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| The PU: Its Too Early For Sanctions On Iran |
| 2006-09-01 |
| The European Union said Friday it was too early to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment by a U.N.-imposed deadline, and announced it would be meeting early next week with Iran's top nuclear negotiator. Ouch! That smell, smells like burn weasal "For the EU, diplomacy remains the No. 1 way forward," said Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency. He told a news conference "this is not the time or place" for the international community to hit Iran with sanctions over its nuclear program. Iran defied a Thursday U.N. Security Council deadline to stop uranium enrichment, raising the prospect of U.N. economic and other sanctions. In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that his country would not be bullied into giving up what he called Iran's right to nuclear technology. U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday that Iran has responded with defiance and delay to demands to stop enriching uranium. In Russia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Moscow regrets Iran's decision, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would propose ways to resolve the standoff, suggesting that strong sanctions would be counterproductive, Russian news agencies said. Tuomioja said if Iran indeed seeks negotiations, "then we have to see what the conditions are." |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #9 Exactly, trailing wife. Although there have been massive bombings in Madrid and in London, the vast majority of Europeans don't think there is any need for the War on Terror, because they simply don't want to see what is happening at this precise moment with radical islam, either in far countries or in the French suburbs. For them, the WoT is just an artifact of the "American paranoia". They don't want to understand that the Islamonazis would be happy to slice their throats; they prefer to prepare their retirement (retirement is the principal French passion), and to work as little as possible (Parisians are very good at this). But what's the use of getting good retirement benefits, if you are dead, your throat sliced ? |
| Posted by: leroidavid 2006-09-01 21:09 |
| #8 Thank you for reporting from the belly of the beast, leroidavid. itÂ’s only possible to fight back AFTER the genocide has been committed !!! That's the kind of thing said by one who doesn't believe that really bad things will be permitted to happen to him. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-09-01 20:28 |
| #7 Nothing can be expected from the EU, and particularly from the disgusting Scandinavians: Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish people are strongly anti-American and anti-Israeli, like almost all the Europeans. The only European people and leaders who don't buy this cowardly appeasement are the Poles, the Czechs and the Hungarians, because they have recently tasted what totalitarianism is; but they have no weigh in the EU foreign policy. For the Old Europe people, it will never be the time nor place to stand up and to fight bloody dictators and mass murderers, even if those pathological slaughterers have clearly stated they are planning worldwide massacres. All day long, here in Paris, I am speaking to stupid blind pretentious Frenchies (from plumbers to diplomats, and from journalists to scientists) who are sure that Ahmadidjihad isn't dangerous, but that fighting him would be very dangerous. I have tried many time to open their eyes, during lengthy arguings, but it's like trying to shake the Himalaya. A lot of those idiotic Frenchies asserted that pre-emption is always wrong, because you can't fight against something that has not yet occured... When I reminded them that Ahmadikiller has said many times he wants to "wipe Israel from the map" (and then Paris, London and Berlin), and asked them if self-defence against a planned genocide would be right, most of them bluntly answered that itÂ’s only possible to fight back AFTER the genocide has been committed !!! No need to say that at this point, I usually stop arguing and leave, because I would otherwise spit on them. The only moment those retarded fools will agree to fight back is after they have been killed. |
| Posted by: leroidavid 2006-09-01 18:30 |
| #6 It would be interesting to start a thread on what the folks here think will be the results of multiple nuclear strikes on America. Thousands of square miles of smoking, glowing fused glass. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-01 17:02 |
| #5 Sanctions seldom accomplish anything. Years of sanctions failed in Iraq. Sanctions are unlikely to prevent a nuclear Iran. It would be interesting to start a thread on what the folks here think will be the results of multiple nuclear strikes on America. That is where we are headed. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-09-01 16:47 |
| #4 Well, if they impose sanctions now, I mean, how are they gonna blame Bush when the deranged little dwarf finally gets one? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-01 16:19 |
| #3 It's so |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-01 16:17 |
| #2 "this is not the time or place" So what is the time and place? Sounds like someone is still trying to make a profit here. suggesting that strong sanctions would be counterproductive So when would they be productive? Half men. That's why I vote to "shoot them now!". |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-09-01 16:15 |
| #1 NO wait until they have a Nuclear Weapon and then impose sanctions... that will work well! Somedays I just want to scream... Blackvenom-2001 |
| Posted by: Blackvenom-2001 2006-09-01 15:39 |