guadalcanal diaryJul 20th, 2008 - 15:24:53

There are only 2 items in this article worth noting.

1) The Iranians are all for 'constant' i.e. 'never ending' negotiations.

2) They've been trying to get away with this stuff for 25 years.

It will be particularly sweet when they get defanged.

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SP4: It only ends one way...Jul 20th, 2008 - 16:05:54

...tick tock...

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richard youngJul 21st, 2008 - 05:35:27

Iran has a treaty right under the NPT to conduct the low-level (5%) uranium enrichment for non-weapons uses including power generation and other common peaceful uses of radioactive material. For the past several years the IAEA has continuously inspected and repeatedly certified Iran's nuclear program as peaceful with no diversion of radiactive materials to weapons uses. The most recently published US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran contained a finding by all 16 US intelligence agencies 'with a high degree of confidence' that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and has no such program as the Iranian government has been insisting. Anyone is entitled to his/her opinion on any subject, but where the stakes are peace or war it would seem that those who ignore or reject the facts established by the IAEA and the 16 intelligence agencies of the US government regarding Iran's solely peaceful nuclear program must carry the burden of proving why the IAEA and the US government nuclear experts are wrong. As US Admiral Mullen said yesterday, with two wars already ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan the last thing we need is another war in Iran. Uninformed and groundless allegations of an Iranian nuclear weapons program that in fact does not exist can only serve to promote another disastrous 'war of choice' similar to the Iraq war, which the vast majority of US citizens now realize was initiated upon false premises of non-existent WMDs and non-existent links between the Iraqi government and Al Queda. Iran poses no military threat to the US, Israel or Iran's neighbors, as all informed and honest military observers recognize. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool or a liar.

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