American people can’t decide between the two, because; they need someone to tell them what to think and who to listen too. Basically this country is screwed.

Don’t kid yourself. If the Israelis got the slightest hint that Iran really had nuclear weapons a new sun would rise over Iran before tea time.

Oh, and btw, arming the Middle East with nukes so they can annihilate each other is not without its effects. Several nukes, all presumably several times larger than Fat Man or Little Boy, would have potentially severe climatic consequences that would most definitely affect us and everyone else on the planet. In theory, if you launched enough of them you could cause another ice age.

i see irratiated falafells in the future.

The guy has been caught fictionalizing so many things, I’m surprised one of his articles hasn’t won a Pulitzer for Fiction award.

Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

I’ve always thought the best solution to the problems in the middle east would be to arm EVERYBODY to the teeth and then step back and let them kill each other off.

There once were two cats of Kilkenny’
Each thought there was one cat too many
So they fought and they fit
And they scratched and they bit
‘Til instead of two cats there weren’t any!

1. Iran secretly builds a number of nuclear bombs.
2. Concurrently the government of Iran claims they are only doing nuclear research for clean nuclear power.
3. Israel, tired of waiting for the UN to do something (do anything!), bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities.
4. Iran claiming it is under attack by Israel, drops *several* nuclear bombs on Israel.
5. Checkmate.

Steve

Fortunately, we may not have to. President Ahmadinejad is holding a summit in Tehran with members of the Iraqi National Assembly and Syrian Republic as we discuss this. No doubt it’s intended as an end run around US/British politicking and can be taken as an aggressive attempt to establish a broader role for Iran in bringing security and stability to the region without being too far out of line.

Regardless, I can’t imagine that we’re going to undertake any action greater than convincing rural Iranians that they’re being visited by aliens due to the number of UAV sightings without solid evidence of a clear and credible threat to national security for a while. Even in the event such a claim could be made credibly, it remains that at present, we’re uncertain of the duration and requirements of our mission in Iraq and any military mission next door, were such feasible, would only destabilize the region even further.

Ironic, but it may well be that if Iran gets the bomb, it happens because the neocons left us with our tallywhacker in the Iraqi woodpile when they came by it.

Anyway… this is a link to the original Hersh article. WELL WORTH reading in its entirety.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061127fa_fact

That effort would be described as, well, a weapons program, which the CIA found no evidence of.

If you think trying to occupy Iraq and use it as a profit center for the Oil Patch Boys was difficult, get ready for an order of magnitude increase if and when the White House Wizards try it with Iran.

Iran has one of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas. Their contempt for US imperialism exceeds that held by the rest of the Middle East for the British and French.

Deservedly so.

Thanks Cia another bang up job with your pre analysis.

You might want to begin prepping the Iran nuclear panel so we can clean up their mess.