Iran Announces Uranium Enrichment

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Iran has begun the successful enrichment of uranium, it was announced today by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad stressed that the enrichment was only to the 3.5% level, a low-grade level used to generate electricity; if enrichment continues to higher levels, it could potentially be used to develop a nuclear weapon, which the White House contends is the country’s true intent. The announcement came about two weeks into the 30 days the U.N. Security Council had granted Iran to stop all efforts towards enrichment, warning of unspecified consequences if it refused. Bush administration officials, still trying to downplay published reports of accelerated plans to attack Iran, had little comment, with White House spokesman Scott McClellan saying only that Iran is “moving in the wrong direction”.

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Well, hot damn!

Hey dumbya, they got them some of that there NUKULAR TEKNOLEGIE.

Let's nuke 'em!

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By MarlipernApril 11, 2006 - 2:13pm

I don't get it

Do the neo-cons REALLY expect Iran (or anybody else for that matter) to STOP trying to get nukes ... when we threaten them on a regular basis? I mean, isn't that kind of demotivating?

Not that I have any affection for the Iranian government, but they aren't the only country with an extremist nutjob for a leader!

Or maybe it's one of those "Through the Looking Glass" bits of neocon reverse propaganda. The don't really want Iran to stop trying to get nukes, because then we'll have an excuse to attack them.

Oh this just gets scarier and scarier!

By GogiApril 11, 2006 - 4:14pm

Agreed.....

...I don't think we'll attack Iran, as it seems that the military might stage a coup if the administration tries to push them into Iran.
But....
We are making plans, just in case, to move someplace safer. I think Hawaii might be off the Iranians radar screen, but Pearl Harbor IS just a mile down the hill. So......
I do have friends in Australia and New Zealand. Be nice to visit them. As good an excuse as I need.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 11, 2006 - 4:21pm

Yeah, but Bushco will tell you...

That Hawaii, Australia & New Zealand can be hit by a N.Korean nuke.

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid. (it's the Republican motto)

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By MarlipernApril 11, 2006 - 4:28pm

Hell yes, anyplace.....

.....can be nuked, the only thing saving anyone from it is the unwillingness of the enemy to USE the weapon. Our safety depends on the state of mind of our enemy. NOT an inherently "safe" situation. I think that non-US sites might me lower on the target list. Just gotta play the odds.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 11, 2006 - 4:34pm

You've got an interesting point...

Sort of the chicken & egg scenario... Were the Iranians pursuing nuclear weapons because of our military threat to them, or are we threatening them militarily because of their nuclear weapons ambitions?

And again, the hypocrisy of the U.S. shoving the non-proliferation treaty down Iran's throat, while we simultaneously announce a program to develop MORE nuclear weapons. It's insane.

And Bushco is toying with the idea of removing the Iranian nuclear threat THROUGH THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS?????

If anybody had written this whole f*cking mess as a script, no producer would want it... it's too unbelievable.

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By MarlipernApril 11, 2006 - 4:25pm

You all live in a bubble. Do

You all live in a bubble. Do you think these underground facilities were built yesterday? The thing that scares me is people like you. Do you think for a minute these people loved us up until we went into Iraq? Iran was always a threat to us. They have the ability now to shut down the The Strait of Hormuz down causing an economical crises world wide. Do you honestly think they figured that out recently? Do you think that Al-Qaeda and Iran are strangers to one another? We didn't start this battle Islam extremest did.
Nairobi, Tanzania, USS Cole, 2/26/93 (first WTC attack) and 9/11. Given the ability for Iran to pass of a device to Al-Qaeda operatives is a big possibility. What do you do, wait for one to go off before acting?

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 8:43am

Common Sense

Good to read some good common sense from someone

By President BushApril 12, 2006 - 12:26pm

See, if that had been the

See, if that had been the real Bush, it would have been "cents"

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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~Jonathan Swift

By skaemporiumApril 12, 2006 - 12:43pm

Well BIG SHOT!!!! Instead of

Well BIG SHOT!!!! Instead of your stupid comment respond to what I wrote above. YOU CAN'T BECAUSE YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT.

