Submitted by Dave Levy, Jun 13, 2007 19:13

Fat chance of not buying their oil, as one poster suggested. China and Russia have thwarted virtually every attempt by the IAEA to stop Iran's enrichment..and they haven't done much at the UN either. They need Iranian and OPEC oil more than a preceived danger (in the M.E. and Israel), from Iran.

Now we learn that Bush will not attack Iran, short of something very significant happening. What is significant I ask? Do we have to wait for the mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv, or Saudi Arabia, or the US fleets before we act.

Iran is smart. They only need one positive test of an atomic device to change the dramatics in the M.E. and the world for that matter. Just look at No. Korea. It violated it's agreements, has become a member of the nuclear club..and in essence, deterred any US (Condi Rice) action. Iran sees all this and is laughing at US.

Israel may have to attack Iran..assuming it can get through those no fly zones that the Arabs will put up. To avoid an Arab backlash, it might have to consider using it's own nukes..aircraft may take out 3 plants, but Iran boasts it's missile will rain on Israel if attacked, and it has 40,000 suicide bombers awaiting instructions to blow themselves up in crowded (Jewish) areas.

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