Everybody is in agreement about Iran except for Bush and Israel. What does that tell you?

Question

Agreement that Iran is not a nuclear threat.

Answer 1

It tells me that you have a bad habit of generalizing about something you don't know much about. Just because you WANT something to be true does not MAKE it true.

Keep your hands where we can see them and step away from the bong. Do it now....

Answer 2

Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except syria & Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?
When the relatively moderate Mohammed Khatami was elected president in Iran, American conservatives pointed out that he was just a figurehead. Real power, they said (correctly), especially control of the military and police, was wielded by the unelected "Supreme Leader," Ayatolla Ali Khamenei. Now that Ahmadinejad is president, they claim his finger is on the button. (Oh wait Iran doesn't have a nuclear button yet and won't for at least three to eight years, according to the CIA, by which point Ahmadinejad may not be president anymore. But these are just facts.)
In a speech, Rudy Giuliani said that while the Soviet Union and China could be deterred during the cold war, Iran can't be. the Soviet and Chinese regimes had a "residual rationality," he explained. Hmm. Stalin and Mao--who casually ordered the deaths of millions of their own people, formented insurgencies and revolutions, and starved whole regions that opposed them--were rational folk. But no Ahmadinejad, who has done what that compares? One of the bizarre twists of the current Iran hysteria is that conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history's greatest mass murderers.
Last year, the Princeton scholar, Bernard Lewis, a close adviser to Bush and VPresident Cheny, wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal predicting that on Aug. 22, 2006, President Ahmadinejad was going to end the world. The date, he explained, "is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the Prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque", usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back. This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalytic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world" (my emphasis). This would all be funny if it weren't so dangerous.

Answer 3

It tells me that Bush and Isreal are doing their best to ignore the nay-sayers in an effort to keep good people safe, whether their whiny little butts deserve it or not.

If Bush had grounded the planes on 9/10/01, everyone would have assumed he was the most delusional idiot on Earth. It took the WTC collapsing before everybody's eyes for them to believe it could happen. Do you really think it's a good idea to sit back and take the same attitude toward Iran, and wait for them to nuke an asleep-at-the-switch country, after which we'd all have to deal with nuclear winter and fallout? Wake up, dude.

By the way, Long-haired Freaky Person, I want you to remember, and I've said this to you several times, that I mean to ill will toward you; we just disagree politically.

Peace.

Answer 4

Bush was behind this. It gives him an out without having to say he is an idiot. He knows as well as everyone Iran is too much. With the possibility of Russia this could escalate more than he or his handlers want.
This is his life line out of the mess with Iran.
As one Time magazine correspondant said " Armageddon has been postponed for now"

The report is perfect also in that it lets bush remain blustery and steadfast while knowing he isnt going to do anything.
It lets him walk away in all his arrogance from his Iranian grandstanding while saving face!

Answer 5

Keep up the pressure. It might just be working. If Al Gore had won maybe Iran would already have their bomb.

Answer 6

These people are marching to a different beat to us. They have an agenda, and they will stick to it. People have paid top dollar for Bush to act like an ******, and they expect a big return on their investment ie, wipe out or control all Arabs and their resources. End of.

Answer 7

Who is everybody ??

Certainly not Europe, they agree with Bush.

So who does everybody include ??

Just the Bush haters ????

Answer 8

In agreement about what? that they have nuke capapbilities and even though they suppossedly stopped producing...there is no way to tell how far along they have gotten or when they may start up again...then yes.

Answer 9

why not Isreal I understand Bush's motive(s)

Answer 10

Speak for yourself, bigot. All I know is Iran itself, has claimed it will continue its nuclear program, this came from its own president, good ol' Mahmoud "there are no gays in Iran" Ahmadinejad, the same man who claims he will wipe Israel off the map. You can hardly blame him and Israel for worrying.