Posted on 11/15/2007 5:41:23 AM PST by yoe
Axis Of Evil: Iran has turned over to the United Nations its blueprints for making a nuclear warhead. That's not a surprise — and neither is the U.N.'s incompetence in dealing with the threat.
First, the existence of the blueprints — which outline how uranium is molded into the shape of warheads — is confirmation that Tehran's nuclear ambitions are not just for "peaceful" purposes.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's constant insistence that Iran's nuclear program is intended only to provide atomic energy for his oil-rich nation has been exposed as the lie.
Second, it's worrisome to find that the U.N. knew two years ago that Iran had the documents and is getting them only when the Islamist regime wanted to turn them over. More evidence the organization is virtually useless and may actually be counterproductive.
The AP coverage of this event was, unintentionally perhaps, telling when it revealed that the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency "stumbled upon" the plans "among a batch of other documents during its examination of suspect Iranian nuclear activities" in 2005. The IAEA has not exactly been the most attentive or rigorous watchdog of nuclear activities.
Think of North Korea, which was was able to restart its nuclear weapons program under the sleepy eyes of the U.N.
And of Saddam Hussein, who never feared the IAEA would actually uncover his plans to build weapons of mass destruction or punish him if he did. He knew the effete U.N. would treat him with deference, as it does any dictator who either rules from the left or is identifiably anti-American.
Saddam also had too many corrupt U.N. officials in his pocket through that organization's oil-for-food program to worry that it would actually punish him.
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These plans must be the one Slick Willie sent to them, thinking he could get away with plans loaded with a couple of mistakes to deter them from making the bomb.
I really think the U.S. should take the lead in delivering as many atomic bombs to Iran as they would like. Then we would no longer need to worry about them developing their own. Plus it would provide valuable training for our bomber crews in case we wanted to provide the same type of assistance to the North Korean nuclear program.
You know the UNs motto. "Cooperation not confrontation."
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