Cheney: Iran seeks weapons-grade uranium enrichment

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

Cheney: Iran seeks weapons-grade uranium enrichment Tue Mar 25, 10:02 AM ET



WASHINGTON (AFP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday said Iran was developing a uranium enrichment program for military purposes.

"Obviously, they're ... heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels," Cheney said in an interview with ABC television transcribed by the White House.

Cheney, however, did not mention on what he based his accusation.

The United States and its European allies have led efforts to pressure Iran into freezing its disputed uranium enrichment work, a process that can be used both to make nuclear fuel and the core of an atomic bomb.

Tehran insists its program is peaceful.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080325/pl_afp/usirannuclearpolitics_080325140237

[DJ13]

1. Oh boy, here come the aluminum tubes and Niger yellowcake again....

:eyes:

[lutefisk]

3. I can't wait for Condi's WMD presentation at the UN. Is it scheduled, yet?n/t

[Betsy Ross]

5. Darn you.

Nearly poked a hole in my monitor trying to kill that flea!

[lutefisk]

7. What flea?

Oh, this one? I thought it was just trapped in my monitor...I guess it's reproducing:shrug:

:hi:

[Buns_of_Fire]

29. Think that's bad? I kept trying to wipe off the little flea poo at the upper left!

Then it would disappear and I'd think I got it. Then the little sucker would run up there and poop AGAIN.

I finally figured it out. As Amy says, fool me seven times, shame on you; fool me eight or more times... :dunce:

[Tempest]

21. Or are they going to ask Powell to sacrifice is good name again?

I wonder what his response would be.

[lutefisk]

25. I think they've pretty much used him up. Love to see them ask, though.n/t

[peacetalksforall]

20. They've got Michael Ledeen working again.

[Igel]

72. No need for either.

IR2 centrifuges are apparently home-grown and the Iranians can produce them themselves (although the IAEA apparently only found out about them when they were being put into use, after estimates of the possibility of weapons-grade U production being years in the future). I'm pretty sure they don't use Al tubes. There are concerns that they could cascade them, which apparently isn't a major challenge given the other hurdles the Iranians have claimed--and apparently succeeded in--overcoming.

Iran has U deposits of its own--that's part of the justification for pushing nuclear power, it would permit an Iranian version of juche, something that's a very common refrain among some jingoists--so there's no need to "seek" to obtain uranium in Africa, whether in Nigeria or other places.

The debate boils down to good will and trust.

Many point to the recent NIE as definitive--the weapons programs were suspended in 2003 (with rather less confidence in the judgment they haven't been restarted). However, accepting that evaluation entails accepting that they had weapons programs, something that many citing the recent NIE really want to deny.

[bullimiami]

2. SHUT UP, LIAR!

[brentspeak]

4. Haven't we heard this before?

[peacetalksforall]

22. He will be pickled pink if we fall for it again. I can just hear all his

references to gullible fools and stupid lemmings. Fool me once, fool me twice - "HAHAHAHAAHA man are they ever stupid!! "I wonder how I can get France to protest so that I can fire up that hate once more?" "We better skip over another Jessica incident." "Where should I have George go - no plastic turkeys, no megaphones, gotta think of something new."

[Cronopio]

28. It's getting to be like a very unfunny version of "Groundhog Day".

It's clear that Cheney doesn't expect anyone to believe his lies - just that we tolerate them.

[lark]

74. Deja Vu, all over again

:puke:

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Because I say so

The king has spoken, and therefore it's true.

[icymist]

8. Here we go people! Couldn't the Pentagon at least come up with something

that couldn't be seen through as much as this? The brain drain must be pretty bad.

[1monster]

18. Reminds me of that old (was it The Twilight Zone) plot where the wife is

attacked by some man or another. She is with her husband when she sees the guy who attacked her and goes totally batty. She gets her husband to kill the guy in order to give his wife some peace and security.

Then, just after he kills the guy, his wife sees another man with no resemblance to the first and states that HE is the man who attacked her.

The husband realizes that his wife is totally bonkers and that he has just killed an innocent man...

[Vanje]

50. Not a good comparison

Killing innocent men dosnt bother Dick Cheney, in the least.

[1monster]

73. Comparison to the man who killed the innocent man was to the people of the United

States, with Cheney being the absolutely insane one...

[wordpix]

59. hasn't it beome obvious to the sheeple that Cheney is INSANE along with his pal, Rummy?

I'm sure Rummy is giving CheneyInsaney some advice, as usual.

[Warpy]

9. Christ, not again!

I sincerely hope the past miserable 5 years have convinced people that Cheney is batshit crazy, running from nuclear bogeymen all over the place while the truly dangerous country, Pakistan, already has nukes with his blessing.

