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There is no imminent threat of Iran building a nuclear weapon

by Open-Publishing - Monday 20 February 2006
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Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, issued the following statement today on H. Con. Res. 341:

“This bill undermines efforts towards a peaceful resolution of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and puts the United States on a dangerous path that could lead to war. This bill, and the debate in the House, have an eerie resemblance to similar debate and resolutions that led to the misguided and ill advised war in Iraq.

“This bill scuttles the only possibility for a peaceful resolution of this crisis. Namely, the offer, by Russia, to enrich uranium for Iran to use in its nuclear power plants. Iran would not operate any enrichment processing facilities of its own, and therefore would not have the ability to make isotopes of uranium suitable for weapons. This is the essence of a resolution offered by Russia to avert the crisis. This is the only diplomatic option available to us today.

“Moreover, there is no imminent threat of Iran building a nuclear weapon. This past summer, a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear capabilities was released showing that Iran was 10 years away from building a nuclear weapon. This estimate represents a consensus among the U.S. intelligence agencies.

“The Security Council option, favored heavily by the bill, thinly veils the route to a military confrontation with Iran.

“The Administration, covered by this bill, is leading this country to take military action against Iran. Make no mistake, that is the US program at the UN, just as it was prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“If you think Muslim reaction to a political cartoon is bad, what do you think reaction will be when the US is attack Iran while it occupies Iraq?

“This is a dangerous and deadly course the United States should not embark upon.”
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=39584

H. Con. Res. 341:
condemning the Government of Iran for violating its international nuclear nonproliferation obligations and expressing support for efforts to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council.

passes 404-4
nays: Kucinich, Paul, Stark, McDermott
yays: Conyers, Maxine waters, etc

Forum posts

  • if i were bush i know i would want conyers investigating me, since he would be on my personal payroll.
    what better way to sweep the evidence under the rug than to offer another investigation that leads to nowhere. there is no need to investigate , they are all guilty of treason and circumventing the very constitution they swore to uphold.

  • Growing up in the 50s, I would never have believed that one day we would be looking to "Russia" for help to stop a war. They seem to understand just how serious this has gotten. We may need the help of the"whole" world before this is over.

  • All this polite talk...

    When Whitey America owns up to the fact that it hates Arabs and Muslims is when the problems that Whitey America creates will be understood. Then sometime after that when Whitey American compares its viewpoint versus truer circumstances in the world with honesty, integrity and self-respect, an reasonable and rational answer can be imagined. Still further down the timeline, and again with fortitude and honesty Whitey America can verbalize a truer answer. Sometime after this, with even more collective and individual courage Whitey America may act on this answer and come up to a just solution.

    But since Whitey America is spooked easily and readily falls into the weak thoughts of falsehood of being pure and moral and never sees other non-White nations as human, well, we can safely say that peace and justice will never be for any human. Not in this generation and not in the next 99 generations.

  • In fact the reactor in Busheer/Iran is not capable of producing enough material which could be used in a bomb in ten years. This technology is still based what U.S. delievered to Iran in th 70’, when it was still ruled by the Shah.

    This administration needs another mess to distract Americans from other facts, so they can say: we are at war - support us - how dare you - our troops are dying - and crap like this.

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