You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
International-UN-NGOs
Iran Backs Baradei as IAEA Director for Another Term
2005-06-13
Iran has for the first time expressed its support for the re-election of International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed Baradei, hailing what it said was a "consensus" against the United States. "We hope that he is elected again because there is a consensus about him and America has been isolated," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters. Since February 2003, Baradei has been leading a probe of Iran's nuclear program, and Tehran was subsequently forced to acknowledged it had hidden its sensitive activities from the UN's nuclear watchdog for close to two decades. Baradei, 62, has said the "jury is still out" on whether Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons, resisting pressure from the United States which insists the country has been using an atomic energy drive as a cover for weapons development.
Posted by:Fred

#10  I hate it when MFing trolls won't at least aknowledge the HAND. It's so f***ing typical that they just can't be nice even for a F***ing second.

Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-13 15:56  

#9  TG - You repeated yourself there, oh Master Of Doom - with a Minor in Attempted Sarcasm.

Invasion? You believe that is the only option? Sigh. There are, at least, five. Where to begin? Ah, at the beginning, of course.

Y'know, this may surprise you, but Rantburg was here before your showed up. So were many other sites which pay close attention to important events. Many many stories and comments have passed into the archives. If you'd like to know what's going on, you could start reading. Better make it a nice comfy chair - you're about 2-3 YEARS behind the curve. Many have speculated exactly how Iran would be "handled", but it's only speculation, although based upon military experience (in many cases), knowledge that we do, indeed, have limited resources, and common sense. You seem to be hobbled by your lack of two of those.

There are other approaches, other means, other plans. You could start here, if you'd like - and think that those who post here can't possibly know more about it than you.

You could learn about the "Sense of the Congress", too. See Senate SCON 81 and House HCON 308. The resolution is quite clear, was recognized by cognizant beings well before your bedtime, and is already on the books.

HAND*

* Have A Nice Day. And fuck the fuck off - it's not my duty to educate you, it's yours.
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 15:40  

#8  TG, did you draw the Troll lot for today in your Coffee Coven for the Current Events Challeneged?
Okay, genius, let's pretend... you be the President and present to Congress and to the American people all the assorted types of evidence you have that Iran is developing nuclear weaponry and also where Iran has these WMD. Keep in mind that you have already gone once to the same people with the claim about Iraq and WMD which was later found to be based on faulty intel - not your fault- but Congress and the Amerocan people are "once bitten twice shy" as the saying goes...Go ahead, pretend you're Prez and give us all the evidence you've got to invade another nation, all the while that you are conducting 2 wars already abroad. Let's hear your untroll-like genius for sequential thought...how do you get from A to Z? "A" being feelings, intuitions, payback for the Iranian Revolution to "Z" outright invasion of Iran's sovereignity all the while keeping the faith of your allies, whose help you desperately need to keep the other 2 war fronts going....and let's not forget, currently 6 out of 10 Americans have doubts about the Iraq War and your party is facing re-election in 2006, so some Republicans like Lindsay and Jones and Martinez and Hagel and others have already bolted to the "questioning" side... let's hear you make a persuasive argument to invade yet another country ....
Posted by: Thotch Glesing2372   2005-06-13 15:18  

#7  This should tell us all that we need to know about ElBaradei - he is an enabler for Islamofascist nukes. The Moslems know it. Kofi knows it. We keep ignoring it at the cost of future nuke explosions in Israel and the USA.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2005-06-13 13:20  

#6  This IAEA situation was mishandled, IMO. There should've been an alternative candidate offered since ElBaradei is utterly useless and, quite likely, complicit / compromised.

TG, did you draw the Troll lot for today in your Coffee Coven for the Current Events Challeneged?
Posted by: .com   2005-06-13 09:48  

#5  Immaterial whether Baradei or even Sean Penn is the director. Do you all really think we are going to depend on the UN to tell us whether Iran has a nuclear weapons ambition, program and testing protocol? Hell, no! Only if Kerry had been elected President was that even a remote possibility.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2005-06-13 09:10  

#4  How much evidence is enough, TG? Some of the Nazi evidence just surfaced this year. Saddam fooled everyone, including his own sons. Read the WMD report - the son charged with throwing back the infidels went to Saddam and asked him to release the chemical agents.
Posted by: Bobby   2005-06-13 07:56  

#3  We need better evidence of Iran's atomic weaponry development than what we used for Iraq's WMD program

Agreed. Let's send USMC/CSI in to get it.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-06-13 07:33  

#2  United States which insists the country has been using an atomic energy drive as a cover for weapons development.
We need better evidence of Iran's atomic weaponry development than what we used for Iraq's WMD program ie. ex-patriates who have not been home for 30 years (Chalabi style grifters).
Posted by: Thotch Glesing2372   2005-06-13 01:39  

#1  Baradei, 62, has said the "jury is still out" on whether Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons...

Meaning: Tehran's check hasn't cleared.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-06-13 00:49  

00:00