Posted by
Dave Kooker on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:01:09 AM
Iran states that it’s nuclear program is for ‘peaceful’ endeavors. The nuclear program is merely for the production of electricity even though Iran is swimming in crude oil and natural gas.
Surrounding nations and those in the Civilized world strongly suspect that Iran’s intention of a nuclear program is to create nuclear material for their own nuclear bomb. Iran desires an efficient weapon of mass destruction to eliminate all the Islam ‘non-believers’ off the map.
I believe that there is a third reason Iran wants nuclear material. Iran watched as the US Military forces stormed across Iraq’s territory in the first Gulf War. Iraq’s armored vehicles were absolutely no match against the US’s artillery. Iran must have just watched in horror at the pictures of all the Iraqi armored vehicles, which were simply neutralized on the ‘Highway of Death’.
The US military learned that artillery forged out of spent nuclear material had superior amour piercing properties. The new artillery could slice through amour like butter. If Iran can acquire the same spent nuclear material from its nuclear program that it has just activated, Iran has in fact leveled the playing field of Iran’s ground forces against the US military. Iran's ground forces can now fight back with the same type of effective damage considering if Iran’s troops are able to fight with the same bravery as US troops.
There was an unintended casualty in the first Gulf War and that was our own troops. I would challenge the US Military to test our first Gulf War veterans who are still experiencing Gulf War illness for radiation poisoning (hint: artillery forged out of spent nuclear material) but that is another story.