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Cathie From Canada has a good summery of the Iran situation. But I am still not convinced the Bush administration is that idiotic. The Irani people are largely pro-American with a anti-American government (this is the complete opposite of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.) Most Irani reformers such as Shirin Ebadi are very opposed to any American attack because the hardliners would just be like- see this is where pansy liberal appeasement has gotten us with the United States.

Most conservatives love nuclear power so I am not sure why they are against Iran having a legal and peaceful program. I mean 30 years ago Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfield all saw the need for Iran to have a nuclear program. The main difference I can see is that American companies no longer stand to gain billions of dollars from a Irani nuclear program.

Iran's leaders may be uber right wing which probably explains their full support of the war in Afghanistan and their preference of Republican administrations over Democratic ones but at least they haven’t started any pre-empted invasions of any countries lately. If the Bush administration stops being stupid then the Iranian leaders will lose nationalist support and their 'national security' calls will lose much of their credibility. It is only a matter of time until the Iranian will lose the theocratic part of their democracy. But most of them probably won’t want the sort of democracy that allows American companies free rein in Iran. That might be hard to do- the last time they had a nationalist democratic government it was overthrown by a CIA backed coup leading to the Shah. Apparently a secular dictator is what the States are looking for.

For the conclusion here is a blast from the past.