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Panetta said Bush living "in another world"?
The Obama Report ^ | 1/8/12

Posted on 01/08/2012 3:35:44 PM PST by Frankusa

... In November of 2011, the Washington Post reported that the Iranian government had mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon after receiving assistance from foreign scientists.

The Post went on to say:

An intelligence update will be circulated among International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] members... It is expected to focus on Iran's alleged efforts towards putting radioactive material in a warhead and developing missiles...
Julian Borger of the Guardian-UK reported in November of 2009:
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design...

The development was described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking"...

The sophisticated technology, once mastered, allows for the production of smaller and simpler warheads than older models. It reduces the diameter of a warhead and makes it easier to put a nuclear warhead on a missile...

However, despite all this evidence, US defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, in an interview with CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, said that Iran was not trying to develop nuclear weapons.

"Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability," said Panetta.

Heh, nice try....

During a Senate Armed Services Committee on November 15, Mr. Panetta insisted, rather disingenuously, that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and his government, were rejecting Iranian influence, despite the fact that, just a couple of days prior to the aforementioned senate hearing, Iranian and Iraqi military leaders met to discuss military cooperation between the two countries.

In February of 2007, Mr. Panetta, then a member of the Iraq Study Group, voiced strong opposition to the U.S. troop surge in Iraq and chastised Mr. Bush and Vice President Cheney for authorizing the increase in troops.

Panetta insisted that the "troop surge" would "not succeed", and said he believed Congress would likely pass a resolution criticizing the surge and would ultimately "move to focus on the power of the purse" and vote to withhold funding for the troops in Iraq. Panetta went on to say that he believed it was unlikely President Bush and Vice President Cheney would revise their strategy and back away from the 'surge' because, "they are [living] in another world."

However, in light of Mr. Panetta's refusal to acknowledge that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, his insistence that Iraq is rejecting Iranian influence, and his assertion, in 2007, that the surge in Iraq would not succeed, it is quite clear that - while George W. Bush and Dick Cheney appear to have their feet firmly planted on Planet Earth - Panetta and Obama are living in a far off galaxy, on a strange, alien planet that has no resemblance to Planet Earth.....

Flashback: VIDEO - Panetta in '07 assails troop surge in Iraq, says Bush and Cheney are living "in another world" - McCain chastises Panetta - Senate hearing


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2007; antiamerican; antidefense; antiprotestant; iran; iraq; iraqstudygroup; isg; leonpanetta; mafia; nuclear; obama; panetta; surge; thesurge

1 posted on 01/08/2012 3:35:56 PM PST by Frankusa
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To: Frankusa

Liberalism invariably means, behind the warm rhetoric, sedition, treason and vice addiction.


2 posted on 01/08/2012 3:39:47 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Frankusa

sure was. the real one.


3 posted on 01/08/2012 3:44:57 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (Ignorance is no excuse.)
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To: Frankusa
"Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability," said Panetta. dee dee dee
4 posted on 01/08/2012 4:02:03 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's War on Prosperity is killing me)
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To: Frankusa
Panetta went on to say that he believed it was unlikely President Bush and Vice President Cheney would revise their strategy and back away from the 'surge' because, "they are [living] in another world and don't recognize the realities of VIETNAM."

Listen a couple of minutes and see.
5 posted on 01/08/2012 4:52:47 PM PST by kenavi (1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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To: Frankusa

Give Obama credit. Hs has found the most dead brain people in the world to handle the security of this republic.


6 posted on 01/08/2012 5:37:35 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: kenavi

Panetta and the entire Democrat Party failed to learn that lesson. Or any of the numerous subsequent lessons of what happens when you run and yank the support out from under your allies.


7 posted on 01/08/2012 5:52:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: antidemoncrat

Lately it seems there have been a lot of hits on Panetta, ever since Pelosi got in a big spat with him. Wonder if the libs are wanting to replace him with someone in particular?


8 posted on 01/08/2012 5:55:56 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Frankusa

Panetta, you and the Dems are living on another planet called SOCIALTOPIA. It is the world you love...Bush/Cheney and thinking people of this planet (called Earth) want you to go home to SOCIALTOPIA!


9 posted on 01/09/2012 10:28:13 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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