On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:11:56PM +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: > but then I am not Iranian. If I was, I would probably think it was a > damn fine idea, and do my best to make it happen cos, as North Korea > seems to demonstrate, once you have them, then the Big Bad Yankees > leave you alone.
Perhaps if you were a stupid Iranian, you might have that opinion. Otherwise, you would realize that Iran is not by any stretch of the imagination a democracy, so if Iran had nuclear weapons, they would be under the control of the oppressive, and possibly insane, religious leaders of the country. Who are quite capable of starting a nuclear war with a force that would wipe Iran totally off the map in such a war. No, sane Iranians would NOT want nuclear weapons until they have a stable democracy in their country. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
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