>> ^Irishman:
America has no business in Iranian affairs, Richard Haass needs to read the American constitution.

What does the Constitution have to do with getting involved in something like this? All it says is that Congress needs to ratify treaties, and that Congress is the body that's empowered to declare war. It doesn't give us rules about what treaties or wars we should be involved in.

"We don't know what the Iranians are up to, but they are building up capacity"
No country in the world post cold-war could have a nuclear capability without the UN, British or American intelligence knowing everything about it. What Richard Haass is saying is what everyone has been saying, they don't know the INTENTIONS of Iran, nobody does.
Meanwhile American nukes in Israel ILLEGALLY and against the non-proliferation treaty.
Pure propaganda.

I agree, our own intelligence agencies have declared that Iran has no present capability to produce nuclear weapons. So the propaganda has moved to talking about the potential for them to develop weapons.

I don't personally see a problem with the U.S. engaging in diplomacy with Iran, as long as it's not the Bush style "disarm or we'll invade".

Maybe I'm an optimist, but I rather believe Ahamadinejad when he says he'd rather have peace with us than a conflict. I don't know what his intentions are with Israel, but I think he's smart enough to know that attacking them is likely to bring him more harm than good.

America has no business in Iranian affairs, Richard Haass needs to read the American constitution.

"We don't know what the Iranians are up to, but they are building up capacity"

No country in the world post cold-war could have a nuclear capability without the UN, British or American intelligence knowing everything about it. What Richard Haass is saying is what everyone has been saying, they don't know the INTENTIONS of Iran, nobody does.

Meanwhile American nukes in Israel ILLEGALLY and against the non-proliferation treaty.

Pure propaganda.