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If Netanyahu thought this was a good idea: (Original Post) hedgehog Sep 2012 OP
He's been singing the same.... OneBlueDotBama Sep 2012 #1
this is great! gateley Sep 2012 #2
Iran is just months away from having a fully armed and functional Death Star. Liberal Veteran Sep 2012 #3
That little bomb graphic makes him look psychotic. railsback Sep 2012 #4

OneBlueDotBama

(1,384 posts)
1. He's been singing the same....
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:13 PM
Sep 2012

song since 1992


Scott Peterson at the Christian Science Monitor did a useful timeline for dire Israeli and US predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon, beginning 20 years ago.

1992: Israeli member of parliament Binyamin Netanyahu predicts that Iran was “3 to 5 years” from having a nuclear weapon.

1992: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres predicts an Iranian nuclear warhead by 1999 to French TV.

1995: The New York Times quotes US and Israeli officials saying that Iran would have the bomb by 2000.

1998: Donald Rumsfeld tells Congress that Iran could have an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the US by 2003.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/netanyahu-in-1992-iran-close-to-having-nuclear-bomb.html

Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)
3. Iran is just months away from having a fully armed and functional Death Star.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:30 PM
Sep 2012

And it has a cool party hat on top and a tassel.

 

railsback

(1,881 posts)
4. That little bomb graphic makes him look psychotic.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 01:42 PM
Sep 2012

That, and the fact that he's been predicting an Iranian nuclear bomb being 3 years away now for over 20 years.

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