Iran is accused of 'wanting' a threatening nuke program. What about us?

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All of the talk about bombing Iran to keep them from getting nukes and threatening distracts from our own abandonment of the international non-proliferation agreement to build more nuclear weapons and resume testing. The Bush regime doesn't care. They've gone so long without anyone in a position to hold them accountable that the neo-zombies can't resist wagging their finger at Iran for testing missiles. Never mind that last month in a committee hearing, our Intelligence director Negroponte, admitted the missiles were for the defense of Iran's borders from foreign invasion. Never mind that we're set to explode a 'bunker-busting' bomb in the Nevada desert in June. Never mind that America is occupying two nations we don't have any purchase on, save the threat of our military forces . . .

Washington - Iran's testing of a new missile, coupled with its effort to develop nuclear weapons, shows the country has taken a more aggressive military stance in the region, the United States said Friday.

'It demonstrates that Iran has a very active and aggressive military programme under way,' US State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1151618.php/Missile_test_shows_aggressive_nature_of_Iranian_regime_US_says

we could take out 'Iran' from the report and replace it with 'America':



There's gonna be a 'MUSHROOM CLOUD OVER LAS VEGAS'

WASHINGTON -- A government official's comment that a 700-ton blast scheduled June 2 at the Nevada Test Site would send a "mushroom cloud over Las Vegas" set off a firestorm on Thursday even though state officials signed off on the experiment in January.

Talking to reporters at the Pentagon, James Tegnelia, chief of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, said, "I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons."
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Tegnelia said the test, called "Divine Strake," is part of an effort to develop weapons that can destroy underground bunkers storing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.



And this from Jimmy Carter:



"..Our government has abandoned the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and spent more than $80 billion on a doubtful effort to intercept and destroy incoming intercontinental missiles, with annual costs of about $9 billion. We have also forgone compliance with the previously binding limitation on testing nuclear weapons and developing new ones, with announced plans for earth-penetrating "bunker busters," some secret new "small" bombs, and a move toward deployment of destructive weapons in space.

Another long-standing policy has been publicly reversed by our threatening first use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. These decisions have aroused negative responses from NPT signatories, including China, Russia and even our nuclear allies, whose competitive alternative is to upgrade their own capabilities without regard to arms control agreements."


the whole pot/kettle thing

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