How far are you willing to go to prevent Iran from getting nukes?

[Junkdrawer]

Poll question: How far are you willing to go to prevent Iran from getting nukes?

[Blackhatjack]

1. No matter how hard we try, Iran will end up with nuclear technology....

... as long as there are countries like N.Korea, Pakistan and India with the technology, we will never keep it out of the hands of the Iranians forever.

Negotiation is the only way to head off putting that knowledge and information to use in building nuclear bombs.

[DemoDemoCratCrat]

6. Negotiating from ?

How is it possible to have negotiation as your final, worst-case step? Don't you have to be prepared to do something worse that makes negotiation an attractive option for your adversary? Answering "negotiation" in this poll doesn't make sense because that should be the first step, but the question was what is the last step.

[Junkdrawer]

7. My point is that serious give-and-take negotiations are almost never...

discussed.

It's always a question of how far militarily we're willing to go.

Did you see the former CIA analyst whose OpEd was censored by the White House? He said Iran was talking seriously with us and even helped us in Afghanistan...until we put them in the axis of evil and then we offered support for the MeK guerrillas.

[flaminbats]

14. excellent points!

America and it's allies will never have a monopoly on nuclear power.

Are these Republicans living in the real world..or do they really believe that anyone who questions this administration is just an immoral traitor who has no stake in our country's future?

This administration never had a strategy in Iraq, so how is Bush's proposal an improvement on the old strategy? Republicans love to attack liberals for opposing Bush's war on terrorism...but what have the Bush followers given up to win? Since Bush has been President Republicans have whined for lower taxes, less criticism, and more unity. But when Clinton was President neocons insisted that our troops only be deployed with an exit strategy, that gun laws were unpatriotic, and that the White House only weakened our security. Where has that criticism gone since 9/11?

[Jim__]

2. Ban all nuclear weapons - for everybody.

Then set up an international regimen for enforcement of the ban.

If we didn't have nuclear weapons but lots of other countires did, would we accept that?

[me b zola]

12. Bingo!

All nuclear weapons should be banned, regardless of nation.

[stillcool]

3. why don't we just give them one of ours...

after we break up the middle-east and re-create it our image.

[Nutmegger]

4. Should India, a non NNPT member, have nukes? Should we bomb them?

Oh wait, we're giving them nukes for mangoes. Oh I see. :crazy:

[stansnark]

13. they've had the bomb since 1974

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Are the people voting for violence...

planning on enlisting any time soon?

[MadHound]

8. Frankly at this point, I am not willing to do a damn thing

Seeing as that Iran is at least ten years away from developing a nuke. In addition, every single inspector that has gone over there flatly states that Iran isn't enriching uranium beyond five percent, typical fuel enrichment. There is no evidence that there has been any enrichment beyond that, and weapons grade material needs to be enriched at least eighty five percent.

There is absolutely no threat of a nuclear armed Iran. However all of this BS being directed Iran's way is doing one thing, it is solidifying support behind Ahmadinejad. If we want this man to go away, stop beating the war drums and let he fade into irrelavance. His election to the presidency is directly related to the West's continued hostility towards Iran. Cease this hostility, and we will probably see a much more secular, democratic regime in Iran.

[H2O Man]

9. My wish is that

no country in the Middle East would have WMD. That includes Iran. I'm not sure that the case can be made that President Bush and VP Cheney have the moral authority to point fingers at other countries at this point in time. Hence, what I think is most important right now is to work towards getting a strong democratic ticket elected in '08. It is also important, in my humble view, to advocate that Congress immediately begin the investigations needed to jump-start the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

When we begin to make progress in those areas, we will be in a better position to have the US move in a rational way towards dealing with the many overlapping problems in the Middle East.

[Junkdrawer]

10. We need to people like Flynt Leverett back on the job...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/opinion/22leverett.html?ex=1168405200&en=c208ab9cfb77e949&ei=5070

[Poiuyt]

11. This is just like Iraq and WMD

Just having weapons isn't bad. It's having them with the intention of imminent malicious attack. Unless we show that an attack is about to happen, then no one has the authority to attack them.

Is there any international law or U.N. sanction that says that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons?

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[HuffleClaw]

16. you forgot, 'not a damn single thing'

[oblivious]

18. What's the term for people who vote for war but don't sign up to fight themselves?

[RoyGBiv]

19. Wanna see something funny?

An ad sponsored by US energy companies seeking support for building nuclear power plants.

From the 1970's.

[Junkdrawer]

20. I saw that. It's priceless....

Shah: Lots of Oil + Nuclear energy = Forward thinking Leadership

Mullahs: 30 years less Oil + Nuclear energy = They're going to nuke Israel

[High Plains]

21. I'd go as far as the corner 7-11, but that's about it.