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Thread #110631 Message #2322903
Posted By: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
22-Apr-08 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary threatens to obliterate Iran
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary threatens to obliterate Iran
Iran has repeatedly stated it's intention to obliterate Israel.
No Iran has not. The President has said that "It should be wiped of the map." That was within the context of a speech about the United Nations creating Israel in the first place. There was no talk of physical attack on israel with bombs.
The real leaders of Iran have not talked on the subject.
>>Whether or not Israel has nuclear weapons of it's own is not "public" knowledge, but mostly highly informed speculation as there has never been a test of such a weapon that would prove they have one.<<
Dozens of people who would know including US and UK intelligence and the people who helped design and build them have said that Israel has had the bomb. I believe that they have it. More important, the rest of the middle east knows that they have the bomb.
I think it would be a more useful umbrella of Peace if Hillary would pledge to attack Israel if it ever used the bomb on one of its neighbors.