A Missed Opportunity

Iran Proposal to US Offered Peace With Israel. But.....

Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United States.
The Iranian negotiating proposal indicated clearly that Iran was prepared to give up its role as a supporter of armed groups in the region in return for a larger bargain with the United States. What the Iranians wanted in return, as suggested by the document itself as well as expert observers of Iranian policy, was an end to U.S. hostility and recognition of Iran as a legitimate power in the region.

Peace treaty? We don't need any stinking treaty when we have W as our cowboy in charge!

So why ignore or reject this offer? Oil? The Second Coming? Machismo? Global domination?