Joe Biden: Running On Empty, Promises To Impeach Bush

Speaking before a political forum in New Hampshire, Presidential Candidate Senator Joe Biden told the small audience that he would move to have President Bush impeached if his administration "bombed" Iran without first getting permission from Congress.

"The president has no authority to unilaterally attack Iran, and if he does, as Foreign Relations Committee chairman, I will move to impeach," said Biden, whose words were followed by a raucous applause from the local audience.

Biden said he is in the process of meeting with constitutional law experts to prepare a legal memorandum saying as much and intends to send it to the president. [1]

Meanwhile in Germany:

BERLIN: An Iranian businessman suspected of exporting to Iran material that could be used in military nuclear projects has been arrested in Germany, the weekly Der Spiegel reported.

Police picked up the man identified as Mohsen V, 48, on Tuesday in Frankfurt on an arrest warrant issued by Germany's highest federal court, the magazine said in its Monday edition.

The magazine said the man "illegally delivered" to Iran "American pumps and special Russian cameras" used in nuclear research.

It also said that he had been negotiating "for some time now" with a manufacturer in the south-central German city of Mannheim to deliver certain measuring instruments used in nuclear work.

The suspect's business partners were also arrested, Der Spiegel said. [2]

Biden went on to make more remarks about the Bush-Iran situation, this time referring to Vice President Cheney.

"If you're going to impeach George Bush, you better impeach (Vice President Dick) Cheney first," said Biden, again drawing applause.

Biden said the best deterrent to prevent pre-emptive military action in Iran is to make it clear, even if it is at the end of his final term, action will be taken against Bush to ensure "his legacy will be marred for all time." [1]

Biden could had found other issues to pound the President with but instead chose to flex his Senatorial muscles prancing about promising impeachment. Biden would impeach the President if Bush bombed Iran. No warning to Iran. Just a threat to our President. A threat to tie the President hands over a country that has promised to destroy Israel. What part of "destroy" or demolish" does Biden not understand? Iran most certainly understood Biden's message.

Biden, in his quest to get elected undermined the President by effectly giving Iran the crowbar to pry the lid off Pandora's Box.

Pandering for votes, promising to impeach Bush. Makes one wish Biden would go back to plagiarizing.

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Source: [1] Seacoast Online
Source: [2] The Times Of India



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Iran Military Site Rocked By Explosions

[hat tip: mjazzguitar at Little Green Footballs]
The Foreign Affairs Committee Of The National Council Of Resistance Of Iran is reporting a story out of Iran that the "clerical regime is trying very to hard to prevent the news of the incident to leak."

NCRI - Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, November 13) a series of explosions rocked Parchin Military Site (where missiles, including Cruise missiles, are manufactured) in southern Tehran. As a result, several military personnel of the site were injured.

The explosions reportedly started in missile industries section of the Site. When shrapnel of the explosions hit another sections, eight other warehouses located next to each other were engulfed in flames.

An interesting tidbit on the Parchin site:

The huge site is organized into 11 different projects for production of various weapons and munitions. Projects 4 and 11 are devoted to production of Cruise missiles; projects 1, 2 and 8 are devoted to chemical weapons production.

Parts of the Parchin site are devoted to conducting research on uranium enrichment using laser technology.

No word yet if the explosions were a result of the "ongoing" Zionist Conspiracy.

Source - Foreign Affairs Committee Of The National Council Of Resistance Of Iran

Image [weaponsblog.org]

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Michael Ramirez:What Nuclear Proliferation?

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W.M.D. in Iran? U.S.A.Take Action? M.D. in N.Y.T. Writes About E.D.C.? Q.E.D. To the Max

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by Mondoreb

This is getting to be too much like the synapses of a lab rat clicking. Mo Dowd needs to come up with a column idea, Evil Dick Cheney is the subject, then we respond to it. Our keyboard and Dowd's both need a Pavlovian drool shield.

The latest on Evil Dick Cheney, related as Dowd channels the spirit of Scarlett O'Hara, gazing skyward and breathlessly intoning "tomorrow is another day", in the New York Times:

RUSSERT: First you threatened to take action if Iran built a nuclear weapon. Now you’re threatening to take action if Iran knows how to build a nuclear weapon. What’s next? You threaten to take action if Ahmadinejad dresses up as a nuclear weapon for Halloween?

CHENEY: Well, the difficulty here is, each time he has rejected what he was called upon to do by the international community. I’m not sure now, no matter what he says, that anyone would believe him. He’s pretending he doesn’t have W.M.D., just like Saddam.

And then the big finish.

