Posted on 04/18/2006 9:05:08 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
He should have kept the options on the table more carefully, since we are probably not going to use nuclear weapons against them, absent some sort of provocation. The international media will immediately seize on this comment to defame Bush and America.
When will the drive by media ask Iran if they will rule out a nuclear strike on america? Never. They are counting on it.
President Bush: So, Mahmood Aba, Abadenerjeb, or however you pronounce it, you LIKE all things nucular?
I disagree, Iran and the world must realize that the US will not tolerate a nuclear Iran.
Of course, but we can stop them from getting nukes without using nuclear weapons ourselves. And I think we should take out their military facilities. But this comment is really bad PR.
"Russia restated its opposition to punitive action. "We are convinced that neither the sanctions route nor the use of force route will lead to a solution of this problem," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said, Itar-Tass news agency reported."
Russia is half-right here. Economic sanctions won't do a thing to stop Ahmadinajad and his Islamofascists. They will always be able to sell their oil to someone, most likely the French or Russia, or Syria.
Economic sanctions will work in Cuba. Castro has been in power for 45 years, and I predict he will be gone within the next 45 years! :)
Which is why the question and the article are framed as they are...
PR and/or a popularity contest is not what is needed here!! What is needed is cold, clear thinking and statements.
Bush has said that Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Bush is a man of his words.
Thus the left and our so-called allies better get in gear and help talk Iran out of Ahmadinejad's quest for a nuke - bcause Bush has made a committment - and he will keep it.
It has been 65 years since a nuclear weapon was used in anger. One of its effects was to concentrate the worlds powers toward piece. Bumpy as it was, and brush wars aside - we had relative piece for most of that time.
Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs are making it clear that an event that concentratrates the minds might be due again!
You mean like we're not tolerating a nuclear North Korea?
They already defame us. This was a message to China and Russia, not iran, that we mean what we say: We will not tolerate a nuclear iran.
There's no wriggle room in that language.
That should keep gas prices high!
Thanks jorge!
NK is not like Iran. NK is very poor and can be contained much easier. N K also does not have crazy mullahs and Imans looking forward to the end of the world.
"Visualize World Piece!"
You miss the larger picture. We're at war and you worry about gasoline prices?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
A good EMP will destroy lots of electronics in Iran, and make the world safer...
More likely that Iran would strike American interests in Iraq or Afghanistan...their range won't hit the U.S.
{DEEP BREATH....}I hope I'm wrong about them hitting the nearer places.
Kim Jong Il is at least as crazy as any mullah.
And if NK is so easy to contain, then why do we get so easily extorted with them?
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