Weapons-grade uranium found in Iran

Okay. Thank you. :D

I'll still insist on proof.

 

Yes, Iran is quite cooperative. :rolleyes:

 

Nice.

Ken uses the old pot smokers defense...'it aint mine man, some dude crashed here last night and left his enriched uranium here, I SWEAR!'

Right.

 

The testimony of a Bush administration official carries very little weight with me. I don't trust any member of the Bush administration any farther than I can throw him.

 

What proof would you like and how do you think we should go about getting that proof without snap inspections?

Joseph Botwinick

 

Nice.

Ken uses the old pot smokers defense...'it aint mine man, some dude crashed here last night and left his enriched uranium here, I SWEAR!'

Right. </font>[/QUOTE]Well, we all know Ken's feeling about pot .

Joseph Botwinick

 

What's this? Is your Condi crush over?

Joseph Botwinick

 

Well, the Bush administration claims that Iran has been working on this project decades and they have just now been able - so Iran's president claims - to enrich uranium to a very low level.

At this rate maybe we'll need to be concerned about Iran being able to construct a nuclear weapon, if it wants to build one, by the year 2100.

Proof would be evidence that satisfies the following:

1. Iran is actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

2. Iran will use a nuclear weapon if it builds one in a first strike against the U.S. or one of our allies.

 

Well, the Bush administration claims that Iran has been working on this project decades and they have just now been able - so Iran's president claims - to enrich uranium to a very low level.

At this rate maybe we'll need to be concerned about Iran being able to construct a nuclear weapon, if it wants to build one, by the year 2100.

Proof would be evidence that satisfies the following:

1. Iran is actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

2. Iran will use a nuclear weapon if it builds one in a first strike against the U.S. or one of our allies. </font>[/QUOTE]Your standard #2 is impossible to meet until you see the mushroom cloud.

But I suspect that's the way you want it. ;)

 

Well, the Bush administration claims that Iran has been working on this project decades and they have just now been able - so Iran's president claims - to enrich uranium to a very low level.

At this rate maybe we'll need to be concerned about Iran being able to construct a nuclear weapon, if it wants to build one, by the year 2100.

Proof would be evidence that satisfies the following:

1. Iran is actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

2. Iran will use a nuclear weapon if it builds one in a first strike against the U.S. or one of our allies. </font>[/QUOTE]Ok. You answered the first part of the question. Now, tell me this: How do you think we should go about getting that proof without snap inspections?

Joseph Botwinick

 

The IAEA and Iran need to agree on a better inspection regime.

 

And what would that look like?

Joseph Botwinick

 

I'll leave that up to the experts at the IAEA who know what kind of inspection regime that they need to do their jobs.

 

So trust the UN weapons inspectors is your answer? No thanks.

Joseph Botwinick

 

No, in this situation I trust the IAEA inspectors. Short of going to war with Iran and destroying the U.S. and world economies as the price of oil soars to at least $150/bbl. trusting the IAEA to do its job is really all we can do. Now the U.S. and the EU and Russia helping with the negotiations would be a huge plus. But we must rely on the expertise of the IAEA to inform us as to whether Iran remains in compliance with the NPT.

 

Ken,

The IAEA is run by the UN. I think your trust is very misplaced.

Joseph Botwinick

 

And I think your trust in the Bush administration is extremely misplaced.

 

Why dont the U.N send "Inspectors" to Darfur, Sudan?

 

Because they don't care.

Joseph Botwinick

 

"...it's amazing if you step back and think about it that the main concern of the world right now is what we're going to do about the Iranian program, not what the Iranians are going to do."

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The Iranian strategy is working, with the willing complicity of the UN and the EU.