Posted on 08/27/2003 8:20:07 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
From Vienna, Austria comes news that United Nations inspectors have found traces of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium at an Iranian nuclear facility. They discovered heightened concerns that Tehran may be running a secret nuclear weapons program. This is not an announcement of the Bush administration, folks. This is according to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Remember that the White House has accused Iran of developing a secret nuclear weapons program and violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. My questions are these: What will be the Democrats' response to this? Will they demand a UN resolution? Will they simply say live and let live? Will they shout, "Iran hasn't done anything to us! Give peace a chance!" I wonder what Howard Dean would scream, given these circumstances. Maybe we had a false alarm about Iraq and yellowcake in Niger (though the Brits still stand by that intel) but, hey, right next door, due east in Iran, guess what they've found?
This stuff must be dealt with, folks.
The UN is more concerned about a new building and lining their pockets with cash than about enriched uranium. Whoever found that uranium has been banished from the halls of the UN and has had all perks pulled.
The next phase will be that the UN will barter new UN digs for a yes vote on NATO invading those sites, removing nuclear materials and bunker busting what's left. It's beginning to look more and more like "The Stand" with Syria and Lebanon becoming the mecca for all that kills in gas form, biolgical agents, and nuclear chain reactions. Iran will have evacuated this material long before the UN gets us in. To Syria and Lebanon.
Maybe what's left in the middle east might rebound from the "End" by 2040. Sorry Israel, get out now or you're collateral damage.
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