The real question is:  What can be done to stop them...?

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Bush: world must take Iranian threat seriously        

Wednesday, 04 June 2008  

Jeffrey Heller and Matt Spetalnick

www.iranfocus.com/en/iran-general-/bush-world-must-take-iranian-threat-seriously.html

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday that Iran was an "existential threat to peace" and said the world must take that danger seriously.

The White House talks came a day after Olmert -- on a U.S. trip while under criminal investigation at home -- issued his toughest warning yet to Tehran, saying Iran's nuclear program must be stopped by "all possible means."

Echoing Israeli leaders' frequent description of a nuclear-armed Iran as a risk to Israel's survival, Bush said at the start of the meeting: "It is very important for the world to take the Iranian threat seriously, which the United States does."

Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear weapons power, regards Iran as its chief foe in the region.

Bush, who has led a campaign of international sanctions against Iran, accuses Tehran of nuclear arms ambitions. Iran insists its nuclear program is strictly for civilian purposes.

Bush assured Olmert, facing calls for his resignation over a corruption scandal that could disrupt the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, of the U.S. commitment to the Jewish state.

Olmert, at Bush's side in the Oval Office, agreed that Iran poses "the main threat to all of us."

Bush also said the two would discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts launched last November at an international conference in Annapolis, Maryland.

But neither leader repeated the goal of U.S.-sponsored negotiations reaching a peace deal, including agreement on Palestinian statehood, before Bush leaves office in January, a deadline viewed with broad skepticism.

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmed Qurie said it would take a "miracle" to meet that target.

Peace prospects have dimmed amid Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, violence on Israel's border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and a criminal investigation of Olmert.

The Israeli leader faces calls to resign over allegations he took envelopes stuffed with cash from a Jewish-American businessman.

Olmert, the chief negotiating partner to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has denied any wrongdoing but has said he would step down if indicted.

when iraq is annexed by iran, history will portray bush as the biggest idiot ever.

Quoted: when iraq is annexed by iran, history will portray bush as the biggest idiot ever.

Please explain.

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