Posted on 10/17/2007 10:29:32 AM PDT by blam
Bush warns Putin over 'World War Three'
By Matthew Moore and Adrian Blomfield
Last Updated: 6:10pm BST 17/10/2007
George W Bush, the US president, today warned that world leaders risk helping bring about "World War Three" unless they do more to prevent Iran developing nuclear weapons.
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"We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel," Mr Bush told a White House press conference.
"So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War Three, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
Mr Bush's pointed statement follows the warm words exchanged by Mr Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, at an historic summit in Teheran this week.
After their meeting Mr Putin repeated Moscow's line that there is no evidence to suggest Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb, and pledged to continue helping the country develop its civil nuclear technology.
As the first Kremlin leader to visit Iran since Josef Stalin in 1943, he also secured the vital backing of Azerbaijan in a five-nation pact by the Caspian states to prevent the US from using the region as a staging ground for military action against Iran.
Mr Bush added today that he had no doubts that Russia appreciated the dangers of a nuclear Iran.
But he said that he wished to speak to Mr Putin about his meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme Iranian leader, during which he is said to have suggested a new proposal to end the nuclear stand-off.
"I'm looking forward to getting President Putin's read-out from the meeting," Mr Bush said.
"The thing I'm interested in is whether or not he continues to harbor the same concerns that I do.
"I will continue to work with Russia as well as other nations to keep a focused effort on sending Iran a message that you will remain isolated if you continue your nuclear weapons ambitions."
Although Russia lent its reluctant backing to two United Nations resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran, it has been stridently opposed to escalating the penalties after Teheran refused to stop its uranium enrichment programme.
Among Western diplomats, opinion is divided as to whether Russia — which has little to gain from a nuclear Iran — will eventually acquiesce.
Emboldened by its vast energy resources and desperate to reclaim its status as a global power, Russia could also stand to gain by seeing the United States dragged into a new, controversial and potentially debilitating Middle East conflict.
The Russians sent up turboprop Bears to enter US territory last week. Turboprops. There’s nothing there. Ronaldus Reagan proved that in 1989. Less there now then then.
Bush is correct. If the SCO are not stopped (including, their proxy / newest member, Iran) than world war is a certainty.
As a side note, let it be known far and wide that I am warmonger in the Churchillian tradition. And I will do everything in my power to prepare to fight and win a global thermonuclear war against the enemies of Western Civilization. Who will join me?
The world’s fastest turboprops, only 20MPH slower than B-52s, with greater range.
......finally someone with enough courage to openly defend Israel !
an unpopular position in most of the propagandized world, all through history evil maniacs have tried to genocide the Jews and failed.
Oddmadinajob and Putin will also fail.....
noticed a funny thing , look at the photo and draw some hair and a beard on Putin, they look like twins
You’re onto something. You know, I’ve often wondered about Putin’s long standing FASCInation with things German and with a seemingly very Prussian martial orientation. After hemming and hawing about it for some time, I think I am ready to conclude that he really is a Nazi.
You’re onto something. You know, I’ve often wondered about Putin’s long standing FASCInation with things German and with a seemingly very Prussian martial orientation. After hemming and hawing about it for some time, I think I am ready to conclude that he really is a Nazi.
I think what Bush is saying is that if Russia helps Iran get nukes and they are used against us or an ally, it is the same as if Russia attacked us directly. Not a bad way to put it and fairly accurate.
God Bless President George W Bush and his steadfast opposition to the enemies of free people everywhere -— Islamic Fundamentalists.
‘The Russians sent up turboprop Bears to enter US territory last week. Turboprops. There’s nothing there. Ronaldus Reagan proved that in 1989. Less there now then then.’
Yep. The Russians are using the exact same planes they used to ‘buzz’ the fleet in the IO when I was in the Navy.
Circa 1981....(chuckle)
That said....I wonder what Bush sees in Putin’s soul these days....
I keep having these mental pictures of a Devastated Iran popping into my minds’ eye. Huge craters where hundreds of blocks of buildings have been turned into craters. Satellite photos of dozens of spires of black clouds coming up into the sky from all over Iran...
it is all about the enemies will to fight
I wish generals would learn that
you can shake up a mighty nation with a box cutter, or hold off the greatest army in the world with a weekly car bomb at a shopping mall and a TV
Hillary can’t confront her husband over his affairs with interns and she wants to deal with these clowns. Yeah, okay.
Uh, I'm all for fighting and defeating the foes of Western Civilization. However, I'd like to avoid the "thermonuclear" part if at all possible. I have a seven-month-old here and I'd kind of like to see him grow up.
If we are attacked by an enemy using nuclear weapons, then by all means let's use our own to destroy our attackers. Short of that, let's fight and win using conventional weapons.
It's a C-130 and it has turbo props too. Just because they use them (as we still do) doesn't mean they arent a threat.
If we survive the initial blasts, and there is some infrastructure intact, Count me in. If there is nothing left, count me in because I plan on causing a lot of mayhem before the radiation gets me.
They are almost as loud as the ordnance they carry, I’ve *heard*.
Make that radiation and the Chicom/Russian/Suicidal Muslim/Nork Alliance.
have you ever heard of the nazi "Aryan Brotherhood" ? they are active in Europe and in US prisons.....check out this link and read all the way to the bottom Aryan
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