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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-11-06 09:10 PM
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Toronto Sun Editorial Urges Nuking Iran Link Please?
need to come up with the original link to this
as the site I found it on is, evidently,
one of those, mysterious DU banned sites,
as I have posted links to that site here before
that, without explabation, vanished

We should nuke Iran

FANATICAL, OPPRESSIVE LEADER MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD PROVOKES WARS AND FINANCES TERROR

2 September 2006

By MICHAEL COREN, TORONTO SUN

It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world peace.

Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal. It is, sadly, the only response that this repugnant and acutely dangerous political entity will understand.

The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran's missiles and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by men with the highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the Tehran regime. They are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.

Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom to those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a limited nuclear attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of lives.

The spasm of reaction from many will be that this is barbaric and unacceptable. Yet a better response would be to ask if there is any sensible alternative. Diplomacy, kindness and compromise have failed and the Iranian leadership is still obsessed with all-out war against anybody it considers an enemy.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-11-06 09:22 PM
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1. Google Toronto Sun. Follow the link to their webpage
select "columnists", do a crtl-f search for the guy, click on his link, et voila:

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Coren_Michael/2006/09/02/1795183.html

Please note that the Toronto Sun is a tabloid fishwrapper which deems cleavage to be front page news at least once a week, so I wouldn't expend any emotional energy reacting to its contents.

I'm guessing that most of the paper's audience only looks at said cleavage and the sports section, so very few people have probably read the column. As far as irrational right-wing Canadian print journalism goes, the National Post is more influential.
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-11-06 09:30 PM
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2. Thanks for clueing me in
I thought they might have readership and credibility.

Still, I wouldn't put it past them
for Shrubco to attack Iran
while riding on 911 anniversary
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-11-06 09:37 PM
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3. It does have readership.
I don't know the numbers, but there are pretty much the same number of Toronto Sun newspaper machines sitting on street corners as there are for Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National Post.

Roughly speaking, it's Toronto's version of the NY Post.
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