cost for dithering is pretty high here, particularly with recent statements by Iran. Iran is much more blatant than Hitler ever was about their intentions and again the world does nothing.

JustTruth101 on June 22, 2008 at 9:27 PM

They are just waiting for the right time. Ratings for ElBaradei compared to ratings for a twenty mile wide swath of smoldering city. It is all about timing.

But, hey, we have Charlie Sheen’s nasty VM to Denise Richards, now THAT’S new you can use, right?

Wait…I’m confused.

Is ElBaradei’s job to help countries get the bomb or is it to stop them from getting the bomb?

NeoKong on June 22, 2008 at 2:12 PM

He’s a Muslim…it’s Iran…any questions?

which is true if you believe the IAEA knows the whereabouts of all of Iran’s nuclear facilities and what’s going on inside each of them.

And you believe an egyptian muslim is actually trying to halt the development of a nuclear weapon. Oh teah, he works for the un so he only has the best intentions.

How much you want to bet this guy disappears the week before iran tries to nuke israel.

Answer that correctly, and one knows how to deal with it.

No one has an iota of real confidence in the UN, or in peaceful outcome, or that it’s a peaceful program (the same people who do claim confidence in any of those almost always immediately argue that the world’s biggest sponsor of Islamic-inspired terrorism has some sort of a right to a bomb).

We all know how this plays out, but only to a certain degree, and that degree is the first shot. Oh, there will be a shot, but when, where, and who fires it continues to roll with the ripples of present history, past events, and the horrorshow of when it comes.

1993 US President Bill Clinton takes office.

1995 President Clinton imposes oil and trade sanctions on Iran for sponsorship of terrorism, seeking to acquire nuclear arms and hostility to the Middle East process. Iran denies the charges.

1996 Mr Clinton stiffens sanctions with penalties against any firm that invests $40m or more a year in oil and gas projects in Iran and Libya.

1997 23 May – Muhammad Khatami elected president of Iran.

1998 President Khatami calls for a “dialogue with the American people” in American TV interview. But in a sermon a few weeks later he is sharply critical of US “oppressive policies”.

1999 Twentieth anniversary of US embassy siege. Hardliners celebrate the occasion, as reformists look to the future rather than the past.

2000 18 February – President Clinton extends ban on US oil contracts with Iran, accusing it of continuing to support international terrorism.

2000 March – US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calls for a new start in US-Iranian relations and announces lifting of sanctions on Iranian exports ranging from carpets to food products. Iranian foreign ministry initially welcomes the move, but Ayatollah Khamenei later describes it as deceitful and belated.

2000 September – Mrs Albright meets Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi at UN in New York – the first such talks since diplomatic ties were severed in 1979.

The tireless efforts by the Clinton administration resulted in turning the Iranian government into a responsible player among the world’s nations.

Then BOOOOSH ruined everything……..

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that any injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

MB4 on June 22, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Indeed. It’s quotes like this that make me wish Machiavellianism were the West’s official policy. Damn, that guy knew how to think about what needs to happen when one group of men opposes another group of men.

We all know the U.N. couldn’t find it’s butt with both hands and I doubt the E-I-E-I-O or whatever it’s name is, is any better or anymore trustworthy. The day we trust the U.N. to look out for our best interest is the day we will surely die.

I will guess that Israel has more that google earth pics as evidence of Iran’s nuclear installations.

Go Israel GO!