Reuters-EU and US strike different tones on Iran (McCain in Brussels)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060429/pl_nm/nuclear_iran_eu_dc

EU and US strike different tones on Iran

1 hour, 26 minutes ago

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and the
European Union struck different tones on Saturday on how to respond to
Iran's nuclear defiance while insisting they were in full agreement.

Speaking at a transatlantic conference, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said no one was considering military action over Tehran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment and Europe did not want to join a "coalition of the willing" against Iran.

Influential U.S. Senator John McCain told the Brussels Forum in a speech on Friday night: "There is only one thing worse than military action, and that is a nuclear-armed Iran."

He said the United States would not stand by and let Iran wipe out
Israel, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinjenad had called for.

The Islamic republic, a major oil and gas producer, denies it aims to build a bomb and says its programme is purely for civilian energy purposes.

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Frigadee - let the EU take care of the East - US take care of the US

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lawdy knows there's more than just a few US citizens that could have used some them 100's of Billions of taxpayers' dollars that the USA Admin has spent on ruining other countries in the last 3 years

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2. McCain must believe that the US wouldn't mind sacrificing more US

soldiers to prevent Iran from one upping Israel. I doubt this.

He said "the United States would not stand by and let Iran wipe out
Israel, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinjenad had called for."

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3. McCain, Bush and Ahmadinjenad are all being disingenuous.

Ahmadinjenad slams Israel, Bush, McCain, Olmert growl back. But is the nation of Iran hell-bent on armageddon? Are Bush, McCain and Olmert really ready to start WW III to keep Iran from getting the bomb?

Is there something a little deeper than this rhetoric which drives them all in this very dangerous dance?

I think so: A little method in Ahmadinejad's "madness"? Political opportunism...

The above link gives a deeper political analysis than the shouting matches between nations. The truth is the fire, hiding in the smoke.

PB