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Forget War With Iran

That's the main implication of the startling new intelligence estimate that Tehran isn't working on a bomb. But the long-term impact is just as significant. A look at the winners and losers.

By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Dec 4, 2007 | Updated: 4:34  p.m. ET Dec 4, 2007

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  • Posted By: howdy @ 12/16/2007 2:12:53 AM

    Comment: Iran wants what Canada and Japan have. A full working civilian nuke plant/cycle that can be turned into weapons with 6 months preparation. With the US republicans pushing for an attack, Iran wants the only thing that can stop em, the ability to create a nuke quickly. The Republicans are in a bind. The party has only 2 things going for it, tax cuts and killing people (strong on defense). The current trends show the next Republican candidate to do about as well as Mondale. 50% Democrat 35% Republican. The only way to 'fix' the election is to have a war. Isreal must attack. They have total loyalty from the US with Bush in the white house. Isreal can't take the chance of being left out in the cold for 8 years with the Dems in power. 8 years would be plenty of time for Iran to get an arsenal of nukes. Republicans and Isreal are in agreement, the killing must commence. All the NIE did was to concentrate the minds of those in power and create a sense of urgency. War more certain than ever.

  • Posted By: littlefoot @ 12/13/2007 5:12:18 AM

    Comment: I believe you are right about bush, But i am more upset at the way they run the U.S.border i am a canadain native and can trace my family back more then two hundred yearsin canada i have know police record and sereived in the army, i have been to the usa on several visits. Now i go to the border they want my prints, they say i am a foreigner. my family ansisters came from the usa to canada many years ago, so i think the usa should check the people from other countries instead of their closes allies thankyou

  • Posted By: votenic @ 12/12/2007 6:05:09 PM

    Comment: 2008 Presidential Election Weekly Poll

  • Posted By: psysword @ 12/10/2007 8:00:45 PM

    Comment: r.i,p

  • Posted By: nong @ 12/09/2007 9:42:59 PM

    Comment: the president Bush and Iran.Name it is fearful war really. It is most of the disaster. It causes the waste builds the world.Every country, such as The United States of America ,Iran,Israel,or,the other,must help each other repair seek.Must seek the way better the war.Nobody wantsto seethe world war timethat3 certainly.I do not likethe war too.And i want to give the worldwide Joins hands,in war fightseriously.For everybody has will the happiness.And I want to give Iran can take care of oneself.And have no nuclear in Iran happen.Iran has good administration,and self-confident,and be free.

  • Posted By: nong @ 12/09/2007 9:37:55 PM

    Comment: the president Bush and Iran.Name it is fearful war really. It is most of the disaster. It causes the waste builds the world.Every country, such as The United States of America ,Iran,Israel,or,the other,must help each other repair seek.Must seek the way better the war.Nobody wantsto seethe world war timethat3 certainly.I do not likethe war too.And i want to give the worldwide Joins hands,in war fightseriously.For everybody has will the happiness.And I want to give Iran can take care of oneself.And have no nuclear in Iran happen.Iran has good administration,and self-confident,and be free.

  • Posted By: nong @ 12/09/2007 9:32:53 PM

    Comment: the president Bush and Iran.Name it is fearful war really. It is most of the disaster. It causes the waste builds the world.Every country, such as The United States of America ,Iran,Israel,or,the other,must help each other repair seek.Must seek the way better the war.Nobody wantsto seethe world war timethat3 certainly.I do not likethe war too.And i want to give the worldwide Joins hands,in war fightseriously.For everybody has will the happiness.And I want to give Iran can take care of oneself.And have no nuclear in Iran happen.Iran has good administration,and self-confident,and be free.

  • Posted By: nong @ 12/09/2007 9:31:24 PM

    Comment: the president Bush and Iran.Name it is fearful war really. It is most of the disaster. It causes the waste builds the world.Every country, such as The United States of America ,Iran,Israel,or,the other,must help each other repair seek.Must seek the way better the war.Nobody wantsto seethe world war timethat3 certainly.I do not likethe war too.And i want to give the worldwide Joins hands,in war fightseriously.For everybody has will the happiness.And I want to give Iran can take care of oneself.And have no nuclear in Iran happen.Iran has good administration,and self-confident,and be free.

  • Posted By: muckraker @ 12/08/2007 10:06:10 PM

    Comment: schizoid paranoid describes observer101. Wack job too! I bet he lays awake every night holding his co*k in one hand and a semi automatic in the other trembling that Bush's bogeymen will blow down his door.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 22:19:51

      Comment: moderately retarded describes you...I assume you were molested by the "friendly" man that gave you candy because you were so trusting and naive. Just like now...please join some peace corp and take your Caring ass over to the peace loving militants...Im sure they will have candy for you too.

  • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 9:26:51 PM

    Comment: There are no solutions when dealing with fanatical elements. They have one thing one there mind...To be great in the eyes of there people. And what better way than to take on a super power, either covertly or openly. They dont care whether we are understanding, loving, or compationate for there cause. If any fanatical elements had any one of you poor foolish dreamers in there gun sights they would kill you in a heart beat. And parade your body around there dirt hutted towns and smack you with there sandals in a sign of disrespect and to offend us all. I dont know what care bear cartoons you were watching when they put this stuff on various news channels, but you need to wake up.

  • Posted By: freedom1st @ 12/07/2007 8:09:24 AM

    Comment: Ok, let's take a look at this mess, openly and honestly. How is it that in 2003, 2005, and just this past July ( congressional hearing ) that Finger and others went on record as saying Iran was indeed a high threat to develop a nuclear arsenal. So, how is it that during those reports etc.. in 2003, 2005 and this year they missed this information, whatever or wherever they obtain it from? Sorry, this doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling that all is good and we can trust them, Iran. Of all the pointless investigations that were caried out to try and corner and discredit this President, this is the one that has treason, mutiny written all over it. We as a nation can not afford to get this wrong!!! The Russians, not to be trusted, ever, a noble peace prize winning head of the Internation Atomic Energy commission?? Hello, we as a free society are being set up, and need to wake up!!!

    • Posted By: hmmm5 @ 12/08/2007 06:15:01

      Comment: "we are being set up"? Stop living in fear all the time. Iran has all the right in the world to have a peaceful nuclear program. Your country have so many nukes and actually used the bomb on two cities. U really think Iran even if they had a bomb, would use it on Israel or USA? They are not stupid nor crazy. Such an action would only give an exuse to Israel and USA to make Iran a smoky hellhole. To stabalize the rigion, they need it. Just like Pakistan and India use to threaten each other with nukes but never really had the guts to use it. Israel is the only country in the middle east with nukes, u need to have a balance. Either take nukes away from Israel or let Iran have one.

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 22:14:14

        Comment: you are right hmmmm5. The peace loving Iranian fanatics only want peaceful nuclear energy. Golly..they only have billions worth in oil. They have no use for oil. Geewhiz...I remember the peace loving fanatical Iranians, kidknapping , torturing, and holding hostages (U.S.) for over a year. They must have been giving a hardy helping of peace to the hostages that whole time. ;) They want nukes as a reason to hold other mid east nations hostage. The only difference with India, Pakistan, having nukes is that they know they consequences of using them. The Iranian fanatics just want to USE it to make there points regardless of who it kills. Mark my words Iran will get nukes and they will get way out of control.

