Why Not Just Bomb the Qom Facility?

Catching them every time they cheat only works if each cheat doesn’t represent a progression toward nuclear arms. If Iran is caught at stage 1 and then later at stage 2, etc., we’re not stopping anything. We’re just pressing pause on a bad movie and then allowing it to continue.

Bombing one hole in the ground and/or catching the Iranians cheating will not dissuade this Iranian regime one iota from pursuing a nuclear weapons capability. As Ahmadinejad’s UN speech made perfectly clear, he and his cohort only accept a higher authority than that of man. The only way to accomplish what must be accomplished, is to bite-the-bullet, and topple this Iranian regime, once and for all. And then destroy their nuclear capability.

Making a nuke is very difficult making it able to fire from the top of a missle even harder. Now it is just not as good of news if you tell the whole truth. Keeping the image of mad max apocalypse is just so much more interesting. The only problemis you stir up those that love the drama or don’t understand. But what do we have to worry about it is not like we have ever invaded a country without all the facts is it? We have time to see this out. This Hatfield and McCoy crap we have going on has to stop.

The Iranians are laughing at Obama – they know he won’t do anything meaningful to stop them, just more blah, blah, blah. Sanctions won’t stop this fanatic regime, only military action will work. It’s Jimmy Carter all over again.

“Bombing the facility might only make the Iranians more determined, whereas if Western intelligence agencies catch them violating their agreements every time they cheat — and this is the third time since 2002 — the Iranians may conclude, ultimately, that any aspirations for a nuclear weapon are futile.”
Dear Lord, what manner of idiot thinks like this?

No way will he bomb the site.

Sanctions will not work they didn’t work against Sadam and it won’t work against “mymood I’minajihad” The USA, France, the Brits and Germans along with Israel should bomb these facilities back into the desert.

No government propaganda media sites like cbs, nbc, abc and cnn will able able to save Obama in the next election. The AMerican people will not be fooled again by state run media. Obama’s socialists pal Chavez is even now helping Iranian scientists look for uranium in Venezuela. I do not need ABC news biased commentators to write a article stating the negatives of bombing Iranian nuclear sites to me. All they are doing is prepping reasons for why Obama will not bomb Iran not the truth which is that he is a anti military option person.With 6 aircraft carriers flying thousands of sorties a day on Iran nuclear sites and relentless bombing, Iran will beg for peace with the threat of their econmic collapse. They must also be held accountable for all of the weapons being sent to Iraq and Afghanastan that have killed hundreds of USA troops. We are weak under this president not in military strength but in resolve and confidence. He would rather make the military option go off the table than bomb Iran which would destroy his picture of a nice new AMerica that he wants the world to see us as under him. Meanwhile Iran gets nukes and may use it on Isarael and its neighbors one day killing 10 s of thousands and the weak Obama will be to blame..

Their weakness is gasoline – they export crude but import gasoline due to limited refining capability – I think I read that they have a single refinery. The population is already on edge. Cut off their imports, threaten to have the population WALKING in 2 weeks and see how long the mullahs last…
Oh, but we can’t interfere in another nation’s government, I guess until Tel Aviv is a smoldering, radioactive ruin…

Well, the main reason we won’t bomb the reactor at Qom is the Weakling in Chief. He will try to solve the situation via his mouth (words and speeches), and as usual, will fail miserably.

“The goal of the U.S. government is not to close this one facility at Qom, but rather to convince the Iranian government to end their nuclear weapons ambitions writ large.”
Yeah, that’ll do it.
For thirty years it’s all failed but now the ONE will do it?
I think not.
Obama’s projection of US weakness has emboldened Venezuela to talk openly of developing a bomb with Iran’s help and now Brazil is talking nuclear weapons.
This is going to go very badly. It’s what happens when a community organizer thinks the rest of the country and the rest of the world is as stupid as Chicago.

