Bush Says Iran Must Go Beyond Nuclear Suspension

[Khephra]

OTTAWA (Reuters) - President Bush on Tuesday welcomed a decision by Iran to freeze sensitive nuclear activities but said that was not the final step and the Islamic republic needed to go further to show its commitment to abandoning nuclear weapons ambitions.

"The Iranians agreed to suspend but not terminate their nuclear weapons program. Our position is that they ought to terminate their nuclear weapons program," Bush said during a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

In his first public comments on Iran since the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on Monday passed a resolution approving Iran's week-old suspension of sensitive nuclear activities, Bush said Iran had "obviously got more work to do."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6957849

[jpak]

1. i.e., terminate it now - or we will terminate it for you...

Perhaps the Good Mullahs can call on the Chimp to terminate all HIS nuclear fuel cycle and weapons activities...

[mdhunter]

2. Mdhunter Says Bush Must Go Beyond Double Standards

"The Iranians agreed to suspend but not terminate their nuclear weapons program. Our position is that they ought to terminate their nuclear weapons program."

Yeah, well my opinion is that you ought to terminate your Presidency and report to the nearest jail. Unfortunately my opinion doesn't carry a lot of weight in the matter. Anyway, I grow tired of Bush, or any U.S. President really, moralizing and preaching about what other states should or should not do with nuclear weapons or power. Set the example, give yours up, then talk - anything less is unsatisfactory.

[maddezmom]

3. and Iran laughs..Iran Boasts of Victory Over U.S. on Nuclear Case

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran boasted on Tuesday it had defeated U.S. efforts to send its nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council while warning that its uranium enrichment freeze would only last for a few months.



"The Americans have been calling for Iran to be reported to the Security Council for a year and a half, now the whole world has turned down America's calls," Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani told a news conference.


"Despite the U.S. propaganda Iran has not relinquished its right to the (nuclear) fuel cycle and it never will do," said the cleric, who is secretary-general of Iran's top security body, the Supreme National Security Council.


His comments appeared to undermine European Union (news - web sites) efforts to persuade Tehran to permanently mothball enrichment facilities -- which can be used to make atomic reactor fuel or nuclear bombs -- and were likely to fuel U.S. concerns that Iran secretly plans to produce nuclear

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041130/wl_nm/nuclear_iran_dc

[VegasWolf]

4. Who does bush think he is? France, Germany and Russia will

fight him at the UN. Bush doesn't have enough military
strength to go it alone. Give it up bush, its not like
you are president of china.

[daleo]

5. Moving the goalposts

Eventually he wants the goalposts to be in downtown Tehran, with U.S. marines spiking the football.

[LynnTheDem]

7. Great minds post alike!

Glad it isn't just me seeing them posts moving. Again.

[daleo]

9. Just as you say

About the posts and the minds.

[LynnTheDem]

6. Deja vu again; moving the goal posts.

Next up; making Iran prove a negative.

Combined with; crank up the "poor Iranian women & children" rhetoric.

Followed by; WMD!!! MUSHROOM CLOUDS!!! There is NO DOUBT. We KNOW where they are!

And then; O.I.L.

[Endangered Specie]

8. Rule number one for countries not liked by the US:

get nukes now, then they won't bother you; otherwise, youre toast.

rule 2: sell your oil to them, or get rid of it.

[leesa]

10. We are forcing all these countries to be defenseless and then we go in

and slaughter them. What kind of people have Americans become?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

11. So why are WE allowed to have nukes

but no one else?

Well I'm sure we allow Israel to have nukes. And a few other countries.

But doesn't it seem hypocritical to say "YOU can't have nukes, but we can?"