U.S. Must Stop Iran from Developing Nuclear Weapons
Aug 17, 2005

IRVINE, CA—To stop Iran's advancing nuclear program, President Bush should emphatically reject Gerhard Schroder's suggestion to "take the military option off the table."
       
No amount of "negotiations" and "incentives" will persuade the Iranian mullahs to give up their quest for nuclear weapons; and their claim that their reactors will be used for civilian purposes is just absurd. Iran has more oil to generate electricity than it could possibly consume in decades. Moreover, Iran's desire to destroy the United States (the "Great Satan") has been made clear by more than two decades of chanting "Death to America" in state-controlled mosques.
       
The Iranian mullahs are ideologically committed to imposing Islam throughout the world by force, and they will not abandon their murderous "holy war" for political concessions or financial aid. Even the threat of war against Iran is unlikely to stop the mullahs from developing nuclear weapons. Deterrence only works against those who value their own lives. And as the suicidal hordes of Islamic fanatics have amply demonstrated for decades, these people embrace death, not life. We can't risk our existence on "agreements" with fanatical mullahs.
       
Iran is an openly avowed enemy of the United Sates and the major state sponsor of terrorism. It finances, trains, shelters and equips terrorists organizations like Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, and is currently waging a proxy war against the United States in Iraq, killing American soldiers by the dozens.
       
The fanatical mullahs will soon have nuclear weapons, and the United States government will be an easy target for nuclear blackmail, and all Americans will be targets for nuclear annihilation. It is the president's sworn duty to not take the military option off the table.
       
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