Obama- Iran Has Right To Nuclear Power

Saw this on drudgereport, from the Washington Post article…

LONDON — President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful. In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans to pursue direct diplomacy with Tehran to encourage it set aside any ambitions for nuclear weapons it might harbor.
Iran has insisted its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity. But the U.S. and other Western governments accuse Tehran of seeking atomic weapons.
“What I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations,” Obama said, adding that the international community also “has a very real interest” in preventing a nuclear arms race.

So, let me get this straight. It’s ok for Iran to develop nuclear energy as long as its used for the generation of electricity, but its not acceptable for America to do the same?
If the energy crisis, or even the climate change crisis is real, the most direct path to relief for the American people is nuclear energy. Our development work is done and our reactor designs are the safest in the world, but somehow, we can’t build a plant in the U.S.? I wonder why that is? The Europeans have them everywhere, with France generating 80% of it’s electricity from nuclear reactors – I guess this is one more area in which we haven’t ‘recognized their leading role in the world’? Damn, we are arrogant!
Since 2002, it has been known that OH, PA, NY, WV sat atop a natural gas field estimated at 1.9T cubic feet called the Marcellus Shale Region. A more recent survey now estimates that region to contain 500T cubic feet, 10% of which could be immediately tapped by fracture drilling techniques.
That’s a lot of gas. So what’s happening? Are they preparing the rigs for drilling? Are they hiring the necessary workers from the unemployment roles to access this national asset? Uhhh, no. Per moonbattery, the field will be put off limits in the Waxman-Markey cap and tax bill because fracture drilling will be controlled by the EPA – which means ‘not allowed’.
So no clean burning natural gas, no nuclear power, no domestic or offshore oil exploration, but by all means, let’s encourage Iran to build some nuclear power plants? Am I the only one who feels like they’ve taken crazy pills here?
The only conclusion to reach from this is that cap and tax legislation has nothing to do with the so called climate change and everything to do with social control and extorting money from the populace. (Which we already knew, this is just more confirmation.)
The second conclusion to reach is that Obama hates Israel, and wants to see it destroyed. I have some problems with Israel but none of them have to do with the Palestinians – I could give a shit about them,( my issues date back to 1967 and the USS Liberty incident, for which I think Israel still needs to atone). But that aside, its pretty handy to have a friendly Democracy in the den of snakes that is the Middle East. Remember, many of the same Middle Eastern countries that hate Israel so much wore the Nazi uniform during WWII.
Without digressing too much, it is amazing to see how Obeyme publicly recognizes Iran’s legitimate need for nuclear energy, yet fails to recognize that of his own country. Well, maybe it’s not that amazing, when you consider what his agenda for our nation is.
-OMB