Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran retains the right to produce
nuclear energy. The Bush administration insists, however, that Iran,
as the world's fourth-largest oil producer and second-largest gas
producer, does not need nuclear energy, even though the United States
approved about 20 nuclear energy plants for Iran before the 1979
revolution.

The difference is that Now ever since they unlawfully took American Hostages in
1979, they say, "Death to America!" and they are pursuing "nuclear energy" The
Shah did not have a policy of murdering Americans. I don't think we have an
obligation to look the other way while the Iranians get ready to murder us.
Sure we can retaliate with nuclear missiles, but remember this is a
fundamentalist regime and they don't necessarily behave as normal humans might.
If they say, "Death to American!" and their is the slightest possibility that
they are developing nuclear weapons, we should stop them with as much force as
it might require. If we have to invade them before they get nukes, the cost
will always be less than waiting for them to develop nuclear weapons and then
attacking them. We cannot trust them, they have not given us any reason to
trust them. To protect ourselves, we must eliminate this regime that bases its
power on its hatred of us.

They have declared themselves time and time again as our enemy, why should we
not take them seriously this time, just because they are developing nuclear
weapons. Better to eliminate the problem now!

Tom