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 1:55pm

"You all live in a bubble.

"You all live in a bubble. Do you think these underground facilities were built yesterday?"
No, and not the day before, either. Iraq's nuclear plant was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the 80s. Sooooo, not being stupid, Iran has built some of it's facilities underground. So what?

"The thing that scares me is people like you."
ooooooo....I'm sticking my toungue out at you and yelling wooga, wooga, wooga.

" Do you think for a minute these people loved us up until we went into Iraq? "
No, they haven't loved us for a long, long time. Since we stuck them with the Shah Palavi.

"Iran was always a threat to us."
Oh REALLY? Just HOW were they a threat to us?

"They have the ability now to shut down the The Strait of Hormuz down causing an economical crises world wide. "
Hey Sparky, WE also have the ability to shut down said strait. Have we done it? Have the Iranians? The Saudis can also shut it down, or just stop pumping oil for a year. Should we attack the Saudis? Same justification.....so SHOULD WE? Not to mention that 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. So, lets FIRST bang the war drum against Saudi Arabia.....a MUCH bigger and PROVEN threat to US. Whaddaya say?

"Do you honestly think they figured that out recently?"
And this matters WHY?

"Do you think that Al-Qaeda and Iran are strangers to one another?"
I don't know, do you? If so PROVE IT! ((I love saying that to Con-let)

"We didn't start this battle Islam extremest did."
Nope, we picked this fight.

"Nairobi, Tanzania, USS Cole, 2/26/93 (first WTC attack) and 9/11.
These people have been telling us that they want us out of the middle -east since WW2. We have supported Israel since 1947 and they see that as an attack on them. You may not agree, but THEY see it as the US attack arabs and muslims. Bush's crack about a "Crusade" didn't help. If we continue to support Israel, we will continue to be their enemy. They won't compromise, they won't give up....like the Terminator. So get used to being a target.

"Given the ability for Iran to pass of a device to Al-Qaeda operatives is a big possibility. What do you do, wait for one to go off before acting?"
Pakistan is far more likely to be a source for a nuclear weapon for the terrorists, right up there with N. Korea and even Russia. Who ya wanna attack in that list?

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 12, 2006 - 3:29pm

HOT AIR COMMENTS:Nairobi,

HOT AIR COMMENTS:

Nairobi, Tanzania, USS Cole, 2/26/93 (first WTC attack) and 9/11.
These people have been telling us that they want us out of the middle -east since WW2. We have supported Israel since 1947 and they see that as an attack on them. You may not agree, but THEY see it as the US attack Arabs and Muslims. Bush's crack about a "Crusade" didn't help. If we continue to support Israel, we will continue to be their enemy. They won't compromise, they won't give up....like the Terminator. So get used to being a target.

You hate Israel I see that showing through clear. So should we let them wipe Israel off the map then ASSHOLE..... Your responses are yellow head in the sand typical LIB HOT AIR

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 3:52pm

Wow, you start showing this

Wow, you start showing this guy some logic and he goes rabid on you.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~Jonathan Swift

By skaemporiumApril 12, 2006 - 4:03pm

No, Your just an ASSHOLE

No, You're just an ASSHOLE

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 4:11pm

I'm sure I'll learn how to

I'm sure I'll learn how to cope.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~Jonathan Swift

By skaemporiumApril 12, 2006 - 4:14pm

No, You're just an ASSHOLE

repubs resort to name calling.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:18am

Thick ol' Pud.....

....cranium..

"You hate Israel I see that showing through clear."
No, I admire their spunk and think they should simply claim the west bank and Golan Heights as spoils of war, or more appropriately, as reparations for war losses in all of the Arab-instigated wars launched against them. I think that the religiously sensitive cities should be turned over to the UN as world historical sites, administered by the Japanese. Israel would move it's political capitol back to Tel Aviv, and no one would 'own' the 'holy' sites. The world should then collect a large amount of money and buy the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt and give it to the Palestinians for their nation, added to the Gaza strip. (What price mideast peace?) They Palestinians would then have enough land for their population and they would have access to the Med. and Red sea. Israel would have defensible borders. Egypt would have enough money to make the western desert into a huge oasis, and become the model for modern Arab progress.

