[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, now we have this, and so will some of our great indexers"

http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/national_security/strategy.html

Prevent Iran From Developing Nuclear Weapons. A nuclear armed Iran is an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States and our allies in the region. While we have been preoccupied in Iraq, Iran has reportedly been moving ahead with its nuclear program.

We can no longer sit on the sidelines and leave the negotiations to the Europeans. It is critical that we work with our allies to resolve these issues and lead a global effort to prevent Iran from obtaining the technology necessary to build nuclear weapons.

Iran claims that its nuclear program is only to meet its domestic energy needs. John Kerry's proposal would call their bluff by organizing a group of states to offer Iran the nuclear fuel they need for peaceful purposes and take back the spent fuel so they cannot divert it to build a weapon.

If Iran does not accept this offer, their true motivations will be clear. Under the current circumstances, John Kerry believes we should support the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) efforts to discern the full extent of Iran's nuclear program, while pushing Iran to agree to a verifiable and permanent suspension of its enrichment and reprocessing programs. If this process fails, we must lead the effort to ensure that the IAEA takes this issue to the Security Council for action.

To the Freeper Indexers, please index this.

[Peach]

Done

[Ramius]

Yeesh... what an utter load of nothingness from the Kerry camp. That statement says almost nothing at all.

Agree to give them "fuel" for reactors? Tell me, John, what does an oil *exporting* country need with *nuclear* power generation in the first place?

[hershey]

Kerry's simple minded plan was to offer Iran nuclear fuel and if they turned it into weaponry, then begin to get worried. All we need to do is be nice, and Muslim maniacs who foam at the mouth at the thought of killing each and every one of us will suddenly be turned into our best pals. This is so not going to happen. Somebody on Kerry's staff must have had a stray thought that perhaps they should come up with a worst case scenario, like what if Iran lies to us. Again. And again. Evidently no one wants to utter a discouraging word over in RAT land.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Captured to Free Republic here:

New Strategies To Defeat New Threats (From the Kerry / Edwards Campaign Website )