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With North Korea, Iran Talks Faltering, Bush Is Poised to Leave Behind Two Nuclear Challenges

Last-ditch diplomacy might not prevent the next president from facing two new active nuclear foes

Posted October 2, 2008

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Israel will strike Iran and U.S will provide support.

This is what I believe would happen in the remaining weeks of Bush's term in office.

1. Few weeks before the US election Israel will strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

2. Bush will have no choice but to defend Israel from Iran.

3. McCain takes lead over Obama in the polls.

4. Americans will forget about the state of the economy and vote McCain as President to deal with this mess.

That’s the only way McCain can win in November.

Israel will decide time & place

when and if a military option is used and there will be little President Obama will be able to do when the time comes. If you review Iran's statements over the past 2-3 years, you will see a country full committed to meeting whatever ends it seeks and there is no diplomacy in the world that will stop them from acquiring the bomb if that's what they seek. In time, it will be shown that the only option besides containment will be a limited military strike, which will only slow down but not stop Iran's nuclear program. The question is by how much and then to what extent will they strike back against Iran, the US and the west in general.

Bush made himself and his family tremendously more wealthy. He never handles a problem, just like when he was AWOL from the Guard, the Guard from which he would never see battle. Bush doesn't care. He will leave all the problems for John McCain to clean up. And I do trust McCain much more than Obama or Biden. Obama and Bush are just alike. Neither willing to really fight. Biden and Cheney are just alike, too. They had so many deferments I lost count.

McCain and Obama:Iran, USA and Nuclear Dilemma:

There are solutions to the dilemma of nuclear fuel for Iran unless we are just playing politics. The solutions demand the International cooperation mostly from the USA.

Israel has nuclear bomb, Iran does not. Should Iran acquire nuclear bomb to balance the threat from Israel?

No. It would be insanity to acquire it. Then we must demand that Israel should eliminate her nuclear bomb.

Solution: make the Middle East free of nuclear bomb.

Should Iran continue to develop her nuclear fuel cycle for generation of electricity? Yes. The alternative options will increase the Iranian dependence on other nations. The recent problems of Iran to acquire fuel from Russia for the Bushehr nuclear power station prove my argument.

The first option would be the best model for the rest of the world. It should have been adopted as the standard operating procedure for all enrichment activities shortly after USA had developed and tested the first nuclear bomb. But, in contrast to the suggestion of many nuclear scientists, President Truman demanded that USA had to control the future world by being the sole owner and the operator of the nuclear enrichment system.

If we don't want Iran to have any nuclear fuel cycle, then nuclear fuel enrichment facility in Iran could be placed under the control of IAEA for production and distribution, and waste disposal, or accept the Iranian concept of nuclear fuel consortium.

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