IS IT REALLY SUCH A BAD THING IF IRAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS? [+] serious ballot by Kev24 created Thu Feb 01, 07 well apparently, jacques chirac has waivered once again (big surprise) and doesn't seem to think it would be so bad if they had one or two nuclear bombs. from the ny times -- Chirac Strays From Assailing a Nuclear Iran By ELAINE SCIOLINO and KATRIN BENNHOLD PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac said this week that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a big danger, and that if Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon against a country like Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran. The remarks, made in an interview on Monday with The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine, were vastly different from stated French policy and what Mr. Chirac has often said. On Tuesday, Mr. Chirac summoned the same journalists back to Élysée Palace to retract many of his remarks. Mr. Chirac said repeatedly during the second interview that he had spoken casually and quickly the day before because he believed he had been talking about Iran off the record. “I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record,” he said. The tape-recorded, on-the-record interview was conducted under an agreement that it would not be published until Thursday, when Le Nouvel Observateur appears on newsstands. On Monday, Mr. Chirac began by describing as “very dangerous” Iran’s refusal to stop producing enriched uranium, which can be used to produce electricity or to make nuclear weapons. Then he made his remarks about a nuclear-armed Iran. “I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb,” he said. “Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well, that’s not very dangerous. so if chirac thinks it's okay for iran to have just one or two nuclear bombs, it must be. it's okay. everyone should be allowed to have 1 or 2 nuclear bombs chirac is nuts Chirac is right; we exaggerate the actual threat Ballot #111807 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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