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that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is going to go to the UN to call for an unproved war against an NPT compliant state – brilliant! The war mongers are going to be excited.

That's why there are UN sanctions against it - to urge it to come into compliance.
The UN sanctions aren't working.

all the rules they demand other countries abide by.

Sorry, Netanyahu is a liar and a bully and Americans very much resent his interfering in the business of the US and especially with his outrageous attempts to involve our military, our troops in war HE will completely responsible for, not Iran, Netanyahu, if such a disaster happens.

He needs to learn his place, he is not an elected US official. He is NOT president of the US.

We have a president who has made his position clear and which apparently Netanyahu is refusing to respect.

NO War with Iran and if this administration allows itself to be bullied into such a disaster by a nobody as far as the American people are concerned, it will result in a final break-up of the Dem Party to which many people are still barely clinging as the only alternative to the rabid, Netanyahu supporters on the far right.

Last time I checked. Edit: they like having it both ways, as who does not?

Edit: so they (Israel) are not exactly breaking any rules, and neither is Iran; but Iran signed the NPT, and so is obligated not to make nuclear weapons, but is entitled to have nuclear energy as a consequence (according to the NPT.)

The problem could be solved by disarming all Nuclear States, NOT by trying to stop one country from having nukes. That does nothing to ensure the safety of the world. Israel is not the only country in the world threatened by Nuclear war.

The issue should be disarming all of them. Either that, or all countries should have nukes, making it less likely that any of them will be willing to use them.

Frankly approaching Iran - or any nation - as a rabid dog in need of a good whipping isn't going to ever work. Period.

The sanctions against Iran are mostly military related as well as related to prevention of the weaponization of the nuclear program(no problems with that from me). They are not a declaration that the nuclear program is illegal as it is, or that the NPT is being violated. There would not have been enough signatories otherwise.

and the US is one of the two main belligerents in this case – it's the foxes guarding the hen house. The sanctions are a hate crime.

Here's what the results of this hate crime will look like if the bigots get their way:

I'm so used to seeing those bug gismos that earlier when I had a real one same size on my computer screen I thought "fuck me - that's clever"

we should all agree to stop looking toward nuclear energy as a solution to our problems. It should not even be a part of the solution.

As the plants in the US age, we should shut them down, one by one, and not rebuild them. What to do with the nuclear waste? That we have no answer to that question is one of the reasons we need to shut them down and not build any more.

Then Netanyahu's party wouldn't express a fear of destruction by Iran by nuclear weapons, too.

we wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq.

down memory lane with the lies which were told here in the UK.

is unassociated with what became worldwide tragic joke.

Running out of ideas, are we?

Cynicism at its worst.

had tried to invade Cuba (Bay of Pigs).

After that Cuba took some simple precautions. When I first went there I couldn't figure why there were so many bridges over roads which didn't go anywhere either side. It was later explained to me that they prevent movement of heavy military vehicles by road.

Every last president in my lifetime, which started with Dwight Eisenhower, have committed crimes worse than any occupant of any prison in the US.

That's an interesting fact about Cuba.

and if we go to war with them, I will declare 10 dependents on my taxes and refuse to pay one cent more in taxes at tax time.

It won't work otherwise.

You can declare up to 10 dependent so you don't pay a lot during the year. And actually, my point is to force the issue publicly.

Much well-deserved ridicule coming his way for that choice, I would imagine.

it's getting pretty stinky waaaaaaaaaaaa...

for at least the last four prez elections?

Seriously though, this has been going on for over ten years, at least. I have a documented list of articles, as well as DU threads, that stretch back to 2002. They seem to happen in March, June, August, Sept/October, and something usually pops up in December.