"So should we let them wipe Israel off the map then ASSHOLE..... Your responses are yellow head in the sand typical LIB HOT AIR"
Idiot. Just an idiot.

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William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 12, 2006 - 4:47pm

terrorism

was there terrorism against americans before 1948?

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:17am

jpn again

Nairobi, Tanzania, USS Cole, 2/26/93 (first WTC attack) and 9/11.

THOSE ATTACKS WOULD BE OSAMA, NOT IRAQ OR IRAN.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:25am

telling the truth is hate?

You hate Israel I see that showing through clear. So should we let them wipe Israel off the map then ASSHOLE..... Your responses are yellow head in the sand typical LIB HOT AIR

REPUBS RESORT TO NAME CALLING AGAIN. NAUGHTY NAUGHTY.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:27am

body bags for israel

You hate Israel I see that showing through clear. So should we let them wipe Israel off the map then ASSHOLE..... Your responses are yellow head in the sand typical LIB HOT AIR

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:28am

benny morris

a zionist historian, says the zionists committed at least 24 massacres in order to ethnically cleanse the palestinians from 1947 to 1949.

jpn, would you hate someone who killed your neighbors and stole their land?

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:29am

jpn

does not do any homework, but he can take a punch.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:30am

but

it seems like jpn has me on ignore.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:31am

jpn

it sounds like you don't know that we overthrew iran's democratically elected govt in the early 1950's and installed the shah who was a brutal dictator.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:16am

Their real "crime"....

...is trying to embrace technology that will free them from oil dependency. Too forward looking, those Iranians.
We look pretty silly, ginning up a program to build more nukes WHILE we're yelling about Iran and N. Korea as they build.....nukes. No one listens to a hypocrite.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 11, 2006 - 3:28pm

I agree with you about the hypocrisy...

I mean 125 nukes a year by 2022? Pretty scary stuff.

But I doubt very highly that Iran is pursuing nuclear technology for energy purposes. They do want nuclear weapons. But our approach of threatening to attack them with nukes as a deterrent is ludicrous.

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By MarlipernApril 11, 2006 - 3:33pm

I ....

...agree, they want the bomb, and why not?....we showed we wouuld attack a country without it...Iraq, and not one with the bomb...N. Korea.
But, hell, if they want the bomb, they can buy one. If we attack them, N. Korea and probably Pakistan would be willing to sell, or even GIVE one or two to them to humiliate us.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 11, 2006 - 3:52pm

The real crime is coming

The real crime is coming from the likes of you... If for some inconceivable way your party ends up getting power back and we do get hit again, and your party does nothing but jaw flap toothless hot air.... LOOK OUT

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 2:01pm

I think we've been hit more

I think we've been hit more under your party's control.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~Jonathan Swift

By skaemporiumApril 12, 2006 - 3:01pm

Well...since YOUR.....

.....party WAS in power when we got hit, and you haven't caught or punished any of the 'evil-dooers' yet...LOOK OUT. 35% approval pretty well tells the tale.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 12, 2006 - 3:32pm

dems

i don't think the dems would invade the wrong country.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:19am

If

If we did attack Iran I don't think we'd send ground forces. I think we'd just bomb them. Not a single U.S. casualty, but oh God the mess it would make. Could you imagine the recruitment the Islamic terrorists would have after a air campaign against Iran.

We need to really get out of the middle east. Our reputation there is so bad I think we'll need a century of skilled diplomats and limitted involvement to heal it.

The world is such a mess right now. It makes me sick to think about it.

"It was believed afterwards that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said." "The War Prayer" by Mark Twain

By QuantaApril 11, 2006 - 5:30pm

Well, bud...

...this is what the neocons and their Pud bootlickers have left for you. Remember. Always remember. And teach your children well, their father's hell will slowly go by, and feed them on your dreams....

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 11, 2006 - 6:10pm

Keep in mind....

....the military truism....to take and hold territory, you need boots on the ground. Troops are going in.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 11, 2006 - 9:00pm

no US casualties?

if we bomb iran there will be US casualties. lots of them. there won't be enough graves.

