Bush Says Nuke-less Iran Is Still A Threat--Is Iran a threat to the USA?

Indeed nothing has changed from the administration's perspective, as they have had this latest intelligence report for some time. Only this week has it been made known to the public. They want it both ways with Iran. On the one hand, they discredit the report entirely, despite it being one of the most comprehensive intelligence reports on the subject, with over 1,000 source notes in the document. On the other hand, when discrediting it fails, they claim that the timing of the abandonment of the weapons program, just as we were invading Iraq, means our pressure must have worked, so we must keep it up with a new round of even tougher sanctions. Russia and China are not buying this, apparently, and again we are finding ourselves on a lonely tenuous platform on the world stage.

The truth is Iran is being asked to do the logically impossible feat of proving a negative. They are being presumed guilty until proven innocent because there is no evidence with which to indict them. There is still no evidence that Iran, a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has ever violated the treaty's terms – and the terms clearly state that Iran is allowed to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful, civilian energy needs. The United States cannot unilaterally change the terms of the treaty, and it is unfair and unwise diplomatically to impose sanctions for no legitimate reason.

Are we to think that Iran hasn't noticed the duplicitous treatment being received by so-called nuclear threats around the globe? If they have been paying attention, and I think they have, they would see that if countries do have a nuclear weapon, they tend to be left alone, or possibly get a subsidy, but if they do not gain such a weapon then we threaten them. Why wouldn't they want to pursue a nuclear weapon if that is our current foreign policy? The fact remains, there is no evidence they actually have one, or could have one any time soon, even if they immediately resumed a weapons program.

Our badly misguided foreign policy has already driven this country's economy to the brink of bankruptcy with one war based on misinformation. It is unthinkable that despite lack of any evidence of a threat, some are still charging headstrong into yet another war in the Middle East when what we ought to be doing is coming home from Iraq, coming home from Korea, coming home from Germany and defending our own soil. We do not need to be interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and waging war when honest trade, friendship, and diplomacy are the true paths to peace and prosperity.~~~~~~~Congressman Ron Paul

1. Syria does not have nukes
2. There nothing to suggest that Iran wants 'one' nuke - it's zero or many
3. They do not pose a threat to US real estate but rather to stability in the mid-east
4. Other mid-east countries are against Iran having nukes
5. Iran is led by a radical, nutty, fascist regime who want to kill people because of their beliefs.
6. Irn does not need nuclear energy production; they need oil refineries. They sit on huge oil reserves. That leaves the reason for nuclear development at weapons - eventually
7. They have just finished development of a missle with a range of +- 1,400 miles. I assume that the missle is not intended for dropping leaflets on Israel.
8. Iran cut off diplomacy with the US when they held out embassy staff hostage for over 400 days in 1979-81.
9. The US has been talking with Iran through back channels and has let them know that the nuke idea is not a good one. The UN ( that bastion of inaction) has even ponied up with sanctions against Iran.
10. The EU has come out strongly against the nuke plans and is enacting sanctions of their own.
11. Iraq is a traditional enemy of Iran. I imagine that Iran was quite pleased to see Saddam dangle from the end of a rope but now wishes to move into Iraq and spread their fascism.
12. Iran has a very good air force and does have a navy neither of which could stand up to the US for very long ( I like things that way )
13. I trust the US with weapons much more than I trust whackos and so does the rest free world.
14. I think that if Mexico were sponsoring terrorism in China we, the US, would help China put an end to it prior to any invasion being necessary.
15. If you are so distrustful of this country, please name one that has done more for this world. Name one that has sacrificed more in terms of treasure to give aid to other countries. Name one that has given more in terms of military assistance to ensure the freedoms of others.
16. Name one country that has occupied more world real estate for the benefit of others only to ask for enough land to bury our dead before going home.
17. FreedomWatcher eh. Freedom comes with a price. What have you done to ensure it besides whine and tear down?