Iran insists its nuclear program is entirely for civilian use to generate electrical power. Iran’s once vast oil reserves have peaked and are going into decline while its population continues to rise. Washington dismisses Iran’s need for civilian nuclear power as `preposterous,’ though in the 1970’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney went to Tehran to try to sell 27 US nuclear reactors to the Shah of Iran.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Iran had its chance to buy U.S. nuclear reactors
John Margolis remembers history and doesn't this seem ironic (but typical of bushworld -- where people make their own reality):