        • Posted By: hmmm5 @ 12/09/2007 06:19:50

          Comment: Observer101 - you are a typical coward neo con I would readily spit on if I ever come across one. They held those people hostage because of America's meddling in their country. If I keep intervening in your bussiness, wou;dn't you get pissed. I am not saying what they did was right but do I know why they did it.? You BET! Your goverment installed the Shah, a dictator and when people get anfry, that's what they do. Shame on you, you cowardly little brat.

          • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/15/2007 21:32:06

            Comment: Ofcourse you would spit on me...and put me on al jezeera and have a little child chop my head off while you and another brave "man" with a hood and ak-47 stand on either side of me and recite pshyco babble in the backround to all the other thugs about how they should blow up churches and rape then kill nuns in the name of allah. Badd Badd American I am. You and all the other clowns you want to represent will fall. So just keep following your fanatical clerics straight to the grave.

  • Posted By: wonderfulend @ 12/07/2007 4:50:22 AM

    Comment: to iluvsnoridin: that's why everybody should start to think about alternative power already available from a long time and not at the oil or gas we get from them for our cars. Do u care about your children? Forget about fossil power. Be part of this earth still rescueable. Maybe.

  • Posted By: wearearepublic @ 12/06/2007 9:18:34 PM

    Comment: That comment is for Loadestone....

  • Posted By: ghostcommander @ 12/06/2007 7:29:11 PM

    Comment: II think the intelligence agencies realized that we are not playing monopoly and the game was for real. In the recent past they have made supportive statements for the Bush/Cheney mis-administration but realized, for the good of the country, that could/would not continue. Lies do not build anything, lies destroy everything.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/06/2007 6:03:12 PM

    Comment: fvmaster-good comment;
    Paul Lookup-excellent commentary. You are on the solutions path and you provided facts, right or wrong this is how people have to start thinking. HOW CAN WE SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS OR WHAT STEPS CAN WE TAKE TO BEGIN AND AT LEAST TRY AND SOLVE THESE PRoblems. We have to MOVE FORWARD because the powers of divisiveness want us to sit here and argue about the past. We must learn from the past and unite people by providing solutions.

  • Posted By: Adsads63 @ 12/06/2007 4:32:18 PM

    Comment: Comment: All of you liberal "turn our country into europe before world war II people"....Wake up and smell your starbucks coffee.... Islamic Facism is real; and will someday turn our children's perfect world into ashes; while you sit around and debate over whether they really mean it....

  • Posted By: OGWhatasnozzle @ 12/06/2007 4:25:11 PM

    Comment: I'm sorry to be blunt, but we have to face the fact that Bush and his cronies are simply irresponsible liars. They've killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of Americans, for no truthful reason, and the monumental Bush lie about Katrina was refuted by videotape. Now Iraq. If you believe or respect Bush, you are stupid or ignorant. There are no other logical possibilities.

    • Posted By: learybe @ 12/06/2007 16:54:27

      Comment: I am nither stupid or ignorant. If the left wing of this country wanted us out of Iraq they would have gotten us out. Isn't that the reason that there was a big turnover in congress and the senate. All of these promises to get us out of Iraq have come and gone. Why haven't they voted to cut funding, because they know that deep down inside they are doing the right thing. Let's back off the name calling as well, that is no way to solve a problem. Just because I believe one thing and you another an immature name calling session is not in order. As far as Katrina. Are you serious. Let's look at the local and state government and how much they failed these people. Remember, they had the federal funding to fix the levees and they squandered it on casinos and other ridiculous pork projects. The President did what he could.

      • Posted By: Paul Lookman @ 12/06/2007 17:37:40

        Comment: The writer is blunt, but can not be blamed for name calling. He nor anybody else has called you stupid or ignorant. From whatever side of the political spectrum, one must face realities. A failed war in Iraq, another in Afghanistan, and the US on the verge of a third war with Iran. I am not overly proud of the opposition of the Democrats, but that in itself is no reason for the Bush administration to continue an illegal war in Iraq and threaten to wage war with Iran. Did I hear a plea from you about good old diplomacy? A plea to abolish all nuclear weapons?

  • Posted By: jsm1224 @ 12/06/2007 3:50:21 PM

    Comment: I can't help but think back to the first few weeks / months after 9/11. At that time, everyone in America wanted to go into Iraq with full military force as revenge against a dictatorship most every American felt was responsible for this unprovoked attack against civilians merely working to make a living. I thought at the time: "does America have the strenght to go forward with Military action and are we prepared to suffer the consequences of those actions?" Or, with this be another Viet Nam? Did anyone believe we could go forward, as most wanted, and not suffer more casualities, more spending and more debates on what is right or wrong? Should be just up and leave Iraq? Then those valiant military men and women that gave their lives would all be in vain. THAT would be the tragedy! That would be the sin America woild commet. As for Iran, does anyone belive if America turns a blind eye to all those that wish America evil, then all would be forgiven? No, that will not happen. We would only be letting our guard down for another tragedy far worse than 9/11. It is my opinion there will never be peace in America again. Far too many countries wish us ill and would be dancing in the streets (as they did after 9/11) if there was another attack on us. DIctators worse than Sadam Hussain would rise to power and one of those just may decide to use the ultimate weapon of mass destruction against us. And not only would America suffer, the WORLD would suffer. Whether or not I believe in Presedent Bush or not is not the question. He is our President and should be treated with that respect. After all, he cannot possibly read all of the reports which come to his office. He has people to sort out and report on everything to him. My stance is with our military. They deserve our support and thanks for the job they are doing. Their blood is being shed for what "America Wanted After 9/11!!!

    • Posted By: Paul Lookman @ 12/06/2007 17:21:24

      Comment: I sympathise with your concerns. However, Iraq was not behind 9/11, so why did the US attack it? Why does it stay there? If you say: ?????? military men and women that gave their lives would all be in vain???, is that in itself a reason to stay occupying a foreign country? Nobody blames the military. I agree they deserve our sympathy and support. But they do not make the decisions. It is the politicians who sent them into an illegal war. Politicians who were on the verge of sending the military into yet another war, that with Iran. Have you wondered why so many nations feel uncomfortable about the US? Can you imagine a self-respecting country will accept to be bullied? Will you, by your neighbour? Have you looked at the trade agreements the US pushes through the throats of developing countries? About the 70% rise in the "defence" spending of the US under Bush? The budget surplus of 2.4 percent of GDP which greeted Bush as he took office, having turned into a deficit of 3.6 percent in the space of four years? President Bush deserves our respect, if he tells the truth. But we have every right to hold him to account. Do you seriously believe he was unaware about they key message of ???the report???? Finally, to address your concerns over ???use the ultimate weapon of mass destruction against us???: will the US take the lead to abolish all nuclear weapons from the world? Including its own?

