Today is the 2nd anniversary of when White House spokesman Tony Snow confirmed President Bush's threat that committing genocide by nuking Iran was an "option on the table" -- thus violating international law that prohibits threats of aggression with nuclear weapons, as well as committing a war crime under Nuremberg Charter Principle 6(a) and other US laws (Yes more war crimes in addition to the others) :
Q. Sir, when you talk about Iran, and you talk about how you have diplomatic efforts, you also say all options are on the table. Does that include the possibility of a nuclear strike? Is that something that your administration will plan for?
THE PRESIDENT: All options are on the table . . .
According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist,
"The president of the United States directly threatened Iran with a preemptive [?] nuclear strike. It is hard to read his reply in any other way."
And before you whine and moan that it wasn't really a threat, ask yourself what your reaction would have been had Ahmadinejad said that nuking the US was an "option on the table".
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