Iranians show support for nuclear program

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Iranians have turned out in their thousands to show support for their government's nuclear activities. State-run television has shown pictures of Iran's volunteer militia forming a massive human chain along a roadside.

The United States and the European Union have accused Iran of trying to produce nuclear weapons, and have threatened to refer it to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

Iran says its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.
Addressing the rally, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a message to the US.

"We not only have doubts about your nuclear activities, but also we are sure that your nuclear activities are against humanity and that you possess weapons of mass destruction," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1517641.htm

[Erika]

1. He threw it back in W's face

W/Rummy and the rest have excited their hate base by talking about developing nuclear bunker bombs. As if there was any country other than the U.S., who is talking this way.

[Dancing_Dave]

2. Tell it like it is!

It's nice to feel a breaze of truth in international politics for a change!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Tell what like it is?

Do you honestly believe Iran's intentions are purely peaceful? Nobody outside of Iran seems to believe that.

[Tempest]

7. When was the last time Iran attacked another country?

Before Christ?

It sure as hell hasn't been in modern history.

[David__77]

3. Ahmadinejad is smarter than Saddam Hussein, so it seems.

Iran would be an infinitely tougher nut to crack than is Iraq. Furthermore, some of its puppets in Iraq would balk if aggression is launched against Iran, as well. Pointing the finger back at the US and its hypocrisy and lies is the only rational course.

[bemildred]

5. I dunno if he is smarter, but he is not the one backing up in this fight.

The Iranians have been rather feisty of late, and they are getting away with it.

[Frances]

6. One of the reasons I was against the war in Iraq

was that I thought the war would stir up a hornet's nest unnecessarily. I knew Saddam was very bad, but the U.S. had him contained. Our national interests were not threatened by Saddam.

I don't think Iran would be as bold as it is today if Iran did not perceive the U.S. to be weaker than it was before the war. I think any rational person would have to agree that the U.S. is weaker economically, militarily, and politically today than it was before the war began.

Iran and North Korea, both part of the axis of evil that W talked about, would not have been as much of a threat to us today if we had never gone to war in Iraq.