Powell fires parting salvo at Iran

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Originally posted by Diamond Jim@Nov 18 2004, 06:14 PM
Feels icky when PD is on the rational side...

What a world, what a world...

h34r: Maybe you better check the fluoride content of your local water supply .... h34r:

I am opposed to nuclear proliferation. I would be less concerned if Canada was developing an independent nuclear capability than I am over Iran doing it. I am not any more concerned about Iran doing it than I would be if Poland or Japan started to do so.

Regardless of what the flag-draped bobbleheads chanting "Bush" and "9/11" might think or bleat, the biggest threat of a nuclear Iran is regional.

Hell's bells ... if I were Iranian, with Russia to the North and potential U.S. satellites to the east and west, I would want my own nukes too.

If I were an Iraqi (assuming that one country comes out of whatever process will follow the "elections" in January), I'd have to think that a nuclear Iran was a threat that warranted consideration of a WMD program for defensive purposes.

Personally, based on geography and demographics, I think it's nuts that Australia doesn't have a nuclear deterent.

One of the reasons I advocate larger, stronger conventional forces for the U.S. military is to reduce the possibility that we not find ourselves in a situation where the "nuclear option" is the only option available. I have never thought of nuclear weapons as just one more toy in the toybox; some of the folks on the neo-con side aren't so inclined.