This is an article written up in the Friday's (February 15 2008) edition of Investors Business Daily newspaper which I am subscribed to. I found it quite informative and enlightening. I wanted to share it here for those who would never come across it.

Nuclear Terror: The illusions created by a politicized intelligence report and pacifist wishful thinking don't change the reality of Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Bush administration has just provided expanded evidence.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton wonders why the publicly released portion of last Decembers National intelligence Estimate, contending that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003, placed so much emphasis on the building of nuclear warheads.

After all, Bolton reasons, that's a small task compared with the years of uranium enrichment that Tehran has steadfastly refused to abandon in the face of U.N. sanctions.

"The way it was written was intended to have a profound policy impact," according to Bolton, who believes the NIE's timing has gone a long way toward tying President Bush's hands on action against the Islamofascist terror state. The ex-ambassador says Iran is "now freer than ever to pursue nuclear weapons."

Even dovish European government officials and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradie's International Atomic Energy Agency have scoffed at the foolishness of this latest NIE.

So the Bush Administration in recent weeks has been trying to repair some of the damage of that faulty report by providing intelligence to the IAEA on the specifics of Iran's nuclear program, in hopes that the agency will confront Tehran and ask for details as it investigates Iran's shady past nuclear activities.

ElBaradei's so-called "nuclear watchdog" agency was, diplomats tell the Associated Press, given expanded information on Iran's already-known work ranging from missiles trajectories to the optimum altitude for warhead explosions to the molding of uranium metal for a warhead.

Also reportedly detailed: Iran's secret "Green Salt Project" coordinating its uranium processing, high explosives testing and re-entry vehicles for warheads. These aren't innocent projects.

It has been strange to see governments which have been so quick to attack U.S. intelligence on the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq now turn and accept it-hook, line and sinker-on Iran.

But one world leader more firmly grounded in reality is Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who, after meeting with German Chancellor Angela merkel, said: "Nothing that we know has changed our attitude on this issue."

According to Omert, "Sometimes you don't need intelligence services. You just need to analyze what you know, what everyone knows, and it's very obvious and very simple."

Olmert asked questions that leaders of every country that values the safety of its people should be asking: "Tell me, why does Iran need enriched uranium at a time when they are supplied by Russians the nuclear fuel for the civillain projects? What else do they plan, for which they need the most sophisticated ballistic missiles?"

And he called Iran "a force that is talking explicitly about using the power in order to liquidate other countries, and I think this is a good enough reason why we should focus on Iran and do everything to prevent Iran from having nuclear capacity."

Compare that kind of realism with Sen. Barack Obama's complaints to Jay Leno on the "Tonight Show" that the Bush administration "has not done the diplomatic work that needs to be done to contain Iran."

Just how much "tough diplomacy" will stop a ballistic missile armed with a nuclear warhead? No doubt the Obama or Clinton administration will launch a government program to find out.
So, anybody wanna begin a discussion on their thoughts/opinions regarding this?

What kind of policies would Obama put into effect compared to McCain on this issue?
Nature is a powerful force. Those who seek to subdue nature, never do so permanently.