[Mountainman]

10. I really wish he wasn't in a position of power. He's dangerous.

He can fuck up the whole world. He's insane!

[Arctic Dave]

11. You can almost make out the wood in his pants when he says that.

Seriously though, this guy is all but pulled the trigger on the next debacle. What I don't understand is, what the fuck does the military think is going to happen. By calling in airstrikes they are going to do nothing more then get thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire. It's pretty obvious that Bush an Cheney doesn't give a rats ass about any of them. FRUSTRASTION AGHHHHHH!!!

[Dr.Phool]

12. I can't imagine where this is going.

Is it too late to impeach yet?

[bdamomma]

60. it is never too late to impeach

but our House of Reps. has to act on this, but again it's an election year, so for them it's the let's wait until we have a new president syndrome. Not going to help us this time.

[Marblehead]

13. with Fallon

gone he can say anything he wants now.

[Deny and Shred]

14. We all know the gist of what he says before reading the article.

Oh, Cheney spoke. Let me guess, all Americans should be fearful because (insert enemy group or nation here) is preparing to attack the U.S., and it will be devastating. Take my word for it.
The most recent NIE contradicted everything he said in this article. He's trying to discredit any intel that doesn't support his plans. And he's doing it, yet again, without providing a scintilla of proof.

[harun]

24. If they had even a smidge of proof the UN would be in

special session with them waving it all around. Iran isn't trying to enrich to weapons grade. They have no need for it at this time anyway. If they wanted to they would just pull out of the NPT and do it. They haven't gained anything by abiding by the NPT anyway, they just keep getting more sanctions.

[sce56]

15. Oh yeah now that he has told the Saudis to prepare for a nuclear attack across the gulf from them!

Now that Dick Cheney has left Saudi Arabia it comes out that an expert warned the Saudis of an imminent attack against Iran and to prepare for radioactive fallout! http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=96940

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3051350

Saudi Shura council to discuss plan for sudden radioactive hazards
Riyadh (dpa) - The Saudi Shura council will secretly discuss national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors, media reports said Saturday.
The Saudi-based King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology has prepared a proposal that encapsulates the probabilities of leaking nuclear and radiation hazards in case of any unexpected nuclear attacks in Iran, the Okaz Saudi newspaper said. The Saudi Shura or consultative council plans to debate the proposal on Sunday.

The power plants in the south-western Iranian port of Bushehr were built with German assistance in 1974 and resumed with Russian aid in 1992, after it had been stopped by the Islamic revolution. dpa str es pb


Source: dpa - International News Service in English

[blogslut]

16. Laid by a buzzard and hatched by the sun

Dick Cheney - Not of woman born.

[FREEWILL56]

17. Gee, in addition to this story we find bush looking for brains

and cheney looking for a heart. This movie has been done too many times.

[Parche]

19. Iran Away

[kimmylavin]

23. Its too bad this guy doesn't know any other songs.

Go away, Mr. Cheney.

[diane in sf]

26. Now we have the official excuse for bomb-bomb-bombing Iran--insane fools!

[burythehatchet]

27. Paging Judy Miller. You're needed at the front desk.

[librechik]

30. Oh shut up. You had your chance to exercise your opinions back in 04

when we stole the last election.

[happygoluckytoyou]

31. WE KNOW THEY ARE NORTH EAST SOUTH AND WEST OF SOMEWHERE

AND WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW BUT THAT WE DONT KNOW WHAT WE DONT KNOW, BUT WE MIGHT KNOW WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW...

WISH I WAS A DUMBFUCK REDNECK SO I COULD TAKE HEART THAT THIS MORON IS RUNNING THE SHIP

[ladywnch]

32. you gotta give 'em credit.........he's consistent!.......if not batshit crazy!!!!!

[ConcernedCanuk]

33. My response to Cheney - SOOO .. ?

.
.
.

It would take years for Iran to acquire even ONE nuke,

Israel has over 200

USA has 10,000 or more?

SOO . . . ?

What's the big deal?

[Maat]

39. You're not supposed to present the facts like that ...

you're un-American!

:sarcasm:

[Tight_rope]

62. I second that SOOOOOOOOOO?

[FreeStateDemocrat]

34. Remember on MTP when Dickwad said that Saddam had one or two operational nuclear weapons.

Why didn't the Democratic candidates in 2004 use that in the campaign? Kerry ran a horrible campaign.

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. Neo-Con-Man who cried Wolf!

What is dangerous about this administration is that if there ever really was an imminent threat, no one would believe them.

[MasonJar]

36. Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah, we are still waiting for

the discovery of the WMD and the mushroom cloud...and the next inauguration. Please, God, let it be a dem!!!!!!!!!

