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To: SeachRE who wrote (125012)	5/28/2008 9:42:46 AM
From: Jane4IceCream	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Dos Equis, Tecate, or Corona?? Or maybe some of that Peruvian highland rum from one of those villages?? Jane

To: SeachRE who wrote (125012)	5/28/2008 1:26:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

Jimmy Carter's Centrifugal Farce By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY \| Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:20 PM PT Nuclear Proliferation: Jimmy Carter says we should talk to Tehran about dropping its nuclear program even as a new U.N. report says Iran continues to lie about it. The last thing we need is a nuclear Munich. Our worst ex-president knows a lot about talking with Iran. He once spent 444 days talking to Iran about the 52 hostages taken when Iranian thugs stormed the American embassy in Tehran on his watch. Perhaps that's why he wants to get an early start on direct talks with Iran about its nuclear weapons program. Speaking at a British festival that promotes books on current affairs and literature, Carter said "my advice to the U.S. would be to start talking to Iran now" to persuade it to abandon its nuclear work, work that Iran's loony leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said is Iran's right to pursue. Carter also estimated that Israel has at least 150 nukes. He cited Israel's arsenal as an example of how hard it is to keep a real nuclear weapons program secret, and perhaps to suggest some kind of moral (or immoral) equivalence. Carter's comments endanger Israel, which has relied on a policy of "constructive ambiguity" when it comes to its nuclear arsenal. The idea was to keep its potential foes in the dark about how big its nuclear arsenal was — or indeed, whether it even had one. That's gone now thanks to Carter, a man who abused his former top-secret security access to reveal secrets he shouldn't have. Only Jimmy Carter could believe that strengthening Iran's mullahs, who have threatened to annihilate Israel, is the way to bring peace. The fact is, the world has been talking to Iran. Indeed, Tehran's deceit about its quite-real nuclear weapons program is the reason the world has imposed sanctions. A report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the U.N. Security Council and the 35 IAEA board members on Monday said in unusually blunt language that Iran's deceit continues. The report says that "Iran has not provided the Agency with all the information, access to documents and access to individuals" needed to ascertain the true nature of Iran's nuclear activities. The IAEA says it is "of the view that Iran may have additional information, in particular on high explosives testing and missile related activities." The IAEA report contains 18 documents that have been presented to Iran for explanation. The files indicate that Iran has ventured into explosives, uranium processing and a missile warhead design, activities associated with developing a deliverable nuclear weapon. The International Herald Tribune quotes a "senior official close to the agency" as saying "there are certain parts of their nuclear program where the military seems to have played a role." He added: "We want to understand why." The new report says Iran has 3,500 functioning centrifuges, adding 500 more since February. Running efficiently, just 3,000 could produce enough nuclear material for a bomb within 18 months. Ahmadinejad said last month that Tehran was adding 6,000 more and testing a new type that worked five times faster. Some of the centrifuge components have been produced by Iran's military, according to the report. The report calls Iran's installation of new IR-2 and IR-3 centrifuges and other modifications to their nuclear facility at Natanz "significant, and as such should have been communicated to the agency." Iran is also said to be designing an underground nuclear test site and in possession of drawings on how to mold uranium metal into the shape of warheads. Under our Manhattan Project, once our plants at Hartford and Oak Ridge had produced enough weapons-grade material, it took the bomb makers of Los Alamos just six months to detonate the first nuclear weapon at Alamogordo. Nuclear weapons held by democracies as a deterrent are not dangerous or hypocritical. But a nuke in the hands of Iran is quite a different matter. It may be time to stop talking softly and to get that big stick ready.