Funny that the intelligence agencies have determined that it was in the year 2003 that the Iranians decided to clean up their act (a bit). After all, for those of you with short memories, that was the same year we inserted 135,000 American troops 450 miles west of the mullahs in Tehran. Kind of a coincidence, dont'cha think?
I say GWB gets full marks for getting the Iranians to at least slow down their nuclear weapons program. And that he's right to keep the pressure on the mullahs to stop highly enriching uranium in preparation for the resumption of their WMD program. Failing that, they'll have to have their WMD program stopped for them - either by us or the Israelis, who are much more at risk from the Iranians than we are - at least until the mullahs have debugged their Shahab 9 missle system, which will be able to reach the East Coast of the US - at that point, all bets will be OFF!
Kinda makes ya think it would be nice if the next President understands this, doesn't it?
2007-12-07 04:22:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Ahmadenijhad is a cagy character. He knows that if he stays the course on the weapons program that the US and Israel blow his nuclear program out of the water...he's hedging his bets that a Dem wins in 08 and then he can do whatever he wants.
2007-12-07 04:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by Mike 5 · 5⤊ 6⤋
Funny, that Bush and Cheney are trying to discredit the NIE report made by the people whom they appointed.
However, the main reason why Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program was because they were trying to counter the chemical weapons attacks by Saddam during their previous conflicts.
Keep in mind that both Pakistan and India pursued nuke weapons programs was to counter each other during their fight over the Kashmir region.
When we eliminated Saddam, we eliminated most of the reason why Iran wanted those nukes.
2007-12-07 04:38:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Would he get or would he claim? After all he has said he talks to God and undoubtedly that came up in the conversation. On the other hand Israel already sent a calling card with its air force and the message might have gotten through.. That as fast as you spend a couple of billion building a reactor, we are just going to knock it down. In any event he backed down. There were also extensive talks with he Russians and we really don't know what went on there. Certainly the Russians were not overjoyed to have a Muslim state on their southern border in position to supply the Muslim separatists with atomic weapons. So in the absence of real information all sides can claim another "mission accomplished" and the high school political pundits can show how positively smart they are and dope it out for us, hopefully only after they have finished their homework. There is nothing like a healthy does of ignorance to grease the road to pontification
2007-12-07 04:55:55 · answer #3 · answered by sSuper critic 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Sounds like a bush-davidian grasping at straws to me.
Considering Bush #1 was part (though he tries to deny it) of the sale of American weapons and munitions to Iran by Oliver North, I doubt that we will ever hear truth about that country.
Many IEDs attributed to Persian origins are made using explosives with trace markers in them that show U.S. production.
Then there are the $billion + worth of weapons that "We can't account for" in Iraq.
If Iran has nuclear capabilities it will be because they bought them from somebody in the U.S., somebody with a name you would recognize.
2007-12-07 04:43:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I believe the Iranian climbdown was influenced by America invading Iraq, especially so quickly after invading Afghanistan, Iran's other neighbor. But that does not justify invading Iraq, and Bush gets no credit for the unplanned side effects of an unjustified war.
2007-12-07 04:30:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
i think our president lied (once again) to the nation in a would be ramp up to YET another unnecessary war.
16 different intelligence agencies make up that NIE - i am more likely to believe them than our 'intellectually uncurious' president.
2007-12-07 04:58:18 · answer #6 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Full credit for what he happens to have done by coincidence but for the intentional lying not. That's typical bizzarro.
2007-12-07 04:36:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
I agree and if it is right why did it take so long for them to figure it out. I don't trust the intelligence community at all anymore.
2007-12-07 04:28:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
The President should get all the credit, and he did...
2007-12-07 05:02:26 · answer #9 · answered by Esther 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Absolutely not!
2007-12-07 04:33:52 · answer #10 · answered by Debra H 7 · 3⤊ 6⤋