How Conveniently They Forget--WE helped Iran go "nukular"

[Carolab]

http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20050516&s=infact

editorial | posted April 28, 2005 (May 16, 2005 issue)
In Fact...

Stephen Zunes writes: Amid the blare of the Bush Administration's alarms about Iran's alleged nuclear weapons capabilities, few remember that the United States, from the Eisenhower through the Carter presidencies, played a major role in the development of Iran's nuclear program. In 1957 the United States and Iran signed their first civil nuclear cooperation agreement. Over the next two decades, the United States not only provided Iran with technical assistance but supplied the country with its first experimental nuclear reactor, complete with enriched uranium and plutonium with fissile isotopes. Despite the refusal of the Shah to rule out the possibility of Iran's developing nuclear weapons, the Ford Administration in 1975 approved the sale of up to eight nuclear reactors with fuel to Iran and, in 1976, approved the sale of lasers believed to be capable of enriching uranium. The Washington Post reported that an initially hesitant President Ford was assured by his advisers that Iran was interested only in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Ford's Defense Secretary was Donald Rumsfeld, his Chief of Staff was Dick Cheney and his man in charge of nonproliferation efforts at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was Paul Wolfowitz.

[dbeach]

1. yep...

US sold em nukes now its time to pay the devil for Iran....

what does that say about the US presidents??

they engineer these deals...then we live in fear cuz of them same deals..

[smartvoter]

2. And armed Saddam and the Taliban, and so on. nt

[rman]

3. as we helped Iraq to go chemical

what else is new?

[Al-CIAda]

4. Just more LIES that the corpraganda press REFUSE to report. n/t

[leesa]

5. Of course we did. How could we bomb them later if we didn't arm

them. What justification would we use? We did it to steal the oil? Come on, get real!

[kodi]

6. worse, Rummy was on the board of ABB. sold nuke technology to NK

how about a trip down memory lane and yet more instances of how the traitorous Republicans have once again given aid, comfort, and materials to America’s enemies….just like a Cheney-led Halliburton did in Iraq in the 1980’s-1990’s.

The current US Sec. of Defense Rummy sat on the ABB Board of Directors, which in Jan 2000 sold nuke stuff to N. Korea! I wonder if Bush, knowing this, will retract his Axis of Evil statement to exclude N. Korea?

There's money for Rummy in Nukes!

The Annual General Meeting of ABB Ltd 2000

ABB Ltd held March 16, 2000, its first annual general meeting of shareholders since the creation of the single-class ABB Ltd share.
Shareholders approved the proposal of the Board of Directors to increase the dividend per share to Sfr. 3.00 from Sfr. 2.47 the year before, payable as of March 23, 2000. Re-elected to the Board were Percy Barnevik, Gerhard Cromme, Jürgen Dormann, Martin Ebner, Robert Jeker, Göran Lindahl, Agostino Rocca, Donald Rumsfeld, Edwin Somm, Peter Sutherland and Jacob Wallenberg. The Board intends to re-elect Barnevik as Chairman and Jeker as Vice Chairman.

http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf!OpenDatabase&db=/global/ABBZH/ABBZH259.nsf&v=A&e=us&c=A221047E49D1CA7C4125679E006320D8

ABB to deliver systems, equipment to North Korean nuclear plants
US$ 200 million in orders awarded under multi-government framework agreement

Zurich, Switzerland, January 20, 2000 –

ABB, the global technology group, said today it has signed contracts to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho, on the east coast of North Korea. The contracts, with a value of US$ 200 million, were awarded by HANJUNG (Korea Heavy Industries and Construction Co. Ltd.) and KOPEC (Korea Power Engineering Corp.).

http://www.abb.com/global/abbzh/abbzh251.nsf!OpenDatabase&db=/global
/ABBZH/abbzh250.nsf&v=c&e=us&c=316DCEEDCA12D32E4125686C00433604
from: http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/04/09_Rumsfeld_North_Korea.html
from: http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/04/09_Rumsfeld_North_Korea.html

Oh, and a shout out to our great friends, the Israelis, whose weapons technologies were delivered into the hands of the North Koreans, via another of our great friends, the Chinese>>>>>>

http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:G31uYuOAu5sC:www.washington-report.org/backissues/1193/9311006.htm++%22israeli+arms+sales%22+North+Korea&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"In China, meanwhile, Israeli scientists are helping out with the Silkworm, M-1 I and other Chinese ballistic missiles which—see if you can figure this out—will wind up on launchers in Iraq, Iran, and just about any Arabic-speaking country you can name. Plus the Israelis working for the Chinese are wittingly or unwittingly having their expertise transferred to North Korean missile factories."

oops.

[underpants]

7. Yep-The Guardian-"The Two Faces of Rumsfeld"

The two faces of Rumsfeld

2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. somehow, these facts don't get mentioned by the neocons or their

compliant corporate press collaborators. We need to publicize this.

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. Oh. My. Gawd. Another piece of the picture. Keeps getting worse.

Tried to recommend but it was over 24 hours old already. :(