Quote Originally Posted by Zonyc
I love how the U.S can openly possess nuclear technology, but no one else is allowed to. The Iranian government has repeatedly made compromise offers to place strict limits on its nuclear program beyond what the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Additional Protocol legally require of Iran, in order to ensure that the program cannot be secretly diverted to the manufacture of weapons. As for the intel that the US has provided to the United Nations IAEA about Iran's nuclear program, most of it has proven to be inaccurate, and none of it has led to significant discoveries in Iran.

The US Nuclear Posture Review which was made public for any citizen in the world to read envisioned the use of nuclear weapons on a first strike basis, even against non-nuclear armed states. The US has repeatedly refused to rule out nuclear first strikes against non-nuclear opponents. This policy is in clear violation of the US Negetive Security Assurance, which pledged not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear members of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) of which Iran is a part of. So if the US doesnt want to abide by the rules, why should anyone else have to? So the current administration's stance in the world playground (IMO) is either you become our bitch, or we'll nuke you. I suppose the one good thing that has come from this "war on terror" is that I can now buy cheap goods from the states!
I am so amused by people who think that since the U.S. has nuclear weapon capabilities that any and all countries should be allowed to have them as well. This is 1st grade logic, plain & simple. Countries run by dictators should NOT be allowed to have nuclear programs that be used for weapons of mass distruction. Period. It's unfortunate that Canadians are so obsessed with U.S. politics that that they are unable to hold their own government reponsible for border security and the security of North America.

The U.S. government has alot wrong with it, but unless other countries are willing to do their part, then their concerns are pretty much irrelevant as to what we need to do do keep ourselves safe.

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