n more direct terms I pointed out to both men that the recognition of how our policy with respect to another nation’s right to bear arms needed to be reconciled with the international application of our own Second Amendment and the inevitability of achieving proficiency with any advancing technology.

Our policy reconciliation forces on the United States a new responsibility and duty. I pointed out that with the gift United States policy with respect to the first strike use of any nuclear weapon needed to be absolute and completely clear. Any nuclear first strike by any nation or aggressor occupying a nation state will require the United States to immediately respond.

It shall be the new policy and the duty of the

This is one in a series of short essays hypothetically suggesting what the American people would like hear from the President of the United States during his next press conference when a reporter asks: Mr. President What about Iran?

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I have missed you the last several days. Let me begin this mornings session by answering the question likely to be the first asked. What about Iran?

During the weeks directly after the navel incident in the gulf I frequently engaged both Prime Minister Blair and President Ahmadinejad in personal and exclusively private conversations.

It has become apparent that our previous our policies have been mistaken and need to change.

We need to recognize the inevitable, “genie out of the bottle” that is technology. If humans pursue knowledge it can and always has been applied to advance and acquire technical proficiency. This is a metaphysical characteristic of humans. In this regard it is an inevitable that the leadership of Iran can drive its country towards the acquisition of a nuclear weapon if they choose too.

It has also occurred to me that if our own Second Amendment, our constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, was applied internationally we as a nation would have no right to deny Iran nuclear weapons. It would violate our Constitution. Rather then move through a long cold series of legal and technical warfare that ultimately we would loose and that would waste the resources of both our countries. President Ahmadinejad, Prime Minister Blair and I have agreed that Iran shall become a nuclear power. I have been in Tehran with a gift of gratitude to the Iranian people for the return and good care of the fifteen British sailors.

It was a long night the last couple of days on the on the Speaker’s plane. But, I don’t think the press knew anything about the trips and pardon me but that pleases me. It is not often I can give the press the slip. During my visits with the President Ahmadinejad I presented my gift. We agreed to begin a short negotiation and the transfer of five nuclear warheads to the Iranian military. In accepting my gift the President Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei have agreed that Iran will immediately stop the refining of any nuclear material. The technological resources and capital will be redirected so that Iran can begin building the capabilities to refine its own oil. Refining enhances the value of any raw material and value can be traded at a profit. The Iranian people are likely to become very rich. I mentioned during our talks the success that states like Alaska have had in funding revenue sharing plans so that all citizens in the country will benefit directly from the countries increasing wealth. I offer our service of course; ultimately it will be to the Iranian people to push for their rights to profit from their countries resource.

In more direct terms I pointed out to both men that the recognition of how our policy with respect to another nation’s right to bear arms needed to be reconciled with the international application of our own Second Amendment and the inevitability of achieving proficiency with any advancing technology.

Our policy reconciliation forces on the United States a new responsibility and duty. I pointed out that with the gift United States policy with respect to the first strike use of any nuclear weapon needed to be absolute and completely clear. Any nuclear first strike by any nation or aggressor occupying a nation state will require the United States to immediately respond.

It shall be the new policy and the duty of the

cognize the inevitable, “genie out of the bottle” that is technology. If humans pursue knowledge it can and always has been applied to advance and acquire technical proficiency. This is a metaphysical characteristic of humans. In this regard it is an inevitable that the leadership of Iran can drive its country towards the acquisition of a nuclear weapon if they choose too.

It has also occurred to me that if our own Second Amendment, our constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms, was applied internationally we as a nation would have no right to deny Iran nuclear weapons. It would violate our Constitution. Rather then move through a long cold series of legal and technical warfare that ultimately we would loose and that would waste the resources of both our countries. President Ahmadinejad, Prime Minister Blair and I have agreed that Iran shall become a nuclear power. I have been in Tehran with a gift of gratitude to the Iranian people for the return and good care of the fifteen British sailors.

It was a long night the last couple of days on the on the Speaker’s plane. But, I don’t think the press knew anything about the trips and pardon me but that pleases me. It is not often I can give the press the slip. During my visits with the President Ahmadinejad I presented my gift. We agreed to begin a short negotiation and the transfer of five nuclear warheads to the Iranian military. In accepting my gift the President Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei have agreed that Iran will immediately stop the refining of any nuclear material. The technological resources and capital will be redirected so that Iran can begin building the capabilities to refine its own oil. Refining enhances the value of any raw material and value can be traded at a profit. The Iranian people are likely to become very rich. I mentioned during our talks the success that states like Alaska have had in funding revenue sharing plans so that all citizens in the country will benefit directly from the countries increasing wealth. I offer our service of course; ultimately it will be to the Iranian people to push for their rights to profit from their countries resource.

