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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:27 PM
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Poll question: Is a nuclear iran acceptable?
Is a nuclear iran acceptable?
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:29 PM
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1. Yes.
Is a nuclear Pakistan acceptable? Is a nuclear India acceptable? Is a nuclear North Korea acceptable? Is a nuclear Israel acceptable?

It is not the best choice, but it is better than a futile war to stop it.

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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:32 PM
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2. Is a nuclear America acceptable?
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:46 PM
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7. No.
But the NPT alows for it and I'm a stickler for international law. If a nuclear America is acceptable, a nuclear Russia is even more unacceptable.

:shrug:
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Tom Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:32 PM
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3. I will not vote in a stacked poll. Nuclear weapons are never acceptable.
Not for any nation. Including:
United States
Russia
France
great britian
Israel
India
Pakistan
Iran


should any of those nations face war? No.
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:48 PM
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9. "Other" nt
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:49 PM
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11. THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ....N/T
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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:11 PM
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20. What he said.nt
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:26 PM
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26. I agree
International law should ban all nuclear weapons.
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:32 PM
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4. What does "Nuclear Iran" mean?
That they have nuclear weapons? Nuclear power? Nuclear families? Atoms that have nuclei?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:33 PM
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5. The US Neocon Junta invasion of Iraq, which THEY KNEW didn't have nukes,
Edited on Sat Jan-06-07 08:34 PM by havocmom
pretty well showed the world that any leaders really serious about protecting their nations need to anty-up whatever the arms merchants charge and get nukes.

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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:34 PM
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6. It's not acceptable, but the fact is using force to resolve it is going to make things a lot worse.
If I had my way, the world would be destroying nuclear stockpiles, not building more of them.
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:48 PM
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8. Is nuclear nukular acceptable? I voted OTHER,. n/t
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 08:49 PM
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10. yes
:kick:
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 09:58 PM
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12. I voted yes, but would like to qualify my answer this way: A nuclear Iran is
acceptable as long as we have mad men and war profiteers running the US and Israel.

I don't think Iran has any choice, given the threats that have been hurled against them. And I actually think that the mullahs of Iran are saner than the Bush Junta and than Israel's rightwing, and would not use them. I think they need them for security. They are very vulnerable, and have no reason to trust us--none! The US, the UK and Israel desroyed Iran's democracy in 1954, and inflicted the Iranian people with 25 years of torture and repression under the horrible Shah of Iran. WE drove them into the arms of the mullahs. They were--and I think still are--the most potentially progressive society among Israel's neighbors--and we keep fucking them over, and demonizing them, and blaming the people of Iran for firebrand statements of one leader, who just LOST the elections. We need to understand that they are SCARED.
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 09:59 PM
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13. No
I trust the US I don't trust Iran. Of course I am also in the military so I see things differently.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:19 PM
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24. I'm not in the military, but I agree. Iran's medieval government would be too dangerous w/ them.
Of course I'd say the same about Stalin's Russia. It may well be that a nuclear Iran is just one of those unacceptable things we may have to live with, like child abuse in our community, Bush leaving office without doing jail time, or a nuclear North Korea.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:00 PM
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14. Absolutely not. The goal is to stop proliferation.
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Nutmegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:02 PM
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15. NO TO ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
Including the US, India (via "Nukes for Mangoes) and Iran.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:05 PM
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16. you are of course referring to nuclear for the purpose of steam generation...
as they have stated is the case :)
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:08 PM
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17. Ok
if it turns out that is not the case, what do we do next??
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:24 PM
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25. elaborate please, do you mean; "what next" if Iran is jumping up & down...
with her hair on fire clutching nuclear weapons sparking from their nuclear triggers threatening the existence of the world? you mean like that? what next?

cause that is quite a ways off yet
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:26 PM
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27. It's just a question
If Iran is deceiving us and we find out what do we do? It's not a hard question.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:34 PM
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29. i don't think there are any innocents in this world anymore, not at the...
level of a head of state, anyone can be fooled and has been; vigilance is still key regardless of which side of the fence is being straddled, this is a hair-triggered, spring-loaded world and i have great empathy for they ill prepared for it, and that includes America :(
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:46 PM
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30. Ok
that's very pretty but what do we do??
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:08 PM
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18. Acceptable to whom?
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:09 PM
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19. I would imagine
Israel, Sunni Arab nations,Europe and the US.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:12 PM
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21. Nuclear powered?
If that's what you mean, I'm a yes vote. If you mean weapons, I don't think any nation should have them.
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:16 PM
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22. I don't agree with nuclear being anywhere.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:18 PM
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23. Compared to WHAT? A US nuclear first strike?
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 10:27 PM
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28. other: inevitable n/t
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