Financial interests blocking Iran pressure (Bush: "money trumps peace sometimes")

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070214-122330-7503r/

Financial interests blocking Iran pressure

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush Wednesday admitted business interests may stand in the way of negotiations with Iran over its uranium enrichment program.

Bush told a White House news conference the challenge is to convince nations "what really matters in the long run is to have the environment so peace can flourish."

Bush said he would not finger any countries in particular, but "money trumps peace sometimes. In other words, commercial interests are very powerful interests throughout the world. And part of the issue is convincing people to put sanctions on a specific country is to convince them that it's in the world's interest that they forgo their own financial interests."

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Can someone interpret?

Because it sounds like he's saying, "Hey, I don't want to bomb Iran--the business community is making me do it!"

[daleo]

2. I read it the other way (but I might be wrong)

"Hey, I want to bomb Iran, but business interests in other countries are not keen on the idea."

[bemildred]

3. In other words, Iran has more economic clout than we do.

Thanks a lot, George.
:puke:

[madrchsod]

5. no- he`s over stepped his bounds

the iraqi war failed and they are pissed. the saudi`s are pissed because he stiff them on lebanon,and southasia/china needs iranian natural gas supplies. he`s screwed to many things up and he`s no longer useful to their needs

[madrchsod]

4. one of the few things he has ever said that was true

could it be he realizes that he can not do anything about iran because the people who placed him there are getting nervous about him starting a world wide depression?

[maddezmom]

6. probably the only time he's told the truth in decades

K&R

[denverbill]

7. So he's saying 'Money trumps war'.

The same reason Communist China and Vietnam are our friends, and Communist Cuba is not.

If businesses were allowed to trade with Cuba, Cuba would be our buddy too.

God the doublespeak these guys use is just unbelievable.

[gratuitous]

8. Money has certainly trumped peace since 2002

What I don't quite understand is why George seems to think that going to war is equivalent to peace. There's at least one misfiring synapse in that coke-addled brain of his.

[Toots]

12. Since 2002???

How much do you know about the Bush family? or the Republicans for that matter. They have been War Profiteers since before the Alamo.....War is good business is not a new saying at all.

[htuttle]

9. He keeps using that word - 'peace'

I do not think it means what he thinks it means...

[apnu]

10. inconceivable! (n/t)

[MNWild]

11. Now that the truth has begun to trickle from his lips,

can the whole truth be far behind? "Money trumps everything else" is the true motto of these empty shallow people. We would not be in Iraq if there weren't money to be made (redirected?) there. There is no money to be made in North Korea, therefore we will negotiate, albeit kicking and screaming all the way to the table. I wonder if this is an indication that China and Russia are letting it be known that they will not tolerate any further Bushocon adventures in the Middle East.