Monday, March 19, 2007
and the beat goes on, da da dum da dum da da
"The GCC has the capability to respond to any attack from neighbouring Iran, Defence Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said yesterday.
"Gulf countries are able to defend themselves against Iran... we have the military strength and capability," he told Al Hayat newspaper.
Is there something I missed? Are we now expected to believe that like Saddam Hussein was allegedly readying himself for a large scale nuclear assault (and we know how that story panned out), Iran too is doing the same?
Of course, as per usual, we're following the leader:
"We now have Iran. It’s alleged to have a nuclear weapons program.
And yet the International Atomic Energy Agency, the inspectors who have had full access to the sites in Iran, have come out and said, “Well, we can’t say that there isn’t a secret program that we don’t know about.
What we can say, as a direct result of our investigations, there is no data whatsoever to sustain the Bush administration's claims that there is a nuclear weapons program.”
And yet, the Bush administration once again is putting the onus on Iran, saying, “It’s not up to the inspectors to find the nuclear weapons program. It’s up to the Iranians to prove that one doesn’t exist.”
Why do we go down this path? Because you can’t prove a negative."
(Scott Ritter, former UN arms inspector)
"Gulf countries are able to defend themselves against Iran... we have the military strength and capability," he told Al Hayat newspaper.
Is there something I missed? Are we now expected to believe that like Saddam Hussein was allegedly readying himself for a large scale nuclear assault (and we know how that story panned out), Iran too is doing the same?
Of course, as per usual, we're following the leader:
"We now have Iran. It’s alleged to have a nuclear weapons program.
And yet the International Atomic Energy Agency, the inspectors who have had full access to the sites in Iran, have come out and said, “Well, we can’t say that there isn’t a secret program that we don’t know about.
What we can say, as a direct result of our investigations, there is no data whatsoever to sustain the Bush administration's claims that there is a nuclear weapons program.”
And yet, the Bush administration once again is putting the onus on Iran, saying, “It’s not up to the inspectors to find the nuclear weapons program. It’s up to the Iranians to prove that one doesn’t exist.”
Why do we go down this path? Because you can’t prove a negative."
(Scott Ritter, former UN arms inspector)
