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To: Elroy who wrote (245943)	8/15/2005 1:40:53 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572017

Go spread your war fears and the nuking of Iran on the GW Bush thread. They will eat it up.

To: Elroy who wrote (245943)	8/15/2005 2:23:51 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572017

"Don't you agree its in the best interests of the planet to not allow authoritarian dictatorial governments which are unpopular with their own population to acquire nuclear weapons?" While I might agree with you, the brutal fact of the matter is that "authoritarian dictatorial governments which are unpopular with their own population" are more the rule than the exception in the world today. And, sadly, nuclear weapons are not outside of the reach of any country willing to put a bigger dick above the welfare of their people. Yeah, ok, nukes aren't particularly useful for most military objectives, but they make a certain kind of sense in a Tim Taylor sort of way. The problem is that unless you are a first world country, fielding more than a few weapons damages your economy an enormous amount. The money is usually better spent on building more capable fabrication facilities or something that leverages their actual strengths.

To: Elroy who wrote (245943)	8/15/2005 7:53:15 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 1572017

If this is the case, then the necessary next step is to eliminate the Iranian and SA regimes before they acquire nukes. Don't you agree its in the best interests of the planet to not allow authoritarian dictatorial governments which are unpopular with their own population to acquire nuclear weapons? What about Pakistan? You seem to forget that one. Or China? We lived for quite a few years with Russia fitting your description as well. History is not on your side for the above argument. What unfortunate fallout do you anticipate from non-Iranians attempting to destroy Iran's nuclear production capabilities? About 200B barrels of oil reserves going completely off the table as far as the US is concerned. Iran's + Shia Iraq. If you throw regime change in SA in the mix, take their oil reserves off as well. Not a pretty picture. Therefore it will not happen.