U.S. Considering Incentives for Iran (Kerry's Plan

Florida_Geek

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:12 AM
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U.S. Considering Incentives for Iran (Kerry's Plan

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Nuclear-Iran.html

U.S. Considering Incentives for Iran
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: October 12, 2004

Filed at 11:44 a.m. ET

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Reconsidering its hard line on Iran, the United States is weighing the idea of rewarding the Islamic republic if it gives up technology that can be used for nuclear arms, diplomats and U.S. officials said Tuesday.

The diplomats, who spoke to The Associated Press from Vienna and another European capital, said senior European negotiators directly answerable to their foreign ministers planned to go to Washington this week for discussions with top U.S. State Department officials on a common Iran strategy

..more at AP

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Owlet

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:17 AM
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1. Didn't Kerry suggest this during the debate?

"However, the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Bush administration was prepared to consider with the Europeans a package of incentives.

The package of incentives will be discussed at a meeting Friday at the State Department by European envoys with Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton and either Secretary of State Colin Powell or Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage, a U.S. official said."

With hardass Bolton involved I doubt anything will come of the meeing.

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livinbella

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:22 AM
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2. bolton is walking talking sh*t -

as low as cheney or bush or pearl or wolfowitz.
Hitler would look up to these people.

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Florida_Geek

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:24 AM
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3. And Edwards has talked of it

Bush is just trying to look reasoniable....

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Career Prole

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:24 AM
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4. Stinkin' bastards! Again!

First they say JK's four step plan for settling Iraq down was theirs all along, when the whole world excluding repukes knew that the shrub's plan was "stay the course". Now the a-holes are going to steal his plan to settle down Iran.
JK should just make some weird shit up...like sending a delegation of clowns in a tiny little car to loosen things up in Pyongyang and "leak the plan" to the repukes.

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BattyDem

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:34 AM
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6. Kerry should nail him on it!

"Mr. pResident ... It's come to my attention that you've decided to use my plan for dealing with Iran. I'm very flattered, sir. But may I suggest to the American people ... if pResident Bush is going to take my suggestions on foreign policy, then perhaps it would serve the country better if we just cut out the middle man and let me run the country!" :evilgrin:

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Career Prole

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:42 AM
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7. That'll work! I must admit I was enjoying thinking of Scotty-boy trying

to ignore the press corps questions about the preznit's cryptic comments about a clown car. :D

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DuctapeFatwa

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Tue Oct-12-04 11:25 AM
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5. The problem with the traditional client-state model, whoever implements it

is that it is like an old computer on which today's software won't run, and today's web pages won't load.

Century of Resistance: US Has Limited Choices - "SuperDraft," or Abandon Objectives

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