On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:30:46 -0700, W. D. Allen Sr. wrote:

Is that the same UN that got rich on kickbacks from Saddam Hussein while
closing their eyes to his starving to death Iraqi children during the 1990s?


Truth be known, the US facilitated/manipulated the UN into that with
sanctions on evertying. When it became clear that the Saddam regime was
not going to collapse as a result of sanctions, the bogus WMD issue came
along. The rest as they say is history.


Iran needs nuclear energy despite possessing extensive oil and gas

I doubt the above statement is true. While countries do diversify their
energy sources, it makes little economic sense for an oil & gas abundant
nation to invest in expensive nuclear energy production. Nuclear energy
production makes the best economic sense for countries with few fossil
fuel reserves and little hydroelectric potential. e.g. US, France, Germany,
Japan, India, China. They make no sense for countries like Iraq, Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Venesuela... even Russia to a great extent if climatic
factors are excluded.

The implications become more obvious when seen against the backdrop of
Iran's plans to master the nuclear fuel cycle from mining the ore to its
reprocessing.