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White House Press Briefing by Dana Perino 10/9/07 (Nuclear Arms in the Middle East)
— Tuesday, October 09, 2007 —
MS. PERINO: Helen.
Q -- White House has a driving interest in keeping nuclear arms out of Iran. I'd like to ask you, does any country in the Middle East have nuclear arms?
MS. PERINO: Oh, I would leave it to those countries to announce whether they do or not. I think that there's public information about that, Helen.
Q No, no, no, I want to know if the White House knows that there -- what do you mean? They're not going to announce it.
MS. PERINO: I'm not prepared to say anything beyond what has been publicly stated --
Q You don't know whether any other country in the Middle East has nuclear arms?
MS. PERINO: Helen, I will let those countries speak for themselves.
Q Or do you refuse to say?
MS. PERINO: I'll just refuse to say it.
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1 Comments:
I’ll say what Helen Thomas knows, the whole world knows, and the fact that forms the basis of Israel’s foreign policy and international behavior. Yes, Israel has nuclear weapons and has had nuclear weapons probably since the late 1960’s. This is well documented in the book, “Israel and the Bomb,” by Avner Cohen, Columbia Press, 1998.
That Israel has nuclear weapons is not nearly as disturbing as our government’s refusal to admit and discuss it. We thus have become complicit in Israel’s “opaque” policy toward their nuclear capabilities and have forfeited any effective position in demanding that Iran not develop nuclear capabilities.
The conflagration in the Middle East will continue to spread until the United States opens its eyes to reality and begins honest problem solving.
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