“now Brazil is talking nuclear weapons.”
Hmmm that sounds strange…
Oh you mean this.
“Jose Alencar, who also served as defense minister from 2004 to 2006, said in an interview with journalists from several Brazilian news media that his country does not have a program to develop nuclear weapons, but should: “We have to advance on that.”
“The nuclear weapon, used as an instrument of deterrence, is of great importance for a country that has 15,000 kilometers of border to the west and a territorial sea” where oil reserves have been found, Alencar said.
Alencar aide Adriano Silva confirmed the comments published by newspapers including O Globo and O Estado de Sao Paulo. But he said they were personal opinions and not a position of the government.”
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie

Bill O’Reilly was talking with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (an intrepid Obama defender) last night, and when Bill stated that sanctions wouldn’t work on Iran, Dr. Hill said, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘Yes, because Achmadinejad knows what was done to Saddam Hussein’.
So, what was that? A confession that Bush’s STRENGTH might have had a good influence in that region?
But I thought the Dems were all strictly opposed to that war. Which is it?
They’re fiddling while Rome burns.

WE HAVE VERY LITTLE TIME – THEN, BOMBING WILL BE THE ONLY ANSWER. IRAN IS NOT THE SOVIET UNION. THE LEADERS IN IRAN DON’T CARE ABOUT LIFE, EVEN THEIR OWN. AND……. WITH OBAMA, THEY FIGURE WE ARE BLUFFING AND THEY WOULD BE RIGHT ABOUT THAT. LOOKS LIKE ISRAEL WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE FORCED INTO MAKING THE DECISION. OBAMA………. DO NOT SHOOT THEIR PLANES DOWN!!!!!!!

WHEN WILL LIBS GET IT? IT IS NOT ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, IRAQ NOR PAKISTAN. NOW, WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE….. Hmmmmmm.???

Oh, for Pete’s sake. I’m tired of all the negotiation. Throw about 12 tons of explosive at that one site, then dare Ahmedacrazy to start a war. We’ve got plenty of bombs for them. None of this Iraq kid-glove stuff either, just drop ordinance on them until the planes run out of fuel or we run out of targets.

Thanks, Jake. Good article with excellent links. I really appreciate stuff like this.

I don’t understand why people want to attack Iran. Nobody dare says lets bomb North Korea because they have the nukes. So we can conclude that USA and Israel will bully those without the nuke. Therefore, if you don’t want to be bullied, make a big bomb.

“I actually expected Obama and Biden to open the ‘White House Beer Garden’ back up, and have a ‘teachable moment’ with Achmadinejad”
Gesundheit.
“and Netanyahu.”
Gesundheit.

Since Iran is actively opposing us in the two present wars, attacking them only clarifies the situation. It isn’t another war, just another front in the war we’ve been fighting all along.

“Second: Bombing the facility might only make the Iranians more determined”
Really. Surprising that it would constitute an act of war against a nation strategically placed to intervene in your other two ongoing occupations doesn’t rate higher than this.

Start a war with Iran? The only reason to start a war is if you or an ally is attacked. Now Israel on the other hand does not have our constitution, it has been under siege by persons directly supported by Iran. It could be said Israel is in a de facto war with Iran. They are fee to act as they wish. Could they borrow a B2? or 2. Yes I know the history and motivation of Iran’s hate of the US. Why they hate the Jews? I do not know. They are forbidden by the Koran to hate Christian’s or Jew’s. But I went to a Baptist church in the 1950′s so I know church leaders just make up stuff and say God or Mohammed told them. Just a bunch of lies.

“One: The goal of the U.S. government is not to close this one facility at Qom, but rather to convince the Iranian government to end their nuclear weapons ambitions writ large.”
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This “goal” is idiotic, absolutely idiotic. Naive is not the word for Obama. Insane is the word. One has to be insane to think that religious zealots intent on world domination can be “convinced” of anything that is contrary to their sick “religion” of death.

