Bush & Putin are 'friends' as depicted by those photos at the Bush ranch right?
But with 'friends' like these who needs enemies in times like these?
im just curious, but isnt there a way to allow them to have a powerplant, and still keep the weapons option from happening ?
I don't even like to think that we gave aid and comfort to these lunatics that haven't even got the capability to pull their own grandmothers out from under the ruins of a city made of dried mud after an earthquake strikes.
Well bells, we have been here before. Lets just inform the Russians that we will treat any nuclear attack launched by Iran as having originated in Moscow, and then launch a new program to add another 20,000 MREVs of our own targeted at both countries. $5 will get you $10 that Putin will soon develop another opinion.
Russia is playing a dangerous game wanting iran to have nukes so close to moscow.
And what happens when Iran decides to help the rebel muslims within russia?
Russia helping Iran is to be expected. Not for one minuet do I believe that Iran has the ability to develope nucks without outside help.
I wouldn't trust Russia as far as I could throw the Krimlin.
I would love to see this backfire big time inPutin's face - after Iran uses his N-plant to blow up Moscow. Perhaps then he'll understand what the phrase "terrorist nation" means.
For now, he's simply taking Ruissia back in time - back to those wonderful, nostalgic days of the USSR and the Cold War.
"MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday rejected a US call for Moscow to end its cooperation with Iran in constructing the Bushehr nuclear power plant."
This is the part where we ought to step back and say "OK, Pooty, you're part of Iran's plans, fine. Anything stupid Armeni-jihad does is now 100% your responsibility. If Iran, some time in the future, announces it has a nuclear weapon, or just goes ahead and uses one, we'll treat it as if Russia had launched a nuclear attack."
Good old cold-war proclamation.
I think at that point you'd see Russia exercise some better discretion. Right now, IMO, Russia's playing the same deal against us that we did with the old USSR; make the other guy spend money they can't afford. They've even advanced the practice, since they've got their proxies forcing us to spend money rather than trying to do it themselves.