This is an article that I read a while back (before this thread was created) that rung true for this particular topic:
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Originally Posted by Washington Post
Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined.
"The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with these conclusions," said a senior official who discussed the still-confidential findings on the condition of anonymity.
Scientists from the United States, France, Japan, Britain and Russia met in secret during the past nine months to pore over data collected by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to U.S. and foreign officials. Recently, the group, whose existence had not been previously reported, definitively matched samples of the highly enriched uranium -- a key ingredient for a nuclear weapon -- with centrifuge equipment turned over by the government of Pakistan.
Iran has long contended that the uranium traces were the result of contaminated equipment bought years ago from Pakistan. But the Bush administration had pointed to the material as evidence that Iran was making bomb-grade ingredients.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082201447.html
The conclusion of people that know more about uranium than I'll ever know is that it's not Iranian, and it clearly belongs to Pakistan.
I'm still not sure what the point is here. Is the US government still going to try and gain control of Iran like we have, rather unsuccessfuly, in Iraq? Is that really something we're willing to go through again?
Bush Administration: "They're bad and they can hurt us!!
We have proof!!!!"
Intelligence and scientific community: "Um,
no and no."
Bush Administration: "No seriously, they're bad and can hurt us...
see the proof?"
Intelligence and scientific community: "Seriously, that's not proof. That's called innuendo and suspician. It's rather different than proof."
Bush Administration: "Here we go!!!" *cue Ride of the Valkyries as gun ships and bombers strike inncent civilians*
3 months later
Bush Administration: "
We have liberated the people!!!!"
Everyone: "You didn't say we were going to free peope, you said they were going to kill us."
Here we are again in a situation where the currrent administration is saying that an oil rich, middle eastern country poses a serious threat to the US an our allies, despite proof to the contrary. Plans are being formulated and propoganda is being spun wildily.
Can we please just leave them alone? If the UN wants to investigate Iran, let them. The US has absolutely nothing to do with the situation, and is still transparent in it's rue purpouses. There are no nuclear weapons. Iran poses no threat to the US.