In more direct terms I pointed out to both men that the recognition of how our policy with respect to another nation’s right to bear arms needed to be reconciled with the international application of our own Second Amendment and the inevitability of achieving proficiency with any advancing technology.

Our policy reconciliation forces on the United States a new responsibility and duty. I pointed out that with the gift United States policy with respect to the first strike use of any nuclear weapon needed to be absolute and completely clear. Any nuclear first strike by any nation or aggressor occupying a nation state will require the United States to immediately respond.

It shall be the new policy and the duty of the

loose and that would waste the resources of both our countries. President Ahmadinejad, Prime Minister Blair and I have agreed that Iran shall become a nuclear power. I have been in Tehran with a gift of gratitude to the Iranian people for the return and good care of the fifteen British sailors.

It was a long night the last couple of days on the on the Speaker’s plane. But, I don’t think the press knew anything about the trips and pardon me but that pleases me. It is not often I can give the press the slip. During my visits with the President Ahmadinejad I presented my gift. We agreed to begin a short negotiation and the transfer of five nuclear warheads to the Iranian military. In accepting my gift the President Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei have agreed that Iran will immediately stop the refining of any nuclear material. The technological resources and capital will be redirected so that Iran can begin building the capabilities to refine its own oil. Refining enhances the value of any raw material and value can be traded at a profit. The Iranian people are likely to become very rich. I mentioned during our talks the success that states like Alaska have had in funding revenue sharing plans so that all citizens in the country will benefit directly from the countries increasing wealth. I offer our service of course; ultimately it will be to the Iranian people to push for their rights to profit from their countries resource.

In more direct terms I pointed out to both men that the recognition of how our policy with respect to another nation’s right to bear arms needed to be reconciled with the international application of our own Second Amendment and the inevitability of achieving proficiency with any advancing technology.

Our policy reconciliation forces on the United States a new responsibility and duty. I pointed out that with the gift United States policy with respect to the first strike use of any nuclear weapon needed to be absolute and completely clear. Any nuclear first strike by any nation or aggressor occupying a nation state will require the United States to immediately respond.

It shall be the new policy and the duty of the

ejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei have agreed that Iran will immediately stop the refining of any nuclear material. The technological resources and capital will be redirected so that Iran can begin building the capabilities to refine its own oil. Refining enhances the value of any raw material and value can be traded at a profit. The Iranian people are likely to become very rich. I mentioned during our talks the success that states like Alaska have had in funding revenue sharing plans so that all citizens in the country will benefit directly from the countries increasing wealth. I offer our service of course; ultimately it will be to the Iranian people to push for their rights to profit from their countries resource.

In more direct terms I pointed out to both men that the recognition of how our policy with respect to another nation’s right to bear arms needed to be reconciled with the international application of our own Second Amendment and the inevitability of achieving proficiency with any advancing technology.

Our policy reconciliation forces on the United States a new responsibility and duty. I pointed out that with the gift United States policy with respect to the first strike use of any nuclear weapon needed to be absolute and completely clear. Any nuclear first strike by any nation or aggressor occupying a nation state will require the United States to immediately respond.

It shall be the new policy and the duty of the

n more direct terms I pointed out to both men that the recognition of how our policy with respect to another nation’s right to bear arms needed to be reconciled with the international application of our own Second Amendment and the inevitability of achieving proficiency with any advancing technology.

Our policy reconciliation forces on the United States a new responsibility and duty. I pointed out that with the gift United States policy with respect to the first strike use of any nuclear weapon needed to be absolute and completely clear. Any nuclear first strike by any nation or aggressor occupying a nation state will require the United States to immediately respond.

It shall be the new policy and the duty of the United States to use its nuclear weapons only to keep peace. By the end of what would be the most terrible day for modern humanity, a day we all hope will never come to pass any aggressor will be destroyed for their horrific crime against humanity.

In the context of our gift to Iran, I believe the Iranian leadership understood exactly how we have adjusted our policy. Why we have taken our position and why the pursuit of peace in the world renders our policy the only possible course we can follow, now and into the future.

I am not going to take questions today but, I do have one more thing to say.

I found my hosts to be spiritual men with families and loved ones. Part of our conversation dipped into religious areas and explored our differences. I was surprised to find that our differences are not as great as they might seem. The most reasonable position seems to be that we come to the agreement that one man or woman’s religion does not convey the right to judgment on another’s spiritual preference. Spiritual preferences are a personal matter exclusively governed by an individual’s relationship with God. My sense of our conversations is that it will be possible to come to some political if not religious agreement on this point. It is a good beginning towards more universal religious tolerance. We are looking forward to continuing these discussions.

Thank you all. I am taking the day off, I hope. So, why don’t you all go home!