Posted on 06/01/2007 9:24:26 AM PDT by ASC2006
LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief warned on Friday against the "new crazies" advocating military action to halt Iran's nuclear programme and said he did not want to see another war like that in Iraq.
"I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis, innocent civilians, are dying," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview for BBC Radio.
"I have no brief other than to make sure we don't go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other. You do not want to give additional argument to new crazies who say 'let's go and bomb Iran'," he said in a documentary, excerpts from which were published on the BBC's Web site in advance.
Tehran has ignored repeated warnings and resolutions sponsored by world powers in the United Nations Security Council demanding that it cease uranium enrichment.
It was ElBaradei's strongest warning yet against the use of force. He has urged Western powers to consider allowing Iran limited enrichment he believes would pose no bomb proliferation risk and avert a feared slide into conflict.
The powers have rejected his proposal.
Iran says it is pursuing a nuclear programme to provide electricity. The West believes it is trying to build a nuclear bomb and is gearing up to draft a third round of U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Birds of a feather...
Perhaps it could be that these so-called crazies have seen the action (or inaction) of the UN before.
Why we have ever entrusted this job to anybody named “Mohammed” is completely beyond me.
Nuke ‘Em High!
Could it not also be that a war in Iran would significantly reduce the killing in Iraq?
IAEA monitors nuclear activity. They never stop it, they don’t even see it as their job to stop it. They just monitor it and document it.
In a very real sense they provide cover for it.
He is an Egyptian Muslim working for the UN, received the Nobel Peace prize and as far as I know his wife is Iranian.
‘Nuff said.
Oh please, why did the Bush administration not get ElBaradei replaced? He said....a nuclear-armed Iran would be terrible but added the jury was still out as to whether the country even wanted atomic weapons...ElBaradei angered the United States, Britain and France by calling for a face-saving compromise that would cap Iranian enrichment activity at its current modest levels.
Diplomats said those three countries, as well as Japan, sent envoys to stress to ElBaradei that the U. N. Security Council resolution urging an immediate halt to Iran’s nuclear activities was law, adopted unanimously, and should enjoy his support.
In Germany earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indirectly chided ElBaradei by saying “the IAEA is not an agency that is negotiating with the Iranians. That is being done under a Security Council resolution by six states”.
IKEA. They make nice cheap Scandinavian furniture... Oh wait. IAEA? They don’t do anything.
Just call me “crazy” . . .
Call me crazy, but bomb Mohamed ElBaradei.
We should hold a national referendum on two things: immigration and whether we should remain in the UN. Our side would win handily on both.
What if the amount of evil prevented by a war that destroys Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons is by far greater that the evil of the war itself? Is that crazy? Choosing the lesser of two evils is not crazy if those are the only two alternatives.
The war in Iraq was great - it went fine.
What Bush screwed up was what happened later.
A war with a non-nuclear Iran is far better now than an assured war with a nuclear Iran in the future. I’m not sure Bush is the man to wage it. After taking out the Ayatollahs, he would then try to turn the Iranians into a Yale debating society. On the other hand, a hopefully more adept successor would be able to extricate us after the inevitable victory without tying the military down to a social engineering project as in Iraq.
Yeah such a war “by Crazies” might impair El Badairi’s overall plan to ensure ALL islamic nations have nuclear bombs within the next decade.
And those 100 innocent civilians that are being killed in Iraq. EXACTLY WHO IS KILLING THEM?
Is it the US forces lining up civilians and gunning them down? I don’t think so.
>> I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis, innocent civilians, are dying,” ... ElBaradei said
Yeah, well, when Iran gets their bomb, one day WE’LL wake up to the news that 1,000,000 or so innocent Israeli civilians didn’t wake up at all.
But Jewish lives don’t matter to Mohammed ElBalderdash. Merely pigs and dogs, you know.
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