Bush Says Diplomacy With Iran Is Best

[wookie294]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday reaffirmed its commitment to diplomacy as the best way to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon while Israel's leader ruled out a military strike to destroy Tehran's nuclear program.

The White House also sought to play down differences with Israel over the urgency of the threat.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon contended Iran was years away from possessing a nuclear weapon, but only months short of overcoming "technical problems" in building one.

"Once they will solve it, that will be the point of no return," Sharon told CNN two days after his meeting with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at Bush's Texas ranch.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bush_sharon

[Dave Reynolds]

1. When Boosh calls for diplomacy,

my worry factor goes up exponentially.

[wtmusic]

2. No kidding

"We want to make every effort to avoid a confrontation." Sounds vaguely familiar...

[Dave Reynolds]

6. Yep,

translation "We need time to move the carriers".

[DS1]

26. And reload them. They ran out of bombs during Iraq

:eyes:

[Jade Fox]

8. Yeah, just like he did with Iraq......n/t

[pdurod1]

32. Didn't he do this with N. Korea? Or diplomacy is the prudent course...

I'm thinking Israel with do thy masters bidding. as long as we pay for moving/relocation of Israelis out of the gaza settlements (1/2 $Billion).

[wookie294]

7. Bush will probably bomb Iran in Oct./Nov. 2006

God will tell him to bomb Iran.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Hmm June of this year

so has said Ritter... and he says they are on the warpath

[Gyre]

27. Actually, I heard him the other night on Democracy Now!

And he was hedging. Said that June would be the earliest time. Also said that the US was surging 2 carrier-battle groups into the area to join the existing one. I think that's what he said.

Gyre

[0007]

17. Like when he said there was NO Iraq War plan on his desk.

[stepnw1f]

3. Buulllllllshit Staging for an Invasion

This fucker and his neo-Con greedy sickos don't fool me at all. Bolton's confirmation is the nail in the coffin. I'm taking my shit to the streets and leting every rich mo-fo I come across know this is class warfare. Repeal of the Eastate tax during a time of war a day after they cut Veteran's benefits? Are kidding me? There is no f'n way I'm getting drafted so that some smug rich brat can stay home and play Ghost Recon.

These people are evil.

[punpirate]

4. These people really count on the public...

... having an extraordinarily short memory--and the press not reminding the public.

[never cry wolf]

5. Good cop, bad cop

NOTHING gets into the MSM the admin doesn't want to come out with just the right spin. Bush will appear to press for peace and appear to be the moderate as his surrogates, be they Negroponte, Bolton, Sharon will press for action... Eventually, shrubby will reluctantly accede to their wishes in the name of spreading democracy and protectying the world from that dangerous nuklear power that will give dirty bombx to terra-ists to blow up New York....

Believe me, it is starting...

[Pithy Cherub]

9. Iran is doomed, doomed, doomed...

:hide: Incoming!!!!! :hide:

[wookie294]

11. America is doomed with a Monkey in the White House

eom

[peacetalksforall]

10. ATTENTION!!!! DIS-REALITY IN PROGRESS - BIG KICK OFF!!!!

Translation: Impending war - brought by the cabal, PNACERS, all your favorite weapons and service contractors, and right wing politicians plus Dems who most often follow the right.

Coming soon with real blood and brains and limbs lying all over!!!

[AlamoDemoc]

12. remember that famous press conference?

"'This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous.'

"(Short pause)

"'And having said that, all options are on the table.'

"Even the White House stenographers felt obliged to note the result: '(Laughter).'"

(The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin on George Bush's February 22 press conference)

[peacetalksforall]

18. All options are on the table...means a choice of air attack, boots on the

ground, or a combination. Those are the options he's referring to. Wait, there is another option - to arrange a colition or not...depends on hus much stolen money is available to buy help from other countries. What, no supporters, no colition partners...then we must have a bigger Pearl Harbor. Sick. Sick. Sick.

[tridim]

13. "But we tried that diplomacy thing..."

"We had high hopes that they would work with us." -From Bush's news conference about 6 months from now.

[brettdale]

14. haha!

So Bush is going to use diplomacy with the a country that is on his axis of evil list, yeah right, Im suprise he doesnt blame iran for 9/11.

The only thing Im curios about is when will he invade Iran? Im guessing the first part of his second term.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. dime on the dolalr we soon will hear of ties between

mohamed atta and Tehran...

[Robeson]

15. "Once they will solve it, that will be the point .....

...of no return," Sharon told CNN...

Does he mean like the point Israel got to when they intiated their nuclear weapons program?.... :eyes:

[CHIMO]

16. So Now

We can expect Bolts of diplomacy.

[MetaTrope]

19. BFEE diplomacy

i.e., Kidnap their families and blackmail them into terrorist attacks on American landmarks.

[VegasWolf]

20. I always said that Bush will NEVER attack Iran, he doesn't have

the capability to do so. All capability has been squandered
with Iraq in a fruitless grab for oil. Now with Iraq on the verge
of a theocracy, Bush ( and Americans) are shit out of luck.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. rational thought is not something these people

are capable off

[VegasWolf]

24. yes, but it doesn't matter, their hands are tied. They don't have the

resources for another prolonged war.

[Selteri]

35. Like that would stop Chimpy?

For cripes sake, he's cut taxes
spent like a madman
not armed and armored our troops or commit the right amount of them
bothered to secure what they'd taken over when we invaded Iraq

Been stupid enough to put our country into a two front war already

Now, looking at these actions, does anyone actually think he's smart enough to consider reality.

[skooooo]

25. WIMP

[leesa]

28. Yup, the Chief Thug always says this before he drops his bombs. It's

the only form of diplomacy these Neanderthals understand

[leQ]

29. is he afraid? or is he jus passin this off to his bud ariel?

i really don't know what they're up to with iran. sometimes i think they want a war, and other times i think they're afraid of it.

is there even a coherent plan for iran?

[Alpharetta]

30. Ever the diplomat

He's a diplomatizer.

[Frederik]

37. Diplomatificating awfully now

[mmonk]

31. They probably will use the Mujahedin-e-Khalq

http://www.antiwar.com/bock/

[priller]

33. On Air America today, interview with Scott Ritter

He said, according to people he's spoken with inside the White House, Bush ordered the military to be ready for a prolonged bombing campaign against Iran by June of this year.

That's not to say it *will* happen, but he thinks it's likely.

He laid out the whole scenario of how it will come about, with all the lying and phoniness he expected from the Bushies.

Very frightening. These people are nuts. Seriously nuts.

[Frederik]

39. They're hoping for

a rerun of Serbia '99. Prolonged bombing campaign which leads to the Iranians giving up their nuclear programme, and later an "orange revolution" because the young people will see that all the propaganda they have been fed since childhood of America being the enemy was bogus. America just drops happy-bombs! Or something like that.

Which is completely nuts, yes. When they discover that bombing only has the effect of rallying the people around the mullahs in patritotism, and the mullahs won't give up their nuclear programme, then what will they do? Invade a country four times bigger than Iraq with three times its population and 20 times its military strength?

[Selteri]

34. Yet again the Chimp starts off saying the right thing before

he forgets it from his dry drunk and does the opposite or already has plans drawn up for another invation.

Get your draft cards ready kiddies, if you're under 40 Uncle Sam wants you! (To catch bullets)

[ngGale]

36. Chimp and Sharon are cooking up...

a joint plan together for Iran, IMO.

[sandnsea]

38. Di-ver-sion

Look over there, don't pay attention to the floundering government, increased insurgents and soldiers dying every day in Iraq.

[Swamp Rat]

40. Bush will go 'nukular' ... gotta use those new RNEPs.