"North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. . .By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. . ."2
             Since the mid 1990's, the U.S. State Department and CIA have listed both Iran and North Korea as state-sponsors of terrorism as well as sellers of ballistic missiles to various rogue regimes such as Syria and Lybia.0 This habit is not one that will not die easily as seen in recent news. The struggles between the U.S., North Korea, and Iran continue to this very day. Deep seeded hatred ruins any peaceable attempt to solve these disputes.
             Iran controls an army of some five hundred fifty thousand men.4 Although this number may seem staggering, they have limited ability to maneuver this massive force and even less money to do so. However, this does not stop them from actively pursuing WMD at any cost. CIA reports in August of 2001 have shown that Iran is not only seeking the use of conventional weapons, but have ventured much further into deeper waters.
             Proliferation reports go so far as to inquire into the abilities of Iran to not only buy and sell these weapons, but to create a self-sufficient chemical weapons web within the nation.5 In June of 2001 Bush imposed trade sanctions, in accord with previous sanctions (Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000) on Chinese Chemical and Technology Import and Export Corporation.6 Jiangsu Yongli's company was accused of having sold information to Iran concerning technology that had been previously banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
             With all these blatant attempts to fu...