Iran Could Have The Bomb In 16 Days
Yikes...
Of coursing, having enough uranium and weaponizing that uranium are two different things. Still, a scary situation.
Some on the left are, predictably, not taking this seriously, and left-wing uber-blogger Josh Marshall is making light, comparing this pronouncement by Rademaker to the "sixteen words" from President Bush's State of the Union address where he laid out the case for war with Iraq for the American people. Of course, those "sixteen words" turned out to be perfectly accurate (not that you could convince your average liberal of that), but regardless the two situations just aren't the same.
Iran is our sworn enemy. They are telling us that they have 50,000 centrifuges and are enriching uranium. Of course, they've probably exaggerated that number, but even if the reailty is just 25% of what is being claimed we're talking about 12,500 centrifuges all working toward making Iran a nuclear power. If that's not something to take seriously, I don't know what is.
Plus, if there was ever a time to err on the side of caution wouldn't it be at the time when we are facing a possible nuclear threat from a rogue, terror-sponsoring, extremist Islamic state?
Something has to be done about Iran. Now is not the right time for America to be taking on another massive ground invasion, but if diplomacy isn't working (and it certainly hasn't deterred Iran to this point) force is the only other option we have.
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands of centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.S. State Department official said.
``Natanz was constructed to house 50,000 centrifuges,'' Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, told reporters today in Moscow. ``Using those 50,000 centrifuges they could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 16 days.''
Of coursing, having enough uranium and weaponizing that uranium are two different things. Still, a scary situation.
Some on the left are, predictably, not taking this seriously, and left-wing uber-blogger Josh Marshall is making light, comparing this pronouncement by Rademaker to the "sixteen words" from President Bush's State of the Union address where he laid out the case for war with Iraq for the American people. Of course, those "sixteen words" turned out to be perfectly accurate (not that you could convince your average liberal of that), but regardless the two situations just aren't the same.
Iran is our sworn enemy. They are telling us that they have 50,000 centrifuges and are enriching uranium. Of course, they've probably exaggerated that number, but even if the reailty is just 25% of what is being claimed we're talking about 12,500 centrifuges all working toward making Iran a nuclear power. If that's not something to take seriously, I don't know what is.
Plus, if there was ever a time to err on the side of caution wouldn't it be at the time when we are facing a possible nuclear threat from a rogue, terror-sponsoring, extremist Islamic state?
Something has to be done about Iran. Now is not the right time for America to be taking on another massive ground invasion, but if diplomacy isn't working (and it certainly hasn't deterred Iran to this point) force is the only other option we have.
