Les Jones: Bush Offers Nuke Plant to Iran

June 09, 2006

Middle East > Bush Offers Nuke Plant to Iran

The Bull Moose on Bush offering a nuclear power plant to Iran if they shut down their uranium enrichment program:

Well, there you have it. After years of conservative claims that the Clinton Administration sold out to the North Koreans with the deal that gave them a nuclear reactor, the Bushies have largely replicated that bargain for the Iranians. Peace in our time!
Let us put this in perspective. If a Kerry Administration had offered this deal, there would be the equivalent of conservative rioting in the streets. An impeachment resolution would be offered. The theme of the day on talk radio would be the betrayal of America.

I'm pretty sure the Bullmoose is correct - conservatives would call this appeasement if a Democrat did it. What's more, the mini-UN or whatever it was called tried this tactic months ago and Iran rejected their proposal. I can't imagine what BushCo is thinking.

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Comments

I've tried to understand what tack it is that the administration is taking with Iran. Surely, I thought, there must be some kind of complex strategy at work here. Perhaps there is some kind of diplomatic this-n-that which we have to go through before we?... Before we what?...

But maybe it isn't complicated. Maybe we're just screwing around waiting on Iran to get a nuclear weapon.

Posted by: Christopher Range at June 09, 2006