RUSSERT: It’s so close to the next election, Mr. Vice President, shouldn’t you just keep on the diplomatic track and let the next president make this decision?

CHENEY: You really want Rudy Giuliani playing with the nuclear button, Tim? Now, that’s insane.

The above excerpt is representative of the whole. Evil Dick Cheney and his Malicious Minions are beating on the war drums and dancing madly around a campfire somewhere in Washington. All the while, poor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is off giving nuclear alms to widows.

And in New York, Mo Dowd is thinking, "Doesn't anyone realize the danger? I must warn them! Quick Lassie! Go get Timmy!" This episode's Guest Star: Rudy Giuliani as "The Nuclear Madman"!

Nuclear Arms in Iran? The U.S. Take Action? Maureen takes on Evil Dick Cheney?

Q.E.D. to the max.

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Putin and Iranian Nuke Plans:"Peaceful"

Ahmadinejad rolls out red carpet for Putin
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by Mondoreb

Russian President Vladimir Putin continued a Russian foreign policy based on "what's bad for the United States is good for Russia". He was in Tehran for a five-country conference on nuclear power.

From CNN:

{H}e and the other leaders agreed that "peaceful nuclear activities must be allowed" in the region. Commenting on Iran's controversial nuclear program, Putin said the "Iranians are cooperating with Russian nuclear agencies and the main objectives are peaceful objectives."

Russia is building Iran's first nuclear power plant and has resisted the push by the U.S. and its allies for stronger U.N. sanctions against Tehran.

The leaders of Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan met Tuesday to reach agreement on issues relating to the sharing and regulating of the Caspian Sea.

News accounts of a few months ago spoke of Russian reluctance to complete the Iranian nuclear reactor, but Putin's words have eased fears. With Russia's battling Muslims in Chechnya, Putin has Russia playing a risky game. Iranian nukes could find their way into Chechnyan hands more quickly than terrorists attempting infiltration into the U.S.

If Iran obtains nuclear capability, there may be a race among terrorists to see where the second mushroom cloud (after Israel) appears.




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Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran's Plan:TIPTOE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE U.S.-IRANIAN MINE FIELD

[graphic by Iranian.com]by Mondoreb

Some on the Right suggest, "Bomb Iran!". Anti-war Leftists reply, "Give peace a chance, and anyway, America is evil!" Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran spoke of another solution to the nagging problem of a nuclear Islamic Republic.

Reza Bayegan, in IranPressNews:
Last week Prince Reza Pahlavi of Iran who lives in exile from his homeland once again outlined his views on defusing the unprecedented danger threatening his country and world peace. He has expressed these views before but as the menace of confrontation with the Iranian regime looms increasingly heavier, the relevance and urgency of Reza Pahlavi's appeal is becoming more apparent.

The piece continues:

In an article published in Le Monde dated 21 September 2007 he points to a third way of encountering the regime in Tehran which is neither violent military attack nor appeasement.

According to Reza Pahlavi what can save Iran and the world from disaster is a synergy between the democratic struggle from inside the country on the one hand and the will of international community on the other. The regime needs to be crippled from within and isolated from without. Economic sanctions together with political pressure should be the focus of the international efforts and not preparation for a military attack.

The Iranian people's concerns, the Prince insists, are not building a nuclear capability, smuggling IEDs into Iraq or blowing up U.S. troops there. Their worries are more immediate.

The priority of Iranians who are submitted to relentless oppression and persecution of a brutal dictatorship is not how to respond to the nuclear challenge or to fight the adventurous foreign policy of the Islamic Republic. Issues of vital importance to Iranian people right now are daily violations of human rights, growing poverty and unemployment and the absence of liberty. He writes:

The prince, the IranPressNews states, is more popular back home than any opposition figure currently. Of course, popular opposition figures residing in Iran end up as dead opposition figures.

As news of Pahlavi's plan grows, it's likely to be attacked; perhaps by his father's old bane, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Unless the prince is prepared to condemn Israel or utter some kind words for Hamas. The closer Iran's mullahs come to acquiring a nuclear capability, the more U.S. and world opinion grows polarized.

It may be that a solution is found between the two extremes. But time grows short, as more people choose sides between the Bombers and the Peaceniks.
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Norman Podhoretz and Iran: A GOOD OPTION HARD TO FIND; BOMBING IRAN NOT A BAD ONE

[above: Iranian targets; from the World Jewish News Agency.]
by Mondoreb

If one spends much thought on the Iranian situation, not many options are appealing. Only a year ago, most on the right were ruling out military options. No more.

