As to the general question, I hope that Iran does get nuclear weapons. That would create a balance of forces in the region. In any event, Pakistan is a more radical and dangerous islamic country than Iran, but you don’t here Dubya and Dick going on about attacking it.

Iran is surrounded by nuclear powers: Pakistan, India, the U.S., and especially Israel. It needs nuclear weapons.

The historian Emmanuel Todd has made these arguments. Furthermore, it is stupid to think that Iran would attack Israel. Tens of thousands of muslims would die in such an attack, besides the fact that Israel would retaliate. Iran needs the bomb to prevent Israel from attacking it and killing its citizens.

If there is to be disarmament, it must begin with disarming Israel. Otherwise, besides Iran, Turkey and Syria and Egypt should also get the bomb. Fair is fair.

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The information could have been given to him to pass on to the Iranians that the U.S. is ready and seriously going to attack if conditions are not met.

You’re right, we should listen to some guy on the “ClintonNewsNetwork”. Better yet. How about we listen to Europeans, you know, sit on our hands and pretend it’s not our problem. Just wait until we have the problem on our door step. After all that has worked so well for them in the past. ..WWI…WWII..

Comment by Keith — October 28, 2007 @ 7:08 pm

I have even heard Russia is #1. There is something called 30,000 Nukes and a fully equipped military that would stop an invasion there.

Powell said the same thing in 2001:

It [the Iraqi regime] has been contained. And even though we have no doubt in our mind that the Iraqi regime is pursuing programs to develop weapons of mass destruction — chemical, biological and nuclear — I think the best intelligence estimates suggest that they have not been terribly successful. There’s no question that they have some stockpiles of some of these sorts of weapons still under their control, but they have not been able to break out, they have not been able to come out with the capacity to deliver these kinds of systems or to actually have these kinds of systems that is much beyond where they were 10 years ago.

So containment, using this arms control sanctions regime, I think has been reasonably successful. We have not been able to get the inspectors back in, though, to verify that, and we have not been able to get the inspectors in to pull up anything that might be left there.

As for getting the inspectors back in, they WERE in, prior to the invasion. As we all know, Bush pulled them out before their job was done so that he could begin the attack.

Huckabee on CNN’s Late Edition today said not finding Iraq’s WMD does not mean they did not have them! He said we haven’t found Jimmy Hoffa either, but he existed.

Mobile weapons labs, all the drones, five hundred tons, 32,000 liters, and 28,000 liters would be more difficult to bury. And what’s the point of having WMD anyway, if you are just going to bury them when an invasion occurs? But of course, Wolf Blitzer let him slide–as always.

Comment by Keith — October 28, 2007 @ 6:58 pm

I suggest we look for WMD at the bottom of the Chicago River.

Yeah, that’s the ticket!

B. I wish Blitzer would have asked does El Baradei think Bush is seriously trying to negotiate or is seriously using diplomacy , because it’s pretty clear Bush is fabricating another case for war.
So instead of playing that old clip of Cheney, we’ve all seen a dozen times , he needed to get to the issue of the lack of serious diplomacy, which most people know is just a rigged dog and pony show , but still need to be challenged .
Blitzer is too cowardly to demand real proof from the bush regime for their reasons for attacking Iran , and they already excepted that it’s an exceptable option with NO challenge from the complicit media .
You know AIPAC Blitzer can lay the truth out on the table by doing an hour on PNAC . Because attacking Iran has been part of the ” crazies ” military plan for several years , as well as Iraq, Syria and even Egypt, which Micheal Ledeen calls the ” grand Prize ” .

– Karim Baz

You’re right. But dividends and market value are based on quarterly profits.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://eia.doe.gov/

“Iran is OPEC’s second largest oil producer and holds 10 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves. It also has the world’s second largest natural gas reserves (after Russia).

Iraq is estimated to hold 115 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and possibly much more undiscovered oil in unexplored areas of the country (some say 100-185 billion barrels). Iraq also is estimated to contain at least 112 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.”

We have got to beat this addiction people or we’re doomed as a country.

We’re doomed as a species unless we stop concentrating on the short-term.

Watch the documentary movie “Canadian Bacon” which reveals that the Canadians are amassing their population along the US Border (something like 80% within 100 miles). Canadians are spreading propoganda through the media likes of William Shatner and Michael J Fox; etc. etc.

I have always heard Iraq listed at #2 and Iran at #3. Some have even listed Iraq ahead of Saudi Arabia at #1. Its undiscovered amount is a guesstimate. Canada has a lot in shale that is hard to extract and needs a lot of refining. The other three’s oil is easy to extract and needs little refining.

The White House aided a coup in Venezuela.

Unless they are on Shrub’s leash.

Yeah. I’m scared of Condi, too. ;)

Sorry Zooey. We must have a boogeyman, mustn’t we?