Iran NOT trying to develop a nuclear weapon~Leon Panetta

Quote from Trader666:

It's not a smoking gun but OTOH let's not whitewash it either. I gave you the link and if you get a chance, skim the report because it's quite detailed and makes me take a lot more notice than a political appointee's brief comment on a news show.

The Agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme. After assessing carefully and critically the extensive information available to it, the Agency finds the information to be, overall, credible.

The information may have been determined to be credible, and the report does talk about concerns, but the concerns are not the credible information. The concerns are the opinions of the authors of the report. We need to keep that in context because mixing credible information with what amounts to comments by the report's author(s) becomes dangerous. It gives those comments an authority they were never meant to have.

Quote from Trader666:Iran is a party to the NPT but was found in non-compliance with its NPT safeguards agreement and the status of its nuclear program remains in dispute... continued at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty#Iran [/B]

Given that their doors are open, unlike other countries who do not feel the need to sign the treaty, I'll continue to give them the benefit of the doubt. If they shut their doors then we'll know something is up. Protocols change and get added all the time so it is possible a new protocol was added and at the time you are referencing, Iran had not yet complied. If they were truly in egregious violation then we would have all the justification we'd need....right?
 
Quote from RCG Trader:

We don't. The Neocons do. They like war.

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Don't forget that obama really loves war too -


"In Drones We Trust" will be printed on the new Federal Reserve devalued notes! :eek:
 
I'd want more than that before taking military action against them. But don't think we should shy away from it either if all tests are met.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Doctrine

Quote from DAS Trader:

The information may have been determined to be credible, and the report does talk about concerns, but the concerns are not the credible information. The concerns are the opinions of the authors of the report. We need to keep that in context because mixing credible information with what amounts to comments by the report's author(s) becomes dangerous. It gives those comments an authority they were never meant to have.

Given that their doors are open, unlike other countries who do not feel the need to sign the treaty, I'll continue to give them the benefit of the doubt. If they shut their doors then we'll know something is up. Protocols change and get added all the time so it is possible a new protocol was added and at the time you are referencing, Iran had not yet complied. If they were truly in egregious violation then we would have all the justification we'd need....right?
 
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So, if the Secretary of Defense does not believe Iran is building a nuclear weapon...why do the rest of us?

Because they listen to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Hannity, and Fox News. The same crowd that assured us 10 years ago that Sadaam Hussein had nuclear bombs (or was close to putting some together) and mobile biological weapons laboratories.
 
Quote from rew:

Because they listen to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Hannity, and Fox News. The same crowd that assured us 10 years ago that Sadaam Hussein had nuclear bombs (or was close to putting some together) and mobile biological weapons laboratories.
Please, get your history right. They was "nucular" weapons. :D
 
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