What’s the next step? More than likely the world will wait until Iran fires off a nuclear missle. Unless Israel acts first. Also, what is the world going to do? Starve Iran to death?

I wish there was a way to send my tax money straight to Israel. Why are we supporting the DoD to the tune of billions a year? No country is stupid enough to do a first strike on us – the only reason we need a strong military is for situations precisely like this one.
And for all the peace-lovers out there who believe in sovereignty – didn’t you guys learn anything from WWII? Read a history book sometime…

And for all the peace-lovers out there who believe in sovereignty – didn’t you guys learn anything from WWI
Posted by: Dave Mishem
ok mr. history… tell us what you learned that makes 2009 the same as 1930s germany….
and don’t rehash that ‘appeasement’ nonsense

You are just deluding yourself…the only way is to strike at them. The Iranisn have thumbed their noses at us thru the Clinton, Bush and now Obama administrations –they cannot be trusted and they are irrational- you cant be rational with those types. The Iranian people do not want these nukes and they should be warned right before their facilities get bombed due to the irrationality of their mullahs. But as usual the leaders here have positioned these sites near big population centers and they know citizens will be innocently killed. They just dont care about their own people. Enough is enough….if the US doesnt have any cajones then Israel will do it and that weakling OBAMA had BETTER back them up.

Comment by Rose:
I wish there was a way to send my tax money straight to Israel. Why are we supporting the DoD to the tune of billions a year? No country is stupid enough to do a first strike on us – the only reason we need a strong military is for situations precisely like this one.
Rose, does Sept 11th ring a bell? Iran is not going to send their military here…They will send terrorists to do their work. I agree that we need to make a parking lot out of that place, but we have too many logs on the fire as it is.

I know…let’s have the UN pass a “Resolution” to have Iran do the right thing. Then if they ignore it…pass a second “Resolution”. Sounds familiar? Since we now know the public don’t like 17 Resolution as a magic number, we’ll have the UN pass several hundred.
That’ll show Iran…HA!!!

Assasinate Ajad. Outsource it, stage it or keep it secret and then deny it till the end of the earth.
Then assasinate the next guy that takes his place. And the next guy… Assasinate the Ayatollahs..
After about 10 guys, they’ll get the idea… And the best part is, we use the same tactics that NKorea and Iran are already using: “What? You think it was us? No way, we’re peaceful, we condemn these assasinations.. ha ha!!”

The arguments against bombing and in favor of diplomatic pressure or sanctions are naive. We have tried sanctions for years and they do not work because the Iranians can get around them in a way that does not harm the government, and they could care less about the harm to the people of Iran. Diplomatic pressure only works on regimes that have something to lose on the diplomatic front, and obviously Iran cares little what the rest of the world thinks about their ambitions. The only option I see is for the US to launch airstrikes against Qom and any other facilities that are known and then if the Iranians use military force against our forces in Iraq, we use our air superiority to destroy their military. We have no need to invade Iran, we can completely destroy the military in the same manner we did with Saddam’s military in 1991. This will weaken the regime and certainly set their nuclear ambitions back many years. Will Obama do this? Of course not. The shame is that the Iranians may be able to complete a bomb within the next 3-4 years before we have a chance to elect a president who will take such decisive action.

If we had done it we would have given Israel cover, but now they will be attacked by the world, and we will still be blamed as being behind the strike anyway.
Posted by: Jason
why does Israel need cover…. and since when does the rest of the worlds opinion matter…. that’s what republicans say….

We should disable their facilities.
A few precision bombs should do the trick with little or no collateral damage.

The smartest thing to do in this type of situation, is to just go over there and talk it out with the leader of Iran. There is absolutely no reason why we should be so threatened and afraid that we would have to bomb their facilities. We should let them know that we do not like the fact that they are testing nuclear weapons in this day and age, because it could easily spark up a world war. With our economy being in such bad shape already, another war is the last thing we need. Further more, we should weigh our decision with validity and with common sense. There is no need for any more confrontation right now.