Iran a Nuclear Threat, Bush Insists, Experts Say President Is Wrong and Is Escalating Tensions

[maddezmom]

Source: WP

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008; Page A14

President Bush said Thursday that Iran has declared that it wants to be a nuclear power with a weapon to "destroy people," including others in the Middle East, contradicting the judgments of a recent U.S. intelligence estimate.

The president spoke in an interview intended to reach out to the Iranian public on the Persian new year and to express "moral support" for struggling freedom movements, particularly among youth and women. It was designed to stress U.S. support for Iran's quest for nuclear energy and the prospects that Washington and Tehran can "reconcile their differences" if Iran cooperates with the international community to ensure that the effort is not converted into a weapons program.

But most striking was Bush's accusation that Iran has openly declared its nuclear weapons intentions, even though a National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had stopped its weapons program in 2003, a major reversal in the long-standing U.S. assessment.

"They've declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people -- some in the Middle East. And that's unacceptable to the United States, and it's unacceptable to the world," Bush told U.S.-funded Radio Farda, which broadcasts into Iran in Farsi.



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[Hugabear]

1. And yet our Congress still wont act

What will it fucking take, for Bush to launch nuclear fucking missiles at someone? Fuck that, they'd probably be giving him a standing ovation for "acting swiftly and decisively to ensure American safety against radical Islamic imperialism".

[PaDem]

2. I believe the term is "Islamo-Nazi Facism"

or something along those lines.

[DontTreadOnMe]

3. Signs of the Times

Knock, knock. George? Your term is over.
Back to the ranch, there is some brush that needs cutting.

[whistle]

10. Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House sets that agenda, there are more than

...enough votes to impeach both Bush and Cheney, but the majority leadership of the House and the Senate continue to block impeachment. A dead fish rots in the head first.

[Baby Snooks]

14. Public Enemy Number Two

That is what Nancy Pelosi is. Public Enemy Number Two.

[newfie11]

4. This asshole is going to get us into another war

before he is out of office. How in the hell does he think he is going to pay for it!!!
Why in the hell can't he be impeached!

[fascisthunter]

5. That's the Right Wings Intention... and to Militarize American

society. Their objective, fascist police state.

[bif]

6. STFU already you crazy bastard!

The man is truly out of his mind.

[acmavm]

7. Page A14?

[ronnie624]

8. Pfft!

"Bush expressed deep respect for Iranian history and culture."

He'd reduce Iranian culture to a smoking ruin without thinking twice.

[pleah]

9. All Congress will do is stomp their feet and threaten them with a subpoena!

:sarcasm:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. only in 8-10 years time

[Magleetis]

12. The evil killers

in the white house want more blood. Who is to stop them? :shrug:

[Tempest]

13. When did Iran make that declaration?

It's unbelieveable the crap he gets away with saying.

[ladywnch]

15. this sound remarkably like the WMD claims leading up to the Iraq

war. Intel says they're not and chuckelnuts insists they are. You can almost see and hear him stamping his feet, pounding his fists screaming "they are too, they are too. I'm right, I'm right. I wanna go bomb!!!"

[struggle4progress]

16. Guess he done snarf up one cowpie shroom or spoon o'snow too many

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. Chucklenuts' mind is made up; don't confuse him with the facts.

It's easy to see, though, how anything with "intelligence" in the title would probably have the same effect on him as a cross does on Dracula.

305 days until Bush-B-Gone Day. 305 long, long, long days.

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. I fear GWB will not be satisfied as the "torture" president - He's going "nuclear"

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Yes,

I believe that George Walker Bush will not be happy until he drops some nuclear weapons on someone

He's insane, and more of a danger to the world than Hitler ever was.

But I hope I'm wrong.