Comments on: REPORT: Air Strikes Against Iran Would Accelerate Nuclear Weapons Development

By: C

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:50:57 +0000

WHO ARE YOU I WAS IN THE 1457TH

By: Jar Jar Bush

Jar Jar Bush — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:03:48 +0000

Woger Woger:

You’re about as fuctup as a football bat. I think you might have logged onto the wrong web site; I think you’re looking for thinkdecline.

By: JPark

JPark — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:46:37 +0000

#116 You are all giddy, aren’t you?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:15:18 +0000

#111

“WE need to give them a last chance to stop what they are doing before we start bombing”

Remember it isn’t the U.S. who will be doing the airstrikes, although it helps that we control the airspace in Iraq….hint, hint.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:13:11 +0000

#114

“â€¦there are countries with financial interests in Iranâ€¦

â€¦who certainly (in concert) possess the economic leverageâ€¦”

Funny those same countries, i.e. China and Russia have the same objections to Iran having a nuke that the REST of the world has. Do you honestly think that Russia and China will stand with Iran against the rest of the world?

“â€¦and judging from your imperious toneâ€¦”

Imperious tone? I was just stating the fact that Iran is beholden to the rest of the world for their economic existance.

By: big papa

big papa — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:32:14 +0000

Comment by Tracy #107

T’rashy,

…I realize that you exist in a vacuum…

…but TRY and think outside of your box…

…there are countries with financial interests in Iran…

…who certainly (in concert) possess the economic leverage…

…to make life uneasy…

…for you greedy Bushballickin’ ingrates…

…and judging from your imperious tone…

…you deserve it…

By: JPark

JPark — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:15:33 +0000

#111 …and who will fight your war against Iran?

By: Karim

Karim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:13:49 +0000

It goes without saying that attacking Iran would be an even bigger mistake than attacking Iraq was.

By: Roger_Roger

Roger_Roger — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:03:12 +0000

#109 I completely agree we should go have talks now even if they refuse to stop enrichment beforehand. IN the end however, I disagree with the Libs from this site and think it is very important that Iran stop enriching uranium. I cannot see how anyone is ok with them enriching Uranium. Either way, it currently sounds like the Dems leaders agree with me on this point and won’t take the military card off the table. Talking with them now is important though. WE need to give them a last chance to stop what they are doing before we start bombing and potentially full scale war against Iran to stop the terrorist leaders from building their nuke.

By: rogerDoger

rogerDoger — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:53:33 +0000

Iran never threatened Israel dolt. Iran threatend the Zionist regime in Israel. The difference is more than subtle. Iran has a fairly large Jewish and Christian population, and there are Jewish groups that oppose the Zionist control in Israel – including many in Israel that oppose their govt policies much lke many oppose the current adminstration policies now in the USA. If he was to attack Israel, US would change the Iranian landscape into glass. They are not going to do that. Most experts agree they are several years awy from developing even one nuke, also they lack the delivery mechanism to reach us anyway. As for Russia and China, apart from being allies with Iran – if we were to hit them with nukes – the fallout would poison the atmosphere for many miles away – even into Russia and China. That combined with the sheer shock of our stupidity – could easily enduce them to launch nukes against us. Then what? Why do you repug apologist continue to support an adminstration that has been consistently wrong and corrupt on Iraq? If the intent was to steal their oil and create a total chaotic cluster-fvck in Iraq then they have succeded. And since the evil vampire Cheney has called Iraq a great success – the perhaps that was the intention. How does that benefit us? I do not want my kids to die for Israel nor do I want a bunch of lunatics to start Armegeddon.
We are not a monolithic group on the left like you lock-step authoriterian bootlickers on the right. I could give a rats ass what the dem candidates say about Iran during a campaign season, I trust that they wil do the right thing about Iran – including real diplomacy. W and all of his henchmen are warmongers pure and simple. As Americans we should all support country before party!!!

By: pgw

pgw — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:17:01 +0000

thanks for the oversimplified version of iran’s history. [you left out the part where the u.s. staged a coup of their democratically elected president.] the u.s. gave them assistance for nuclear power plants. now why would they do that when iran “sits on top of one of the worldâ€™s largest lakes of Oil [and] does not need Nuke energyâ€? and again, why did iran go through the trouble of building a giant dam on the karun river if they don’t need it?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:51:45 +0000

#97

Roger I think we should enter into talks with Iran just to expose them for the frauds that they are in regards to the intent of their nuclear program. We need to lay down the criteria they need to meet in order to avoid more sanctions on their economy, which BTW is going down the tubes.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/10590/

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:46:41 +0000

#96

“If you say weapons please provide solid evidence that they are doing such a thing.”

The evidence is obviously classified. If there was no concern about Iran obtaining a nuke then why is the EU so concerned and tried multiple times to negotiate with Iran?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:37:14 +0000

#65

I hope you aren’t suggesting that Iran has any economic power to even dent the U.S….are you? You do realize that over 50% of Iran’s refining capacity is done in other countries…don’t you? Iran doesn’t have any economic leverage in global economics. You are right however there is other ways to skin a cat and Iran would be an easy task.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:28:49 +0000

#48

The majority voted him in. In Iran however that minority kicked candidates off the ballots.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:26:26 +0000

#45

How do you know what they are making?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:25:30 +0000

#40

It isn’t us who would launch an airstrike against Iran if it was found out they were close to producing a nuke.

By: Roger_Roger

Roger_Roger — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:19:03 +0000

#99 Before the terrorists captured Iran, they were an ally. While they were an allie, the US government decided (Wrongly) to assist them in making Nuke Bombs. Today, Terrorist run the country and Iran is one of the Biggest THreats to us and our allies.

By: Ron Paul for pres

Ron Paul for pres — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:52:18 +0000

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld both endorsed Iran’s nuclear program in 1976.

Vice President Cheney recently said, “They’re already sitting on an awful lot of oil and gas. Nobody can figure why they need nuclear as well to generate energy.”

Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.

To make reactor-grade nuclear fuel you need it to be at least 5% enriched. To make weapons-grade material you need it to be at least 95% enriched. It’s very difficult to hide the fact that you are enriching it for weapons from the IAEA.

By: Ron Paul for pres

Ron Paul for pres — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:47:24 +0000

#97 – Listen to Scott Ritter. What he says is true. There are very good economic reasons for Iran to sell oil while not using it for their own fuel.