Originally Posted by roachboy

ace--let's not tip over into disengenuousness, shall we?
the iranians have claimed that their nuclear program is geared around production of electricity. the bush administration claimed that it was also geared toward production of weapon systems. the concerns about the iranian nuclear program have much to do with the latter. you know this. when the bush people were contemplating an action against iran--which they did---it was in their interest to create suspicions about the latter. which they did. the israelis, who are armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, also felt it was in their interest to make similar arguments to those of the bush people, perhaps because they were concerned about the language coming from the iranian president, perhaps because they were (are) concerned with the increasing role iran plays in supporting groups that oppose israeli colonialism. given that the israelis continue building settlements in the west bank, a coherent peace solution to the palestine matter is not in the cards, so the obvious move was to act as though the horseshit that the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" folk in the bush administration were advancing was true and reason to contemplate acting militarily. which they did.
the concerns about iran that hclinton noted from her last trip seem to me to center on this earlier dickwaving.