3/5/2006

14 Responses to “How Iran Bought Time for Its Nuclear Program: Just Fool Those Suckers the Europeans”

1. It isn’t just the Europeans who got fooled. Saddam pulled the same stunt on the UN for years, and The American Left is still buying the same old snake oil.

   The scam is obvious to anyone with the sense of a green apple: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

   Being taken in again and again by the same old trick requires the willing suspension of disbelief. It’s really a quid pro quo and takes a willing buyer as well as a willing seller.

   Letting these obvious frauds get away with bald faced lies, while we bend over backwards to give them the benefit of the doubt, is nothing more than a prescription for more of the same.

   Black Jack (d8da01) — 3/5/2006 @ 8:57 am

   
   

2. The French translation of “just fooled” is:

   “My Swiss bank account grew by an unexpectedly large and satisfying amount.”

   perfectsense (024110) — 3/5/2006 @ 12:10 pm

   
   

3. Maybe the Nuking of Europe will force us into a no-finacial-aide-for-the-world position for once and for all. Simplistic as it seems, “I told ya’ so.” George Washinton warned us.

   paul (464e99) — 3/5/2006 @ 1:45 pm

   
   

4. Saddam pulled the same stunt on the UN for years, and The American Left is still buying the same old snake oil.

   So you suggest Iran is bluffing like Saddam. Nifty parallel. Saddam didn’t even have a pair of treys – his centrifuge cylinders were buried ten years in some guy’s backyard.

   “All three components of the ‘axis of evil’’ — Iraq, Iran, North Korea — [are] more dangerous than they were when that phrase was coined in 2002.” – George Will, March 2, 2006

   steve (ab55e3) — 3/5/2006 @ 2:30 pm

   
   

5. The only people fooled by Iran are the usual group: UN, democrap party, MSM, Libs, college perfessers & kool aid drinkers like steve.

   Mark Daniels (d86eaa) — 3/5/2006 @ 3:24 pm

   
   

6. Steve: According the the Duelfer report, weapons inspectors discovered 1.77 tons of enriched uranium in Iraq, if I remeber correctly. Not that facts will ever make a difference…

   Mark Daniels (d86eaa) — 3/5/2006 @ 3:27 pm

   
   

7. Hey Black Jack.. Nice to see you..Fellow GI in the PI. Been enjoying any “dog on a stick” What was the term you used? Been a while.. God!! how time flies doesnt it?? Dont you wish you could go back in time to those days?

   Charlie (8ea405) — 3/5/2006 @ 4:01 pm

   
   

8. Yes our enemies are laughing at us.. after all we elected Bush as President..

   Charlie (8ea405) — 3/5/2006 @ 4:03 pm

   
   

9. Mark: The Duelfer weapons inspectors made no such find. Not that facts will ever make a difference.

   The Energy Department announced in July 2004 that it had removed from Iraq “radiological and nuclear materials that could potentially be used in a radiological dispersal device or diverted to support a nuclear weapons program.” This included the “1.77 metric tons of LOW-enriched uranium.” The reason the Administration never touted this as evidence of WMD is because they would be laughed at by anyone with a passing expertise. Low-enriched uranium cannot be used in an atomic weapon-only as reactor fuel, a purpose which Iraq was entirely free to pursue under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and UN-imposed WMD restrictions.

   Further..

   “The International Atomic Energy Agency kept Iraq’s uranium under seal in storage facilities for more than a decade before the U.S. invasion in March, 2003.”

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35404-2004Jul7.html

   steve (ab55e3) — 3/5/2006 @ 6:41 pm

   
   

10. Steve: How about the Sarin gas arty shells? I’ll look for the uranium stuff again…

    Deacon Bleau (730767) — 3/5/2006 @ 9:41 pm

    
    

11. I predict the US will attack Iran ,,just in time for the elections here at home..We will be assured it will be cheap and quick and we will be welcomed as liberators.. There will be great fanfare insisting that if you love your country you will stand with her in times of crisis. After the invasion, and after the election it will be found that once again the President goofed, but it will be someone elses fault and someone elses bill to pay and someone elses kid who died. Bush will he safely nesting in his presidential library finishing the rest of “My Pet Goat” the only book in the place and asking “Is our children learning!” And most here will still be making excuses for him.

    Charlie (8ea405) — 3/6/2006 @ 5:29 am

    
    

12. Steve: go to the April 26, 2004 article by Kenneth Timmerman at World Net Daily for a comprehensive list of WMDs found in Iraq. I’m sure that they were planted by Halliburton though…

    Deacon Bleau (eb120d) — 3/6/2006 @ 12:11 pm

    
    

13. Charlie: what’s you’re plan? Do you favor a little appeasement before surrender, or do you prefer to just surrender? Or is there no problem at all? Is bitching and moaning the same as a solving a problem?

    Deacon Bleau (eb120d) — 3/6/2006 @ 12:14 pm

    
    

14. Deacon we do definately have a problem..but we cannot solve that problem until we have a President that we and the rest of the world can trust. That is the major problem. How do you expect anyone to follow us now after what Bush has put everyone through for cherry picked reasons? Do you think they trust him to be honest in his assessment of Iranian issue after what happened in Iraq? Even if they did trust him, you will have to admit that we are in a much weaker position now having attacked Iraq than we would have been otherwise. Where is the money going to come from? Where are the troops going to come from? What European nation will follow Bush after his arrogant insults towards them and a war that has yet to produce any WMDs? Yes the situation is serious but we have greatly weakened out hand by our recklessness. Like the kid that cried wolf, we find no one wants to believe us now that a real wolf has appeared. This is the price of arrogance that comes from unchecked power and the USA is going to pay a heavy penalty. Next time better think before waving a bunch of flags and marching recklessly off to war following a Pied Piper..

    Charlie (8ea405) — 3/6/2006 @ 1:21 pm