Poll: Iran and nuclear capability.

[Balbus]

Just interested to find out how far you would be willing to go to dissuade Iran from pursuing their goal of nuclear capability. Notice I didn't say weapons, because Iran hasn't said weapons - they're maintaining that they're trying to achieve nuclear capability for peaceful purposes only.

We all know what the current admin would do - they've pretty much set their own precedence. But if you were in charge, and all requests for Iran to cease and desist this course of action were rebuffed, how far would you be willing to push the envelope.

I know it's a rather simplistic poll, and if you have a course that's not listed I'd be very interested in hearing it.

My choice would be #5 - I believe them and think if they are lying and want "the bomb" then they're still only a threat to their local area and a limited threat at that.

[VelmaD]

1. I don't think we currently have ANY...

trade of diplomatic relations with Iran...havne't since the hostage crisis. :shrug:

I vote for it's none of our damn business...we have no moral authority to tell other countried not to build nukes since we still have so damn many.

[MADem]

3. Halliburton has done business with them

They only decided not to bid on new contracts LAST YEAR. Here's the hypocrisy in all its' glory:

Halliburton Co., the world's largest oil-field services company, has pledged not to seek new work in Iran, a country accused by the State Department of state-sponsored terrorism, said New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, a steward of pension funds holding company stock worth about $42 million.

Halliburton's vice president and corporate counsel, Margaret E. Carriere, wrote in a letter faxed to Thompson's office from the company's Houston headquarters yesterday, "Halliburton will take appropriate corporate action to cause its subsidiaries to not bid for any new work in Iran," while continuing on work previously undertaken.

The company -- whose chief executive from 1995 until August 2000 was Vice President Cheney -- used an offshore subsidiary to skirt U.S. law and conduct business in Iran, Thompson said. The comptroller had used the city's pension fund holdings in Halliburton stock to pursue a shareholders' resolution demanding the company get out of Iran.

"Over the last two years, the New York City Pension Funds have aggressively targeted five companies that have used loopholes in the law to conduct business with terrorist-sponsoring nations," Thompson said in a statement. "I am hopeful that Halliburton's decision will prompt other companies to thoroughly examine their relationships with nations that sponsor terrorism." ...

More at link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64660-2005Mar24.html

Follow the money....

[sojourner]

2. OK...who voted to NUKE 'EM?

[Vincardog]

4. Iran has said it does not want a bomb. They have offered to have a western

country co-operate and ensure that no material went to bomb making. The US and Bolton turned them down, aWoL Wants to bring on the end times. He is INSANE. Why do we have to rush when at worst they are TEN YEARS away from having a bomb even though they say they do not want one? Because
aWoL said
"I have to do it because my successors probably will not."

[MercutioATC]

5. Other:

Encourage diplomatic relations and trade agreements with Iran while encouraging China to put pressure on them to buy reactor fuel rather than enriching it themselves.

[guinivere]

6. Nothing. We have no business telling

other nations what to do. We wouldn't like it if others were telling us what we can or cannot do.