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The Iranians are stupid to think they can build a nuclear bomb and think that President Bush will not stop them with any mean. President Bush will not allow them to have nuclear weapons or the means to build it.

Regarding"stupid people" in my post I was more referring to the people here in the US who still do not understand President Bush.

Perle is right to be suspicious of Iran. If this were another Michael Ledeen column, I'd ignore it, but it is Richard Perle. So what is going on is the commencement of a huge power struggle in Washington over Iran policy which is what the President doesn't need right now.

Perle is a serious player, and this column was a broadside to Condi to tell her that her policy will not pass muster without opposition unless it is explained to conservatives that Iranians will not be allowed to cheat and retreat. No enrichment means no enrichment. She will be held to the "no enrichment" policy. Any deviation and a chorus of "appeasement" will come up from the Republican Party. This is a warning to the White House: no truckling under to Nazis. Period.

What Rice needs to do is to remember where her base is, and to make sure that she sits down with people like Perle and Ledeen and to remind them that she was a hardliner Soviet specialist for decades. Henry Kissinger lost his entire base of support when Republicans decided that "detente" meant "appeasement".

I'm convinced that Rice understands that she's dealing with a bunch of bad actors. Unfortunately, we don't have the best allies, and the Chicoms and the Rus are playing a double game.

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Chris

"President Bush will not allow them to have nuclear weapons or the means to build it."

What do you mean? The entire world knows that Iran has the means to build a nuclear bomb, and that they are just one little step away from having it. That's what the whole uproar is about.

I honestly can't understand why so many people look at Bush as some genius who just toys with the bad guys like a champion poker player, and then when it really counts he'll just pull out that big 'trump card' and win the day. But I have learned over time that Bush is not always playing "poker", and many of those times when it looks like he's not doing so well it's because he isn't doing so well.

I don't know what tomorrow will bring, maybe Bush will pull out some kind of 'trump card' and set Iran's nuclear bomb ambitions back 50 years; but so far Iran is laughing in Bush's face as they continue to build their nuclear weapon, and Bush isn't doing a thing about it except threaten them with some kind of useless sanctions. Frankly, I think Iran has Bush over the proverbial barrel and he doesn't know what do about it.