Oh - I get it now. The three thousand centriguges are spinning silk for sweaters.....
When it was shipped to Syria and later destroyed by the Israelis?
"It's exactly what he did in the run up to the war in Iraq in consistently exaggerating intelligence suggesting that Iraq had WMD (weapons of mass destruction), while failing to tell the American people about intelligence concluding that it did not," said Senator Joe Biden, who is running for president.If Josephine Biden says it's true, you can take it to the bank. (Just don't be surprised if the bank doesn't want it.)
Oh - I get it now. The three thousand centrifuges are spinning silk for sweaters.....
If, in fact, Iran did halt their nuclear enrichment in 2003, then what have all these reports we’ve been reading over the past years been about? Wasn’t it just last month that Iran said it had finally installed 3,000 centrifuges? I say we still bomb them back to the stone age.
Meanwhile the CIA remains a wholly owned subsidiary of Clinton Inc, if not the last Internationale, and covers its backside while appealing to its hoped-for new Dem prez candidates. In case everybody forgot, this was the crowd that opposed the Iraq war on the grounds that if we went in, Saddam would surely gas us into oblivion.
The National Intelligence Estimate, as the assessment is called, judged “with high confidence that the halt lasted at least several years”.
Because of “intelligence gaps,” the report said, the intelligence community had “moderate confidence” that Tehran had not restarted the program as of mid-2007 and did not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.
This is also from the article and hasn’t been discussed by the media. It doesn’t give me any warm fuzzies that anyone really knows what they’re talking about.
CIA CYA
This stinks to high heaven. Those intelligence agencies never agree on anything, even who the current President is, unless they are ordered to.
And even the President probably doesn’t have enough clout to order them to agree. Which implies that there is something really big going on. The President + the Senate leadership and maybe even the House leadership + the Pentagon. And it would almost have to involve Israel.
That could mean only one thing: this is being done to avert a nuclear war.
The big question is how, why and involving who?
Israel would have to be in on the deal, because it has 200+ nukes it would probably used if attacked.
Iran might have as many as a half-dozen nukes made from North Korean nuclear material, and some serious missiles that could carry them. But the whole region is blanketed with hundreds of US anti-missile missiles, protecting all the major targets. And thus the stalemate.
But what has happened?
I don’t believe for a minute that we have discovered something that can prove a negative. That is, that Iran *doesn’t* have nuclear weapons.
The only power large enough to threaten the US back would be Russia, by saying that they would retaliate if we attacked Iran.
Other than that, the only thing that would work would be if Iran opened its doors to inspectors, anywhere at any time, to include inspectors the US believed. But that could only confirm enrichment activities, not existing weapons.
Maybe the US has developed a super weapon so powerful that Iran must comply, and such a super weapon has been confirmed to the Iranians by someone they believe, so they have capitulated, but without publicly saying so.
Too many possibilities.
Why should any of us have confidence in the geniuses in the CIA who told Bush that finding WMD in Iraq would be a “slam dunk” and misidentified crop fertilizer cylinders as mobile chemical weapons labs?
Dammit. It's President Bush.
This is in my opinion, simply playing the safe card (from a Bush perpective).
Given all the caterwauling over the “missing” WMDs (ask the dead Kurds if they existed and the Syrians where they are now), Bush is not going to go down as “historically wrong” wrong twice. Note: I don’t think he was wrong.
So, put in a little delay and let the next president have to deal with it.
Now you have 1.5 - 5 years til the Iranians have enough to cause severe problems.
In other words, I don’t think anything is going to be done about the Iranians - we have the official opinion on record now so that if a US city goes bye-bye, everybody can claim they knew nothing.
More head-in-the-sand diplomacy.
What we are now going to have to worry about, is who is going to have to pick up the huge can that He Of The Great Aircraft Landing has kicked down the road towards our grandchildren?
BTW US intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, have not had a stellar record since the days of Dulles.
When did Israel BOMB Syria??
I said it six months ago...the world has decided to live with a nuclear armed Iran. It’s that simple.
Don’t worry..., Israel isn’t fooled like some of the intelligence agencies in the U.S. are.
Disinformation.