  • Posted By: Paul Lookman @ 12/06/2007 3:43:48 PM

    Comment: Why is everyone focusing so much on Iran, if the real discussion should be to abolish all nuclear arms? During the Cold War, the bomb did have a function: deterrence. The two powers kept each other in balance. But the world has changed. Anybody can acquire nuclear weapons. A terrorist group could get its hands on the technology, or even on a ready-made bomb. A threat that the atomic scientists of the Manhattan Project, who made the first bomb, already realised way back in 1945. Hence their proposal to ban nuclear weapons altogether, the so-called Lillienthal-Acheson Plan. What they feared then now becomes reality: North Korea is a nuclear power, and India, and a very unstable Pakistan.



    Will the US take the lead to abolish all nuclear weapons from the world? Including its own?



    Is abolishion an illusion? I don???t think so. If the major nuclear powers US, China and Russia, all permanent members of the UN Security Council, offer a step by step dismantlement of their arsenals in exchange for a moratorium on proliferation, they will surely find allies in the 180 countries which have already signed the Nonproliferation Treaty. With such a united show of good will, how can countries like Iran, Pakistan, India, North Korea and ??? Israel insist on keeping their arsenals?

  • Posted By: Paul Lookman @ 12/06/2007 3:42:35 PM

    Comment: Why is everyone focusing so much on Iran, if the real discussion should be to abolish all nuclear arms? During the Cold War, the bomb did have a function: deterrence. The two powers kept each other in balance. But the world has changed. Anybody can acquire nuclear weapons. A terrorist group could get its hands on the technology, or even on a ready-made bomb. A threat that the atomic scientists of the Manhattan Project, who made the first bomb, already realised way back in 1945. Hence their proposal to ban nuclear weapons altogether, the so-called Lillienthal-Acheson Plan. What they feared then now becomes reality: North Korea is a nuclear power, and India, and a very unstable Pakistan.



    Will the US take the lead to abolish all nuclear weapons from the world? Including its own?



    Is abolishion an illusion? I don???t think so. If the major nuclear powers US, China and Russia, all permanent members of the UN Security Council, offer a step by step dismantlement of their arsenals in exchange for a moratorium on proliferation, they will surely find allies in the 180 countries which have already signed the Nonproliferation Treaty. With such a united show of good will, how can countries like Iran, Pakistan, India, North Korea and ??? Israel insist on keeping their arsenals?

  • Posted By: learybe @ 12/06/2007 3:41:54 PM

    Comment: To all of you Bush lied to us crowd, why do we never hear the mention of of Bill Clinton's administration and their faulty intelligence. That's where all of this intel came from. There is no conspiracy, there is just the Clinton's and they will ruin this world and this country.together. Come on people this has probably been the toughest two terms for any one president. and if I remember correctly at ground zero after 9/11 he stood on that pile of rubble and said you are either with us or against us and everybody cheered. That is the same president we are talking about. correct. It is pretty sad that all Democrats saw this president as becoming to popular and turned it into a political battlefield to destroy him over party lines. God bless our President.

    • Posted By: hmmm5 @ 12/08/2007 06:32:24

      Comment: Billy is gone. U r another example of brainwashed fox news watching loyal bushie. I hope the president gets impeached. GOD Bless America.

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 21:37:39

        Comment: I figure hmmmm5 visits porn shops and practices adultry in your spare time. Clinton is blatantly a liar.." i did not have sexual relations with that woman" I suspect that you are a Clinton supporter and you are still sour that he was impeached...and Bush wasnt. What exactly did Bush blatantly lie about that deserves impeachment?

  • Posted By: Scharfuhrer @ 12/06/2007 3:27:11 PM

    Comment: The USA needs to go in there like the good ol Waffen SS boys and liquidate that dump of a country. Just like Cracow Poland and call it a day.

  • Posted By: Scharfuhrer @ 12/06/2007 3:15:34 PM

    Comment: The USA needs to go in there like the good ol Waffen SS boys and liquidate that dump of a country just like Cracow in the 40's and call it a day.

  • Posted By: Chaotician @ 12/06/2007 10:04:23 AM

    Comment: I believe it is ludicrous to suggest that The George would ever do something as sensible as provide truthful information to the American people willingly! This is a lying scumbag who only uses information for personal gain or vindictive slander of ???enemies???. The credibility of this ???evil???, lying regime is nonexistent, so it is a simple lie that The George would release truth to avoid the impression that his gang of thieves was hiding the truth; we assume that as the baseline for all of Orwellian Doublespeak dribbling into the Fox un-news networks!

    No, we can hope that this is finally the start of a rebellion to oust this junta of corrupt narrow-minded Corporate Facistmos who have deliberately and treasonously shredded the Constitution and the rule of law, wrecked the treasury and our economy, destroyed our ???troops??? and created private militias(mercenary contractors) under the direct employ and control of the junta, created a separate judiciary and detention gulags for the juntas scapegoats and political prisoners, allowed the junta to have absolute and unfettered right to declare any person in or out of the US as a ???enemy combatant??? which stripes that person of all rights including telling his lawyer, his wife, or any other person that he has even been charged, and turned the government into an ATM to dispense the treasury to its fat-cat ???base??? of mega-millionaires!

    • Posted By: t9900 @ 12/06/2007 15:10:45

      Comment: Uhh. When will it end?

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 21:40:08

        Comment: keep watching the truth seeking CNN. Maybe you will look just as foolish as they do.

  • Posted By: t9900 @ 12/06/2007 10:02:37 AM

    Comment: brigrat5831 please comment more often. Very good. I'm hoping someone listens to you and changes. Then maybe someone will see him and change and so on until logical thinking returns to the American mind.

  • Posted By: tom_paine @ 12/06/2007 7:40:52 AM

    Comment: The question that one must ask is "When, exactly, did the President receive this assessment?" Because, if he received it in August, as is widely believed, his saber-rattling throughout the Fall is a deliberate falsehood, and likely an impeachable offense.

  • Posted By: brigrat5831 @ 12/06/2007 5:36:34 AM

    Comment: I've read about 20 of the comments about this article and I only have on thing to say to "some" of you people. What the hell are you thinking? Bush must nuke Iran, 9/11 was staged, etc. Most of the comments make good points, but sadly most of the comments are made from people who only get their news from one source. Now if you haven't realized, the news prints what they want to print, things that will catch people's attention. That's what sells, sadly. Now this is my opinion, NO *** AMERICAN would stand by and let 2,974 innocent people die, injuring 6,291 people in the process. One thing I find that people seem to forget is what would you want the government to do if the military "found" wmds in Iraq. You would want the military to nuke Iraq, wipe them of the map as some people put it. The military DID find wmds in Iraq, and rather than have a blood thursty country, the report said we didn't. Sadam does have a link to the War on Terror because he has been know to fund the terrorist organization of Hamas. Hamas was created in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin of the Gaza wing of the Muslim Brotherhood at the beginning of the First Intifada. Best known in Israel and the West for its suicide bombings and other attack] directed against civilians and Israeli military and security forces targets, Hamas' charter (written in 1988 and still in effect) calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. People have also said that the rebuilding process is not needed and that we should pull out. Now it kind of bothers me that we helped rebuild France after WW2 and no one said lets pull out. this is to iluvsnoridin, I am sorry for your loss, I'm in the military and I have lost friends in this war and I almost lost my father on 9/11, one reason I'm in the military. What most people don't know is that the people that matter, appreciate what we have done. The military has removed a man from power that has had people killed on the spot "in public" for talking about him in the manner that you talk about Bush. While in the middle east, I saw a man finally be able to take care of his family because we gave him the chance he needed. It annoys me that all of these people are making such decisions with out getting the whole story or what the media wants to sell you. It just doesn't seem right. I do have one question though, why was CLinton mentioned in the preview?

