We Must Strike First

"Ahmadinejad said: ‘They [ask]: ‘Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism?’ But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and surely can be achieved.'" (October 28, 2005)

"U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S."

"Iran Heads Toward Nuclear `Breakthrough,' Israel Says (Update2)"

While Senator Obama is busy gratifying the desire of Native and African-American journalists to view themselves as victims and raising the possibility of awarding reparations for sins against their ancestors, we hear news of Iran performing tests of what can best be explained as a method of launching nuclear missiles from ships and exploding them over the United States.

Dr. William Graham was the White House science adviser under President Ronald Reagan and presently chairs the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a panel established by Congress in 2001.

Dr. Graham had this to say in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee: “The only plausible explanation [for these tests] we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from a ship and get it up to altitude and then detonate it,” he said. “And that’s exactly what you would do if you had a nuclear weapon on a Scud or a Shahab-3 or other missile, and you wanted to explode it over the United States.”

Last April, the commission issued a report on the kind of devastation that such an attack would inflict on the United States: "If even a crude nuclear weapon were detonated anywhere between 40 kilometers to 400 kilometers above the earth, in a split-second it would generate an electro-magnetic pulse [EMP] that would cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure."

Let us connect a few dots together.

1. The President of Iran has publicly stated on more than one occasion that he thinks the world would be a better place if the United States ceased to exist (at least as a power that could oppose Iran and its aspirations for world domination.)

2. Iran has a nuclear program that it insists on pursuing in spite of any opposition and is probably not far from possessing a nuclear weapon.

3. Iran appears to be perfecting its ability to launch such a weapon from a ship and explode it above the United States.

If someone were to publicly state that the world would be a better place if I didn't exist and then proceeded to devise a means by which to make his wish come true, it would be foolish of me to sit around and wait until he carried out his plan.

It is extremely important that the United States determine for itself if these things are true and if they are, we need to make sure that Iran is not able to carry out its plans for our destruction. I am confident that a President Bush or President McCain will act in our best interest if this should become necessary. I am not as confident in a President Obama, who thinks that it is wise to negotiate with those who wish that we would no longer exist.