Posted on 12/05/2007 1:59:30 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
March 2003: The United States has had enough of Saddam Hussein's non-compliance to fully disclose to the U.N. World opinion is overwhelming: Iraq is in violation of the world's demands via the U.N. Shock and Awe begins.
Sometime in 2003: Iran suspends its nuclear weapons program (supposedly).
Now, maybe I just haven't heard yet--but is anyone else making that connection? Couldn't the argument be made the whacking of Iraq was a factor in getting Iran--bellicose rhetoric aside--to stop developing a bomb?
Seemed to work on Libya, why not Iran?
What if the report had said Iran was closer to making a bomb?! I bet the same people ('rats and the Media) who are RIPPING Bush now for saying he overstated the problem would instead be saying he didn't "emphasize the problem enough and focused too much on Iraq!"
thanks.
No fair... you’re connecting the dots!
If you place any credence at all in this questionable-sourced, custom-ordered-by-Harry Reid, piece of fiction written by political hacks in the State Department — then I guess your thesis might have some merit....
they don’t need an excuse
IMO, iran is close enough to restart (if actually stopped) and have what they want inside of a month at anytime because lets face it, IEAE sure don’t want to know what they have
LLS
I think it is almost laughable.... almost.
Ii think their intent is to hamstring Bush..... thinking they’re so clever but..... they wind up hamstringing themselves.
Bush have just a tad over a year to go and till then, Bush will do all he can to keep Iran contained but this NIE will tie his hands and if the next guy in the Whitehouse is a dem... they’ll have to live with their own filth they’ve created.
It all makes me thankful to live in a small town.
The NIE dissemination was apparently a first step toward lowering oil prices.
Iran, US may meet on Iraq security in ‘few days’: Shiite leader
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g7lpvZRI-mpHbuzKaAhZGmbULu1w
It’s going to be really funny, BTW, as oil goes up and the dollar goes down anyway.
If you believe Iran Suspended it’s Nuclear Bomb Program. Fortunately, we have the truth detector around to do the media’s work and we’ll have to wait till he says it’s true.
Give me a break.
I think all those who believe this report are going to get one big surprise.
There is still something I am unclar about.
Just what does Iran plan to do with this enriched urnaium they are producing?
It is perfectly useless to them to use in a nuclear power reactor since the Iranians don’t have one. The Russians are building a power (ligth water) reactor for the Iranians, but the Iranians have to use Russian fuel in that one and the Russians are going to keep that control.
The Iranians could develop a reactor design of their own, but to do that and build suc a reactor will take them at least a decade, by which time the enriched uranium they are manufacturing today will have decayed.
So, what are they planning to use it for? Just a question, and I’m wondering if the NIE just issued addresses this question.
Iran produces nuclear fuel pellets [for heavy water reactor]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930458/posts
If Iran did suspend its nuke bomb program in 2003, why did they dis the IAEA at every turn and allow jerky boy to become President? If they want the world to believe they don’t want nukes, they are going about it all wrong!
stop thinking and using your brain...it is not the lib/dem way!!!!
...true about “info-war.” It’s a brand new concept. [Little irony there.] Oil went down about a whole dollar after the NIE dissemination, and it’s going back up. Our Government threw more of its credibility away. The Iranians are laughing. There’s no incentive for sanctions.
I suppose that it was worthwhile for some, though. Freight fuel for imports was down a little for a day.
how bout as ballast in a suitcase, you know to help keep the koran level in mid town Manhattan
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