{"id":7723,"date":"2010-08-17T23:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2010-08-17T23:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T07:38:34","slug":"washington-times-dirty-bombs-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/washington-times-dirty-bombs-away\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Washington Times<\/em>: Dirty Bombs Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the Moonies concur with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/17\/israel-weeks-end-strike-iran-nuclear-facility-bolton-says\/\">John Bolton<\/a> that Israel must strike the soon-to-be-activated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2010\/08\/8169.html\">harmless light water reactor<\/a> at Bushehr in Western Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201c an act which would be certain to drag the United States into a high-casualty catastrophe within moments. But the authors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/17\/bombs-away-in-three-days\/\">this unsigned editorial<\/a> in the <em>Washington Times<\/em> tonight suggest that the Israelis needn&#8217;t strike by this weekend. Why the discrepancy?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Bolton set that deadline because he was concerned that destroying an operational plant would create a radiation hazard, but a strike that left the site radioactive would hinder Iranian attempts to get it back up and running.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civilian casualties would be minimal because the site is located nine miles downwind of the city of Bushehr, and potential [radioactive] fallout would drift over either the Gulf close to Iran or the immediate area, which is arid and sparsely populated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat Tip, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/exiledonline\/status\/21469447021\">eXiled<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the Moonies concur with John Bolton that Israel must strike the soon-to-be-activated, harmless light water reactor at Bushehr in Western Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201c an act which would be certain to drag the United States into a high-casualty catastrophe within moments. But the authors of this unsigned editorial in the Washington Times tonight suggest that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-israel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}