"TEHRAN, Iran - Iran threatened Tuesday to begin hiding its nuclear program if the West takes any "harsh measures" against it, in the country's sharpest rebuttal yet to a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment or face possible sanctions. Iran's supreme leader, meanwhile, said in a meeting with the president of wartorn Sudan that Tehran was ready to transfer its nuclear technology to other countries." (AP report)
Iran is ready to "begin" hiding its nuclear program (I guess we're not counting the 18 years that Iran hid its nuclear program from the U.N.) and is going to start transferring nuclear technology to other countries.
We've all but lost the battle to stop nuclear proliferation in our time.
We should give a big thank you to everyone who told us that we have 5, 10, or 15 years before we have to worry about any possible threat from Iran -- if they admitted that there is any threat at all. Like that "brilliant" scholar Juan Cole, currently angling for a professorship at Yale. Like too many in the mainstream media. Thanks guys. Where do we go to get a refund on your bad advice?
I didn't buy it, and others who are serious about stopping the threat from Iran didn't buy it, but enough people did, and that has resulted in delay at a time when swift and decisive action is needed.
The White House has done exactly what those who did not take the Iranian threat seriously enough demanded -- it has worked with the European Union and the U.N. And the glorious results of following that advice?
The threat from Iran is now racing rapidly out of control.
And more special thanks go to those who have gone out of their way to actively undermine George W. Bush, America's commander in chief of the armed forces in the war on terror, and one of the few world leaders with the backbone and wherewithal to stop Iran -- if he had your support, that is.
Look at what you have wrought.
Thanks to your efforts, the U.N. and the civilized democracies have delayed, and dithered, and delayed, and now Iran is openly enriching uranium and getting ready to distribute nuclear technology around the world.
Opinionnation sums up the transparent short-sighted political motivation of those who have urged appeasement of Iran. Unfortunately, their motives do not include America's national security:
Why won't these Iran sympathizers just admit that they would rather have them build nuclear weapons, pass it on to terrorists and have millions of people killed, then have the United States use air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities?
That is what we are dealing with and this is very important to understand. A large number of people across the world have sided with Iran in order to have something to poke in the eye of America. Because they view Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb as a victory against what they ignorantly claim is American imperialism. Their blind hatred has led them to an existence that calls genocide peace, rape and torture acceptable, and a nuclear armed Iran a good thing. . . . .
With that in mind it makes it easier to understand why so many people in Europe and America have come to defend Iran. We will hear them claim that Iran is only after peaceful nuclear technology for energy efficiency. They will do this because they must, given their disease, be against anything that they view as being the position of the Bush administration. And that is the key you have to remember. These people are willing to ignore the obvious quest of Iran to build nuclear weapons simply so they are not put in a position to be in agreement with President Bush (they will deny this). That is their motivation when they argue against US action or argue in favor of Iran building nuclear weapons. Of course, other people are just anti-war to the point in which they think that negotiation with groups like Al Qaeda is possible. This group of people is less threatening because their ignorance is obvious and their message is unambiguous. But those that are manipulated by anti-Americanism are the ones we have to keep in check. And remember, some of these people are members of the “world community”. The UN is filled with these people and they will work against our interests and endanger every American. Never buy into their so-called “diplomatic” measures. The UN has voted Iran to sit on the Disarmament Commission, and the UN places human rights violators on their Human Rights Council. This is a vast effort to undermine the United States and to elevate our enemies; to give them legitimacy. If you don’t keep your eyes open to this and if nothing is done, the dead bodies from the dirty bomb won’t have the luxury of regret. . . . .
Foolishness, petty partisan politics, excuse-making and delay in dealing with a genuine menace to world safety like Iran are luxuries the civilized democracies can no longer afford.
But some will never admit that there's a real and immediate threat from Iran.
They actually need to see a blinding white flash and a mushroom cloud before they'll begin to take the threat seriously. And by then it will be far too late.
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