Iran is developing Nuclear Technology in defiance of UN concerns. The Piss poor North Korea run by the spolit short degenerate Son of Kim Il Sung, has now upped the ante with an explosion. Nuclear deterrence it was learnt is the best way to stop our "regime change", mission accomplished strategies from becoming contagious.

• We refused to negotiate or even talk to them under the highly successful Bush Doctrine. As James Baker-III said today on Meet the Press, "WE TALKED TO EVERYONE including Syria". But sigh, those were the glory days of great American Leaders not chained by christian extremist ideologies. Those were GREAT REPUBLICANS THOSE DAYS MY FRIEND. Bush-41 is the SMARTEST MAN to have become President from the GOP in a long time.

• Our leaders now say that with Iran's abundant energy sources it does not need nuclear power. Our President, that architect of the great Iraqi success "forgets" to educate the American people that the US helped start Iran's nuclear program.

• The US gave Iran its first 5 megawatt Plant that ran on highly enriched Uranium during the decades we propped up a Dictator and our companies raked in billions from him. That Dictator (installed by us by overthrowing a democratic government way back in 1952-53) was envisioning a time when Oil would run out. That is another convenient truth we omit from our people when we discuss the radicalization of the Shia Iranian people in the post 1979 era. Some of our current neo-con anti Iranian leaders, were all ardent proponents of Iran's nuclear energy plans when they were working for the energy Industry. During one Republican regime, we signed a multi billion dollar "nuclear cooperation" memorandum with Iran which would have generated billions of dollars in revenue to American companies selling Nuclear Technology.

• None of them cared about “Nuclear weapons Proliferation” at that time because the Shah was our boy in the Middle East and we pulled the strings. No one thought of safeguards.
  Today these same rightwing greedy leaders enslaved to big business say "Iran has no need for nuclear power". Post revolution Iran got mad at us because we supported a dictator for decades because of Oil and lucre and cared not two hoots for morals or democracy.

• Now we have no choice but to tell them that if they attack Israel we will attack them with the same weapons. A powerful, wealthy 2500 yr old civilization doesn't have a desire to commit suicide.

• Iran was attacked by Iraq at a time we armed Iraq and encouraged Saddam to defeat Iran. And Israel has nuclear weapons too. Instead of being “iffy” like Bush-41 was before Iraq invaded Kuwait, a clear unambiguous threat of nuclear retaliation will go a long way towards stopping their weapons programs.

• Otherwise, it will be really hard to tell them they have no need for Nuclear Energy for peaceful purposes when told them they might need it for the day they run out of oil. Let's stop being such self-righteous Pontius Pilates trying to blame others for our policy excesses committed over decades of arrogant indifference to political freedom and democracy during the cold war.

• The intelligence community calls policy reversals “blow back”. Even the nutcase Mullahs have a right to be paranoid. IRAN HAS NEVER ATTACKED A NEIGHBOR.