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Powell email: Israel has 200 nuke warheads

Iran’s leadership will never use a nuclear weapon if they produce one because Teheran knows Israel has 200 nukes pointed at the Islamic Republic, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an email leaked to the public last week. Wait, national? Late-night comic Conan O’Brien (channeling Trump) quickly corrected the general: “Hey, I’m an global disgrace”.

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The email exchange previous year from Powell’s private Gmail account was leaked late last week by hackers, the Associated Press reported. Take a look at today’s Punchlines, above, to find out.

They [the Iranians] say, correctly, that they have every right to enrich [uranium] for energy.

In the leaked emails, Powell also bashed both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and spoke frankly about a number of issues related to the United States government. “The boys in Tehran know Israel has 200, all targeted on Tehran, and we have thousands”, he allegedly wrote. Many nations suspect Israel possess nuclear weapons and in 1986, nuclear technician Mardechai Vanunu famously exposed the existence of his country’s nuclear weapon’s program.

Powell says that he had to raise a tantrum at the Apollo Hamptons 2016 party to get the attention of Clinton’s staff.

The nuclear deal, signed between Iran and world powers, traded a pulling back of Iran’s nuclear program for a lifting of the sanctions on its economy. Retired generals and admirals popping off.

He denounced as racist the so-called birther movement supported by Trump that believes Barack Obama was born in Africa and not in the US. I have studied it pretty thoroughly… “I’m not going to start discussing someone else’s private emails”. Have to deal with ISIS. I don’t have or want any. Clinton email scandal Clinton’s email controversy suggested that during her time as secretary of state 4 years later, emails sent from her server in her home in Chappaua, N.Y. home, had a potential to be compromised.

According to a report in the Washington Post, the shady site that posted Powell’s two years’ worth of emails – in which he mocked and hurled epithets at Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Dick Cheney and others – is being linked to the Russian government.

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“I have a great deal of respect for Colin Powell and I have a lot of sympathy for anyone whose emails became public”, Mrs Clinton said in an interview with The Tom Joyner Morning Show, a programme broadcast on the BlackAmericaWeb website on Thursday, referring to the disclosure of tens of thousands of her emails from her time as secretary of state.

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