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Becoming? Really?

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Grab your ankles folks…

[Sec State Hillary] Clinton: Iran is becoming a military dictatorship

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday Iran is sliding into a military dictatorship, a new assessment suggesting a rockier road ahead for U.S.-led efforts to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

As the first high-level Obama administration official to make such an accusation, Clinton was reflecting an ever-dimming outlook for persuading Iran to negotiate limits on its nuclear program, which it has insisted is intended only for peaceful purposes. The U.S. and others — including the two Gulf countries Clinton visited Sunday and Monday — believe Iran is headed for a nuclear bomb capability.

Clinton also was revealing the logic of the administration’s plan to target the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a new round of international sanctions intended to compel Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions before it increases the likelihood of a military clash.

Wait, “becoming“? Just where in the holy f*** has her stupid, myopic ass been for the last, ohhhh let’s say, 30 years or so?!? Becoming? Really? This is the same nut-job, Islamist terror state that we’ve been dealing with for decades and she just now realized that they are becoming the military dictatorship that they’ve already been since the Carter administration? Oh my God we are so royally f***ed with her as SecDef that we better invest in the K-Y Jelly Corporation just so we can at least reap a little profit out of the brutal colon pounding that we’re going to take from her bungling foreign affairs and her boss making America an international laughing stock by bowing to every head of state and local mayor. Sure, a lot of the world hated us when GW was in charge but at least they were scared enough to not push their luck. Now it’s almost vogue to blow us off. DAMMIT.

And she wants to levy economic sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? What?!? Jesus Christ! These are the same people that ran BY THE THOUSANDS through mine fields during the Iran-Iraq War to clear the way for follow-on combat troops to breach the Iraq border… does she really think that clamping down on their hummus money is going to make them sting? So now she still seriously believes that a) Iran is a military dictatorship, b) they’re working on a nuclear bomb, and c) she can still use diplomatic means to conduct negotiations to talk (albeit a “rocky” talk”) them down from their “nuclear power” position? Perhaps I should pen an open letter with a  little word of advice to Hillary:

Dear Toots,

They’re called “military dictatorships” because they’re run by military dictators. You can’t talk to military dictators because all they understand is force.  This is why you don’t see a whole bunch of “diplomatic dictatorships” in the world… because nobody listens to people whose only weapons are threats, empty threats, and repeated empty threats. Perhaps you should return to something you were more successful at… like keeping your husband faithful.

Regards,

The Sniper

This is what happens when amateurs appoint amateurs to do jobs for which neither is qualified.

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Well, At Least Iran Hasn’t Tested An Advanced Nuclear Warhead Yet

Friday, November 6th, 2009

atomicenergylabThe U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Tehran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced secret nuclear warhead design, according to a report published Friday.

Citing what it calls “previously unpublished documentation” from an International Atomic Energy Agency compiled report, Britain’s The Guardian newspaper said Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of a “two-point implosion” device.

Shit.

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Lunatics Breach Base Security At Nuke Storage Facility

Friday, November 6th, 2009

It always makes me feel good to know that a bunch of AARP Peacenick commandos can breach security at one of our nuclear facilities.

BANGOR, Wash. — Five anti-war demonstrators — including an Oakland man — were arrested after cutting through a security fence at the nuclear missile storage facility for Trident submarines at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.

The Kitsap Sun reports they carried a banner that said, “Disarm Now Plowshares: Trident: Illegal and Immoral.”

Navy spokesman Chris Haley says an alarm went off when the group entered at 6:30 a.m. today, and they were arrested on suspicion of trespass and destruction of government property, cited and released.

The five are identified as 81-year-old Catholic priest Bill Bischel of Tacoma, 83-year-old nun Anne Montgomery of New York City, 65-year-old Susan Crane of Baltimore, 60-year-old Lynne Greenwald of Bremerton and 60-year-old Steve Kelly of Oakland.

And from another article…

“So it was with hammers like this and our own blood that had been drawn by a medical professional that we went into the base in the hope of beginning that disarmament process, symbolically,” Crane said.

The hammers were to bang on the bunkers holding the weapons. And the blood?

“We mixed our blood together and we put it in baby bottles because children are the most killed in war,” Crane said.

The protesters, who range in age from 60 to 83, cut their way through a perimeter fence. They said they walked 4 hours and cut their way through two more fences before they got caught.

So considering they were bringing in hammers and blood in baby bottles, is this simply a trespassing charge or can they be charged with something much more serious? Let’s hope it’s the latter.

