How desperate is the Bush administration with claiming that Iran is 3 years away from developing nukes?

Question

You know, I find it a bit amazing how only a week away, a UN report showed that Iran is still at the EARLY stages of low-grade uranium enrichment (this--after 2 YEARS of enrichment), has between 300-1,300 centrifuges operating, and has plans still to build a light-water nuclear reactor for the sole purpose of generating power.

Does this look like nuclear weapons proliferation to you? (Keep in mind, Bush said the same thing about Iraq too: "Saddam is 5 years away from building nuclear weapons." (2002) )

I know there are a lot of people here who want to see Iran bombed just for the sake of argument. But a recent news report suggested that if Israel were to take proactive measures against Iran, it could very well drag the US into a war against a much tougher enemy than Iraq ever was. (And also keep in mind: Iran's military hasn't been tested militarily, nor is it crippled like ours is at the moment.)

Answer 1

It's just more lies used by the republicans to terrorize their base and hopefully some of the independents.

Answer 2

Um, Bush is desperate all right--his gang is trying desperately to invent something that isn't there to justify expanding the war--their supposed "defense of America" being the only fiction that enables them to hold a few of teheir followers.

But don't let the technical details get in the way--you missed some things. Even if you conced Iran could have a nuke in 3 years (very unlikely) it would take them years more to consruct a deliverable weapon. And a delivery system. At least a decade overall.

Also--don't underestimate Iran's military--remember the Iran-Iraq war. They have plenty of combat experience. Not that we couldn't flatten them, even under current circumstances. But its alwasys a bad idea to underestimate your enemy.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

They were 1 years away 2 years ago.

Just love keeping us scared! People need to watch Syrriana

It shows how we killed the next Iranian official who actually wanted piece with America, in favor of the Son of a ***** who is there now.

I wounder if there really is a problem with Iran or if they are working together to screw the world out of oil money.

Answer 5

Iran is basically pure Shi'a, so it would be a tough ground war since they'd have concentrated insurgency efforts once we took over (and no doubt about that if we do fight them). If we did do anything it should just be taking out Ayatollah Khamanei, Mahmoud, and striking some rev guard bases. and their nuclear facilities. We shouldn't occupy them like Iraq.

Answer 6

Yea, and how many tons of Saran gas was Hussein going to use on us, who had nothing to do with 9/11 anyway!

Bush is a totem pole liar and would like nothing more then to put another Shaw of Iran in power like we did once before for OIL! Even if they developed one they would not have a delivery system, just as N. Korea doesn't and they do have nukes!

And how many multi-nuke tipped missles in submarines do we have off the coast? Why did we stop allowing inspectors to see our nuclear stockpile?

Answer 7

Why doesn't it bother you what Iran is doing or are you showing the usual liberal lets avoid confrontations at all costs? You would rather do the diplomatic thing than actually show any force meaning that you mean buisness? Democrats are not a good thing in these times.

Answer 8

they have to start building a case and sell it to the people.
we might even expect some other catastrophe here in the u.s. to really get things moving.

GREAT LINKS BELOW THAT DISPELL SOME OF THE HYPE CONCERNING U.S. And IRAN face Off as well as

WHY THIS WAR WAS FOUGHT and WHO DOES IT REALLY BENEFIT......

Countries need reasons to go to war and striking fear into the hearts of it's citizens has been a popular propaganda tool for ages. So right now we are being lead to believe that if Iran is building power plants than it is for the ultimate agenda of building nuclear arms. And we are to assume that they will use them. But think about it, Iran would get obliterated if they ever sent one up. It would be immediate suicide for them as the U.S. has 10,000 + nukes in it's arsenal and Israel even has several even though under the middle east treaty Israel is Not suppose to have any.

Look for example at the so called “Nut Job” Leader of North Korea. The media talks about what a lunatic the leader of North Korea is. But wait a minute this "nut " has nukes but wait... He hasn't attacked. Of course not, He knows it would be suicide for his country. But he also knows that having one is a great deterrent from anyone invading his country.
When you consider human rights issues The North Korea leader doesn't care..He is a much bigger nut than Ahmadinejad who has actually sought meetings with President Bush only to be denied and kept at more than arms length. Ahmadinejad's diplomacy is making western governments look bad.

But in order to position for the next offensive, we have to continue with name calling, labeling and assumptions of what Iran is "going to do".
So that if we hear it long enough it must be true.

But , naturally it starts to become very easy to see through the smoke screen. Iran’s leader, handled the British Soldier situation in an extremely civil manner on the world stage.
Of course, this was too much for the U.K and U.S. to handle so of course we have to say how horribly treated the soldier’s were and how they were coerced. ..even though the soldier’s are showed snacking out and even smiling shortly after their capture. The soldier’s were very apologetic and suffered no physical harm.

If the soldier's had so much as a bruise, the westerne media would have been displaying images night and day. But instead the U.K. just responded with a story, no documentation. This is all part of the setup to villianize a nation to strike fear in the hearts of the people so the masses think “we have to get them”

Also Ahmadinejad never said that Israel should be wiped off the map either. But yet, that is the story we were told by our controlled media sources. Many scholars who are fluent in farsi attest to the fact that the meaning referrred to a complete change in Israel's administration. see the following link.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NOR20070120&articleId=4527

AND GET THIS:
Ahmadinejad visited the United States back in Sept of 2006 and met with a large group of rabbis and yet not one word about the visit on the nightly news.
see image in this link....ask yourself " how could this be ?"
http://www.foxnews.com/images/247825/0_62_122606_rabbi.jpg


anyway, politicians and governments have to sell the story..."sadaam has weapons of mass destruction" creates fear... Now we have to go get him...But we couldn't find the weapons...

Now it’s time to villianize Iran... to set up the next stage of the operation. I pray not.
Iran needs a good deterrent.

Below is the link for a well made documentary.
Great comments by current and retired military personnel. This is important especially for those of us who have served or who are serving and also those of you with children as someday we may see a draft reinstated and we should all be clear on what we are fighting for.

Democrats and Repubs should lay down party politics and get serious about doing the right thing so that the country’s citizens and the country’s soldiers are not put in harms way unnecessarily. Very well made documentary and a little hard to want to face.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YlcpXBFOXA

this link shows one of a 10 part documentary

What Country really wanted us to move in big on IRAQ and now is wanting the same for IRAN. This link is hard hitting but my personal congressman was unable to dispute it's facts.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/whoiscongresslisteningto.html

IF you don't think the media is controlled then ask yourself why the American public was never told about
Israel's attack on the USS LIBERTY as they attempted to make it look like Egypt was the attacker, hoping that the U.S. would roll in big on Egypt. Many americans lives were lost but they kept the story low key.


http://www.ussliberty.org/

Below is the link to the coverage about the men seen celebrating on a roof top on 9-11.
They were aprehended by FBI and they turned out to be Israeli Mossad Agents. Instead of being detained they were quickly deported. The story and it's follow up segments ceased being aired after a few days and there was no more follow up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7T4DhDLPrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YacvPZr-KDs

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Answer 9

Bush didnt say anything like that, next time put some proof to back up your dumb question. Also keep in mind there will be no invasion of iran if your precious democrats dont vote for it like they did iraq. Blood is on their hands whether they like it or not and when u throw in abortion blood they are worse than bush could ever dream of being.

Answer 10

Just keep in mind how our government works...
You only see the very top layer of the truth...
If they have 1300 centrifuges, the actually have 3x that much somewhere else.
I'm glad he's not waiting till it's too late and get a big ICBM surprise from over there.