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HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Arid-zona
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 3, 2007 - 09:36pm PT
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.

andanother

climber
Feb 3, 2007 - 09:47pm PT
those three just need haircuts.

damn hippies. Always preachin' about things they know nothing about.
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Feb 3, 2007 - 10:11pm PT
Not to worry, Iran will not exist at the end of this year.

JDF
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Feb 3, 2007 - 10:45pm PT
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.










WoodySt

Trad climber
Riverside
Feb 4, 2007 - 12:40am PT
Too bad a great Love-in can't be arranged for all remaining Hippies, then...
Tahoe climber

Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
Feb 4, 2007 - 07:13pm PT
" 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.
HighDesertDJ

Trad climber
Arid-zona
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2007 - 07:20pm PT
It is to Woody and Fatty.
SteveW

Trad climber
Denver, CO
Feb 4, 2007 - 07:35pm PT
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.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Feb 4, 2007 - 08:30pm PT
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??
Chaz

Trad climber
So. Cal.
Feb 4, 2007 - 08:33pm PT
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.
andanother

climber
Feb 4, 2007 - 08:43pm PT
"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.
Chaz

Trad climber
So. Cal.
Feb 4, 2007 - 08:50pm PT
"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
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Feb 4, 2007 - 08:55pm PT
okay, I think killing people in afganistan is bad too, my bad.
WoodySt

Trad climber
Riverside
Feb 4, 2007 - 09:11pm PT
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.
Jello

Social climber
No Ut
Feb 4, 2007 - 09:37pm PT
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
Hangerlessbolt

Trad climber
Portland, OR
Feb 5, 2007 - 12:17am PT
Current scorecard

Deaths:

Americans of 9/11 = 2973

American Military Casualties in Iraq = 3090

Iraqi civilians = 60,000+

Iraqi militants = unknown

Hangerlessbolt

Trad climber
Portland, OR
Feb 5, 2007 - 12:48am PT
Ref: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/database/
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Feb 5, 2007 - 12:56am PT
Terror attacks on the Homeland since 9/11 = 0.

JDF
Chaz

Trad climber
So. Cal.
Feb 5, 2007 - 01:06am PT
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.
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Feb 5, 2007 - 01:08am PT
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