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Right Back To The Empty Threats Of Bygone Administrations

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

It was the hallmark of the Clinton administration’s approach toward hostile regimes: posturing. I would have loved to have said that Clinton’s foreign policy with regards to America’s threats amounted to saber rattling but before he could rattle the saber he hacked it down to a bayonet through BRAC so there was, in fact, no saber to rattle. We were far from helpless, but the world was shown that we were more willing to drop our guard in order to balance the budget than we were to drop social programs that ensured reelection. Where foot soldiers were needed, we sent diplomats. Where Special Ops was needed, we sent envoys. Where a battalion of battle ready Marines was needed, we sent a few cruise missiles. Where a rain of fire and steel the likes of which Hell itself has never seen was needed, we sent Hans Blix.

Diplomacy without the strength to back it up is useless at best, detrimental at worst. Trying to engage another country in rational discourse when that country is not rational is sheer folly. Britain learned this long ago through the folly of Neville Chamberlin trying to appease Adolf Hitler and we should have learned it through the impotent and laughable arms control “inspections” conducted in North Korea and Iraq and their consequential, yet equally laughable,  “sanctions”. Despite all of the world’s combined diplomatic efforts to keep the despots in charge of those two countries in check, they continued to snub their collective nose at the world community and its milquetoast response to their weapons programs and even after we invaded Afghanistan they resisted… that is until we invaded Iraq.

Had we gone full bore and carried the momentum of the initial invasion throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom we could have cowed Kim Jong-Il into compliance but as we all know that didn’t happen. We got bogged down a little and when the opportunity presented itself the liberal faction of Congress took it upon themselves to start pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory. We hadn’t lost, but we would have if funding for the Surge had not gone through. Those that initially voted for the war turned their backs on the US military and our allies. They tried to hamstring our troops and serve as de facto commander in chief… all in order to lose militarily abroad in order to win politically at home. Thankfully they failed and the Surge did not. What followed was the clamoring of non participants and outright opponents of the Surge to try to take credit for our victories. Success has a thousand fathers, failure is always a bastard. Despite our hard won victories in Iraq during the Surge and thereafter our enemies watched the infighting from afar and they took note of how to tear us down from the inside. They set in motion a plan to capitalize on America’s short memory, her liberal media, and her distaste for war to further their own designs. They were banking on the current president to institute a myopic foreign policy based on wishful thinking, appeasement, and sycophancy and they got their wish.

When Georgia stood up against an aggressive Russia, we turned our backs on them and from that point on it went downhill. We have reneged on our promises to Poland and the Czech Republic regarding missile shields. We’ve stood by murmuring about democracy with our hands in our pockets as watched protestors get gunned down in the streets of Tehran. We’ve let Kim Jong-Il take hostages and then sent a former president to negotiate their release. And now when we present evidence to the world that Iran has a hardened uranium enrichment site, they not only don’t deny it, they flaunt it and then flip us the diplomatic bird by test launching missiles. Iran is not afraid of us anymore. Maybe they never were, but at least they respected our strength at one time. Now, they mock us because our foreign policy is based on threats as empty as the suit that makes them.

Today Iran is firing off missiles capable of striking targets 1200 miles away. Left to their own devices, tomorrow they’ll be capping those missiles with nuclear warheads. That may not seem so terrifying to the peace mongers back in the United States because, although they can’t seem to comprehend a history book, they can read a map and realize that Iran is much farther away from their homes than 1200 miles. What they’re not picking up on is the fact that their socialist buddy Chavez in Venezuela is also buddy buddy with Ahmadinejad… buddy buddy enough that Iran might not have a problem with basing those missiles in Venezuela or even selling them outright. 1200 miles isn’t enough to hit DC from Tehran, but it is plenty to hit Miami from Venezuela. I know that a lot of folks are thinking that we would never let that happen, but then again we thought we would never let Iran develop nukes either.

Teddy Roosevelt once said something to the tune of “speak softly, but carry a big stick”… at this point I think I would be satisfied if we carried any stick at all.

