Iran must "abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions?"

[cantstandbush]

Here we go again. And no journalist has called the Bushbots on this framing of the Iran issue. Iran has said that it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes and they have said they have no plans for making nuclear weapons, yet Condi keeps insisting that their enrichment programs are for making weapons. And everything out of her mouth and out Bush's mouth impressess on the American public that Iran's enrichment is all about nuclear weapons.

Iraq was about WMDs eventhough Saddam kept telling the world that he had no WMDs.
Now Iran is saying that it has no nuclear weapons program but the US keeps insisting that it does.

It's the same old story all over again. Prescribe to your enemy all kinds of evil motives and that will justify attacking them.

Condi kept spewing the Iran "nuclear weapon enrichment" and Wolf never called her on it one time!!

[sinkingfeeling]

1. "Reagan and Bush said it ain't a bomb until they turn that last screw and

paint B-O-M-B on the side," Bearden said. This was in regard to Pakistan in 1985. Why can't we throw this sh*t back at them?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1321821

[Avalux]

2. Exactly. And so it goes.

Bushco demands Iran give up something it probably isn't doing and if they deny it, Bushco screams they're lying and refuses to sit at the table with them.

I have yet to see any concrete evidence Iran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons. The UN inspectors found none.

I won't hold my breath waiting for a reporter to ask Condi if she has PROOF Iran is enriching uranium for nuclear weapons.

It'll be the same as Iraq; bogus intelligence and outright lies to support an attack on a country that isn't threatening us without anyone questioning it.

[Che_Nuevara]

3. I personally believe they ARE trying to build a bomb,

and I really don't blame them with all the Israeli nukes just down the street. That still doesn't mean we ought to bomb them, though.

[Marr]

7. Bush's policies seem like they're designed to force nuclear proliferation.

It seems the only way to avoid US invasion, particularly if you're a member of the "axis of evil", is to posess nukes. Nobody's talking about invading North Korea, after all.

[kenny blankenship]

4. And Saddam must give up his Weapons of Mass Destruction!

Has he done that yet? Didn't think so.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Step two - disprove the negative

You didn't prove that you don't have nuclear ambitions... we bomb now

[Marr]

6. Hey, if we can go to war against a tactic, I don't see why we can't

go to war because of what some other country's leaders are *thinking*.

I agree though- it's so obvious how this is being framed. It's precisely like the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, right down to the parsed threats. I mean- I can picture Rice on Meet the Press in 2 years talking about how they 'never said the Iranians had nukes- only the ambitions to make them'.