Bush misstates Iran’s position on desire for nuclear weapons

With the possible exception of Israel, an ally, Mr. Bush seems keenly concerned about nuclear activities in the Middle East. It appears that Mr. Bush is not concerned whether or not, Israel has nuclear weapons but he appears to be really concerned about Iran.

Iran did not take part in the 1948 “eviction” of Palestinians from their homeland to make way for a new state of Israel. Against that 1948 onslaught, the Palestinians didn’t stand a chance. The Palestinians were “introduced” to TERRORISTS. These terrorists, working on the same “mission” as the WEST were GOOD terrorists. The BAD terrorists came later. They could be recognized by their attempt to take back the land that was stolen from them in 1948.

It became obvious that an IMBALANCE of power was needed in the Middle East if no man was to tear-asunder what the West created in 1948. The West looked the other way when real yellowcake, enroute to the Middle East was “lost” on the high seas.

While one American Republican President(non-neocon) did express concern about the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, the Bush team and its neocons don’t seem to be concerned about possible nuclear weapons already in the Middle East. And Mr. Bush’s interests in the Middle East could very well, “help him out at the polls“. Neocons have politicized a “ton” of activity.

The below article talks about Mr. Bush’s latest assertion about a country that did not participate in the eviction of Palestinians in 1948.

Bush misstates Iran’s position on desire for nuclear weapons

By Jonathan S. Landay

McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — President Bush contended that Iran has “declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people” and that the Islamic Republic could be hiding a secret program.

Iran, however, has never publicly proclaimed a desire for nuclear weapons and has repeatedly insisted that the uranium enrichment program it is operating in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions is for civilian power plants, not warheads. Iran has repeatedly denied seeking nuclear warheads, and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious edict in 2005 forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of such weapons.

Bush made his assertion Wednesday in an interview marking the Iranian New Year with Radio Farda, a U.S. government-run radio service that broadcasts into Iran in the Farsi language. The White House released the transcript on Thursday.

The president reiterated his view that Iran has a right to civilian nuclear power. But, he said, the low-enriched uranium fuel for its reactors should be supplied by Russia, a proposal that Tehran has repeatedly rejected.

Asked about the president’s comment in the Radio Farda interview, Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said Bush had “short-handed” Iran’s desire “to wipe Israel off the map,” its refusal to heed U.N. Security Council demands to suspend its enrichment work and Iran’s continued development of ballistic missiles…

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