    • Posted By: hmmm5 @ 12/08/2007 06:38:01

      Comment: So did America funded Osama. So I think the world needs to invade America to get the prresident out and wait in the process kill over 500,000 Americans and displace 4 million of them. Saddam was bad but conditions under him were still better than the condition now. U have no right to police the world. Mind your own bussiness.

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 21:49:59

        Comment: we would mind our own business, If you clowns would get up to date with the times and stop massacreing your own ppl and showing it to the world. Do us a favor and ask YOUR savior Osama Bin Laden and his cronies to martyr themselves. That would likely save us time and bring our military folks home. Then you can get back to camel jockeying. and going to war with yourselves for another 1000 years.

  • Posted By: cnctech @ 12/06/2007 4:00:54 AM

    Comment: fvmaster no sir i was speaking to the illiterate bottom feeding liberal match

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/06/2007 3:58:56 AM

    Comment: WE MUST CONTINUE TO POUND AWAY AND FIND SOLUTIONS. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND A CANDIDATES SOLUTION CLEARLY THEN HOW CAN YOU VOTE FOR THEM. THIS REGIME IS A THREAT. IT MUST BE DEALT WITH FROM WITHIN. THE AUTHOR NEEDS TO EMPHASIZE THAT PEOPLE ARE WORRIED THAT THIS REGIME IS NOT RESPONSIBLE AND MUST NEVER BE IN CONTROL OF ANY TYPE OF NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE FACT THAT IRAN SHOULD KEEP SOME PARTS OF IT"S ARSENAL IS ABSURD, as suggested by the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER. IF YOU WANT PEACE YOU CANNOT GIVE IN TO DICTATORSHIPS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ELECTED. THE SOLUTION IS TO WORK WITH OUR ALLIES AND CUT IRAN OFF and force a REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE TYHE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER THAT CATERS TO THE WILL OF THESE EVIL EMPIRES. WE MUST STAND FIRM AND KEEP OUR EYES ON ALL POTENTIAL THREATS(RUSSIA AND CHINA) NOT JUST SOME> AND CONFRONT THE THREAT HEAD ON. OUR ALLIES WILL RESPECT US IF WE STICK TO OUR WORD NOT FLIP FLOP WITH DICTATORS, and not sell out to the INTEREST IN DUBAI AND SAUDI ARABIA. Unfortunately, our politicians want to confront terrorism, but they do not want to force governments to implement change so the causes of terrorism are eliminated. MONEY IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL IT EVEN CONTROLS OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND CAUSES THEM TO TURN A BLIND EYE. IF PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTRIES HAD HOPE THEY WOULD NOT BE THREATENING THEIR NEIGHBORS AND DESTABILIZING THE REGION

  • Posted By: fvmaster @ 12/06/2007 3:51:10 AM

    Comment: hey CNCTECH ,,,sir i dont know you talking about me or not,,,but i have Bs in nuclear physics and steal i cant work in my own country,,,because there are a lot of things that i should not to know inside,,,,,,,,i hope you feel about,,,,,,,

  • Posted By: cnctech @ 12/06/2007 3:40:29 AM

    Comment: match206 I see you capitalized on the fact my typing is vulnerable to criticism. Speaking of (Vulnerable) A vulnerable species such as yourself is a species which is likely to become endangered unless the circumstances threatening its survival and reproduction improve which will never happen to pathetic bottom feeder's like yourself,I think it is so entertaining that you conceder me, somebody that writes ladder logic for cnc machine control's uneducated? Do you have a collage degree? I earned a MBA in electronics engineering, what does a imbecile like yourself do for creative engagement? Do you hold picket's at our soldiers funerals ? Bow to the republicans we may allow you to continue sweeping our streets and inbreeding with the farm animals

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/06/2007 3:33:13 AM

    Comment: IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND A CANDIDATES SOLUTION CLEARLY THEN HOW CAN YOU VOTE FOR THEM. THIS REGIME IS A THREAT. IT MUST BE DEALT WITH FROM WITHIN. THE AUTHOR NEEDS TO EMPHASIZE THAT PEOPLE ARE WORRIED THAT THIS REGIME IS NOT RESPONSIBLE AND MUST NEVER BE IN CONTROL OF ANY TYPE OF NUCLEAR PROGRAM. THE FACT THAT IRAN SHOULD KEEP SOME PARTS OF IT"S ARSENAL IS ABSURD, as suggested by the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER. IF YOU WANT PEACE YOU CANNOT GIVE IN TO DICTATORSHIPS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ELECTED. THE SOLUTION IS TO WORK WITH OUR ALLIES AND CUT IRAN OFF and force a REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE TYHE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER THAT CATERS TO THE WILL OF THESE EVIL EMPIRES. WE MUST STAND FIRM AND KEEP OUR EYES ON ALL POTENTIAL THREATS(RUSSIA AND CHINA) NOT JUST SOME> AND CONFRONT THE THREAT HEAD ON. OUR ALLIES WILL RESPECT US IF WE STICK TO OUR WORD NOT FLIP FLOP WITH DICTATORS, and not sell out to the INTEREST IN DUBAI AND SAUDI ARABIA. Unfortunately, our politicians want to confront terrorism, but they do not want to force governments to implement change so the causes of terrorism are eliminated. MONEY IS THE SOURCE OF ALL EVIL IT EVEN CONTROLS OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND CAUSES THEM TO TURN A BLIND EYE. IF PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTRIES HAD HOPE THEY WOULD NOT BE THREATENING THEIR NEIGHBORS AND DESTABILIZING THE REGION.