ON EDIT:

I had a quick e-mail banter back and forthwith a friend of mine (who happens to be the most conservative Democrat alive today) about the content of the above post. He was concerned that my message might have gotten lost because my wording swayed in a partisan fashion. My response to him was as follows:
The whole “let’s blame the past thing” instead of “let’s fix the present” is crap. We don’t have a time machine… we do have a State Department and a Department of Defense and both of them are being poorly handled right now. My point is that diplomacy without force backing it is useless.When we speak softly without our big stick, planes crash, towers fall, and people here die. We need our big stick now. I want to see Obama stand on the lawn of the White House, face east, grab his junk, and flip the bird while a flight of B-52’s drops bunker busters all over that nuke site in Iran. Then I want to see him walk into a press conference and say “America has made an historic decision by electing an African-American as President… Iran pissed me off. Don’t piss off the black man”. Diplomacy problems over. Any radical racists left in America sit back and think a few minutes before they tell their next “colored joke”. Any bill he wants gets passed.

O doesn’t seem to have a problem showing his ire toward Americans that piss him off… I just want him to show that same angry face to our enemies. Obama got elected at least in part because he was an ”elegant black man”. Bill Cosby is eloquent. Nobody fears Bill Cosby… they do fear Mike Tyson. I want less Cosby, more Tyson.

He agreed with me. We’re both fairly middle-of-the-road so finding detente isn’t too hard. To the aforementioned response I’ll add this analogy in summary:
The President is the head of the country like a father is the head of a household (yes, I know mom calls the shots but bear with me here). If the neighbor pisses off dad and threatens him and dad does nothing, the neighbor won’t respect him and will continue to do as he pleases. If dad then comes home and yells at his kids after not taking the neighbor to task, then nobody will respect him and eventually his kids will give him the same treatment that the neighbor did. When my step-dad got pissed at the neighbors he let then know it and whatever pissed him off usually stopped. Anytime he told me to do something, it got done… fast. I didn’t like him. In fact, I never did… but I did respect his authority and respect gets things done.

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Fire Shower? Fire Drizzle Maybe, But Not A Shower.

Friday, June 26th, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea — Punching their fists into the air and shouting “Let’s crush them!” some 100,000 North Koreans packed Pyongyang’s main square Thursday for an anti-U.S. rally as the communist regime promised a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” for any American-led attack.

Yeah, Kim? Yeah, about that “fire shower” thing you mentioned? You can’t bring a “fire shower” with your arsenal. Maybe a drizzle or even a sprinkle if we were to be generous with our terminology, but not a shower. India could bring a shower. Pakistan might be able to summon up a shower. Even France sould bring a shower, but not you. America, Russia, and China could each bring a 50 Category 5 hurricanes of fire. Hell, we could bring a monsoon of fire from just one of our submarines. But you Kim? Not you.

Let’s put this in terms that we can all understand, shall we? The United States of America is the John Holmes of nuclear weapons. We were first and most impressive. Russia is kind of the Ron Jeremy… impressive and dangerous, but ugly as sin. China is that one kid from high school that everybody saw in the boys’ shower and applauded. Korea’s nuclear arsenal, however, is about as impressive as a small Asian boy who just got out of a very cold bathtub. Moose junk vs mouse junk. Think about that, Kim. At best, you can bring an annoying trickle… we can drown you.

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North Korean Nuclear And Chemical Weapons: Coming Soon To A Theater Near You!

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

And by “theater” I mean the strategic variety, not the cinema.

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.

The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea’s Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan’s top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.

The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said.

Weellllllll, that’s nice. The upside here is that Hawaii is actually 4,500 miles away from North Korea so it’s out of range of that particular missile in at its current specifications. The downside is that we never know if the North Koreans have modified the missile to give it a longer range or if maybe they’ve come up with an even more nefarious plan to move Hawaii closer to North Korea. Do I really think that North Korea is going to attempt to attack Hawaii between July 4th and July 8th? No, not really. But I do think this move is telling.

North Korea is, in effect, pointing a revolver at us and pulling the trigger, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger again over and over and over again. We never know exactly when that cylinder may contain a bullet or not and Kim Jong-Il views it as some sick, global game of reverse Russian roulette. Up until now he’s been reserved enough with the previous administrations that he hasn’t provoked outright hostilities, but I think he’s crossed that line now. With the previous three administrations, North Korea has been reticent to push too hard because he knew that (in reverse chronological order) a) GW was just looking for an excuse to nuke his ass off the planet, b) although hesitant to commit ground troops to actual combat, Bubba was pretty liberal with his use of cruise missiles, and d) Bush senior would have been more than happy to make North Korea one of his thousand points of light. Reagan, well, it was suicide to try that crap with Reagan. Now Kim Jong-Il is seeing how far he can push Barry O before he shoves back. So far, he’s pushed pretty damn hard and we’re still waiting for our shove back.

