Posted on 12/17/2007 1:01:45 PM PST by BGHater
FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Dec 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday he supports Russia sending enriched uranium to Iran for civilian power use because it meant that Tehran did not need to pursue their own enrichment capabilities.
"If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich," Bush said. "If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian nuclear power plant, then there's no need for them to learn how to enrich."
Russia has delivered the first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr atomic power station, which Moscow and Washington say should convince Tehran to shut down its disputed uranium enrichment program.
Bush said Iran was a danger so long as it pursued a nuclear program that could lead to the development of weapons. Tehran insists its program is for peaceful energy purposes only.
Despite a U.S. intelligence assessment that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program in late 2003, Bush said: "I think Iran's a danger to peace. My attitude hasn't changed toward Iran. If somebody had a weapons program what's to say they couldn't start it up tomorrow?"
The United States is seeking another round of U.N. sanctions against Iran. "They owe an explanation to the world," Bush said.
"That (intelligence) report says to me, when you read it carefully, Iran was a threat, Iran is a threat to peace, and Iran will be a threat to peace if we don't stop their enrichment facilities," Bush said.
Logic doesn’t work with moonbats. Never has, never will.
Again, the title of the story is misleading.
THAT’S the George Bush I voted for in 2000 and 2004. I hope that that canny mind comes to its senses about immigration and the “Palestinians” too.
And it's not like they're sitting atop a mountain of oil or anything, so they sure do need one.
That stuff is to valuable to use themselves.
Duh! Of course they won't need to learn how to enrich. You can make a nuclear bomb out of uranium already enriched sooner than trying to figure out how to enrich the uranium.
Why burn oil that you could sell at $100 a barrel when you can burn uranium instead?
I’m no scientist but doesn’t giving them enriched uranium just eliminate a step in their process to developing nuclear weapons. They can either learn to make it or buy it from Russia. Doesn’t make sense to me.
The level of enrichment necessary for reactor fuel and for a fission bomb are drastically different, around 25% for fuel, greater than 90% for the banger. If they wanted to make bombs out of the Russian stuff, they'd still need an "in-house" enrichment process to do it.
One would think, with 5000 or more centrifugese, they already know HOW to enrich.
Would it be easier to take this lightly enriched Russian uranium and use that in their current enrichment operations?
Will they have a supply of plutonium in the near future?
It’s the same mistake we made with North Korea, no?
Then again, it doesn’t matter a whole lot what Bush says about this. Russia is going to sell them uranium whether we like it or not.
What is wrong with all you people trying to inject logic into a news story?? Don't you know what a "STORY" is????
They would want to sell the oil rather than burn it themselves.
Perhaps what they were really missing is the source of the raw material? Since they were not able to get it from Niger?
Iran has uranium deposits of its own.
Oops, that was Iraq wasn’t it??
Iran has deposits but not much mining as yet. Mine development is expensive but it could be done later.
bttt
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