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Bush: Iran has right to civilian nuclear program
Reuters ^ | Tue Sep 13, 2005

Posted on 09/13/2005 2:40:42 PM PDT by F14 Pilot

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday said Iran had a right to a civilian nuclear program if it did not gain expertise or materials to build an atomic weapon.

The United States is concerned that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons, and Bush said he would be "speaking candidly about Iran" with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who are gathering in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

"It is very important for the world to understand that Iran with a nuclear weapon will be incredibly destabilizing," Bush said at a news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. "And therefore we must work together to prevent them from having the wherewithal to develop a nuclear weapon."

Iran says it has every right to develop nuclear technology to generate electricity, while the United States and the European Union want the U.N. Security Council to take up Iran's case after it resumed uranium processing last month.

The United States last month explicitly accepted for the first time that Iran could develop civilian nuclear programs, backing an EU proposal to allow Tehran to pursue atomic power in exchange for giving up fuel work.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; eu; hello; iran; irannukes; isthisbushorkerry; jumpingthegun; nuclear; quicktohatebush; un; usa
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To: F14 Pilot

Well, I think he does. And I think almost everyone on this thread is overreacting and misunderstanding what the article says.
Pres. Bush is not changing his mind on the regime having nukes, and he knows they can't be trusted.


41 posted on 09/13/2005 3:03:24 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert

President Bush has gone crazy, I guess!


42 posted on 09/13/2005 3:04:11 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Read what the President said. He said he had no problems with a civilian nuclear program.

Where's the quote in the article?
43 posted on 09/13/2005 3:04:47 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

http://news.google.com/news?q=Bush+Iran&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr


44 posted on 09/13/2005 3:04:55 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: jimbo123
Here
45 posted on 09/13/2005 3:05:53 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: F14 Pilot

He is making a statement before Ahmadinejad gets to the UN and says that the US is preveting it from having nuclear energy like many other countries.
It's a pre-emptive statement to take the wind out of Ahmadinejad's sails.


46 posted on 09/13/2005 3:06:41 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert

I doubt this is the same President Bush I used to know!


47 posted on 09/13/2005 3:08:08 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: nuconvert

I know they have. It's disgusting.


48 posted on 09/13/2005 3:08:21 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: F14 Pilot

Found it:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=78114

“They have insisted that they have a civilian nuclear programme, and I thought a rational approach to that would be to allow them to receive enriched uranium from a third party under the guise of international inspections that will enable them to have civilian nuclear power without learning how to make a bomb,” Bush said at a press conference with visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

“Some of us are wondering why they need civilian nuclear power anyway. They're awash with hydrocarbons,” Bush said. “Nevertheless, it's a right of a government to want to have a civilian nuclear programme.”

But he said there ought to be guidelines. “It is very important for the world to understand that Iran with a nuclear weapon will be incredibly destabilising,” Bush said. “And therefore we must work together to prevent them from having the wherewithal to develop a nuclear weapon.”


49 posted on 09/13/2005 3:09:00 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: F14 Pilot

And, it's a pre-emptive statement for the Iranian people. To let them know that it isn't nukes for elec. that we have a problem with, so Ahmadinejad can't use that on the Iranian people, either.


50 posted on 09/13/2005 3:09:23 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: F14 Pilot

Maybe if he's REeeal nice to them they'll be good.


51 posted on 09/13/2005 3:09:48 PM PDT by johnb838 (I got nuthin to say,)
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To: jimbo123

Is that Kerry or Bush?


52 posted on 09/13/2005 3:10:02 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: nuconvert

u r making me laugh!


53 posted on 09/13/2005 3:10:47 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: dead

"Vote for me".


You'd need a catchier name.


54 posted on 09/13/2005 3:10:56 PM PDT by keats5
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Course the Pentagon DID just announce that if a hair on the head of a US city gets harmed by a nuke somebody is going to get nuked back... that was what, last weekend? I guess that would be the bad cop?


55 posted on 09/13/2005 3:12:13 PM PDT by johnb838 (I got nuthin to say,)
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To: F14 Pilot

Has Bush blinked yet again?

This would be the most monumtental blink yet.

Any President who allows Iran to develop nukes is a failure.


56 posted on 09/13/2005 3:13:00 PM PDT by tomahawk (Proud to be an enemy of Islam (check out www.prophetofdoom.net))
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To: F14 Pilot

If it became a democray, THEN it can have a civilian nuclear program.


57 posted on 09/13/2005 3:13:16 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

That I agree!


58 posted on 09/13/2005 3:14:08 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: Incorrigible

Very tempting....


59 posted on 09/13/2005 3:14:55 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: tomahawk

Bush sounds like Jimmy Carter.

Not off to a good second term start.


"Dont buy unnecessary gas'

"Iran can have nukes".

I stand by my tagline.


60 posted on 09/13/2005 3:16:40 PM PDT by LongsforReagan (Dick Cheney is the best elected official in this country. Period.)
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