Thread: Bush threatens with World War III
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Old 10-18-2007
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Re: Bush threatens with World War III
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Originally Posted by Fidei Defensor View Post
Understand, I am not advocating war. I simply believe it unrealistic to assume a state such as Iran "would refrain from supplying a terrorist organization with a nuke- much less actually using one- knowing full well that it would result in that nations total obliteration were it to be used." One of the benefits of fighting by proxing is difficulty in attribution of attacks. Consider the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Did you know what state was responsible? There was no invading army or navy bearing Afghanistan flags. The identity of the attackers was discovered through some good police work, but even today the culprit is the subject of frighteningly widespread belief in conspiracy theories.

It is reasonable to believe that conspirators who do a good job of covering their tracks would be reasonably well assured that attacks would not be linked back to them with sufficient clarity to result in counter-attacks.
I agree with the "Proxy" effect- but I also know that it is possible to trace the original source of the fissionable material through examination of the fission fragments that will b left behind. Differing ratios of isotopes and all that, and if the inspectors have any data on what the Iranians are producing we'd know if it was them or not who supplied the terrorists with the nuke. Andrewl is entirely correct in that.

Not real interested in "conspiracy theories" to be honest with you, but I also know full well that such mindsets and actions have been committed by various individuals and world leaders in the past. Human subterfuge has been noted on numerous occasions in the human experience so it would be wise to not discount such possibilities entirely. I don't throw such ideas out with the trash, but I do put them "on the shelf" just in case something should come up in the future that would give me reason to want to re-examine those ideas.

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