Iran, of course, is purring like a cat who just caugth the canary. As annoying as that is, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the administration will not fall into its trap this time, but will outplay them at their own game.
That means, talking straight, talk. Enumetate the concers without WWIII references. Maintain statesminship, rather than theatrics.

Can Bush and his team do it? That;s what worries me. They just don’t seem to understand how sophisticated the PR wars have to be in order to win.

Gandelman, Mullen, Stickings, and Holly

[gulp] Non-liberals, non-Democrats, beware.

You are definitely on the right site. Welcome.

Hello, Moderate Voice! My name is Megaman_X. Or at least, that’s the screenname I chose. Anyway, I have been reading posts by Gandelman, Mullen, Stickings, and Holly in Cincinnati for several months. And I’ve decided that it’s time for me to start sharing my thoughts too. The comments section is full of energy and wild opinions, which is what inspired me to start posting instead of just reading.

In the future, I will post thoughtful and more serious comments on heavy topics, but for just the first time, I thought I’d start on a light, cheerful note.

centrifuges for enriching uranium would “probably” be the method chosen by the Iranians to obtain the fissile material needed to make a bomb

Of course, along with acquiring plutonium if they can extract it or otherwise get their hands on it.

With uranium one can make a gun-type weapon (what I and other knowledgeable people I have discussed this in person with would do if we were rogue states or terrorist groups; gun-type weapons are simpler, don’t involve special, highly-controlled and monitored components, and only require more fuel than an implosion bomb would need for the same yield).

The change to public pursuit of “civilian” [sic] nuclear energy (while not permitting unrestricted access to all nuclear sites and other continued game-playing) fools nobody intelligent, and the continued enrichment of uranium constitutes progress by Iran toward a bomb. That it is public is not merely an attempt to fool the gullible but also (with stated intention to continue enrichment) open defiance of and confrontation with the West and Iran’s neighbors.

After 911 and Iraq they do not want to be the scapegoat again.

That’s after being largely bypassed and what little information from them was used, cherry-picked.

And there you have the entire episode wrapped up and concluded. AFter 911 and Iraq they do not want to be the scapegoat again.