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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 3, 2007 - 09:36pm PT
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/03/iran.warning.reut/index.html
In a letter to London's Sunday Times newspaper, the three former U.S. military leaders said attacking Iran "would have disastrous consequences for security in the region, coalition forces in Iraq and would further exacerbate regional and global tensions," they wrote.
"The current crisis must be resolved through diplomacy," they said.
The letter was signed by retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, a former military assistant to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Hoar, a former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command; and retired Navy Vice Adm. Jack Shanahan, a former director of the Center for Defense Information.
They urged the U.S. government to "engage immediately in direct talks with the government of Iran without preconditions.
Have someone braid another flower into your hair you effin hippies.
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andanother
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those three just need haircuts.
damn hippies. Always preachin' about things they know nothing about.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Not to worry, Iran will not exist at the end of this year.
JDF
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’
Sarah Baxter, Washington
A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.
Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium in another plant at Natanz which has become the focus of concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.
According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour’s death emerged on January 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as “gas poisoning”. The Iranian reports did not say how or where Hassanpour was poisoned but his death was said to have been announced at a conference on nuclear safety.
Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, claimed on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran acquiring the bomb.
Hassanpour won Iran’s leading military research prize in 2004 and was awarded top prize at the Kharazmi international science festival in Iran last year.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to announce next Sunday — the 28th anniversary of the Islamic revolution — that 3,000 centrifuges have been installed at Natanz, enabling Iran to move closer to industrial scale uranium enrichment.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency say that hundreds of technicians and labourers have been “working feverishly” to assemble equipment at the plant.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Too bad a great Love-in can't be arranged for all remaining Hippies, then...
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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" three former U.S. military leaders said attacking Iran "would have disastrous consequences for security in the region, coalition forces in Iraq and would further exacerbate regional and global tensions," they wrote. "
yeah. no sh#t. what a revelation.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2007 - 07:20pm PT
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It is to Woody and Fatty.
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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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And I'm sure you all will be the first to volunteer for duty,
huh? How many more deaths do we need, how many more maimed
soldiers, how many of your tax dollars do you want flowing to
Halliburton/Cheney and the rest of the defense contractors. . .
Instead of getting national health care so maybe climbers could have some insurance when they got hurt. You guys are real brave
making the comments here. Big chicken hawks. Stand up for your words, brave boys, join the military. You could be the first in line to invade another country we really don't have a beef with. . .other than to try and claim their oil.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Yeah, what's with those godamned hippies?
Don't they realize,
that having the ruling class make more money
is ultimately in the best interests of them and theirs??
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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How many Americans killed in Afghanistan?
Oh I forgot, we don't keep track of THOSE guys because they can't be used to advance a political agenda. I guess they're not as important.
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andanother
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"Oh I forgot, we don't keep track of THOSE guys because they can't be used to advance a political agenda. "
Totally! I can't beleive the crazy left wingers are explointing the deaths of our soldiers.
The right wingers would NEVER do that. No way! Instead they will exploit the LIVES of our soldiers to advance a political agenda.
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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"Instead they will exploit the LIVES of our soldiers to advance a political agenda"
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
Thomas Paine, Great American 1776
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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okay, I think killing people in afganistan is bad too, my bad.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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I find it both amusing and sad how the left bleeds all over themselves about the deaths of American servicemen and women. In truth, they don't care one whit. They despise the military just as much as they did during Vietnam. However, their behavior then was so repugnant, that they know they can't repeat it. Instead, they turn 180 and pretend the opposite. Spare me the false tears; it's Bush you're using these deaths against. It's your lever, your tool. Do you really think you're fooling anyone who's paid attention to your rubbish, lies and hypocracy for the last two generations. The only people who think this tactic works are the left. Your talking to yourselves. Give a hug to Jane Fonda; the country takes you as seriously as it does her.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Woody, by your standards, I'm far left of center. When you presume to tell me that I don't care about American soldiers' and their families' sacrifices, you're flat wrong. I don't hate Bush, anymore than I hate you. He's just a major part of what ails us, as are folks like yourself who empower his kind. You have every right to speak your drivel, but more and more people are realizing that's all it is.
Now with that rant out of the way, have fun and take care out on the rocks!
-AmicableButNotStupidJello
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Hangerlessbolt
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Current scorecard
Deaths:
Americans of 9/11 = 2973
American Military Casualties in Iraq = 3090
Iraqi civilians = 60,000+
Iraqi militants = unknown
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Terror attacks on the Homeland since 9/11 = 0.
JDF
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Still no mention of how many American casualties in Afghanistan.
The reason we don't hear the numbers of American casualties in Afghanistan is because there is no political agenda the Left can advance by stating it.
To the Left, American casualties in Afghanistan are just not as important as those in Iraq. If they were, we would see just as many memorials to American Soldiers and Marines who died in Afghanistan as we do for those who died in Iraq.
And I have yet to see a single one.
Zero.
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