Bush Still Tolling Bell for Iran
It’s possible everything that can be written about the U.S. Supreme Court’s protection of violent child rapists will be written before I get my chance but I can’t let this post on supressing nuclear weapon proliferation go another day.
Please go read my June 3, 2008 post. Really, go ahead, I’ll wait ‘til you’re done before I continue. C’mon, it’s just a few posts down, go read it!
(While you were gone I was listening to O.A.R.’s “Hey Girl” live version; I had way more fun as I wasn’t reading Boston Globe trash.)
So, on June 2, 2008, the Boston Globe wrote, “The public's anger at Ahmadinejad for his disastrous economic policies has now found expression in the upper reaches of Iran's power elite. Larijani can be expected to castigate Ahmadinejad not only for measures that drive up inflation and unemployment but also for making truculent public statements that increase Iran's isolation and subject it to crippling banking sanctions.”
In an editorial on June 21, the hate-Bush-all-the-time Boston Globe wrote, “The only responsible US policy at this point is to engage directly with Iran, to determine if there is any package of political and economic rewards its leaders will accept as compensation for forgoing nuclear weapons.”
Yes, you read that correctly, the Boston Globe wants to "reward" Iran.
Next and finally, I’m not kidding, this was in a news story, in its entirety, buried in the Boston Globe from June 24 that the Globe picked up from the Washington Post:
Iran nuclear program faces new sanctions
Paris - The European Union approved new sanctions against Iran yesterday, including freezing the assets of its largest bank, in a continuing effort to force Tehran to curtail its nuclear development programs and fully cooperate with international inspectors.
The new measures signal growing impatience among European leaders with what they see as Iranian foot-dragging in negotiations over halting uranium enrichment. Iran says the program is purely peaceful, but many Western countries contend it is secretly geared to developing nuclear weapons.
The EU sanctions, approved yesterday at a meeting of the 27-nation bloc in Luxembourg, come on top of three sets of sanctions against Iran imposed by the United Nations Security Council in the last 18 months and a slew of sanctions levied unilaterally by the United States (read: most recently by President Bush) over the last two decades.
The new measures include an asset freeze on Bank Melli, Iran's largest bank, and other businesses connected to the country's nuclear and weapons programs, and a travel ban on high-level Iranian officials involved in those fields, according to an EU official who declined to be quoted by name. The identities of the businesses and officials, who will be denied visas to EU countries, are to be announced today.
The United States (read: President Bush) slapped sanctions on Bank Melli - and on Bank Mellat and Bank Saderat - in October, asserting the first two institutions helped finance Iran's nuclear programs and the third financed terrorism.
Newspapers in Tehran reported last week that Iranian officials, concerned that the EU was preparing to follow suit and freeze Iranian assets, recently transferred as much as $75 billion in assets out of Europe.
The increasingly hard-line European stance complements continuing efforts by a group consisting of the United States (read: President Bush), Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany, and the EU to persuade Iran to stop enriching uranium in exchange for a package of political and economic concessions. On June 12, the group proposed wide-ranging negotiations on a broad array of issues, but stipulated as a precondition that Iran had to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, steps that could be part of a nuclear energy or weapons program. (End of Washington Post article.)
As I’ve written before, President Bush will be regarded by history as a great United States President.
Leaders lead.
It’s possible everything that can be written about the U.S. Supreme Court’s protection of violent child rapists will be written before I get my chance but I can’t let this post on supressing nuclear weapon proliferation go another day.
Please go read my June 3, 2008 post. Really, go ahead, I’ll wait ‘til you’re done before I continue. C’mon, it’s just a few posts down, go read it!
(While you were gone I was listening to O.A.R.’s “Hey Girl” live version; I had way more fun as I wasn’t reading Boston Globe trash.)
So, on June 2, 2008, the Boston Globe wrote, “The public's anger at Ahmadinejad for his disastrous economic policies has now found expression in the upper reaches of Iran's power elite. Larijani can be expected to castigate Ahmadinejad not only for measures that drive up inflation and unemployment but also for making truculent public statements that increase Iran's isolation and subject it to crippling banking sanctions.”
In an editorial on June 21, the hate-Bush-all-the-time Boston Globe wrote, “The only responsible US policy at this point is to engage directly with Iran, to determine if there is any package of political and economic rewards its leaders will accept as compensation for forgoing nuclear weapons.”
Yes, you read that correctly, the Boston Globe wants to "reward" Iran.
Next and finally, I’m not kidding, this was in a news story, in its entirety, buried in the Boston Globe from June 24 that the Globe picked up from the Washington Post:
Iran nuclear program faces new sanctions
Paris - The European Union approved new sanctions against Iran yesterday, including freezing the assets of its largest bank, in a continuing effort to force Tehran to curtail its nuclear development programs and fully cooperate with international inspectors.
The new measures signal growing impatience among European leaders with what they see as Iranian foot-dragging in negotiations over halting uranium enrichment. Iran says the program is purely peaceful, but many Western countries contend it is secretly geared to developing nuclear weapons.
The EU sanctions, approved yesterday at a meeting of the 27-nation bloc in Luxembourg, come on top of three sets of sanctions against Iran imposed by the United Nations Security Council in the last 18 months and a slew of sanctions levied unilaterally by the United States (read: most recently by President Bush) over the last two decades.
The new measures include an asset freeze on Bank Melli, Iran's largest bank, and other businesses connected to the country's nuclear and weapons programs, and a travel ban on high-level Iranian officials involved in those fields, according to an EU official who declined to be quoted by name. The identities of the businesses and officials, who will be denied visas to EU countries, are to be announced today.
The United States (read: President Bush) slapped sanctions on Bank Melli - and on Bank Mellat and Bank Saderat - in October, asserting the first two institutions helped finance Iran's nuclear programs and the third financed terrorism.
Newspapers in Tehran reported last week that Iranian officials, concerned that the EU was preparing to follow suit and freeze Iranian assets, recently transferred as much as $75 billion in assets out of Europe.
The increasingly hard-line European stance complements continuing efforts by a group consisting of the United States (read: President Bush), Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany, and the EU to persuade Iran to stop enriching uranium in exchange for a package of political and economic concessions. On June 12, the group proposed wide-ranging negotiations on a broad array of issues, but stipulated as a precondition that Iran had to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities, steps that could be part of a nuclear energy or weapons program. (End of Washington Post article.)
As I’ve written before, President Bush will be regarded by history as a great United States President.
Leaders lead.
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