President Bush Sends Iran A Warning Via N.Korea-Syria Nuke Link

Good for you, Mr. President! President Bush has laid out a fairly thinly veiled threat for Iran when he was speaking about what went down in the Syrian desert. This from the article here at Breitbart:

"We have an interest in sending a message to Iran and the world for that matter about just how destabilizing nuclear proliferation would be in the Middle East," he said at a White House press conference.

And President Bush didn't stop there - he had fairly stern words for the North Koreans as well - again from the article:

"We also wanted to advance certain policy objectives through the disclosures, and one would be to the North Koreans, to make it abundantly clear that we may know more about you than you think, and therefore it's essential that you have a complete disclosure on not only your plutonium activities, but proliferation as well as, you know, enrichment activities," he said.

I love that line where the President says, "we may know more about you than you think" - if that wasn't sending another signal to Iran, I don't know what is. Let's face it, the Iranians were, I'm sure, a bit shaken up by the Israeli bombing of the Syrian nuke facility. I mean, it wasn't enough that the Israelis pulled off the operation without a signal shot being fired by Syria but the fact that the Israelis knew EVERYTHING about the operation had to have sent the mullahs into a panic. And at this moment, I'm sure the Iranians have resigned themselves to the fact that the U.S. knows a helluva lot more than they thought we did before all of this.

I don't think there's an official in Iran from Khomenei to Ahmadinejad to any of the mullahs that really doubts that the U.S. will take out their facility if it comes to that. And I hope they are nervous as hell.

2ND LD: Disclosure of N. Korea-Syria nuke link was message to Iran, Bush says

President George W. Bush said Tuesday the recent U.S. disclosure of North Korea's alleged transfer of nuclear technology to Syria was intended to sound a tough warning to Iran of its nuclear aspirations.
"We have an interest in sending a message to Iran and the world for that matter about just how destabilizing nuclear proliferation would be in the Middle East," he said at a White House press conference.
The White House said last week North Korea helped Syria's covert nuclear activities and the reactor that Israel bombed last September was meant for military purposes.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said at the time North Korean and Syrian nuclear cooperation underlined the need for "further steps" by the international community against Iran's nuclear activities.
Iran has consistently defended its nuclear program as intended only for peaceful purposes.
The president said the disclosure was also meant to press North Korea to give a full account of its nuclear programs and to send a stern message to Syria.
"We also wanted to advance certain policy objectives through the disclosures, and one would be to the North Koreans, to make it abundantly clear that we may know more about you than you think, and therefore it's essential that you have a complete disclosure on not only your plutonium activities, but proliferation as well as, you know, enrichment activities," he said.
The disclosure could hamper six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear drive, which has been stalled since Pyongyang missed an end- of-2007 deadline set by it and its five negotiation partners -- the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
The United States is anxious to see the six-party process make further strides and for North Korea's denuclearization activities to be completed before Bush ends his second four-year term in January 2009.
North Korea is disabling its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, north of its capital, under a six-way deal reached last year in return for energy aid and diplomatic benefits.
The United States has said it will remove Pyongyang from its list of terror-sponsoring countries and exempt it from the Trading with the Enemy Act as the denuclearization process moves forward.