  • Posted By: why??? @ 12/06/2007 3:27:45 AM

    Comment: Is it just me or or did America become the most defenseless and weak nation in the world that we have to jump the gun and attack first? It seems to me that with the defensive weaponry and superior technology that our country has I find it hard to believe that even if any of the middle eastern nations at question were to acquire nuclear weapons that the chances of one of them even making it to U.S. soil is utterly remote at best. The only thing our preempted attacks on other nations, that so far have only appeared to be a danger to us, has done is disrupted our allegiance with the rest of the world. Here we sit now and listen to people praise Bush for making the U.S. a safer country when we are hated by more people now than ever for the actions he and his administration have taken in the past and the now present on these so called threats to society which now has put us in danger with all corners of the world. Some may say well what about 9-11, thats a reason to attack these other nations because that may happen again. Well sorry to say, but when it comes to terrorists attacking a nation and a nation attacking another nation there is no comparison. You are talking about two highly different scenarios. A dangerous nations probablitiy of launching a full or even small scale 'secret' nuclear war on the U.S. without the U.S. knowing it is coming, like a group of terrorists would do if they even had access to nukes, and not being able to defend itself against their attack and counterattack them to the point of extinction is about the same as the threat of saddam hussien coming back from the dead and conquering the U.S. with his so called weapons of mass destruction. I think it would be better for us to let them go ahead and develope their nukes if they dare and see what happens when they decide to try and use them against us or any other nation. I have a feeling that if we had a full allegiance with the rest of the world, unlike the divided allegiance now, that they would not stand much of a chance. If the president really really just wants to get rid of their leader why not just do it the old fashion way and send a single unit with a good sniper or two in there to do the job instead of an entire army and make better use of our army by using them to find more credible threats like terrorists who pose an actual threat to our nations security. Another note also, the whole Godly comments thing should never be brought up with this except to mourn the dead from all of this and pray for the safety of our troops and the safety of our world and our people as a human race. There is no Godly when it comes to war and the power struggle over who is wrong and who is right, because none of it is right or Godly...plain and simple.

  • Posted By: iluvsnoridin @ 12/06/2007 3:09:17 AM

    Comment: My oh my how we have been lied to from the start of this joke of a man! If this comes as a shock to you fellow readers then I say it is time to wake up. If Mr. Bush wants to go to war he will do it, he will do whatever he wants to as long as he is in the high chair, and there is nothing anybody can do about it. Take a look back to the start of the war he started for no reason thats killed 2 of my friends...... He had no real intel, just ideas pushed on him from others. The whole reason any of this is taking place is to have control of the region. Who are we to control anything when we cant even control our own nation? Iran has every right, just as we do, to posses whatever it they want to. Lets us not forget we destroyed a country and killed countless innocents because we had "intel" that was later found false.......

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 12/08/2007 22:34:42

      Comment: I recall that intell was correct....UN took its sweet assed time to stall as usual...which anyone with half a mind can tell is just the time one would need to transport equiptment and sensitive materials out of Iraq. Bury planes, and cover up what needed to be covered b4 the impending invasion. Saddam wasnt a stupid a man as everyone assumes.

  • Posted By: Elzohoor @ 12/06/2007 3:07:26 AM

    Comment: The best way to establish peace in the middle-east is to get rid of the US in the talks.. Yeah, I'm an American, but I don't live in the US anymore, primarily because this "administration" is a joke and has ruined what was once a great country. This great country has been a laughing stock and pathetic in the eyes of the international community. George Bush has ruined and turned to stone everything he has touched, including America. I can't believe there's people out there that can still support him and believe anything he has to say. I can't believe America hasn't tried to impeach him long ago, especially after 9/11. Everyone in America should wake up and smell reality; your president has ruined your country and will continue to do so until his last day in office. Not only are the American people the ones who are suffering at his hands, think about the troops over there in Iraq losing their lives based upon what they know now to be total lies. May God protect the US troops and keep them from harms way, may they not be punished or harmed because they are mere pawns in the administrations sick war-games.

  • Posted By: cnctech @ 12/06/2007 3:06:14 AM

    Comment: BUSH must nuke Iran, then ask china if they want some too, we have to stop all this pussyfooting and take action. You idiot's (liberals) that think Iran has no plans to level this great nation THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, are our nation's greatest threat.

    • Posted By: heathenliberal @ 12/06/2007 15:42:39

      Comment: You can call me all the names you want, but I know where commas belong. I would bet if I took a poll that more people would be inclined to trust someone who can make a cogent argument defending thier point than someone who resorts to name calling and violence. Isn't that what 10 year olds do on the schoolyard?
      p.s. Jesus was a liberal

    • Posted By: fabby41forlife @ 12/06/2007 04:13:53

      Comment: You are such a fool, do u think other countries with nukes would't respond if they see nukes flying in space heading for some target that they think could be them. America has more too lose than the Iranians. America likes to talk about there way of life. The 911 attack alone almost crippled the united states. Wall Street stock priced plummeted and great deal of people loss their jobs. So fool stop talking about bush should nuke Iran and ask China if it want some. Because china is three time the size of America or more if i should say. And remember China has nuke as well, and will return the favour if the United States ever make that grimm mistake. It's people like you why Adolf Hitler could have carried out his maliscious intent and hatred, all because you are all blind to what is really happening. The United States is the only country in the world to use a nuclear device on another country. That is why America fear the threat of nuclear attack. But if you know this old proverb that says, what goes around comes around. So pick sense out of that idiot, and stop talking trash. It's so good to know that folks like you who sit in the penny section and not in the drivers seat. for lord knows where we would be today.

      • Posted By: cnctech @ 12/07/2007 03:47:14

        Comment: Fabby you sir are a idiot and people like you need to get the hell out of America, you sir are the black seeded wart on America's azz . F U AN D

    • Posted By: iluvsnoridin @ 12/06/2007 03:26:30

      Comment: Are you serious? You have no idea what this country was founded on do you? So you want to blow China up, the China your computer came from, right? You want to blow up Iran where the gas in your car comes from? Your comment is perfect, it is exactly what is wrong with this nation. People with your outlook are the reason people like Mr. Bush get to play God.......

  • Posted By: hellbreaksloose @ 12/06/2007 3:05:40 AM

    Comment: move the world beyond oil. oil is killing us.

  • Posted By: Elzohoor @ 12/06/2007 3:04:41 AM

    Comment: The best way to establish peace in the middle-east is to get rid of the US in the talks.. Yeah, I'm an American, but I don't live in the US anymore, primarily because this "administration" is a joke and has ruined what was once a great country. This great country has been a laughing stock and pathetic in the eyes of the international community. George Bush has ruined and turned to stone everything he has touched, including America. I can't believe there's people out there that can still support him and believe anything he has to say. I can't believe America hasn't tried to impeach him long ago, especially after 9/11. Everyone in America should wake up and smell reality; your president has ruined your country and will continue to do so until his last day in office. Not only are the American people the ones who are suffering at his hands, think about the troops over there in Iraq losing their lives based upon what they know now to be total lies. May God protect the US troops and keep them from harms way, may they not be punished or harmed because they are mere pawns in the administrations sick war-games.

