New war brewing: U.S., Israel take dangerous steps

Opinion

Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor (New NP Highlighter not working)

Funny how Western Civilization and in particularly the USA always tout Innocent before proven guilty in the International courts.  Now I am no Big City Lawyer, but perhaps, just perhaps when Iran is saying with their burgeoning economy, increased energy needs and growing population, they need an alternative source of energy to run their country, and Nuclear power seems to fit the bill. 

It can be pretty simple to verify, send Nuclear inspectors to overlook it's construction, I mean, one would think Iran would not be adverse to Free Technical help since they do not have all the expertise in constructing one?

Iran is pretty devoid of natural energy sources such as hydro generation, oil and gas generation is polluting and real expensive.

Israel afraid of Nuclear weapons which they say will result from Iran building a Nuclear Generator, need not really fear, as I would think Iran would not be foolish to fire upon Israel when Western Missiles could take out Iran's Nuclear generator at a moments notice!  Do you really think Iran would be so foolish start a nuclear war only to end up with a Chernobyl wasteland as a uninhabitable country for the next thousand years.  I don't think so!  Iran knows that, it's citizen's know that, and I am pretty friggin sure Israel and the USA know that too.

So perhaps the World should give Iran the benefit of the doubt and let them build their Nuclear Plant.   Israel should also cool their Jets, and concentrate on more pressing local issues.  The USA should also do the same.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2008/07/05/6077376-sun.php

New war brewing

U.S., Israel take dangerous steps
By ERIC MARGOLIS

GENEVA -- The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war.

U.S. intelligence has concluded that Iran is not working on nuclear weapons. But the Bush administration and Israel, recently joined by France, are issuing increasingly loud threats of military action to frighten Iran into halting its nuclear enrichment program.

Iran insists its nuclear program is entirely for civilian use. Tehran is alternating between conciliatory statements and threats to retaliate against any attack by inflicting economic chaos on the global economy. Europe fears the economic damage a war against Iran would bring far more than Iran's nuclear program.

Senior Israeli officials are openly threatening to attack Iran's nuclear installations before President George W. Bush's term expires. Early, this month Israel staged a large, U.S.-approved exercise using F-15s and F-16s to rehearse an attack over 900 miles - precisely the distance to Iran's nuclear facilities.

The highly regarded American journalist Seymour Hersh just confirmed that the U.S. Congress authorized a $400-million plan to overthrow Iran's government and incite ethnic unrest. This column reported a year ago that U.S. and British special forces were operating in Iran, preparing for a massive air campaign. Israel's destruction of an alleged Syrian reactor last fall was a warning to Iran.