{"id":1113,"date":"2002-07-29T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2002-07-29T02:34:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-29T06:34:00","slug":"pre-emptive-strike-against-iran-looming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/07\/29\/02\/34\/pre-emptive-strike-against-iran-looming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Emptive Strike Against Iran Looming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A14185-2002Jul28.html\">Iran&#8217;s nuclear power plant<\/a> (now nearing completion with Russian help) puts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A8185-2002Jul26.html\">recent curtailment of tacit support<\/a> for Iran&#8217;s &#8220;reformist&#8221; regime into <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Iran%20War\/Axis%20of%20Evil%20Ramifications.html\">perspective<\/a>. Under the new Bush Gang&#8217;s first-strike policy, either a miracle happens and the Iranians agree to bend over and lube up, or the <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Iran%20War\/Iran's%20Emerging%20Nuclear%20Plant%20Poses%20Test%20for%20US.html\">US will have to attack the Iranian facility<\/a> from the air. Of course, they could use Israel as their stooge, as they did when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=israel+Osirak\">Israel attacked Iraq&#8217;s power plant in 1981 using American-made F16s<\/a>. I&#8217;m assuming that the brief Israeli Government statement made then still holds: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Under+no+circumstances+will+we+allow+an+enemy+to+develop+weapons+of+mass+destruction+against+our+people\">Under no circumstances will we allow an enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction against our people<\/a><\/i>. Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=israel+nuclear+weapons\">Israel is the only nuclear power in the region<\/a> &#8212; it understandably does not want the potential terror of its weapons of mass destruction to be diminished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this article about Iran&#8217;s nuclear power plant (now nearing completion with Russian help) puts the recent curtailment of tacit support for Iran&#8217;s &#8220;reformist&#8221; regime into perspective. Under the new Bush Gang&#8217;s first-strike policy,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}