Who would have guessed it?
(Reuters)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted the US and capitalism during his speech in Copenhagen. He urged the world to embrace nuclear power.
Sky News reported:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has lashed the US as an oil-addicted warmonger and insisted all nations should have access to renewable energy sources.
‘For about a century, oil has constituted the basic and strategic components of US security foreign policy, the same role it played for the previous empires,’ Ahmadinejad said at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen on Thursday.
‘During this period, oil-rich regions of the world became the theatres of wars and military adventurism that led to foreign domination on their energy resources.’
The United States, he said, gobbled up a quarter of the world’s oil and energy supplies yet had only five per cent of the world’s population.
‘Almost 40 per cent of the total motor vehicles of the world are moving in this country by occupying and controlling oil wells in other countries.
‘The country’s military budget is almost equivalent to the military budgets of the majority of countries altogether, and it has an active presence in all armed conflicts and wars in the world.’
Ahmadinejad’s attack was the core piece of an argument whereby he laid blame for damaging climate change on capitalism and the rush to exploit cheap and plentiful fossil fuels.
Among solutions, he said ‘all countries’ had to gain access to nuclear power to help ease the greenhouse-gas emissions that stoke global warming.
December 18th, 2009 | 7:33 am | #1
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December 18th, 2009 | 8:30 am | #2
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December 18th, 2009 | 9:06 am | #3
Don’t ‘ya just love it when monkeys like Mahmoud and Hugo bash capitalism when at the same time have their hands out for some cash that was produced from the fruits of capitalism?
December 18th, 2009 | 12:20 pm | #4
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Iranian Scorecard
The Administration opposes a bipartisan sanctions bill.
[• Diplomacy. In October, the U.S. and its allies offered to enrich Iran's uranium in facilities outside the country, supposedly for the production of medical isotopes. The idea was that doing so would at least reduce Iran's growing stockpile of uranium and thus postpone the day when it would have enough to rapidly build a bomb.
[uh, Bush & Putin tried that back in 05 i believe..]
Tehran finally came back with a counterproposal late last week, in which no uranium would leave Iranian soil. Even Hillary Clinton admits it’s a nonstarter: “I don’t think anyone can doubt that our outreach has produced very little in terms of any kind of positive response from the Iranians,” the Secretary of State told reporters.
Given those remarks, we would have imagined that Mrs. Clinton would take it as good news that on Tuesday the House voted 412-12 in favor of a new round of unilateral sanctions on Iran. The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act would forbid any company that does energy business with Iran from having access to U.S. markets.
Instead, last week Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg wrote to Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry urging that the Senate postpone taking up the House bill. “I am concerned that this legislation, in its current form, might weaken rather than strengthen international unity and support for our efforts,” wrote Mr. Steinberg.
So let’s see: Iran spurns every overture from the U.S. and continues to develop WMD while abusing its neighbors. In response, the Administration, which had set a December deadline for diplomacy, now says it opposes precisely the kind of sanctions it once promised to impose if Iran didn’t come clean, never mind overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress. For an explanation of why Iran’s behavior remains unchanged, look no further.]
imho there’s not much more they can do other than
what they STOPPED BUSH FROM DOING.. gah!!
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December 18th, 2009 | 1:01 pm | #5
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December 18th, 2009 | 5:08 pm | #6
How about this apocalyptic view:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/12/iran_could_be_developing_hydro.asp
The gist of the article is that Iran is doing WAY much more than is necessary to merely “build a basic nuclear weapon … akin to the Fat Man or Little Boy bombs detonated in 1945″. They posit that “Iran may be skipping basic, cumbersome nuclear designs and moving straight to a fully deliverable hydrogen style weapon akin to what’s employed by the United States and Russia.”
I sure hope they’re just ginning up readership by using sensationalism…. but… I’m relatively sure that Ahmadinejad is barking-batnuts crazy, and I’m also willing to believe that he’d try for an H-bomb if he thought he could get it.
December 18th, 2009 | 11:42 pm | #7
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