Bush to talk incentives if Iran halts nuclear moves

President George W. Bush said on Thursday he would consider providing incentives to Iran if it agreed to resume a suspension on nuclear enrichment activities that the United States believes is aimed at producing a nuclear bomb.

Washington can believe whatever it wants to believe, but that doesn’t make it true; that is, unless Washington makes it true, if you catch my drift.

Bush, at a White House news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the two leaders spent a lot of time discussing strategy on how to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis.

The two B’s sure do like to waste time. They’re creating a strategy to solve a problem they’ve created in their own minds and in the minds of the British and American people.

I’ve got a solution. It’s a bit radical, but stick with me.

United States, do nothing. Britain, do nothing.

Iran says it has a right to a nuclear program, and denies U.S. accusations it is trying to create an atomic bomb. It says it only wants to enrich uranium to a level suitable for use in atomic power reactors.

“Iran must be lying! You know why? Because we say they are! That’s why! And as you know, we’re never wrong. It’s really just too bad that the WMDs never showed up. But believe us—we were right then, and we’re right now!”

Bush said one of his goals with Blair has been “to convince others in the world that Iran with a nuclear weapon would be very dangerous.”

The United States and Britain, both with their own armies, are very dangerous.

“And this fundamental question is how do you achieve that goal, obviously? We want to do it diplomatically,” he added.

So you want to use diplomacy in order to scare people into believing that Iran will get nuclear weapons? I think you’ll just further convince everyone that you and your armies and your preemptive wars are dangerous.

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