To all of you who truly suspect Iran is near capable of producing a nuclear weapon:
Take this!
Ah, the tell-tale sign of an administration that is truly confident in their defense policy: adding extra missiles to a photograph via a sloppy Adobe Photoshop edit.
Real Picture
Edited Picture
Ahmadinejad's administration must work on their copy-and-paste skills if they are going to be taken seriously. However, the most laughable aspect of this punchline of a news story is how serious of a threat the Bush administration (along with our Israeli allies) currently considers the Iranians to be. This isn't the first time this has happened to the US, either. Throughout the Cold-War, the USSR would parade giant (and fake) warheads around town...for forty years.
Also, the USSR had a few real ones, and had them pointed right at our backyard.
Did we invade them? No.
Did they pose more of a threat that modern day Iran. Absolutely.
Do they even pose a legitimate threat to Israel?! God no
So can someone please tell me why the invasion of Iran is still even on the table? The most insulting thing Iran has done to the United States may very well be the release of that aforementioned photo...It offends the American intellect.
However, I do hear that many Iranian officials make a mean Excel spreadsheet, so I guess they're redeemed.
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Though I agree that an invasion on the part of the United States is a bad idea, I don't agree that the doctored photos advance that logic. The catch-22 here is that once Iran develops a real capacity to construct serious nuclear weapons, people will argue that an attack will just be too dangerous-- and right now, people like yourself argue there isn't too much of a danger. If Israel or the States attacks now, we minimize potential retaliation. That said, I think the schmuck running the country will be thrown out for squandering a booming oil industry.
It's actually more prudent to assume an Iranian nuclear threat. UN inspectors still are not being given all of the access that they request. With no hard evidence to show that Iran does not have nuclear capabilities, it's hard to believe anything that Iran has to say on the subject, given that the Iranian government did hide its original nuclear weapons program for 18 years. The fact that Iran still refuses to suspend enrichment, even when the P5 would provide Iran with enriched materials, points to Iran either preparing a nuclear weapons program, or unnecessarily appearing to do so.
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