There are reasons nations desire nuclear weapons. One reason is to insure that another country will not use nuclear weapons against them. Another reason, among others, is to bestow status on your nation as a player in the world. But the Bush government has convinced us that that the desire for nuclear weapons is merely and singularly the desire for evil. Yet, for instance, in the case of North Korea, they know that if they were to use nuclear weapons preemptively against anyone it would then instantly result in the annihilation of their country, and every man, woman, child, and structure, in their land. And we know they know it. So they won't do it. As former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has famously stated--the only reason to have nuclear weapons is to insure that nobody else would use them. Why don't you ever hear this? In Bushland we honor our own "national maturity" and self-righteousness as a nation above all else. Where did we earn that? By winning WWII? We're basing national policy on the way-back machine to sixty years ago?
Again, The argument out there, is that if Iran developed nuclear weapons, then naturally they would offer them up to terrorists to be used against us.
But Iran would develop nuclear weapons only to enhance their status as a nation. Do you think they would pawn this ultimate power off to someone else? They would never allow some other co-power the option to use their nuclear weapon. Nor would any other sovereign nation. It is the power's (Irans') nuclear weapon. Why would you offer up your greatest power and bargaining chip to someone else? The Iran and North Korean nuclear weapons script is yet only another drama concocted by the Bush-o-Rammans to distract us from the genuine problems and questions of our time. And what might those be?