The best U.S. weapon against Iran is diplomacy ["Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy"]

Newsday ^ | 26SEP07 | John Burroughs

[familyop]

John Burroughs is executive director of the New York-based Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy...What is needed is not another UN Security Council resolution strengthening existing sanctions. Rather the Bush administration should talk directly with Iran, and soon, because the U.S.-Iran confrontation is heating up dangerously...In a recent interview, Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei said, "We are moving rapidly toward an abyss." It is not too late to step away.

[familyop]

...just a reminder to let you know what kind of people are making our political and defense policy decisions.

[pissant]

I hope Bush takes out the mullahs sooner rather than later.

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://memritv.org/subject/en/121.htm

[Westlander]

Responding to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warnings that the world had to be prepared for the possibility of war if Iran acquired atomic weapons, he characterized talk of attacking Iran as “hype”, saying: “I would not talk about any use of force.There are rules on how to use force, and I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 70,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons.” “We need to be cool,” he said, adding: “We need not to hype the issue.”

He further added “I do not believe at this stage that we are facing a clear and present danger that requires we go beyond diplomacy.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei

[L.N. Smithee]

International organizations and law were shunted to the side in dealing with Saddam Hussein. That mistake must not be made again. We now know that after the 1991 defeat of Iraq, the IAEA and UN succeeded in dismantling its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. If President George W. Bush had permitted the completion of inspections of Iraq in 2003, the dismantlement would have been confirmed and the catastrophe of the Iraq invasion likely averted.

Ex-squeeze me? "Permitted the completion of inspections"? If my memory serves me well, Hussein wouldn't permit the completion of inspections! He said inspectors were spies and wouldn't allow them access to his palaces.

If Saddam was really innocent, why was he acting so guilty?

[johnny7]

Then they’d better learn Sharia Law...

[Right Wing Assault]

The best weapon against Iran is the death of the mullahs and little Ockmod.

[Diogenesis]

[KhanKrum]

Yes, I sure do think that all of the diplomacy has worked well.

Just look how far we have come since talking to the Iranians & all of the diplomatic & economic pressure we put on ‘em.

Boy, that sure worked.

My suggestion? Send Henry Waxman over there on a one way ticket to investigate them. The mullahs & Kakaminadab would all run away screaming from the country. And that is just what his nostrils would do BEFORE the investigation.

Other options: bomb the nukes till they glow...literally.

Nuff said...

[isrul]

Ah yes. Diplomacy is just the ticket. History proves that. Reach out. Accommodate. After all Iran practices the religion of peace. Send Rice and some other state dept flunkies over here to suck up and all will be well.

[bmwcyle]

And Shakespeare said?

[LibLieSlayer]

“DON’T PUSH THE WAR WITH iran... IT WILL ONLY HELP REPUBLICANS AND HURT dims in 2008”.

That is ALL that this article says.

LLS

[Flintlock]

Boooooring.........
Let’s push the button and be done with it.

(Howsabout letting ‘em know our explosives were made with glycerin from pork fat while we’re at it?)

[Humble Servant]

Diplomacy without the credible threat of force is slow surrender.

[elpadre]

that is exactly what Iran is counting on as they continue their count-down and destruction of Israel

[familyop]

"(Howsabout letting ‘em know our explosives were made with glycerin from pork fat while we’re at it?)"

Heh, we could call them gummy bears. ;-)