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Peter123...Sanctioins and World pressure are really working. Posted yesterday.

"Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a diagram obtained by The Associated Press".

Georgie...Not to be concerned. Obama Administration will talk to them.

"DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will go on refining uranium "with intensity" and the number of enrichment centrifuges it has operating will rise substantially in the current year, the country's nuclear energy chief was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

The comments by Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, signaled continued defiance in the face of international demands that Tehran halt enrichment to the higher 20 percent fissile purity level, close down its Fordow enrichment plant, and ship out its stockpile of the material."

"BANDAR ABBAS, Nov. 28 -- Two domestically-made submarines in the classes of Qadir and two domestically-manufactured hovercrafts in the classes of SR.N6 and BH7 were delivered to the Iranian Navy fleet on Wednesday during a ceremony held in the Persian Gulf port city of Bandar Abbas."

They are capable of launching missles. Iran also deploys Frigates that have the same capabiliies. All for peaceful means. Before WWII, Japan and Germany built up their Military while the rest of the world protested.

First, sorry for the delay in these replies... work has kept me busy. Only a bit of time to reply now...

WFB, which aspects of President Bush's life are you complaining about having examined? The National Guard commitments which allowed him to avoid being drafted for Vietnam, which were then pushed around to allow him to do political work? His business entanglements? Those are clearly fair targets for press scrutiny. And President Obama's connections were also examined. You know the name Ayers, and we all heard about his troubling real estate deals with Tony Rezko back in 2008. We also heard nonsense about the schools he attended in Indonesia. Looks like Obama was investigated, too. And if we see his transcripts, there will be another target.

Or are you complaining that Bush never got a free pass from the press on his policies? Like when we went to war on the credit card, exploding deficits wouldn't have been there without the tax cuts? Or claims of weapons of mass destruction? I don't recall Dick Cheney being hit in the press nearly as badly for his comments about the deficit not mattering during good times as President Obama is for a deficit during a bad recession, while mainstream economics tells us a boom is the time for austerity. President Bush had at least a year of a free pass after Al Qaida attacked.

Geno, what is it you want in Iran? Economic sanctions take time to work. It's a stick used to push changes in other areas. Hard-liners on the right don't want diplomatic negotiations with Iran, and the economic sanctions aren't good enough. If you don't convince them and you don't push them economically, it requires military action. What would you prefer be done in Iran? A general direction is ok (no specifics required), because it looks to me like the available levers are being used to push them.