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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
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It also states:
Now I have serious doubts about their intentions.
After all, this kind of research is expensive and dangerous. If they wanted nuclear fuel, they could easily buy it. That would get them into energy production much sooner. |
Yes, but that wouldn't wind up the West - something that Iran enjoys doing - and why not? After all Bush and Blair like winding up the Middle East too. I still haven't heard a rational explanation as to why Iran (or N Korea for that matter) isn't allowed nuclear energy and/or weapons. We have them, and we invaded a couple of countries recently. Isreal has them, and they don't exactly have squeeky clean record of peace in that area do they?
To see the hypocracy of the situation, you need to put the shoe on the other foot.
Let's say that we were not the all powerful superpower. In fact lets say that America were not our friends and we did things that America didn't like of us. They threaten to invade us. Nothing specific, just a bit of Yankish bravado...you're next kind of thing. Now, at this point would it be wrong of us to start building every weapon, nuclear or otherwise, to try to defend ourself from attack, or (which is what nuclear is good for) deter them from attacking in the first place?
And if it's not wrong for us, why is it wrong for them to do it?
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And considering the kind of idiotic and dangerous statements that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made in recent times, I wouldn't trust them. |
There's quite a few idiotic things that come from the mouth of Bush and Blair too; bombing Al Jazeera, 45 minutes, WMDs, etc etc etc.