Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3792-1005068739-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 06 Nov 2001 09:47:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4315 invoked by uid 510); 6 Nov 2001 17:44:46 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 6 Nov 2001 17:44:46 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3792-1005068739-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by n22.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Nov 2001 17:45:39 -0000 X-Sender: azb@llnl.gov X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 6 Nov 2001 17:45:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 65671 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2001 17:45:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Nov 2001 17:45:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-1.llnl.gov) (128.115.250.81) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2001 17:45:37 -0000 Received: from poptop.llnl.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-1.llnl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.3/LLNL-gateway-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA17000 for <iwar@yahoogroups.com>; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:45:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from catalyst.llnl.gov (catalyst.llnl.gov [128.115.222.68]) by poptop.llnl.gov (8.8.8/LLNL-3.0.2/pop.llnl.gov-5.1) with ESMTP id JAA22527 for <iwar@yahoogroups.com>; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:45:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011106094144.00bf75a0@poptop.llnl.gov> X-Sender: e048786@poptop.llnl.gov X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 To: iwar@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <003801c166b3$8af25140$341510ac@m2c4s9> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011105155110.00ba4a30@poptop.llnl.gov> From: Tony Bartoletti <azb@llnl.gov> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 09:47:55 -0700 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Israel.prevented.atomic.disaster.in.1981] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At 03:59 PM 11/6/01 +0530, you wrote: >Bomb Indian nuclear facilities ? Perish the thought ! Indian nuclear >weapons are in safe hands. I hope you understood, I was being rather facetious there. I find such naked "preemption" dubious. Almost every "naked" attack upon another can be justified, seemingly, by arguing "preemptive strike". I too often rely upon sarcasm as obvious. Not the best form of communication. ____tony____ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tony Bartoletti > To: iwar@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:34 AM > Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Israel.prevented.atomic.disaster.in.1981] > > > At 06:39 PM 11/4/01 -0800, you wrote: > > George Will > > November 1, 2001 > > Israel prevented atomic disaster in 1981 > > [snip] > > > The F-16s were > >to be tested to their limits when Israel learned that Iraq was about > >to receive a shipment of enriched uranium for its reactor near > >Baghdad--enough uranium to build four or five Hiroshima-size bombs. > >The reactor was 600 miles from Israel. > > [snip] > > >Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the attack to occur before the > >uranium arrived and the reactor went ``hot," at which point bombing > >would have scattered radioactive waste over Baghdad. The raid was > >scheduled for a Sunday, to minimize casualties. It was executed > >perfectly. Aren't we glad. Now. > > Very curious. The Iraqi were "about to receive a shipment of enriched > uranium". > > From where? Who was supplying these materials? Was the supplier > performing a "legitimate act" in making these material available? It > would > seem they were not, since the facility itself was not. > > And if not, why would bombing the power reactor (plausibly legitimate use > of enriched uranium) act to prevent the shipment itself and its diversion? > > Why not bomb the country(s) supplying the material? > > By extension, should we preemptively bomb Pakistani and Indian nuclear > facilities? > > Won't we be glad? Later? > > Curious. > > ____tony____ > > > Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov> > Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Livermore, CA 94551-9900 > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > ------------------ > http://all.net/ > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >------------------ >http://all.net/ > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov> Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA 94551-9900 ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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