On May 5, 12:19 am, Howard Kveck <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> I'm not really all that sure that Iran is a serious threat to anyone.
Iran is not a serious threat today, but as soon as they get the bomb
they will be extremely dangerous, and that is just a matter of time.
The hard, expensive part of making a nuke is making the fissile
material- either plutonium or enriched uranium. The former takes a
reactor, the latter takes thousands of centrifuges. Iraq had neither
of those, so when leaders in the Bush admin started talking about
Iraqi "mushroom clouds" I knew that was propaganda of the worst kind-
outright lies intended to scare the American public into an
unnecessary war with Iraq.
Iran has at least one working reactor, uranium mines, and thousands of
centrifuges. Compare that with the imaginary yellow cake uranium they
used to justify invading Iraq. This is why I called Bush a "scumbag"
for invading Iraq.
Making the bomb is easy, particularly if you go the uranium route. The
Little Boy bomb was a glorified pipe bomb, made from a howitzer
barrel. They simply used conventional explosives to fire a slug of sub-
critical enriched uranium into another piece of sub-critical uranium,
which summed up to a critical mass, and BOOM!
So it's a joke to say that the Iranians are enriching uranium but not
working on a bomb. There's nothing to making the bomb once you have
enriched uranium. Plutonium bombs are a little more complex- you have
to implode a hollow sphere of plutonium, but it's still 60+ year old
technology.
The Iranians are also religious fanatics. They're just dying to go to
paradise, the sooner the better... This is a major reason Bush will
be regarded as the worst president in history. If he had focussed on
Afghanistan and gotten the job done there, he would have had a lot of
leverage against the Iranians AND Iraqis. Instead, he's made the US
look weak and handed Iraq to the Iranians on a silver platter. He's
driven up the price of oil, which is giving the Iranians money for
their nuke program. All this is a calamity for the security of the
US. Bush supporters are a bunch of dupes and traitors.
-Paul
-Paul
