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| 2004-09-01 |
| IN AN INTERVIEW with the Washington Post published yesterday, Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards promised that a Kerry administration would offer a "grand bargain" to the totalitarian theocracy in Iran. This "grand bargain" would allow the Islamic state to keep its nuclear power plants in exchange for a promise to give up the kind of nuclear fuel used to make bombs. This is a dangerous proposal and should receive close scrutiny. First, the Kerry team has apparently learned nothing from the disastrous deal the Clinton administration made with North Korea back in the 1990s. Edwards's proposal for a "grand bargain" with Iran is almost identical to the Clinton administration's 1994 Agreed Framework deal. In that earlier "bargain," North Korea promised to halt work on nuclear weapons in return for American assistance with "peaceful" nuclear programs. We now know that the North Korean government lied all along and used the agreement to proceed with its nuclear weapons programs. But the Kerry team is undeterred by this record of failure. In fact, Edwards's proposal is of a piece with Kerry's generally soft approach to dangerous regimes like the one in Teheran. Back in March, Kerry told the Council on Foreign Relations that he wanted to carry out a "non-confrontational" policy toward Iran that emphasizes areas of "mutual interest." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 My mother! Are you crazy? Never! You are a cheapskjaters! Okay, the rug and mom for the price on the rug? Yes! We have a piece! |
| Posted by: Abu Nuclear Man 2004-09-01 6:59:43 PM |
| #4 Of course! We are very willing to talk, drink tea and perhaps find a way! Yes! The U=238 is untouchable but of course let me show you some used yellowcake! We can all make find our goals and we can all make money, we are a happy and gracious peoples, no, not the U-238, or let me be bold, not at that price, alll things are be priced. |
| Posted by: Abu Nuclear Man 2004-09-01 6:57:22 PM |
| #3 No, of course not; he just assumes WE are stupid enough to believe them. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-09-01 6:21:20 PM |
| #2 What kind of a lawyer is this? He believes in PROMISES? |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-09-01 5:50:34 PM |
| #1 John Edwards, Neville Chamberlain's bastard grandson. Just freakin' great... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-09-01 5:46:10 PM |