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To: Alighieri who wrote (212487)	12/2/2004 7:07:15 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573719

Absolutely. It must feel hypocritical. But the difference is that Israel doesn't traffic with terrorists who would use nuclear bombs to attack Western targets. Israel would never admit to having nukes much less proliferate them. Iran on the other hand is widely known to be the world's leading supporter of terrorists. They simply can not be trusted. Think of it this way. If you had two children and one has wrecked the family car 4 times in the last year, but the other is the model of responsibility with cars and has never wrecked one. Let's say you go out and buy a porsche. Would you trust the childe who has wrecked your other car or the one who has never wrecked it? This is a very simplistic thought experiment, but it goood enough. Iran has given no one in the world reason to trust it. It has broken almost every deal made with it and it consistently shows that it is not sincere at the negotiating table, by agreeing to something, then trying to renegotiate it the next day, or by saying they've declared all their nuclear facilities and then the U.N. finding undeclared facilities from intelligence on the ground. Trust is earned and it doesn't come cheaply. Iran is very far from being a benign, trusted nation in the world community.