  • Posted By: fvmaster @ 12/06/2007 3:04:02 AM

    Comment: it is most dangerious when you cant see the enemy,,so dont turn on the lights and keep walking closed eyes

  • Posted By: billd @ 12/06/2007 3:02:10 AM

    Comment: Sure - no war with Iran. Iran isn't building a bomb. Iran is just refining the nuclear material and selling it to whomever would build a bomb. What those dummies are dis-regarding is that the first such bomb that can be traced to Iranian nuclear cores will result in the destruction of not only Iran and the country using the bomb but some city in Israel and some city in the U.S. and some two or three countries in the Muslim world.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/06/2007 3:00:44 AM

    Comment: ONCE AGAIN YOU OFFER NO SOLUTION WHAT YOU ARE SAYING HAS BEEN SAID.
    WHICH CANDIDATE CAN HANDLE THIS SITUATION BEST AND WHY? Provide PROOF; WHO HAS THE BEST SOLUTION??
    WITHOUT RUSSIA IRAN WOULD HAVE NOTHING. Why can't the pubic see that the real threat are the break-away republics of Russia(most notably the 5 Muslim States in Central Asia and the Ukraine)crime families in Eastern Europe and the technological advancement of China. Iran, Pakistan, India, all countries in Africa have no means of deploying a successful nuclear attack. Let's take care of the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that already exist not on those that do NOT EXIST. Once a new regime takes form they have to seperate church and state in a moderate fashion. We have to do this right, we cannot afford to go into Iran blind we have to do it intelligently through conduits of success. The fact are THAT RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE THE KEYS TO KEEPING THAT SIDE OF THE WORLD TAME. AfriCA is an enigma in that it there is not solution to there problems; I guess the global community is just hoping more die than live in Africa; and that the 1st world can continue their research projects. We really need to pick the best candidate. Be honest.

  • Posted By: fvmaster @ 12/06/2007 2:56:12 AM

    Comment: no,,i dont,,,i'm just an Iranian guy who knows his people and what his government think,,,,you must beleive it,,,i'm so close to them

  • Posted By: iluvsnoridin @ 12/06/2007 2:53:47 AM

    Comment: Comment: America has spread itself so thin that we forgot what it is that matters! Let us not make another mistake such as Iraq, but let us worry about real issues such as education and healthcare. So the Bush adm. has made another mistake but to be realistic is there anyone out there thats surprised? Mr. Bush does what Mr. Bush wants and thats the facts. If he feels the need to go war with Iran do any of you feel he wont accomplish it, not only that, but who would stop him? I feel Iran should be allowed to have whatever it is they want just as our gov. has and does whatever they want. Who are we to judge people when we cant even see the horror of our own ways...

  • Posted By: wonderfulend @ 12/06/2007 2:52:09 AM

    Comment: It's easy to say that this war coming next to Iran with a total assuredness of 100% range, was already planned so far, as Iran acts as a treat etrammeling US global tutoring project. Really sad to say that it'll lead to a world's end. The decepteve believing in power's power gets also high minded people to be blind. That's nature's bad side. And it is necessary. Mr Bush, ask for a miracle. It's better for you too....

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/06/2007 2:45:04 AM

    Comment: All YOUR CRITICISM IS WELL FOUNDED NOW WHAT IS YOUR SOLUTION. HOW DO WE GET RID OF THIS PROBLEM. HOW DO WE END GRIDLOCK; HOW DO WE ESTABLISH PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. IGNORING THE PROBLEM IS NOT A VIABLE SOLUTION;
    WHICH CANDIDATE CAN HANDLE THIS SITUATION BEST AND WHY? Provide PROOF; WHO HAS THE BEST SOLUTION??
    WITHOUT RUSSIA IRAN WOULD HAVE NOTHING. Why can't the pubic see that the real threat are the break-away republics of Russia(most notably the 5 Muslim States in Central Asia and the Ukraine)crime families in Eastern Europe and the technological advancement of China. Iran, Pakistan, India, all countries in Africa have no means of deploying a successful nuclear attack. Let's take care of the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that already exist not on those that do NOT EXIST. Once a new regime takes form they have to seperate church and state in a moderate fashion. We have to do this right, we cannot afford to go into Iran blind we have to do it intelligently through conduits of success. The fact are THAT RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE THE KEYS TO KEEPING THAT SIDE OF THE WORLD TAME. AfriCA is an enigma in that it there is no solution to their problems; I guess the global community is just hoping more die than live in Africa; and that the 1st world can continue their research projects. We really need to pick the best candidate. Be honest.

  • Posted By: cnctech @ 12/06/2007 2:44:51 AM

    Comment: You sir are a pathetic excuse for a American the author Michael Hirsh is nothing more than a tree hugging incoherent, uneducated anti-American liberal, and people like him will be the cause of this great nation's demise.

    • Posted By: match206 @ 12/06/2007 02:51:22

      Comment: Michael Hirsch has a college degree. He's not uneducated. You haven't heard him speak and the article is typed well. How can you call him incoherent. Is Michael Hirsch playing a bigger role in Americas demise than George Bush. You sound...how can I say this nicely. You don't sound like an educated person yourself.

  • Posted By: fvmaster @ 12/06/2007 2:44:46 AM

    Comment: forget war with ran!!!!think to war with US 1?

  • Posted By: gfwritingservices @ 12/06/2007 2:42:35 AM

    Comment: The facts remain facts: Our reason for invading Iraq was to remove Saddam Hussein because he was hiding WMD's. None were found. Our economy is going to hell as we continue to fund this war.

    Iran made it clear from the outset that 1) they did not want a war AND 2)they were not producing WMD's. We never had the proof, like Iraq, that Iran has any such weapons despite all the claims. Now I read this, and I am astonished that anyone can actually support this administration any longer. Bush's strongest supporters will remain the ones with no fear of being drafted to fight in another illegal conflict overseas.


    Our countries fervor over 9/11 led us on a terrorist hunt in the wrong country.

    • Posted By: Carolyn215 @ 12/06/2007 03:08:20

      Comment: To understand what is happening in Iran you have to go back a few decades. Back in the 50s, Iran had a democratically elected president who was good for their country. The problem was that he was taking national control over the oil production. The oil companies wanted him out. Our own governemt deposed him and installed the Shah, who was great for the oil companies but terrible for the Iranian people. When the Iranians overthrew the decadent Shah they wanted a return to morality, but most never dreamed how bad things could be under the Ayatollah. But it is also bad for the oil companies. Now they want to get control of all of it. That is what all of this fuss has been about. But they have to hide the truth from the American people, and wrap it in a banner of patriotism. Even 9/11 was staged. There is no way that planes hitting the buildings could have caused the towers to fall. Jet fuel simply does not burn at temperatures high enough to melt steel. The buildings were brought down by controlled demoltion. The whole thing was an inside job to decieve the American people, to get them to buy into the big oil agenda.

  • Posted By: cnctech @ 12/06/2007 2:41:36 AM

    Comment: You sir are a pathetic excuse for a American the author Michael Hirsh is nothing more than a tree hugging incoherent, uneducated anti-American liberal, and people like him will be the cause of this great nation's demise.

  • Posted By: gfwritingservices @ 12/06/2007 2:40:27 AM

    Comment: The facts remain facts: Our reason for invading Iraq was to remove Saddam Hussein because he was hiding WMD's. None were found. Our economy is going to hell as we continue to fund this war.

    Iran made it clear from the outset that 1) they did not want a war AND 2)they were not producing WMD's. We never had the proof, like Iraq, that Iran has any such weapons despite all the claims. Now I read this, and I am astonished that anyone can actually support this administration any longer. Bush's strongest supporters will remain the ones with no fear of being drafted to fight in another illegal conflict overseas.


