Why Iran needs nuclear weapons

Should I believe Bush or Iran? Last time I believed Bush but Saddam was telling the truth. If Iran isn’t trying to build nuclear weapons, it should be.

Iraq was no treat to the U.S. Iraq had no Navy, no Air Force, and their Army was so weakened by UN sanctions the Louisville Police could have handled them. North Korea is a formidable military threat with weapons of mass destruction.

Weak and defenseless Iraq experiences daily bombings losing 100,000 citizens, half women and children. Trying to blackmail them, Iraqi prisoners were sexually humiliated. Others were murdered by U.S. soldiers.

Stronger and more threatening North Korea was not attacked. We are offering them financial and economic support to cooperate. Iranians are not fools. North Korea is getting a much better deal than Iraq.

Our very different treatment of Iraq and North Korea was predicted 50 years ago. To keep the peace after WWII, U.S. and USSR diplomats formulated the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) policy. MAD called for both sides to have offensive nuclear weapons with virtually no defense. The logic was that one nation would not attack the other if it realized the other could retaliate. The policy worked. Neither the U.S. nor USSR attacked the other and we are now allies.

While I really don’t want Iran to become a nuclear nation, it is their only logical option. To protect its citizens from the violence of the Bush neocons, Iran must emulate North Korea and develop a nuclear deterrence.