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Old 08-21-2006, 01:43 PM   #11 (permalink)
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So you don't believe that nations have the right to persue nuclear power? I didn't realize they needed permission from Daddy.
Since when is there a right to pursue nuclear power?
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Old 08-21-2006, 02:39 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by United Nations statute establishing the International Atomic Energy Agency
The Agency shall seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world. It shall ensure, so far as it is able, that assistance provided by it or at its request or under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as to further any military purpose.

The Agency is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members, and all members – in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership – shall fulfill in good faith the obligation assumed by them in accordance with this Statute.
In other words, the IAEA and all members are to assist in the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in all member states. Therefore Iran has a right to atomic energy by international law, and in fact has the right to assistance from the IAEA and member states, so long as that energy isn't used to further military purpose. Allegations against Iran that they wish to use such technologies to build the nuclear bomb are just that, allegations.
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We have nuclear weapons. It seems pretty hypocritical to tell someone else they can't have them when we have enough to take out the world a few times over.
Why or course. No problem. You see no problem letting fundamental muslim clerics who want to control the world with their religion and dying for Allah having nuclear bombs. That makes you a terrorist sympathizer and my enemy.
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So you don't believe that nations have the right to persue nuclear power? I didn't realize they needed permission from Daddy.
If all they want is nuclear power, then why will they not allow inspectors in there? Careful, this requires some thought and common sense.
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Since when is there a right to pursue nuclear power?
I didn't realize science was limited to those who found it first. Of course a country has a right to pursue modern technology to provide energy to their citizens. We have that right, do we not? And we have even used it as a weapon already.
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I didn't realize science was limited to those who found it first. Of course a country has a right to pursue modern technology to provide energy to their citizens. We have that right, do we not? And we have even used it as a weapon already.
They have the right to pursue modern technology under the pretext that they 'use it responsibly' and not for weapons of mass destruction.

Iran and its crazy dictator can not be trusted with nuclear power.





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They have the right to pursue modern technology under the pretext that they 'use it responsibly' and not for weapons of mass destruction.

Iran and its crazy dictator can not be trusted with nuclear power.
Wouldn't that be up to the citizens of their country to decide? The same ones that want the "crazy dictator" to be there in the first place?
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Wouldn't that be up to the citizens of their country to decide? The same ones that want the "crazy dictator" to be there in the first place?
The citizens of Iran don't have any say on this. That country is run by a crazy dictator with absolute power.





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In other words, the IAEA and all members are to assist in the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in all member states. Therefore Iran has a right to atomic energy by international law, and in fact has the right to assistance from the IAEA and member states, so long as that energy isn't used to further military purpose. Allegations against Iran that they wish to use such technologies to build the nuclear bomb are just that, allegations.
Which doesn't dispell the question as to why a third world country sitting on a mess of oil needs nuclear energy.
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Old 08-21-2006, 05:48 PM   #20 (permalink)
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I didn't realize science was limited to those who found it first. Of course a country has a right to pursue modern technology to provide energy to their citizens. We have that right, do we not? And we have even used it as a weapon already.
Science isn't limited to those who found it first, but that doesn't mean that everyone should have a right to work with hazardous materials, especially if that nation is a theocracy hell bent on the downfall of the United States.
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