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Mario, These are sincere queries and I am definitely not trying to trip you, nor trying to be personal nor clever. The USA has Weapons of Mass Destruction--indeed, more than the rest of the world put together and the ability to exterminate life, as we know it, on this planet. What therefore justifies the USA to demand that other countries give up their WMDs when its own weapons are never on the agenda in this debate at all? Likewise, what gives the US and nuclear powers like Britain and Israel the right to demand that Iran should not develop a nuclear arsenal to protect itself from the existing nuclear powers? Why the double standards and hypocrisy? What justifies the USA to be the arbiter of who does (especially the pariah state of Israel at the heart of the Middle East), and does not have nuclear weapons? Please do not get me wrong. I am opposed to nuclear arms totally but should not those countries which developed them and have a head-start, minimally and progressively reduce their stockpiles in good faith before making demands on others? Just curious, Cornel PS I agree with you that weapons do not just disappear. In the most recent case in Iraq, some forty truck loads of weapons were quietly whisked away while they were under the noses of USA security control. Those who had argued that the illegal invasion of Iraq by the motley Coalition Forces would exacerbate terror through the dissemination of weapons in Iraq were surely right, and surely too, that a brutal war against the Iraqi people was unnecessary to get rid of Sadaam, formerly, the blue eyed boy of the USA! There were cleverer ways to do so, if justified and required, but perhaps beyond USA intelligence capability which also led to the 'success' of Bin Laden on the twin towers.
