All Options Are On The Table-President Bush says of "The Iran Situation"

When asked earlier today if his administration was planning a nuclear strike against Iranian "Nuclear Facilities", is what the Pres. told reporters in a morning news conference at the White House Rose Garden.

The instability in this region of the world is getting worse and worse. A backlash of sorts is starting to emanate around the globe and a lot of nations are fearing what I am fearing.

And that is that the current U.S. administration is in the midst of planning an pretty intense and possibly nuclear invasion of Iran. The plans surely involve (in a secretive manner I am sure) talk about that government's "overthrow" and all of what that entails (look at the current situation in Iraq). Iran in the mean time is trying to show to the world that the big bully "Bush" and his gangmembers aren't frightening it and they are using pretty harsh words and doing some pretty interesting things on their own to further "antagonize" Mr. Bush (see a few paragraphs below for what Iran is doing in relation to the Hamas led government of Palestine)....

Click on the link below for an AP article regarding this latest comment by King George:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_ARMY_DAY?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


I have been reading a lot of different viewpoints over the last few days from various different people on why diplomatic discussions may or may not work and what the consequences of a nuclear strike on Iran would be for the very unstable region of the Middle East.

To make matters a bit more shaky in this area, it has also been reported that Iran is, as of this post, offering Palestine $50 Million Dollars in response to the U.S. and Europe's cutting off all financial aide to the Palestinian Government:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_PALESTINIANS?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-04-16-21-03-42


I do not think that the "Nuclear option" is a good one, as do many of the people who's thoughts on all of this I have been reading the last few days.

A recent article from the web site of CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) gives some good thought process to a lot of what is happening as well and what some of the ramifications would be if we do go forward with military "maneuvers" against Iran to "force their hand" so to speak:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/10428/

I hope we have the common sense to try to work out our government's "perceived" problems with Iran in a diplomatic non invasive manner. Because if we do not, I fear that all this "destabilization" over there will only get worse.....and that is surely one thing the world does NOT need right now.

A good Tuesday to all.