Well... there's a surprise

Iran may be withholding info in nuke probe:

Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.

The tone of the language suggesting Tehran continues to stonewall the U.N. nuclear monitor revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt by agency investigators stymied in their attempts to gain full answers to suspicious aspects of Iran's past nuclear activities.

A senior U.N. official familiar with the investigation into Iran's nuclear program said none of the dozens of agency reports issued in that context had ever been as plain spoken in calling Tehran to task for not being forthright. He agreed to discuss the report only if granted anonymity because he was not authorized to comment to the media.

Iran has described its cooperation with the agency's probe as positive, suggesting it was providing information requested by agency officials.

Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, said as much again Monday, telling The Associated Press that the report described "the peaceful nature of our nuclear actions."

"The Americans failed ... in shameful attempts" to co-opt the agency into delivering anti-Iranian findings, he said.

He noted a paragraph in the report saying that agency experts had been given access to all declared nuclear material in Iran and verified that all of it was accounted for.

But Gregory L. Schulte, his U.S. counterpart, suggested the report was a strong indictment of Iran's defiance of the international community's efforts to get answers about troubling parts of its nuclear program, noting it "details a long list of questions that Iran has failed to answer."

It's a problem we'll have to tackle at some point... and I guess the question of this election is, who do we trust to handle the problem?

Comments

[salvage]

Yeah, America should bomb and invade Iran, that'll solve aaaaaaallll your problems.

[Rick]

Of course Salvage... as history has taught us, bombing and invasion has never solved a damned thing...

[salvage]

It taught the Germans and the Japanese, you're right, they should have never invaded and bombed anyone.

[tim]

Pres. Bush may do McCain a favor and bomb before Nov.

Obama’s childish dialogue theory may work with craters in place of reactors.

How anyone can’t understand that a nuclear Iran is a problem for many nations and not just the U.S. is rather sad and pathetic. To view the US as the bad guy versus a nuclear Iran really just exposes the ignorance of those taking such a position.

Two words for the slow amongst us – bunker busters. No invasion required.

[salvage]

>Pres. Bush may do McCain a favor and bomb before Nov.

He just might, he's crazy and stupid enough.

>How anyone can’t understand that a nuclear Iran is a problem for many nations and not just the U.S. is rather sad and pathetic.

How? What exactly is Iran going to do? Having a reactor doesn't = bomb, having a bomb doesn't = delivery system having a delivery system doesn't = first strike capability. Considering Israel has a nuclear arsenal that could kill everyone in the ME I don't think Iran is much of a threat. Even if they could launch their one or two nukes they'd be brought down before they came near Tel Aviv and Iran would be a smooth glass bowl.

Iran is as much a threat as Iraq was, that is not at all.

I love this mix of hubris and cowardliness that is the American wingnut; USA is the most powerful nation in the world BUH! BUH! THAT THIRD WORLD NATION WITH A FRACTION OF OUR MILITARY IS SSSAAACCRRRYY!!

Fear and hate, you just wallow in that crap endlessly.

Oh and a bunker buster wouldn't do it, you don't even understand the situation.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Iran is as much a threat as Iraq was, that is not at all.

Kum-ba-ya, my Lord, Kum-ba-ya...Kum-ba-ya, my Lord, Kum-ba-ya...Kum-ba-ya, my Lord, Kum-ba-ya...Oh, Lord...Kum-ba-ya...

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze
It means no worries for the rest of your days
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!
Hakuna Matata?
Yeah. It's our motto!
What's a motto?
Nothing. What's a-motto with you?
Those two words will solve all your problems

Yes, these are great moments in American foreign policy greatness. The "Ostrich Method." We just start with the presumption that there are no threats, everyone on the planet is Just Good People! (except Republicans of course) and all our problems go away.

It's led to such successes as......................

...well, I dunno. You can just fill in the blank.

Put me on record as having M-U-C-H more appreciation for what Reagan did with the Soviets, and Truman did with the Empire of Japan, than for what Carter did with Iran. But hey. That's just me.