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Of course they're worried.  They are worried that their precious Iranian fuel won't be coming to them at a cheap price and that they'll be shown to be at least in cahoots with Iran.

Russia and China expressed alarm on Tuesday over comments by France's foreign minister that Paris should prepare for the prospect of war with Iran, which the West accuses of secretly developing nuclear weapons.

Want to avoid war?  Support sanctions like you said you would in previous UN actions.  Keep your word Russia and China, I know it's a departure from what you're used to, but at least give it a shot.

Travis

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Labels: China, iran, nuclear program, Nuclear Weapons, Russia

# posted by Travis @ 3:17 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.

Germany — a pivotal player among three European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear program over the last two-and-a-half years through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions supported by the United States — notified its allies last week that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support the imposition of any further sanctions against Iran that could be imposed by the U.N. Security Council.

The Germans voiced concern about the damaging effects any further sanctions on Iran would have on the German economy — and also, according to diplomats from other countries, gave the distinct impression that they would privately welcome, while publicly protesting, an American bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Well we tried the diplomatic route. Unfortunately, the Germans, Russians, and the Chinese are all too concerned about their economy to worry about a known terrorist nation getting a hold of a nuclear weapon.

Consequently, according to a well-placed Bush administration source, "everyone in town" is now participating in a broad discussion about the costs and benefits of military action against Iran, with the likely timeframe for any such course of action being over the next eight to 10 months, after the presidential primaries have probably been decided, but well before the November 2008 elections.

The discussions are now focused on two basic options: less invasive scenarios under which the U.S. might blockade Iranian imports of gasoline or exports of oil, actions generally thought to exact too high a cost on the Iranian people but not enough on the regime in Tehran; and full-scale aerial bombardment.

I think the blockade idea might work very well. The Iranian government is very wobbly right now and if the populace gets uppity, they certainly will have a major problem on their hands. Added financial sanctions against Iran might work well in our favor as well.

That being said, the time for diplomacy is certainly running out fast. The Israeli's certainly aren't going to take this on the chin. They have rumored to have hit nuclear facilities in Syria, so what do you think they'll do about a nation that's directly threatening them?

Iran certainly has to know that the situation in Iraq isn't going to be the same as the Iranian one. I'm willing to bet that there are people inside of Iran who think that simply because we're "bogged down" in Iraq that they can get away with this kind of thing, but there's got to be at least one or two higher up guys who say "guys, they don't have to rebuild our nation. If Americans want our nuclear program dead, it's almost a done deal".

That's what people don't seem to realize. They think that if we attack Iran, that all of a sudden we have to invade with ground forces and such. That's not the case. We don't care about anything other than their nuclear programs.

If Germany, Russia and China aren't willing to stand up and be responsible world players in the UN, then what's the point of even HAVING the UN? They all voted for sanctions against Iran and gave them X amount of time to stop enriching Uranium. That time has passed because Iran knows that they only have to convince one country to back them. Well if the time has passed, then those three countries have an obligation to go through with further measures because the previous ones were ignored. That's how it's SUPPOSED to work.

And of course, they'll gladly welcome any military attack on Iran. They don't have to get their hands dirty. They don't have to take the Iranian backlash. They only have to have big, bad America spend more money and more lives on deal with the problem and they all benefit.

That's bullshit and they should be called to carpet on it.

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com

Labels: China, Germany, iran, nuclear program, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, un

# posted by Travis @ 2:53 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

Russian President Putin has removed Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and dissolved his cabinet.  So let's see:  He's fired a ton of important people, is flying "missions" very close to the British border, laid claim to the Arctic, and has now shown off a very large bomb.

Anyone else nervous on what the hell this idiot is thinking?

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com

Labels: Russia

# posted by Travis @ 2:37 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

Wow, usually you save the "you're hallucinating" for your buddies, not over a major international incident like this.  But a Russian General said: "It must be that our Georgian colleagues are starting to suffer from hallucinations"

I tend to believe the Georgians over this one.  Russia has already started up long distance fighter jets in other countries, so it's not much of a stretch to believe that they wouldn't do the same thing to Georgia.

But as long as Georgia is a US ally, Russia will do whatever it takes to make their lives as difficult as possible.

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com

Labels: Georgia (Former Soviet State), military, Russia

# posted by Travis @ 12:51 PM 0 Comments Links to this post