Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Wednesday that if he’s elected president, on his first day in office he’ll reject any deal the White House strikes with Iran over its nuclear program if it continues to allow the country to enrich uranium.I do enjoy the current Republican effort to ensure Iran knows very directly that no matter what they do or agree to, America simply can't be trusted. Sign whatever papers you want with us, various nations of the world, all of it is crap that the next sitting president will simply ignore if it means getting a chance to push the big shiny button and see one of those wonderful, wonderful not-wars that are all the rage on American cable channels these days.
“The concept of a nuclear Iran is not only problematic for Iran, and certainly for Israel, but it opens the doors,” Walker continued. “I mean, the Saudis are next. You’re going to have plenty of others in the region … going to want to have a nuclear weapon if the Iranians have a nuclear weapon.”You know, if Iran wants to be a nuclear power I would imagine that has very directly to do with all the United States government officials vowing to bomb them and all the tenuously rational dictatorships and monarchies we prop up for tenuously rational regions. We were a key supporter of Saddam Hussein, you know, looking the other way as he built his stockpile of chemical weapons because he was an enemy of Iran and that was pretty much all the Donald Rumsfelds of our nation needed to hear.
Given how Scott Walker and his Republican compatriots talk, I'm surprised California isn't trying to develop nuclear weapons. Ye gods, man, a government would have to be insane to listen to all this and not conclude that America might or might not try to overthrow them, international laws be damned, depending on what day of the week it was and whether or not there was anything else on television.