[Howlin]

Kerry, On American Nuclear Weapons: "I'm Going to Shut That Program Down"
	Posted by dandelion On News/Activism 10/01/2004 2:22:49 AM EDT · 28 replies · 382+ views Debate Transcript | 10/01/04 | Becki Snow
John Kerry fails "Global Test" on N. Korea nuclear threat during debate
	Posted by Republican Radio™ On News/Activism 10/01/2004 1:58:48 AM EDT · 1 reply · 109+ views Republican Radio™: The Life of the Party ^ | September 30, 2004 | Republican Radio™
Only Homicidal Maniac would give IRAN Nuclear Fuel!!
	Posted by wvromania On General/Chat 10/01/2004 12:33:50 AM EDT · 20 replies · 341+ views presidental debate 9-30-04
Kerry suggests US sell nuclear fuel to Iran !
	Posted by Nyboe On General/Chat 10/01/2004 12:28:24 AM EDT · 17 replies · 272+ views 9/30/04 | Nyboe
KERRY: "We intercepted a suitcase ... with nuclear materials in it" (???)
	Posted by Madstrider On General/Chat 09/30/2004 11:52:57 PM EDT · 77 replies · 2,201+ views vanity | Sept. 30, 2001 | self

[GailA]

John Kerry regards an Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism armed with nuclear weapons as unacceptable. He has a multiple-part strategy that is much more realistic than the Bush administration's. One is to rejoin and work through the international legal framework on arms control. That will give greater force to the major powers if they have to deal with violators. Secondly, he has laid out, I think in the most comprehensive way in modern memory, a program to secure nuclear materials around the world—particularly in the former Soviet Union but also in the places where research reactors have existed that could be susceptible to proliferation. The point is to try to prevent Iran from ever getting this material surreptitiously. Thirdly, he has proposed that rather than letting the British, the French and the Germans do this themselves, that we together call the bluff of the Iranian government, which claims that its only need is energy. And we say to them: "Fine, we will provide you the fuel that you need if Russia fails to provide it." Participating in such a diplomatic initiative makes it more likely to succeed.

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