I’m not laying the blame for the current situation with North Korea squarely at the One’s feet because there have been missteps along the way… but now the ball is in his court and he has to step up to the plate. And yeah, I know there’s an economic crisis to deal with and two wars going on etc, etc… but that’s the job of the President. He wanted it, he’s got it. Now he has to do it and North Korea is at the top of his in-box along with those other items. The threat of Nuclear blackmail at the hands of a madman is no longer a looming, distant threat… it’s a stark reality. And if you think that Kim Jong-Il wouldn’t use a nuclear weapon because of the threat of retaliation, keep this in mind…

The independent International Crisis Group think tank, meanwhile, said the North’s massive stockpile of chemical weapons is no less serious a threat to the region than its nuclear arsenal.

It said the North is believed to have between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, phosgene, blood agents and sarin. These weapons can be delivered with ballistic missiles and long-range artillery and are “sufficient to inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea.”

Yup, North Korea has enough nerve, blood, choking, and blister agents to make life in a strike zone a living hell without actually inviting nuclear holocaust upon themselves by utilizing a nuclear first strike. Nice, eh? They cannot be left alone to do this and we cannot capitulate to their demands that they be allowed to become even stronger. Right now North Korea is the neighborhood bully who is threatening everyone in the neighborhood, especially us, with a knife in order to extort money from us so he can buy a gun. Allowing that to happen in the name of diplomacy wouldn’t just be ill-advised, it would be the same kind of craven and effete stupidity displayed by Neville Chamberlain… and we all know how that worked out.

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Dear North Korea…

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas’ disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime’s underground nuclear test.

Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul’s decision to join an international program to intercept ships suspected of aiding nuclear proliferation, called the move tantamount to a declaration of war.

Yeah, uh, Mr Jong-Il (can I call you Kim? It’s so much friendlier) or is it just “Il”? You may want to take a good hard look at the graph below that shows the numbers of nukes that each nuclear state has (plus or minus a few, I’m sure). Yeah, those big numbers on the top? Those are the nukes that the US and Russia have.
Russia has more? Well, I suppose you’re right… but you might want to keep this in mind: The US is the only country on earth to use atomic bombs against another country. We know ours work in combat and we’ve proven that we really don’t have a huge problem using them. Just ask the good citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki… if you can find any of the ones that survived.Of course there’s always the old fashioned way: one seal, one rifle, one fantail, one shot, one kill.
Here’s looking at you, Kim.

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Well, At Least North Korea Still Doesn’t Have Nuclear Warheads

Friday, April 24th, 2009

The world’s intelligence agencies and defense experts are quietly acknowledging that North Korea has become a fully fledged nuclear power with the capacity to wipe out entire cities in Japan and South Korea, the Times of London reported.

The new reality has emerged in off-hand remarks and in single sentences buried in lengthy reports. Increasing numbers of authoritative experts — from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the U.S. Defense Secretary — are admitting that North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads to the extent that they can be launched on medium-range missiles, according to intelligence briefings.
Oh. Well, crap. What the hell are we going to do about this? I KNOW! Let’s send in Jimmy Carter with a UN resolution stating that we (as a big, loving, huggy world community) are very, VERY disappointed in North Korea for doing all of this nuclear weapons research and development with the money and oil we sent them (you know, the last several times we sent Carter/UN envoys over there) and if they continue this sort of thing we shall have no choice but to send another delegation (perhaps with Carter AND Jessie Jackson) with yet ANOTHER strongly worded resolution stating our extreme disappointment.

OR… two Trident III missiles launched off of their coast could take care of that problem, once and for all, in about 30 minutes or less. Beat that Dominos.

H/T to CagleCartoons.com and Cox and Forkum for the pics.

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Well, This Is Nice

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Iran has now produced roughly enough uranium to make a single nuclear bomb, according to atomic experts analyzing the latest report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

To date, Iran had enriched about 1,400 pounds of low-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear fuel, according to two confidential reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency that were obtained by The Associated Press.
Thanks to the global hippies, peaceniks, lefties, and weaklings for letting this happen without doing a thing to stop it. I hope you like sitting down for negotiations without preconditions in lead suits. We had troops in place to apply pressure on Achmadinejad’s regime and the only thing that we lacked to keep him from producing a nuclear weapon was political will… now he’s free and clear to do as he pleases.
Thank you Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and every other idiot that thought that we could sit down and have rational discussions with these zealots (you know… the same ones that sponsor global terrorism, the same ones that stormed our embassy and held our diplomats hostage for over a year, the same ones who chant “death to America”). You have appeased these lunatics at the cost of our country’s security. Apparently your new plan to relieve America of its dependence on foreign oil and domestic coal is to allow Iran to nuke us until we glow at night.
If you administered amphetamines to a monkey, gave it a loaded pistol, and sent it into a full kindergarten class it would still be more responsible than allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. At least the monkey doesn’t harbor messianic delusions of paradise.

