A Preamble to a Preemptive Attack?

Re “Iran Moving Methodically Toward Nuclear Capability,” Oct. 21: Why is this article even being printed? Are we being prepared for the next preemptive attack against Iran? None of the diplomats or officials will even put their name with the charges they’re making against Iran. They already cried wolf once.

If the International Atomic Energy Agency is correct in its assessment of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan selling nuclear components, then that’s the guy we should be after. Where are you now, George Bush?

And talk about the pot calling the kettle black, we’re developing a smaller, tactical, more usable nuclear device. I don’t like the smell of our next preemptive conflict either.

Steve Blackwelder

Dana Point

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Maybe some of us have been too hard on President Bush. He had to invade someplace besides Afghanistan -- there were not enough major targets there, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said -- and with Iran and Iraq both starting with the letters IRA, and both being part of the “Axis of Evil,” and both in the Middle East (right next to each other), what can you expect? So he was off by one country. Big deal. It’s not like he invaded Luxembourg or Belize, for God’s sake. I think a lot of people in this country just expected too much from him.

Chris Booz

Redondo Beach