Quote from: jodyb on December 06, 2007, 01:13:44 AM
As has been quoted and cliched many times, the only really dangerous nuclear power is the US and still the only outfit to use nukes on civilian populations. Hereiam is absolutely correct. For example, If Bush had really believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, he would never have invaded, too f@ckin risky. His da conned Saddam into invading kuwait the first time round ffs!!
Notice he hasn't made too many moves on Korea...much as he'd like to. Scared shitless of them, that's why. I've no big time for Iran, but i hope they do have nuclear capabilities, if thats what it take to keep those money hungry, corrupt animals from gaining absolute power.
I think it was Orwell (though i'm open to correction here) that said, one thing worse than 2 super powers, is 1 super power.
Saddam was conned into invading Kuwait? Please do elaborate!
I think you need your head examined if you want to see a regime like Iran gain nuclear weapons capability. It will also be interesting to see if it was a coincidence that Iran suspended their programme around the time Bush invaded Iraq. If so, its about the only benefit to be gained from that debacle.
Regarding North Korea, they're in the process of dismantling their nuclear weapons programme in exchange for aid, after they reached an agreement with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. Thankfully after all Bush's bravado in the early years of the decade regarding Kim Jung Il, saner heads prevailed in his administration.
It will be a long time before a US president does again what Bush did in invading Iraq. For starters, they're probably going to be stuck there for years trying to fix the mess. Second, barring another major terrorist attack, I doubt very much if the US public is going to be cowed and manipulated again by an administration in the manner that they were in the years following 9/11. Even if the threat is very real (and ignoring it potentially very costly), its going to take a hell of a lot more than "classified intelligence" and "freedom fries" to raise support amongst the American public, although the drumbeat has already started in the right-wing media that Iran is still very much a threat! Thank f**k there is only 13 months of one of the worst administrations in US history left!