    Our countries fervor over 9/11 led us on a terrorist hunt in the wrong country.

  • Posted By: match206 @ 12/06/2007 2:40:17 AM

    Comment: Are some of you people related to Bush? Has bush been such a great president that you actually would get offended over an article that is supposedly bashing bush? I think people who come to the defense of Bush sometimes just need to accept the fact that if you voted for him, then you have made a mistake. Until we have hard evidence that Iran is building a bomb. Dubya should just shut his mouth. We have so much else going on. Iran is ran by a extremist government but what are we? The point of the article is that our reputation has taken another hit once again. World leaders are losing respect for us. November 2008 can't get here soon enough. The next administration will have their hands full and I just hope the next president has a little more common sense. It is such a great trait to have yet overlooked. Just because you tell lies repeatedly won't make them come true.

  • Posted By: toto22in @ 12/06/2007 2:39:15 AM

    Comment: "another war would be not only foolish but probably an impeachable offense"??? Are you kidding me? am I on Earth? What happend to the first war? all the lies? all the innocent deaths.. 4 years on??? That is not impeachable? 1 man has literally destroyed the framework of life, business, security and peace on this planet. But the best part, no other country, including mine, has the balls to hold George Bush responsible and accountable for his catostrophic decisions. STAND UP people... throw him out now! God help us all!

  • Posted By: fvmaster @ 12/06/2007 2:36:17 AM

    Comment: stop!....in this case iran would be the beginer of world war III....there is no diference,,,it s war

  • Posted By: Citizen Ong @ 12/06/2007 2:36:15 AM

    Comment: America was touted at one time as the " world's Police" . In light of the blunders in Iraq, afghanistan, and iran, one wonders, who should be the " Internal Affairs"? Absolute power corrupts absolutely..

  • Posted By: owen k @ 12/06/2007 2:32:27 AM

    Comment: Enough speculation. Enough invented drama for all the borring lives and slow news days. Enough negativism.

  • Posted By: match206 @ 12/06/2007 2:31:34 AM

    Comment: are related to george bush tudodo. newclear is spelled nuclear. Please tell me that was on purpose. But besides that. I'm not really surprised. another blunder from the bush administration. November 2008 can't get her soon enough. The next president will have their hands full for the next few years.

  • Posted By: BARTOK @ 12/06/2007 2:31:30 AM

    Comment: It is amazing to me how the press once again dramatizes news. It is a nightly soap opera all its own. They never report it right the first time all you here is we have an update on our top story. And they only want to report what "they want you to know" on all newscasts. It doesnt matter who first reports the news as that party is 99% wrong. Soldiers from Iraq will tell you what is reported is a small portion on what is truly going on over there. The fact is ever since President Bush has been elected all the press has done is twist, distort, and pick holes in all he has tried to do. Now mind you that doesnt mean I agree with all his policies at all. I am calling it as I see it. The only thing I wish was given a greater importance is capturing Osama Bin Laden. If that were to happen this hate which Iran has for the US and Israel which IS the meat of this issue would take a huge blow. The issue that isnt being reported is Muslims want the world in their religion and those that oppose get killed. That is fact. We have thousand of events to prove this. It is not a war of oil but a war about religion. This is why our oil prices have gone up because the Muslims own it. Since Canada has almost equal wealth in oil I dont understand why we dont fix our relationsips with them and trade leaving the Saudi alone. It is time to stop being so "nice" and stand up if we dont our economy will be gone regardless which party has (They are both the same in my eyes wanting your vote to do what they want ) the White House or Congress. It is time we vote for people that have backbone that answer your questions upfront not like Hillary who can't answer anything without checking with 10 people first. Come on America be yourselves vote for people with integrity not one who stood by her husband that was impeached, a person who said he "use" to be a Muslim, a man who is a Morman but won't impose he beliefs on the nation, and rash economist who says we can save billions on cutting programs already to the bone. Forget the media and their opinions. Yours and mine are equal in value. It is time for America to stand on its own feet declare independance from bias media coverage.

  • Posted By: Citizen Ong @ 12/06/2007 2:31:13 AM

    Comment: America was previouly touted as the " world's Police". Now, in light of things as they are( Iran, Afghanistan, iraq etc) the question is Who should be the " world's Internal Affairs".....Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • Posted By: PatrioticDreams @ 12/06/2007 2:19:44 AM

    Comment: Without newsweek, how could we have the fair and balanced reporting that FOX claims...And to the comment earlier - not only 80 - 90 % of writters vote democratic - but in an astonishing correlation 80 - 90% of educated people do too. The reason the south is so red and the reason elections are republican biased - electoral college or not.

  • Posted By: cdnnavy @ 12/06/2007 2:19:35 AM

    Comment: your american president is an idiot its time americans come to terms with it, he's making the US look bad

  • Posted By: TUDODO @ 12/06/2007 2:14:02 AM

    Comment: What is painful is the double standard clearly paraded. If Israel can boast of a newclear capability then why not any country in the middle east? They say if anybody wants peace, one should prepare for war. Iran should be allowed to acquire newclear capability just as is the case with israel pure and simple.

  • Posted By: wwjcd @ 12/06/2007 2:13:35 AM

    Comment: In response to Peanut:
    So you think, no doubt that the president was playing on the ???safe side??? in Iraq too???just in case some ill-founded rumors about WMDs happened to be true? Or in case Osama Bin Laden happened to turn up there some time in the future? I call being on the safe side saving up money for retirement or sending Christmas packages early to make sure they get there on time. I don???t think the concept can stretch far enough to include the unwarranted death of thousands of American soldiers who continue to die in Iraq for no particular reason???not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and worse, civilians who have lost their lives just to be on the safe side. I can???t see how this sort of purposeless killing can be considered Godly. It certainly does not fit with my understanding of Christianity???that we have the responsibility to follow the example of Jesus Christ, to honor human life, to love our neighbors, to be merciful, to offer succor to those who suffer, not to be the cause of suffering ourselves.

    In any case, Bush may indeed, be a Godly man as you say, maybe even a good one. But sadly, the qualities of goodness and Godliness alone don???t lead to sound foreign???or even domestic--policy. Other qualities, such as intelligence and single-minded dedication to good policy over good politics might do better.

  • Posted By: wwjcd @ 12/06/2007 2:09:37 AM

    Comment: So you think, no doubt that the president was playing on the ???safe side??? in Iraq too???just in case some ill-founded rumors about WMDs happened to be true? Or in case Osama Bin Laden happened to turn up there some time in the future? I call being on the safe side saving up money for retirement or sending Christmas packages early to make sure they get there on time. I don???t think the concept can stretch far enough to include the unwarranted death of thousands of American soldiers who continue to die in Iraq for no particular reason???not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and worse, civilians who have lost their lives just to be on the safe side. I can???t see how this sort of purposeless killing can be considered Godly. It certainly does not fit with my understanding of Christianity???that we have the responsibility to follow the example of Jesus Christ, to honor human life, to love our neighbors, to be merciful, to offer succor to those who suffer, not to be the cause of suffering ourselves.

