Here we go again. Iran is now in open defiance of the U.N. Security demands to immediately halt the enrichment of uranium. Thirteen-hundred confirmed centrifuges spin 24/7 producing material to build bombs. Iran hopes to have 3,000 doing the same by June, and what does the world do? Nothing!
This scenario has an all too familiar ring to it, and we best be careful, or else the largest state sponsor of terror may acquire nuclear capabilities.
Saddam Hussein faced 17 Security Council resolutions and did nothing to comply. In fact, he made every effort to ignore and defy the world. Of course, now many critics of the current administration claim Saddam was no threat to the U.S.
Do they now feel the same about Iran? If not what are they willing to do to stop a nation of people whom enjoy killing each other almost as much as they enjoy killing Jews and Americans?
I did a quick search and came up with 34 major terrorist acts suspected of, or inspired by, al-Qaida since 1993. That is when the first attack on the World Trade Center took six innocent lives. In 1996, the Khobar Towers came down, killing 19 Americans. In 1998, our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed. Two-hundred, twenty-four people, including 12 Americans, were killed.
In 2000, 17 U.S. sailors were murdered in the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. No one will ever forget 2001 when 2,992 innocents were killed on Sept. 11. But the killing has continued.
In 2002, a synagogue bombing in Tunisia left 21 dead, including 11 Germans. Outside a hotel in Karachi, a car exploded and 14 more died, including 11 French tourists. Our consulate in Karachi was also bombed, taking 12 lives. And who can forget the bombing in a Bali nightclub in which 202 lives were lost, mostly Australian citizens?
A suicide attack on a hotel in Kenya killed 16. The year 2002 was rather busy for the radical factions of the "religion of peace.
In 2003, suicide bombers killed 34, including eight Americans at a housing compound in Saudi Arabia. Four bombs killed 33 people in Casablanca, Morocco. At a Marriott hotel in Jakarta, a suicide car bomber killed 12 and injured 150. Islamic terrorists hit another Saudi housing compound in November, killing 17. Suicide bombers attacked two synagogues in Istanbul, killing 25 and injuring hundreds. A British bank and consulate in Istanbul received truck bombs, and 26 more died. Those were just the most deadly of 2003. I don't have space to list them all.
Shall I go on? I shall! In 2004, in Madrid – 1,500 injured, 191 dead. A Saudi Oil company attacked – 22 killed. An Australian embassy in Jakarta bombed – nine dead. Terrorists entered the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah – nine dead.
In 2005, in London, 52 killed and scores injured. Twenty-two killed in Bali suicide attack. Fifty-seven killed at three American Hotels in Jordan.
In 2006, a Muslim student drove a rental car into crowd. Another Muslim entered a Jewish retirement center, shooting and killing a woman. An 18-year-old Bosnian shot up a crowded mall. And on and on and on…
When are the nut jobs in this country going to get it that there is a war going on in the world – whether we like it or not?
It is a war with an evil that cannot be appeased, cannot be reasoned with and cannot be stopped, short of eliminating the participants. They can talk all they want, but they cannot stop the radicals who have a goal.
These radicals want the destruction of Israel, the destruction of America and control of the oil wealth of the Middle East. They are willing to die to meet their goals. Is the world, however, willing to stop them?
Iran will soon have nuclear weapons. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said, "We believe they pretty much have the knowledge about how to enrich. From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, BUT THAT'S A FACT."
El Baradei is the same guy who hammered President Bush about his concern regarding Iranian nukes. Now he is saying that concern was apparently well founded. El Baradei concedes U.N. sanctions will do little, if anything, to stop Iran.
Of course they won't. No more than sanctions stopped Saddam. Saddam got plenty of help from Russia, Germany and France during the "oil for food" scam.
So the question we must ask ourselves is simple. One resolution and two rounds of sanctions have had little or no impact on Iran. Will begging Ahmadinejad to stop make him stop? Please, please, please Mr. nice terrorist?
Iran is the largest supporter of Hezbollah. It has sent weapons and support to the terrorists in Iraq who have killed American soldiers. Iran supports terrorism.
Evil cannot be appeased. It cannot be negotiated with. It cannot be cajoled. It must be stopped.
We stopped Saddam and have been criticized ever since. I suspect any attempt to stop Iran will be met by the same criticism. That is unless we collectively as a nation send the message to our political leaders that we want Iran stopped.
World War II took about four years to win. I hear the critics of the Iraq war argue the incompetence of Bush has us bogged down after 5 and a half years in Iraq. But why? Maybe a nation that saw a threat and went to work to eliminate it was the difference in the 1940s. Or was it the lack of every move made by our military being questioned by the media and political opposition every day?
Was it the real sense that the wrong of Pearl Harbor had to be righted? Or maybe just the fact that American troops were in harm's way so we held the criticisms until after the fighting stopped? Many books have been written about the terrible things that happened during the war; however, back then they were written after, not during.
Make no mistake about it. This war is being fought very differently that any other war we have ever fought. Soon we may have a new war to fight. It may be against an enemy that is not only equipped with a nuclear weapon but well equipped with the will to use it.
Now that the evidence is in on Iran's intent, and the facts are established by a critic of George Bush, we had better make some decisions. This time there will be no hiding behind the accusations that Mr. Bush lied. The world is in agreement; Iran is moving rapidly towards its goal.
I close with a direct quote from one of the most vocal critics of George Bush, the New York Times. "Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency's top officials."
Sound familiar? I told you so and so did my friend Jerome Corsi in his great book, "Atomic Iran."
Atomic Iran is coming. Are you ready?

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