By mtmeggidoApril 11, 2006 - 11:20pm

OH GOD THE MESS THEY WOULD

OH GOD THE MESS THEY WOULD MAKE WHEN THEY HIT US WITH A NUKE.

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 2:02pm

yes, it would be a huge mess

when iran hits us with a nuke. but it would be exciting and interesting, not boring. so let's facilitate it by attacking iran first. in fact, let's nuke them first. if we nuke them, we will be nuked. it will be so much fun.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:21am

Please stop the mental masturbation.

It's exactly what they expect all to do.

Bushie!  Doin' a helluva job!
Iraq:  Total Fraud, Total Failure - before the first shot.

By Abou Ben AdamApril 11, 2006 - 7:22pm

uranium enrichment

iran can now do that, they say. that means they can make nuclear weapons. bush said iran would not get a nuclear weapon on his watch.

By mtmeggidoApril 11, 2006 - 11:21pm

UHHHH, ......

.....NO, they can do low level enrichment, for powerplants and nuclear medicine, not Highly Enriched Uranium for weapons.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 12, 2006 - 1:37am

right now

apparently they can't enrich enough to make a bomb, as far as we know. but it's very good first step. in order to stop us from attacking them they should speed up the process.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:23am

if we bomb iran

iraqi shiites will kill quite a few US soldiers to start with.

By mtmeggidoApril 11, 2006 - 11:22pm

by bombing iran

bush will unite the shiites and the sunnis. he is a uniter and not a divider.

By mtmeggidoApril 11, 2006 - 11:22pm

peace keeping

"We are saying again that the nuclear technology is only for the purpose of peace and nothing else," Ahmadinejad said.

HAVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL PREVENT BUSH FROM STARTING A WAR WITH THEM. MAYBE THAT'S WHAT AHMADINEJAD MEANS BY PEACE.

By mtmeggidoApril 11, 2006 - 11:25pm

the president of iran is a product of

freedom and democracy.

"They know they cannot do a damned thing," Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iran's state broadcaster as saying, referring to the Security Council, where permanent members Russia and China have proved reluctant to back U.S. efforts to move toward imposing sanctions on Iran.

By mtmeggidoApril 11, 2006 - 11:33pm

Nuclear Talks with Iran Blocked in 2003

POLITICS-US:
"Cabal" Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks with Iran
Gareth Porter*

WASHINGTON, Mar 28 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme in May 2003 because neoconservative zealots who advocated destabilisation and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran, according to former administration officials.

The same neoconservative veto power also prevented the administration from adopting any official policy statement on Iran, those same officials say...........

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32672

By remiApril 12, 2006 - 8:15am

Why should we? We weren't

Why should we? We weren't willing to bed down and kiss there ass. Now a Kerry on the other hand would have left the meeting with a brown nose and possibly more campaign cash. After all wasn't it the PRC who loved Clinton that much?

By JPNApril 12, 2006 - 2:05pm

Whee....

"We weren't willing to bed down and kiss there ass. "
PROVE IT!

"Now a Kerry on the other hand would have left the meeting with a brown nose and possibly more campaign cash."
PROVE IT!

"After all wasn't it the PRC who loved Clinton that much?"
PROVE IT!

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibApril 12, 2006 - 3:35pm

Missing the big picture as usual.

Hey, Deep Thinker,

Thinking squarely INSIDE of a tiny little box again I see.

Iran can ONLY be contained by diplomacy at this point... I mean, now that your hero and military genius President Ulysses S. Retard has all but destroyed our military.

Have a Happy

A G

By A GApril 12, 2006 - 3:46pm

bush is trading with nam and china

and he loves doing that. so bush must be a commie.

By mtmeggidoApril 13, 2006 - 10:24am

Joining each others clubs

Iran has joined the nuclear club and America has joined the torture club. I guess our countries are becoming like each other.

By oversightApril 15, 2006 - 11:14am

oversight. good point.

and concise. i love concise.

By mtmeggidoApril 16, 2006 - 3:58pm

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