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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by beezzer
While apt, the razor blade would only hurt the baby. In this case, everyone else except the baby gets hurt.
Who in their right mind would give a teething baby a razor blade or Egypt the bomb?
Iran?!
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by beezzer
While apt, the razor blade would only hurt the baby. In this case, everyone else except the baby gets hurt.
Who in their right mind would give a teething baby a razor blade or Egypt the bomb?
Iran?!
Originally posted by buster2010
Seeing how Iran and Egypt has been threatened by countries that do possess nukes...
As independence was declared, Arab forces from Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (later Jordan), Lebanon, and Iraq invaded Israel. Read more: Arab-Israeli Wars —
a two-pronged assault on Israel was launched. Egyptian forces struck eastward across the Suez Canal and pushed the Israelis back, while the Syrians advanced from the north. Iraqi forces joined the war and....
Originally posted by cconn487
Who would give Saddam Hussein chemical weapons?
Hint, not Iran.
Linky here
In the late 1970's, it was actually the German firm 'Karl Kobe' that sold Iraq the ingredients for it's first chemical weapons. Karl Kobe and others sold Iraq over 1,027 tons of the chemicals needed to produce mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and various tear gasses including CS and CN. The chemical weapons program was operational by late 1983/early 1984.
The United States CDC (Center for Disease Control) provided Iraq with biological samples up until 1989 for "Medical research and other purposes". The US supplied anthrax, West Nile virus, botulism, and Brucella melitensis to Iraq for little or no charge.
The United Kingdom paid, in full, for the Iraqi chlorine plant where mustard gas was manufactured. Brazil provided around 100 tons of mustard gas in the early 80's before the British funded plant was up and running. Singapore and India provided the ingredients for VX nerve agent and yet still more Tabun.
Egypt and Spain both provided the majority of Iraq's munitions that were designed to carry and disperse the chemical weapons. In 1984, a CIA leak reported to the Washington Post that the CIA was providing intel to the Iraqis, including the targeting information and coordinates where Iraq used it's chemical weapons against Iran.
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Originally posted by xxdaniel21
I find it very amusing when these threads pop up.
Why?
Go on, ask me why...
Here it comes....
Who has been the only country in the world to ever use "the bomb" domestically?
No matter who "wants the bomb" anymore, fact is only one country has ever used it. I wonder who that was?
It's funny how scared the west is 70 years later... Well, it's not comical "funny", rather ironic.
Anyway, bed time for me! Tomorrow's another day!
Originally posted by neo96
The thing about nukes is that more people have been killed by that other WMD chemical weapons.
A weapon that can never be used is a useless weapon some people are stuck in the past the future?
Drones, and cyberwarfare far more destructive.
I'd say a nuke is only unusable if it's possessed by a stable leader with reasonable logic, but we can't assume every leader who inherits/develops a nuke will be stable and logical.
History is full of unstable idiots leading nations.
While I'm not preparing a 1950's style bomb shelter anytime soon, I don't believe the days of nuclear scares are behind us.
March 06, 2012
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) recently published the Arab Opinion Index report for 2011. The Arab Opinion Index project is currently the largest of its kind. It covers 12 countries, representing 85 percent of the population of the Arab world. The Index compiles the findings of 16,173 face-to-face interviews with subjects who were drawn from a random, representative sampling of the populations of their countries of origin. An estimated 35,000 human work-hours were spent completing the surveys which will contribute to the final, detailed statistical report
On a related note, the ACRPS will soon begin preparations for a further survey of public opinion in 2012 and plans to release the results at the end of this year or the beginning of 2013.
Some of the more important highlights of the survey that are included in the preliminary report are:
Answers show that a clear majority of Arabs support a democratic form of government, believing in the importance of a transfer of power.
Most respondents describe themselves as religious, while rejecting clerical influence in politics.
71 percent of respondents expressed faith in their countries’ armies; 47 percent trust their governments (the executive arms of), and 36 percent showed trust in their countries’ legislative bodies before the revolutions.
83 percent of respondents say that corruption is widespread in their countries.
Only 19 percent of respondents believe that their countries’ legal systems treat all citizens equitably.
73 percent of respondents believe that Israel and the US are the two countries presenting the largest threat to the security of the Arab world, with 51 percent believing that Israel is the most threatening, 22 percent believe the US is the most threatening, and 5 percent reporting a belief that Iran is the single country most threatening to the security of their countries. The results on this question vary from one Arab country to another.
84 percent believe the Palestinian cause to be a cause for all Arabs, and not solely a Palestinian issue.
67 percent of respondents believe that present levels of intra-Arab cooperation are not satisfactory.
Roughly three-quarters support lifting travel and trade restrictions between Arab countries, the establishment of joint Arab military forces, and a unified monetary system. This highlights the similar belief, uncovered by this survey and shared by a clear majority of the respondents, which holds that citizens of all Arab states belong to a unitary Arab nation.
Most respondents supported the Egyptian and the Tunisian revolutions.
Most respondents attributed the revolutions to corruption, dictatorship and the lack of justice and equality.
84 percent of respondents are opposed to their countries’ diplomatic recognition of Israel, with only 21 percent of respondents expressing support for the peace agreements signed with the Israelis by Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine.
55 percent support having the Middle East declared a nuclear-weapons-free zone, compared to 29 percent who would oppose such a move. The majority of the 55 percent believe that Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons justifies possession of such weapons by other countries in the region.