Next up, a nuclear Iran

The good news just keeps on coming!

Iran uses the occasion of the U.N. nuke proliferation conference to announce that it will, in fact, proliferate nukes.

From the Times:

Iran declared Tuesday that it would soon resume some of the nuclear activities it had suspended during negotiations with Europe, and it used a conference here to accuse the United States and other nations of using the fear of nuclear weapons proliferation to deny peaceful nuclear technology to developing nations.

The Iranian announcement, on the second day of the United Nations conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was made by the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hamid-Reza Asefi. He stopped short of saying exactly what kind of work Iran would resume in breaking what it has termed a voluntary moratorium while it negotiated with the European Union. But he said he did not expect Iran would begin "the actual enrichment" of uranium, which can lead to production of bomb fuel.

European officials and the Bush administration have both said any breach of the moratorium would prompt a sharp response.

Really? How sharp?

Not a rhetorical question. How sharp? How seriously does Iran have to take such a threat? Because, you see, we're stretched a little thin right now.

The concentration of U.S. troops and weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan limits the Pentagon's ability to deal with other potential armed conflicts, the military's highest-ranking officer told Congress.

The officer, General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a classified report that if major combat operations elsewhere in the world should be necessary, they would probably be more protracted - and produce higher American and foreign casualties because of the current commitment of resources in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Freedom's on the march, though. Or, something like that.