Bush vows action over Iran

edit: better article on the subject

is not destabilizing??? Arggghhh!

I hope he speaks to a dead silence and NO applause of any kind, and I hope they rebuke him about Iran. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!

I feel sick! :scared: :puke:

Condi will twist arms, then IdiotBoy gives blustery speech about how the U.N. needs to be more than a debating society and if it will not act, we'll form a coalition of ... any nations that have been hibernating for the past four years.

Talk about a "failure of imagination"; these people have only one game plan and they just keep running it over and over again.

to change the conversation in his own country.

He wants to be a "bomb" president. He wants to be the one to push the big red button.

In the complicated world of international diplomacy surrounding the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, there is but one thing that the United States, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the so-called EU-3 (Germany, France and Great Britain) and Iran can all agree upon.


And that is: Iran has resumed operations of facilities designed to convert uranium into a product usable in enrichment processes. From that point forward consensus on just about anything begins to fall apart.

Iran's resumption of its uranium conversion programme seems to have brought to an end a negotiating process begun in November 2004 between the EU-3 and Iran, at which time Iran agreed to freeze its uranium enrichment-related activities in exchange for the EU-3's agreement to broker a deal that would provide inducements for Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program.

With the EU-3 initiative now dead in the water, it appears that the next logical step in the diplomatic process is for the IAEA to refer the matter to the Security Council, where the US, backed by the EU-3, have threatened to push for economic sanctions. The IAEA board meets in Vienna, Austria on 19 September to discuss this matter.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1A678E7E-2612-4B21-8D21-04E6D5FC5D54.htm

It's just that the trap is being set for Bush et al.

Lancelot Link! You stupid simian (shouldn't say that, because it insults simians)! PLEASE! DON'T FUCKING SPEAK!!! Any more. Any words you have to say are one more puzzle piece to the ultimate realization of armageddon.

What will you do then :rofl:

.. China and Russia like a cheerleader for nuking an unpopular spoke on the axis of evil.

Shudder.

The man is truly insane. I guess he looks sane to his just as insane base because they live in upsidedown world.

Sue

I mean, maybe they would be, but are we just supposed to take his word for it? Is there any evidence to support his contention? Is it just because they are Muslim? Have they gassed their owm people? Do they have drones programmed for the USA?

Does the White House IraN Group have to identify themselves on their product, or do they ghost-write for the CIA and FBI?

Is John Bolton satisfied with the IAEA process?
Have we provided "full disclosure" of our intentions?
Does all of this have anything to do with the Caspian Sea?

once they open their Bourse in 3/06...


which means they will have kicked our asses without firing a shot.

Who will you get to present your intelligence now that Powell has left your administration?

fucking can of worms.

:sarcasm:

"Fuck yourself Bush"

Could he REALLY believe that this will shore up those extremely dismal ratings? Cuz he's making a really bad mistake, another war will sink this country faster than an olive in his near-beer martini.

There goes the planet

:nuke:

Update: Nevermind, I just read about this in another post.

The military is already stretched as it is!

That's where they get a lot of their oil.

where is that clown in the oval office going to get enough troops to back up his latest threat.?

Unless Bush is cloning an army somewhere, I can't see how he is going to back his rhetoric.

The man is a fool, a dangerous fool!

agree that Iran has a right to a nuclear program. Is he going to try to bribe China with their own money?

We're a pubic hair away from broke as it is, we've got two wars draining the treasury now. We've got a disaster in the south that is demanding money.
They've already raped the treasury of all disposable income, while the rich piggies are living it up the rest of the country is sinking into poverty.
Fuel and food costs are going to kill us in the coming months, the game is rapidly coming to an end, I just hope someone can stop these madmen before they throw a bomb.

U.S. Deploys Slide Show to Press Case Against Iran

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 14, 2005; A07

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 13 -- With an hour-long slide show that blends satellite imagery with disquieting assumptions about Iran's nuclear energy program, Bush administration officials have been trying to convince allies that Tehran is on a fast track toward nuclear weapons.

The PowerPoint briefing, titled "A History of Concealment and Deception," has been presented to diplomats from more than a dozen countries. Several diplomats said the presentation, intended to win allies for increasing pressure on the Iranian government, dismisses ambiguities in the evidence about Iran's intentions and omits alternative explanations under debate among intelligence analysts.

The presenters argue that the evidence leads solidly to a conclusion that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons, according to diplomats who have attended the briefings and U.S. officials who helped to assemble the slide show. But even U.S. intelligence estimates acknowledge that other possibilities are plausible, though unverified.

The problem, acknowledged one U.S. official, is that the evidence is not definitive. Briefers "say you can't draw any other conclusion, and of course you can draw other conclusions," said the official, who would discuss the closed-door sessions only on condition of anonymity.

The briefings were conducted in Vienna over the past month in advance of a gathering of world leaders this week at the United Nations. President Bush, who is to address the annual General Assembly gathering Wednesday, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, plan to use the meeting to press for agreement to threaten international sanctions against Iran.

The president's direct involvement marks an escalation of a two-year effort to bring Iran before the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, unless Tehran gives up technology capable of enriching uranium for a bomb. U.S. officials have acknowledged that it has been an uphill campaign, with opposition from key allies who fear a prelude to a military campaign.

Several diplomats said the slide show reminded them of the flawed presentation on Iraq's weapons programs made by then-secretary of state Colin L. Powell to the U.N. Security Council in February 2003. "I don't think they'll lose any support, but it isn't going to win anyone either," said one European diplomat who attended the recent briefing and whose country backs the U.S. position on Iran.

Robert G. Joseph, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, acknowledged last week that despite European support, the Bush administration has traveled a tough road in persuading others that Iran should face consequences for a nuclear program it built in secret.

"There's a great deal of resistance . . . on the part of many governments who don't seem to place, quite frankly, nonproliferation and Iran, a nuclear-armed Iran, at the top of their priority list," he told a congressional panel last week.

Several influential nations such as India, Russia, China, South Africa and Brazil share U.S. suspicions about Iran's intentions. But they maintain profound differences with the Bush administration over how to respond, and are apprehensive about the goals of a U.S. president who has said "all options are on the table," in dealing with Tehran.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091301837_pf.html

Smart money is on Halliburton.

this time.

"full disclosure about Iranian intentions" Relax with John Bolton and drink coffee and eat cake while YOU watch the Powerpoint slide show.

We are the only country right now that needs to be deterred. Everyone else is too busy building their own economies.

there's no way that Iran should be able to. You know, it's a Muslim country, could be terrorists there just like...um....Russia, China & the US.

But seriously, didn't I just read that Russia has already said that the US had better not change its nuclear doctrine (which the Pentagon is doing) or it will lead to every country having the right to the weapons?

Bu the time we get a new president in 2009 we're going to be a nation of lunatics with leaders like this.

Because then I could believe that this lying, murdering, traitorous bastard and his entire criminal rat-bastard enterprise would burn in hell for all eternity.