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Surprise, surprise. Long-range missiles have been spotted through satellite imagery in Iran. 

From Hot Air:

The Iranians claim that the sites are used for commercial space projects, but Jane’s analysts say they are clearly military in nature. The sites have heavy military security and have continued to expand far past the needs of a commercial application for rocketry. They look very similar to North Korea’s existing military facilities for long-range missiles, not surprising since the Shahab-3 relies on North Korean designs for the Nodong and the Taepodong missile classes.

According to the analysis provided by the Times, the Iranians could have missiles ready in five years that could hold Europe hostage to the mullahcracy. This meets the timelines set by NATO and the US to have interceptor sites completed in Poland and the Czech Republic by 2013. It also explains why George Bush has remained steadfast on missile defense.

This isn’t an academic pursuit any longer, but a critical means to stop proliferation by making the barriers to entry so costly as to discourage it. In order to get past a missile defense like the one proposed, Iran would have to build hundreds of sites and thousands of missiles, which would be an economic impossibility. Other nations that would try to threaten the West through missiles would face the same economic hurdle with even fewer resources than Iran, and not bother to even start such a program.

You can read the full news item from the Times of London here. People love to blame Bush for everything, but when he turns out to be right, the liberal world suddenly gets very quiet.