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An attack on Iran would REALLY make them want nuclear weapons

Want Iran to go nuclear? Bomb them — Rep. Smith, Seattle Pi, 14 March 12, A military strike on Iran by Israel and/or the United States would backfire by assuring that the Iranian regime would push ahead with development of nuclear weapons, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee warned Wednesday.

“Let the sanctions work,” U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., who also sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told a Seattle neighborhood breakfast.

Smith cautioned against what he described as a “rush to war” in sabre-rattling statements heard on the Republican presidential trail. He argued that sanctions by the U.S. and European Union countries are already biting deep into the Iranian economy.

The best hope, said the congressman, is that the Iranian government will decide that the cost to their economy of developing a nuclear weapons capability is too great….
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/03/14/want-iran-to-go-nuclear-bomb-them-rep-smith/

March 15, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general