20061114 The Problem with Iran

The Problem with Iran

Reformed Chicks Blabbing – a wonderful web site - if you have not had a chance to visit, use this as an opportunity…

Anyway, the Reformed Chicks Blabbing kinda, well, lay it on the line with a recent post titled: “It might be time for Israel to bomb Iran.”

Remember when the Israelis bombed the French built Iraqi nuclear reactor on June 7^th, 1981? Yes, you read that correctly, the “French” manufactured nuclear reactor.

Remember when President George W. Bush tried to gather some consensus before the United States invaded Iraq and the French, Germans and Soviets wouldn’t go along with the program. Seems many folks have forgotten that President Bush tried – and folks have forgotten that the French, Germans and Russians would not cooperate because they were making too much money off Iraq…

Please read: “23 February 1998 Iraq: the French connection.”

Anyway – remember:

1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor

And be sure to watch the video of “Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin tells the world's media: "We decided to act now before it is too late"

From June 7th, 1981, BBC:

The Israelis have bombed a French-built nuclear plant near Iraq's capital, Baghdad, saying they believed it was designed to make nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.

It is the world's first air strike against a nuclear plant.

An undisclosed number of F-15 interceptors and F-16 fighter bombers destroyed the Osirak reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad, on the orders of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

The army command said all the Israeli planes returned safely.

The 70-megawatt uranium-powered reactor was near completion but had not been stocked with nuclear fuel so there was no danger of a leak, according to sources in the French atomic industry.

Mortal danger

The Israeli Government explained its reasons for the attack in a statement saying: "The atomic bombs which that reactor was capable of producing whether from enriched uranium or from plutonium, would be of the Hiroshima size. Thus a mortal danger to the people of Israel progressively arose."

It acted now because it believed the reactor would be completed shortly - either at the beginning of July or the beginning of September 1981.

The Israelis criticised the French and Italians for supplying Iraq with nuclear materials and plegded to defend their territory at all costs.

The statement said: "We again call upon them to desist from this horrifying, inhuman deed. Under no circumstances will we allow an enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction against our people."

The attack took place on a Sunday, they said, to prevent harming the French workers at the site who would have taken the day off.

There have been no reported casualties.

The Osirak reactor is part of a complex that includes a second, smaller reactor - also French-built - and a Soviet-made test reactor already in use.

Iraq denies the reactor was destined to produce nuclear weapons.

For more information read: “Making mischief in the middle east.”

And oh!, for the potential of having another point of view available on this and other Middle East matters in the future…, please do not read the Little Green Footballs post: “JihadTV Comes to the United States,” if you have a heart condition.

And for the love of Pete, please do not tell Maryland Blogger Alliance member, Soccer Dad, about “The Nobel Prize Is Racist and Stems from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” unless all sharp objects have been removed from the immediate area… Un-freaking-believable.

Oh my... this won’t do… We already have the New York Times, for pity sake… “Near-Silent Start in U.S. for Al-Jazeera.” And how about this? The Los Angeles Times is fine with al Qaeda: “Al Jazeera, wide angle.” Well duh, isn’t the Los Angeles Times a branch office of Aljazeera?

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