The world should “prepare for war” with Iran, according to the French foreign minister.

 

Bernard Kouchner said “we must negotiate right to the end” with Iran but if Teheran developed an atomic weapon it would pose “a real danger for the whole world”.

 

His comments come as the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany prepare to meet to discuss a new draft UN resolution on sanctions against Iran this week.

 

Teheran has ignored UN deadlines to stop enriching uranium, claiming its nuclear activity is for civilian purposes, but tough sanctions have thus far been resisted by Russia and China.

 

Do you have faith in the United Nations to find a peaceful resolution to nuclear proliferation?

Are there any other options apart from sanctions or war?

 

Or do you think that war with Iran is inevitable?

 

Source: Daily Telegraph

 

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials' saber rattling about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to similar bellicose statements made before the start of the Iraq war.

 

"I think the administration, the president and the vice president particularly, are trying to hype the atmosphere, and that is reminiscent of what preceded the war in Iraq," Brzezinski told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" on Sunday.

 

In October 2002, five months before Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was toppled for what the United States said was his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, President Bush said, "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

 

No evidence was found that Iraq was then pursuing such weapons.

 

Earlier this month during a televised speech about Iraq, the president said, "Iran would benefit from the chaos and would be encouraged in its efforts to gain nuclear weapons and dominate the region."

 

However, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes" that "insecurity in Iraq is detrimental to our interests."

 

Brzezinski also disapproved of Bush's statement.

 

"When the president flatly asserts they are seeking nuclear weapons, he's overstating the facts," he said. "We are suspicious, we have strong suspicions, but we don't have facts that they are."

 

(read the rest of the article here: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/23/iran.us/index.html )

 

You'd think after completely f***ing up the war in Iraq, Bush would use a bit more caution in throwing accusations and threatening a war with Iran. But is suppose, what does he have to lose? He has no credibility anyway...