Bush: "It seems like, if you’re interested in avoiding World War III..."

[sabra]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/an_embattled_bush_ive_never_fe.html#more

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“I believe (Iran wants) to have capacity, the knowledge, to have a nuclear weapon,’’ Bush said. “And I believe it’s in the world’s interest to keep them from doing so… We’ve got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. It seems like, if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, you ought to be interested in preventing them from having a nuclear weapon.’’

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/18/france.iran/

Retired general: U.S. can live with a nuclear Iran

Gen. John Abizaid, who retired from the Army in March after three years leading U.S. Central Command, told a Washington think tank that Iran's leadership is pursing "reckless" policies and seeks to dominate the Middle East.

"We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon, and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it," he said.

But he added, "I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran."

"Let's face it -- we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with nuclear powers as well," Abizaid told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Boy, this has been a tough week for the "rapture ready" crowd.

"Avoid World War III?? Why would you want to do THAT???"

[LakeSamish706]

2. Yep, we avoid those bastid's from having a Nuclear weapon...

by nuking em... That makes sense to me!

:sarcasm:

[Hydra]

3. Bang those drums!

If I were Iran, I'd be developing a weapon. We have 2 occupied countries on either side of them and have declared them the "axis of evil"

Amazing how many people want to stop Iran from getting the bomb by using one on them.

[Frances]

4. Well, if Bush thinks we are headed for World War III,

he should do the patriotic thing and resign.

If W had been president instead of FDR, and if he had run World War II the way he's run the Iraq War, we would have lost!

[jojo54]

7. Holy crap Frances, that is one scary f*cking thought !!

It's so scary, I don't even want to think about the consequences.

[Hardrada]

8. Germany would get most of the Oscars and Emmies and

we'd be eating a lot more bratwurst.

[LakeSamish706]

5. The real issue is that this Administration (and I use the term loosely)..

wants war at any cost!

[jojo54]

6. "with our great military power"?????

You've got the majority of them in Iraq containing your oil, you asshole.

What world are you living in???

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Bush the 'broken record'

[Devlzown]

10. Nice.

We can all use some cool-headed, diplomatic language right now.:eyes: