Remember Powell's embarrassing UN presentation - well here's part II |
| Posted by: h@ts | | Isn't this just Iraq all over again? Obviously the neocons don't care that Iraq is still a mess and are getting impatient and feel the time has come to move onto Iran.
And who are we, with enough nuclear bombs, armed and ready to destroy the world several times over, to point at anyone and order them stop any development of a nuclear bomb?
Someone please explain who gave the US the right to demand who does and doesn't have nukes?
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said earlier this month: "They cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear program, which is what they're trying to do"
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U.S. Deploys Slide Show to Press Case Against Iran
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
09/14/05 "Washington Post" -- -- UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 -- With an hour-long slide show that blends satellite imagery with disquieting assumptions about Iran's nuclear energy program, Bush administration officials have been trying to convince allies that Tehran is on a fast track toward nuclear weapons.
The PowerPoint briefing, titled "A History of Concealment and Deception," has been presented to diplomats from more than a dozen countries. Several diplomats said the presentation, intended to win allies for increasing pressure on the Iranian government, dismisses ambiguities in the evidence about Iran's intentions and omits alternative explanations under debate among intelligence analysts.
The presenters argue that the evidence leads solidly to a conclusion that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons, according to diplomats who have attended the briefings and U.S. officials who helped to assemble the slide show. But even U.S. intelligence estimates acknowledge that other possibilities are plausible, though unverified.
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| Posted by: Optics | |
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h@ts said this in post #1 :
Isn't this just Iraq all over again? Obviously the neocons don't care that Iraq is still a mess and are getting impatient and feel the time has come to move onto Iran.
And who are we, with enough nuclear bombs, armed and ready to destroy the world several times over, to point at anyone and order them stop any development of a nuclear bomb?
Someone please explain who gave the US the right to demand who does and doesn't have nukes?
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said earlier this month: "They cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear program, which is what they're trying to do"
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H@ts you confuse me.
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| And who are we, with enough nuclear bombs, armed and ready to destroy the world several times over, to point at anyone and order them stop any development of a nuclear bomb? |
Here in this quote you seem to acknowledge that your country also has access to nuclear arms yet in this next statement you only point the finger at the US ???
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| Someone please explain who gave the US the right to demand who does and doesn't have nukes? |
I'm pretty sure that is not just he US that does not want Iran does not have nukes. I mean this is just a wild shot in the dark but I feel confident saying this.
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| Posted by: h@ts | |
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| Optics: H@ts you confuse me. |
I don't confuse you, you just PRETEND you need everything spelled out for you.
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| Here in this quote you seem to acknowledge that your country also has access to nuclear arms yet in this next statement you only point the finger at the US ??? |
There's a big difference between how the US wants to tackle Iran's nuclear program and how Europe, and dare I say it, even Britain wants to deal with it. Could Bush convince you that Iran's WMD threat is so great that the US must attack the country? Did he convince you when he said that Iraq's stockpiles of WMD were a threat to world peace and security?
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| I'm pretty sure that is not just he US that does not want Iran does not have nukes. I mean this is just a wild shot in the dark but I feel confident saying this. |
That would explain the French, German and Russian negotiations then.
Whatever anyone wants, unless we are serious about getting rid of own nukes - and both Britain and America have talked about developing battlefield nukes and bunker busters - pointing the finger at anyone just comes across as hypocritical and farcical. Iran is not going to be safe from US aggression until it gets nukes. It's just seen what has happened to a WMD free Iraq, so you can understand the massive incentive Iran has to get some nukes.
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| Posted by: Optics | | H@ts your confusion comes in how you word your statements.
The US has been in talks with Iran also but some how you just do not want to say it. The US has been in talks with Iran for a while now. AKA working on a peacefull resolution to the problem. | | Reply To this Message
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