Lawrence, we've been around this block. It's hard to imagine that a country with the firepower of the U.S. is worried that another country is going to add its name to an already long list of countries that have the bomb. If that's the case, what's the point of this stunningly huge military and nuclear arsenal? BTW, what does your logic tell you about how people would have responded to 3.5 million pounds of bombs dropped on them? Would logic tell us the results would be merely 'progress' three years later? What's the logical next step, nuclear bombs? What if that doesn't obey the laws of logic either? Think there's any possibility of that happening? What's that old saying, do unto others as you would want them to do unto you? If Eric doesn't feel safe now, wait until we set an example for the world that it's okay to use nuclear weapons. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lawrence Helm To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 5/11/2006 12:46:51 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadi-Nejad's Letter to Bush I really thought (before I realized who I was reading) that you were going to say something else, Irene, namely ?Lost in all of this is that these people are facing the building of nuclear bombs in their country despite Iran having signed the non-proliferation treaty.? Read the brief excerpt from the Iran NPT nuclear safeguards compliance report [IAEA]. It will describe the concern many of us have: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gazette/2006/05/iran-npt-nuclear-safeguards-compliance.php Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Amago Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:21 AM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ahmadi-Nejad's Letter to Bush Lost in all of this is that these people are facing nuclear bombs being dropped on their country if not their heads. Somebody remind me what a peace loving religion Christianity is?