    In any case, Bush may indeed, be a Godly man as you say, maybe even a good one. But sadly, the qualities of goodness and Godliness alone don???t lead to sound foreign???or even domestic--policy. Other qualities, such as intelligence and single-minded dedication to good policy over good politics might do better.

  • Posted By: BARTOK @ 12/06/2007 2:07:47 AM

    Comment: Why am I not surprised another media joker makes trash comments about the President. They have brainwashed the public on what they call facts where it is a bunch of dramatic overtures to boost their clout among their own peers. Point is Iran is runned by an unstable mental lunatic that hates Israel and anyone that isnt Islam. To me he cant be trusted nor can he be ignored from the comments he has made imposing the will of his religion upon anyone that opposes. I guess the media once again is showing its ignorance on this matter. I still say IF Osama Bin Laden is captured dead or alive it would send a huge shock wave to the world. To me he is behind all the boldness or these suicide bombers, Iran's bodacious moves to make a nuclear bomb, Russia's new cold war with the West and the growing oil prices as they try to bring the US down with a bad economy which no one even tries to report because that is what their mission is. I think the press is way overrated with bias reports, and hatred towads the President since he was elected. This is not to say the President doesnt have his faults but compounding it with horrid reporting of assumptions and far fetched truths gives me little hope of the "real" news that is going on.

  • Posted By: Rancidbrew @ 12/06/2007 2:05:08 AM

    Comment: Just something for all you folks to ponder about "An eye for an eye leaves us all blind...."

  • Posted By: Rancidbrew @ 12/06/2007 2:02:58 AM

    Comment: "AN EYE FOR AN EYE LEAVES US ALL BLIND ...."

  • Posted By: drmike99 @ 12/06/2007 1:54:54 AM

    Comment: Wow, I'm disappointed even for Newsweek. Whether Bush is right for announcing the new NIE report or not, it is clear that Michael Hirsch was ready to slam Bush either way. Lets, be honest here, the fact of the matter is that Bush could announce tommorrow that he had a cure for cancer, and an amature, biased, mouthpiece like Hirsh and his ilk would still find a reason to take shots at Bush. I would expect this type of article from the New Republic, but it's sad and disappointing to see this biased hack what used to be a legitimate forum for his diatribe.

  • Posted By: peanut04 @ 12/06/2007 1:40:11 AM

    Comment: I just happened across this article and it reminded me of why I don't read Newsweek. Too one sided. President Bush erred on the side of safety for the US and the world on the Irag issue, and I am so glad he did. I would much rather err on the side of our safety than to err on the side of us no longer being here. We are so much safer now than we were and I know that President Bush will make all the right decisions concerning Iran. He is a good and Godly man, and I am so glad that he has been our President. He doesn't care what you or anyone else thinks of him and he doesn't care about his legacy as President, he is going to do what he thinks is the right thing to do for our nation. That takes a lot of courage and prayer. God Bless President Bush and God Bless America.

  • Posted By: Love to live @ 12/06/2007 1:39:02 AM

    Comment: Come on world wake up if ya want peace someone needs to step up to the plate and take control.Someone needs to be concerned about other countries developing the Bomb. If someone does not keep a watchful eye on who develops what and for what purpose by the time you realize what and why it was developed it could be to late. I hate to think of the outcome if the wrong people develope a bomb and decide to use it. So if everyone is so skeptical of US Policy why then doesnt someone else Step up to the Plate and show some concern and make an effort to Control efforts by others to develop weapons that could wipe out half the world as we know it today?

  • Posted By: bakhan @ 12/06/2007 1:38:03 AM

    Comment: I think it is not wise at this sage to believe President Bush whose WMD has gone into hiding in Iraq.! There was a war and now there is even bigger war in Iraq, ans the reason is that Americans went looking for WMD in Iraq!
    The Credibility of Americans is gone, they believe what their media says, not knowing what actually is happening in the world..simple ignorance.
    My comment is Forget war with any country and that includes with Iran.

  • Posted By: proof positive @ 12/06/2007 1:35:48 AM

    Comment: How can you say the intel for the 2005 report was at best mixed? Do you have access to this intel? Did you verify this intel? Or is it at best mixed because the new report supports your ideologies? Do you think, maybe Iran has stopped it's quest for nuclear weapons based upon what President Bush has told the world he is prepared to do in the event they have the bomb? But, I guess that would be plain silly. I mean to think a public policy this president has stated would actually affect the actions of another country in a positive way for America. There is no proof that President Bush has intentionally lied to anyone about any of his policies. All presidents and other foreign leaders base their actions and policies on intelligence and reports given by others. These others are supposed to be professional in the conduct of their duties. It wasn't President Bush who first stated Saddam Hussein must be removed from the head of Iraq. That was your beloved President Clinton (who, by the way, made a habit of liing to the American public), and several of his cronies, after reviewing the same information that was later given to President Bush. Oh, guess we forgot about that tidbit of info. Just a quick question of this reporter, have you ever done any article that put a positive light on President Bush, his administration, or even America? And a comment for this reporter, from now on, just report the facts. Don't try to color the story with your opinions on what the story will do to America, the President, foreign entities, or anything else. You simply don't know how any of these bodies will react. You use supposition and conjecture like it's the God's honest truth facts when in reality, you are basically making things up to support your ideology. And I suppose all wars are unnecessary in your opinion. Do I like war? No, I don't. I have a son in the warzone now. And I fear for him. However, I am proud of him, and believe what he is doing is right. And what will your opinion be in 5 years time when Iran sends a nuclear missile at Isreal, Egypt, or any other country and starts WWIII? I know, it will be President Bush's fault.

    • Posted By: t9900 @ 12/06/2007 10:05:48

      Comment: We need more people like you in this country.

    • Posted By: t9900 @ 12/06/2007 10:04:31

      Comment: Bravo.

  • Posted By: Roberro @ 12/06/2007 1:32:48 AM

    Comment: I would respond to leodelaney and marshal47 with the following; If we were to impeach the President and Vice-president and win, who would be the new President? Nancy Pelosi! Does anyone really want that? Second, the NIE (read it marshal47) says that even if they wanted to create a bomb, which the experts say is, at this time, unlikely,it couldn't happen before 2013. That gives us plenty of time to determine Iran's intentions and take diplomatic steps to deter nuclear (or should I say Nuclar) proliferation by this country. I think that criminal charges are appropriate for Bush and Cheney, but only after they are out of office for the reason stated at the beginning of this comment. Semper Fi, Robbie.

  • Posted By: wjwend @ 12/06/2007 1:27:49 AM

    Comment: Didn't we have an intelligent that said Iraqi has wmd and everybody believed it. Now a new report comes out and says Iran isn't building the bomb! Once again the faithful will believe this report and be lulled to sleep like they were at Pearl harbor. Don't think for a minute iran is backing off!

  • Posted By: Love to live @ 12/06/2007 1:27:47 AM

    Comment: God forbid if Iran does build the bomb. If and When they build it no one knows but they will build it and if they ever us it only God will be around to witness the results. Get real someone needs to Keep these Bomb Crazy people in check or we will have another War that will "End the World as we know it today".