Israel's Olmert under fire over nuclear remarks

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert triggered a domestic firestorm on Tuesday after publicly implying, in an apparent reversal of a decades-old secrecy policy, that
Israel has the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal.
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Leading opposition lawmakers accused Olmert, whose popularity was already hard-hit by the recent Lebanon war, of incompetence and of undermining Israel's campaign for Western nations to curb the atomic ambitions of its arch-foe,
Iran.

Olmert said on Tuesday at a joint news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East."

"That is our position and nothing about our position has changed," he added.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061212/ts_nm/israel_nuclear_reaction_dc

[mike_c]

1. WTF? When a head of state tells a bald-faced transparent lie...

...how can the world ever trust his statements on other topics?

[xultar]

2. No one in the M.E. can be trusted with nukes. US shouldn't be trusted either.

[maddezmom]

3. locking

Earlier LBN discussion was moved here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x158925