From Politico.com
President Bush and Karl Rove sat listening to Norman Podhoretz for roughly 45 minutes at the White House as the patriarch of neoconservatism argued that the United States should bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The meeting was not on the president’s public schedule.

The article continues.

Rove was silent throughout, though he took notes. The president listened diligently, Podhoretz said as he recounted the conversation months later, but he “didn’t tip his hand.”

“I did say to [the president], that people ask: Why are you spending all this time negotiating sanctions? Time is passing. I said, my friend [Robert] Kagan wrote a column which he said you were giving ‘futility its chance.’ And both he and Karl Rove burst out laughing.

“It struck me,” Podhoretz added, “that if they really believed that there was a chance for these negotiations and sanctions to work, they would not have laughed. They would have got their backs up and said, ‘No, no, it’s not futile, there’s a very good chance.’ ”

Norman Podhoretz is right here. The unspoken conclusion: negotiations are useless and stronger means will be needed to counter the Islamic Republic's threat.

The above story will, no doubt, strike fear into the Left. We will hear their usual cant: "War solves nothing" and "Using violence to stop violence is no solution". But military action is always on the table in any country intent on protecting its interests and citizens.

When the Roman Empire could no longer protect trade routes, it's citizens abroad and it interests, it faded into disrepair and, finally history. The Left thinks the United States is impervious to the twin dictates of human nature and history. It is not. One of the rules of history, repeatedly demonstrated century after century, still holds true.

Use it or lose it.

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Step Away from the Islamic RepublicIRAN ISSUES 'STERN WARNING'"I'm Not Kidding!You'll Be Sorry! Really!"

by Mondoreb

Iran issued the latest in its seemingly-endless string of warnings this morning. The freshest warning has a whiff of the others: Don't mess with us!' Likening Iranian forces to his country's burgeoning nuclear program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said both were for 'peaceful purposes'.
From the BBC this morning:

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued a tough warning to any country considering an attack on Iran.
He said Iran's forces were just for defence, but that anybody who attacked would experience nothing but regret.

In a direct rebuke to American peaceniks, Congressional Democrats and EuroGoofs everywhere, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, bragged that sanctions wouldn't work, so don't even try.

"Those [countries] who assume that decaying methods such as psychological war, political propaganda and the so-called economic sanctions would work and prevent Iran's fast drive toward progress are mistaken," the president said.

And of course, when Iranian military officials are captured transporting explosives into Iraq,as happened a few days ago, they are also there for "peaceful purposes". Leftists are distressed about those Americans "beating the drums for war with Iran."

Forget the drums. It's time to start beating on the Islamic Republic itself.

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IRANIAN OFFICER SEIZED IN IRAQIranian Denials to Follow:"He Was a Tourist With Explosive Inclinations"

by Mondoreb

By now, everyone knows their parts: Iranian is captured by U.S. forces in Iraq, Iran issues denials, the Europeans and the UN will issue calls "to remain calm" and more Americans fighting in Iraq will die.

US-led forces in Iraq say they have arrested an Iranian officer operating in the north of the country.
They say the man was a member of the Quds Force - an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards - and was detained in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya.

"This individual has been involved in transporting improvised explosive devices," the American military said.
More on this BBC story.

It's perfectly OK for Iran to be operating in Iraq trying to kill American soldiers--if they had the balls to declare war. Since they don't, it's only fitting that the 'cowboys from the U.S.' do it for them. And do it before they become nuclear-armed.
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IRANIAN WAR UPDATE: Moscow Warns Against War with Iran

[above, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (L) meets his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for talks in Moscow.]
by Mondoreb

From a YahooNews story 2 hours old at posting:

Russia expressed worry Tuesday over the possibility of war with Iran as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner pressed for tougher sanctions against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme.

The Russians are pushing for "sanctions"--the same tired non-solution that brought us to the present crisis. Endless negotiations for no reason--other than when Iran declares it has nuclear bomb capabilites, Russia and the rest of Europe can relax and breathe a sigh of relief over the fait accompli.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasised Russia's "concern" over "multiple reports that military sanctions against Iran are being seriously considered. It's hard to imagine what that could do to the region."

Kouchner called for "working on precise sanctions" and added that France and Russia had differences on the issue.

The usual gang of suspects hostile to America's interests--Russia, China, Iran, the peace marchers, the Bush Bashers, MoveOn.org, North Korea, most of the UN--will do everything in their power to try and force the U.S. to ignore the Iranian nuclear threat. Get down on your knees and pray that the right people in the right places aren't listening to them.
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