Sunday Times: Israel plans to nuke Iran

[Bernie Gunther]

Interesting. Apparently Bush gave a 'not for publication' briefing to the major media before his 'surge' speech the other night. Here's what the MSNBC news guy said about it.

As for Iran, said Russert: "In the discussion with his senior advisors, with the president, again, something I took away, that it's the president's thinking that he will not sit down with people that he refers to as tyrants until he has, quote, leverage. Suggesting that he has to win the war in Iraq or secure Iraq -- and then he doesn't have to go to Syria and Iran and, quote, ask for anything. That's the way he looks at this. Secondly, there's a strong sense in the upper echelon of the White House that Iran is going to surface relatively quickly as a major issue in the country and the world and -- in a very acute way."

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[laptop]

it's the president's thinking that he will not sit down with people that he refers to as tyrants until he has, quote, leverage.

So it's all about "face"?

Face for the chimp?

* Books tickets to another planet *

 

[Backatcha Bandit]

Iran is not a dictatorship...

Not anymore, though. How times change...

(U.S. nuclear energy advertisement from the mid-1970s)

Some context, incase anyone was wondering:

..Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.

Ford's team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium -- the two pathways to a nuclear bomb.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3983-2005Mar26.html