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Yeah, This Could Have Been Bad

Friday, October 31st, 2008

DENVER – A fire caused $1 million worth of damage at an unmanned underground nuclear launch site last spring, but the Air Force didn’t find out about it until five days later, an Air Force official said Thursday.

The May 23 fire burned itself out after an hour or two, and multiple safety systems prevented any threat of an accidental launch of the Minuteman III missile, Maj. Laurie Arellano said. She said she was not allowed to say whether the missile was armed with a nuclear warhead at the time of the fire.
Arellano said the Air Force didn’t know a fire had occurred until May 28, when a repair crew went to the launch site — about 40 miles east of Cheyenne, Wyo., and 100 miles northeast of Denver — because a trouble signal indicated a wiring problem.
Well, it was a wiring problem… the wiring was on fire.

One of the few things scarier than a fire in a nuclear missile silo is the picture I have of myself in one of those silo control bunkers with my hands on both of the launch keys. This all happened during the Clinton administration which shows you just how dangerous a naive president can be. Anybody that would let me within three miles of one of those things is completely asleep at the switch.

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Iran Unveils "Ambassador of Peace"…

Monday, August 18th, 2008

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has test launched a rocket it plans to use to carry a research satellite into orbit, state television reported Sunday.

Saturday’s test of the two-stage rocket, called the Safir-e Omid, or Ambassador of Peace, was successful, state TV said, broadcasting images of the nighttime launch.
And now for some definitions from The Sniper’s Farsi to English dictionary.
Rocket=Missile
Research satellite=nuclear payload
Orbit=Israel
Ambassador of Peace=I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
This has been your language lesson for the day. Although it may not bring you enough comprehension to read Farsi as it is written in its normal script, it will arm you with the ability to read between the lines of their press releases.

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And In Case Your Sleep Wasn’t Restless Enough… Iran Vows To Increase Uranium Enrichment To Industrial Levels

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

1,500 centrifuges working for a year can enrich 28 kg of Uranium up to the 90% level… that’s enough for a bomb. Iran wants 50,000 of them… that’s 33 bombs a year. 33 nuclear weapons a year for a regime that has stormed our embassy, held our diplomats hostage for more than a year, kidnapped British military personnel, repeatedly violated international law, armed and trained insurgents to kill our troops (as well as civilians) in Iraq, violated the civil rights of it’s own people, vowed death to America, and has been a proud state sponsor of terror and terrorists for decades… kind of scary, huh?

But I’m sure that we can come to a peaceful, diplomatic resolution here that won’t end with us grabbing our ankles and paying extortion demands. I also believe that the Easter Bunny brought me eggs this year, Santa brings me presents each Christmas, and Paris Hilton is in line for a Nobel Prize in Quantum Physics.

Just thought you might like to know… oh yeah, and they hate our guts. Well, sleep tight!

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North Korea Tries To Sucker The UN Into ANOTHER Game Of Nuclear Three Card Monty

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Okay, let me get this straight… North Korea says UN inspectors can go in to check out it’s main reactor once $25 million in frozen assets is released and the first installation (50,000 tons) of heavy fuel oil shipments (read: bribes) from the UN arrives. Hmm, that makes sense… especially since the reason that the North Korean money was frozen in the first place was because it was laundered in a Chinese bank (insert “Chinese laundry joke” here) to avoid UN sanctions.

“But why would there be sanctions” you might ask? Because after North Korea agreed to stop its enrichment programs in exchange for aid from the UN, it started right back up again and told UN inspectors to screw off. That was in 1994. Now it’s 2007 and it seems that they’re attempting their old tricks again.

How about this… you guys (North Korea) actually honor YOUR end of the bargain first, and THEN you get the payout. Better yet, quit pouring every ounce of aid that you get into your military and use it to help your starving people and make that Third World hell hole that you call a country into something that’s worthy of unsolicited help. You know, a little show of good will… and while you’re at it, give us back the USS Pueblo.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, we start warming up the engines on the Stealth Bombers.

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