'We don't need bomb,' Iran's leader says

As reported here, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Thursday that Tehran doesn't need atomic weapons, and he is "at a loss" about what more he can do to prove that. Well, here's at least one thing I agree on with the lunatic running the Iranian asylum, and that is that Iran does not need nuclear weapons, even though they want to have nuclear weapons. as for being at a loss as to "what more he can to do to prove that" they are not seeking nuclear weapons capability, how about complying with ALL of the UN Resolutions regarding your nuclear activities, to begin with, and allow IAEA inspectors complete and unfettered access to ALL of your facilities engaged in nuclear research. That might help, don't you think?

Ahmadinejad said his country has not hidden anything and was working within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Not according to not only the UN and IAEA, but some of your own people have publicly stated that Iran has been doing work in secret for decades! That kind of belies your statement, don't you think?

The facts are plain. Iran doesn't need nuclear weapons, but wants them. Iran secretly worked on developing nuclear technology for decades, keeping the IAEA in the dark about their activities, and recently boasted about this. Iranian officials continue to say one thing to the Western powers and the UN relying on the UN to take them at their word and the Western powers to be spineless (a strategy that has proven so far to be effective, I might add), then - sometimes on the very same day, no less - say something completely opposite to their own people to stir up Iranian nationalistic fervor.

Two things need to happen, and I don't hold out much hope for either. The UN and the Western powers need to get tough with Iran, give them specific instructions on what to do with a list of consequences if Iran doesn't comply and mean it, and Iran has to be completely open and honest about their nuclear ambitions.

Unfortunately, neither is likely to happen in the near future.