[sarcasmo]

37. These ASSHATS are hell bent on having their little Iran war before they leave office.

Get these lunatics out of the White House and make it quick.

[laylah]

38. Forgive me for not

reading the whole article. All I can ever respond with when I see/hear that POS's name is F*CK YOU Cheney, you low-life demon from Hell! :mad:

[magellan]

40. So? n/t

[Wednesdays]

41. What's the big deal, Snarl? We attacked Iraq 5 years ago...

and you were talking about the uranium back then too...so we went in and took over Baghdad and everything, remember? Why are you talking about all this again?

Oh wait...you said IRAN this time. My bad.

(These guys are becoming all too predictable now...just dust off and re-use all the same material they did 5 years ago. :puke:)

[Sinistrous]

42. We will know that the bombs will fly when Cheney, Gates, or some other

warmongering MF'er starts demanding that Iran prove beyong a shadow of a doubt that they do NOT have weapon-grade uranium.

Why the hell we did not jam that logical impossibility up Rumsfeld's ass when he started up with it vis a vis Iraq, I will never know.

Sinistrous

[fascisthunter]

43. OMG He is Using the Lie He Used for Iraq... the Man is Ironically Too Stupid

to realize how obvious his lies are. What a sociopath... he has no judgment at all... no moral compass for him to know the difference between his lying and the damn truth.

[Doctor_J]

44. When can we expect to see him in hand cuffs?

Nancy? Hello?

[Solly Mack]

45. What year is this?

[bdamomma]

63. well again, they play the same ole hand thinking that

short attention span Americans have forgotton how we illegally went into Iraq, now, don't we find this to be very insulting and degrading to all of us, Cheney's deep disdain for all humanity. Can we bring back tar and feathered concept again.

[Solly Mack]

69. It worked for them before...it's not as if they've been held accountable

and they'll do it as long as no one stops them....and no one is stopping them.

[and-justice-for-all]

46. "Iran seeks weapons-grade uranium enrichment" blah blah blah

Ok, really? You would think that they would at least come up with some new bullshit story. Instead, Darth Vader and his evil empire rehash the same shit story from their Illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

[goforit]

47. Here we go again............Total destruction by his fingerprints.

[Cass]

48. Man, they have a set of brass ones.

No shame whatsoever. Here we go again.

[lligrd]

49. Not A Surprise. The Asshole Will Do His Best To Attack Iran

before (and if) he ever leaves office.

[roamer65]

51. Gee...Where have we heard this stupid SHIT before?

Watch "Bush's War" and we hear it right from the bowels of this infernal demon on Iraq. All LIES.

[struggle4progress]

52. Be sure to pronounce "Big Time" Dick CHEE-knee's name correctly:

soʊsiəˌpæθ

[stubtoe]

68. I prefer "Darth" or Biggus Dickus myself.

Or Master of Disaster.

[NoodleyAppendage]

53. At what point in this revision of MADNESS does the US citizenry RISE UP AND ARREST THIS WAR CRIMINAL

Seriously. When do we say "enough is enough" and hold this asshole, traitorous, war criminal accountable?

J

[wordpix]

58. our consumer nation is more interested in the price of cheap Chinese doodads. Baaaahhh!

[bdamomma]

64. I would love to see the American people shock and awe this

administration, really, this is enough.

[formercia]

54. What, no weapons grade Uranium from Niger?

C'mon, Dick. Your shit is weak.

[thecrow]

55. "Cheney, however, did not mention on what he based his accusation."

Ummm..... his senility?

[wordpix]

65. is the Office of Special Secret Plans still operating in the Pentagon? I'm sure they can cook up

some new bullshit for the American sheeple to swallow.

[lark]

75. On what is he basing his accusations?

His over-riding principal of owning/controlling the majority of the oil in the mideast? Or is it his desire to destroy America's economy and drive us back to feudal days, with him and his ilk as the Lords and the rest of us as serfs?

[bdamomma]

56. when will all of this stop? Cheney is the key player in all of this.

he is an arrogant and ignorant evil man, who needs to be impeached. He will keep on pushing for this, until we push back.

[wordpix]

57. another war in Iran? So?

:nuke:

[Tight_rope]

61. Oh oh...the Boy is crying wolf again...

[auburngrad82]

66. Yellow cake uranium from Nigeria?

Haven't we heard that before?

[Tight_rope]

67. LOL...yeah this time it will be for Nigeria..n/t

[cyberpj]

70. Another article (here) gives a little more on how the allegation contradicts international findings:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3243415

[Grateful for Hope]

71. Where have we heard THIS before?

Cheney proves again and again that he has no respect for our intelligence.

[GeorgeGist]

76. Obviously Cheney ...

is still bat-shit crazy.