From Reuters: Iran says atomic drive brings powers "to their knees"
In another defiant speech ahead of an International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran due on Friday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would ignore calls by major powers to halt sensitive nuclear work that has led to two rounds of U.N. sanctions.
"The Iranian nation will not allow any power to trample even on its smallest (national) right," he said in a televised address to a rally in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
. . . ."The Iranian nation's will to continue nuclear work has won over the will of big powers ... (and) brought them to their knees," said Ahmadinejad, to chants from the crowd of "Death to America" and "Nuclear energy is our obvious right." (Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad, February 20, 2008)
Just words, right?
As a certain Democratic party candidate recently point out, "just words" can nonetheless have an effect. Espcially when a country is working feverishly to turn its words into weapons.
As I pointed out about two years ago, when Iran pushes for "peaceful" nuclear energy while simultaneously shouting "die!," it means it:
There's something troubling about Iran's insistence that is has a right to acquire "peaceful" nuclear energy.
Iran has a tendency to burst out with shouts of "Death to America!" -- or the abridged version, "Die!" -- when the topic of Iran's proposed nuclear program is under discussion:
In a speech in northern Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad called on the people to "be angry" at the pressure being put on Iran.
"Listen well," the president said to a crowd chanting "die" as they punched the air with their fists. "A nuclear program is our irrefutable right."
Still not enough dots to connect? Try this one: In October 2004, Iran's parliament shouted "Death to America!" after its legislators voted to resume uranium enrichment.
There are two possibilities about Iran's "death!" chant:
1. They are just overexcitable hotheads -- in which case they cannot be trusted with a nuclear program.
2. They do want to bring about America's death -- in which case they cannot be trusted with a nuclear program.
We have lost precious years while Iran has indisputably advanced its nuclear weapons capabilities. This is what comes from the extreme partisanship of the Democratic party. "Bush is Republican" = "Bush is Bad" = "Whatever Bush Wants Is Bad" = "Iraq War Bad" = "Iran War Bad."
If Democrats continue to have their way, the mullahs in Iran will soon be fully armed with nuclear weapons, if they are not so armed already. That is not what Democrats say they want, but that is the inevitable result of their passive course of action. Therefore, it is the result Democrats have chosen. Iran is more than happy to accomodate. The real trouble will come later. Then it will be too late.
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