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To: PROLIFE who wrote (747778)	8/16/2006 10:01:08 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Bravo, Blair INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 8/15/2006 WMD: So Tony Blair tried to oust Mohammed el-Baradei as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Anyone who doesn't want to see nukes used by terrorists should be thankful. A British newspaper, Scotland on Sunday, obtained classified British government documents showing that Prime Minister Blair tried to prevent the Egyptian IAEA head from serving for an unprecedented third term. And Blair did this last year while el-Baradei was negotiating with Iran regarding its uranium-enrichment program. But el-Baradei has the strong support of many other countries and continues to serve today. The standard line about Nobel Peace laureate el-Baradei, swallowed whole by many European diplomats, is that this wonderful moderate Muslim Arab is exactly the kind of man who can coax Islamofascists like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into becoming civilized and abandoning Iran's nuclear program. The truth couldn't be more different: • El-Baradei actually fired his head investigator for Iran, Chris Charlier, at the request of the Iranian government earlier this year, the German newspaper Die Welt reported last month. Charlier, a Belgian, says he was relegated to office work at IAEA headquarters in Vienna. • El-Baradei may not have liked Charlier's strongly held belief that Iran is covering up elements of its nuclear program. "Wherever we went, whatever we did, they always followed us," Charlier told Die Welt, "monitoring us with video cameras and capturing every single one of our conversations. Never letting us out of their sight for a second, watching everything over our shoulder. . . . How the devil were we supposed to rationally do our work?" • Charlier believes el-Baradei is giving in "to the extortion of Tehran." • The U.S. State Department launched its campaign to oust el-Baradei after intelligence reports in 2004 discovered him to be coaching the Iranian government on the niceties of international nuclear treaties. • The Bush administration monitored dozens of el-Baradei's phone calls with Iranian diplomats. Some officials familiar with their content conclude that el-Baradei is simply soft on Iran. • El-Baradei believes it to be an "unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security." That's exactly the kind of fantasyland thinking of those who supported unilateral disarmament in the face of the Soviet Union's nuclear threat during the Cold War. Blair's enemies are crowing that they've discovered another example of his being the poodle of the U.S. Blair is — like President Bush — a visionary who will be recorded by history as doing all he could to preserve civilization against a new, lethal threat. In opposing el-Baradei, he and the Bush administration are saving us from the naive thinking of Euro-diplomats who think every problem has a peaceful solution — even when they're dealing with madmen.