According to American intelligence agencies Iran ended its Nuke program in 2003. This reality, as reality seems to do often, flies in the face of statements made by both the President and Vice President who are both threatening WWIII if Iran doesn’t stop their nuke program immediately. Now it is quite possible that their statements are simply a ploy to get scared Americans to vote Republican again, we will have to wait and see.
This development should be the kind of thing that has a wide reaching impact on our foreign relations and should immediately quiet the drums of war. However that would be in a sane world where our Government payed attention to things like reality or facts when making decisions on who to invade. Since we happen to live in Republican bizzarro world most likely the talking heads will start calling to go to war sooner. You know, preemptively, before they can start developing the bomb.
Now I don’t mean to imply that all is well, in fact Iran is continuing to enrich uranium and if they wanted to could develop a weapon within 2 to 5 years. This news is still a far cry from the looming threat that our Administration has been trying to paint for the past year. I’m hoping that with a new Democratic President we will have someone who believes in diplomacy in office and any future wars can be avoided.
So what do you guys think. Will this information make any difference to our Administration or will it just be ignored like all the proof that Iraq didn’t have WMD’s were. I would be interested in hearing your opinions on this.
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2007-12-03 16:15:22
Let’s not forget the other oft-repeated reasons to go to war against Iran: 1) they’re providing insurgents that fuel the Iraq civil war, 2) their president is a fascist who hates America and freedom, and 3) they are one of the key countries in the axis of evil (ie. they’re all terrorists). So, even now that their top reason (”They’re making a nuke that they’ll use to blow us up”) has been dismissed, the administration will retreat to the secondary and tertiary reasons as backup. Remember that we already pretty much knew that there weren’t any nukes in Iraq when we invaded. If Ron Paul and the Democrats don’t seize on this finding to quell the right’s call to war against Iran, then they are letting an important opportunity pass.
2007-12-04 08:29:14
Your right, the Neocons never seem to stick with just one (wrong) reason to go to war. Of course reason #1 has never been proven, and even if true accounts for a very small number of insurgents.