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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22684)	3/18/2005 2:49:03 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80997

Gus > "The Americans are trying to create an environment so the US can hit Iran," one diplomat said. "And I don't think the Europeans would ultimately accept this." I'm beginning to think if they wanted to they should have done so already like Israel did in Iraq in 1981. But, as this article points out, it didn't delay the Iraqi nuclear program. ssc.upenn.edu >>Having failed to secure a replacement reactor, Iraq turned to uranium enrichment programs in order to acquire weapons grade nuclear material. The natural uranium Iraq had already acquired (250 tons in 1981) and all further uranium it could acquire on the open market could be enriched on Iraqi soil and developed into nuclear weapons. There was no longer a need for a reactor. So in the long term, the Israeli attack did not delay the nuclear weapons program - it accelerated it by stimulating a sense of domestic political urgency. As a country living in an anarchic international system and facing an intense security dilemma, Iraq was compelled to expand its program and to identify Israel as a direct threat. << So, I don't think they are going to do it for some while and the fact that they put one of the biggest hawks in the bank indicates to me that I may be right.