An International Program

Trent Telenko at Winds of Change notes something that bears repeating. There is an international effort underway to provide nuclear weapons to dictatorships. North Korea and Iran are cooperating. These are things I have been saying all along, incidentally.

Given the the joint international nature of North Korea's nuclear program, Iran will have an arsenal of tested nuclear missile warheads for its ballistic missile arsenal of Chinese design and North Korean construction in 30-90 days after that test.

President Bush's rhetorical gauntlet, thrown down in recent speeches, for taking military action to prevent Iran's acquisition of a nuclear arsenal has just gotten a very short time limit. Assuming Iran doesn't already have operational nukes, as some Israeli intelligence officials believe.

This is about far more than Iran. I said this previously here on Winds about the international nature of Iran's nuclear program:

The government’s assumption that an American bombing campaign, no matter how successful, will slow down Iran’s nuclear program enough to buy time for a nonsensical regime change by revolution concept (no one outside the desperate-to-believe in fairy-tales idiots in D.C. believes the U.S. intelligence community can foment a successful revolution in Iran) would be laughable if so many lives were not at stake. Iran’s nuclear program is not a NATIONAL PROGRAM. It is an INTERNATIONAL ONE. As long as North Korea serves as an invulnerable sanctuary supplying ballistic missiles and nuclear fissile material to Iran in exchange for oil, Iran will get nukes

The people who are intent on damaging the president of the United States for internal partisan purposes are being profoundly myopic. They fail to see that the are damaging the US itself when they continue this relentless barrage of hatred toward the sitting president. Perhaps it would be a good thing for the Democrats to consider exactly what world situation they would inherit if they continue in the manner they are. Then act to disassociate from the fringe elements rather than rushing to embrace them.

We have an international problem. It is not George Bush, folks.