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Iran's Mirages
IBD ^ | February 14, 2008

Posted on 02/14/2008 4:56:47 PM PST by Kaslin

Nuclear Terror: The illusions created by a politicized intelligence report and pacifist wishful thinking don't change the reality of Iran's nuclear ambitions. The Bush administration has just provided expanded evidence.


Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton wonders why the publicly released portion of last December's National Intelligence Estimate, contending that Iran ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003, placed so much emphasis on the building of nuclear warheads.

After all, Bolton reasons, that's a small task compared with the years of uranium enrichment that Tehran has steadfastly refused to abandon in the face of U.N. sanctions.

"The way it was written was intended to have a profound policy impact," according to Bolton, who believes the NIE's timing has gone a long way toward tying President Bush's hands on action against the Islamofascist terror state. The ex-ambassador says Iran is "now freer than ever to pursue nuclear weapons."

Even dovish European government officials and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei's International Atomic Energy Agency have scoffed at the foolishness of this latest NIE.

So the Bush Administration in recent weeks has been trying to repair some of the damage of that faulty report by providing intelligence to the IAEA on the specifics of Iran's nuclear program, in hopes that the agency will confront Tehran and ask for details as it investigates Iran's shady past nuclear activities.

ElBaradei's so-called "nuclear watchdog" agency was, diplomats tell the Associated Press, given expanded information on Iran's already-known work ranging from missile trajectories to the optimum altitude for warhead explosions to the molding of uranium metal for a warhead.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iran; uranium; warheads

1 posted on 02/14/2008 4:56:47 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The I.A.E.A - What a joke.. I think they should be called the
F.I.W.T.H.H.- Fox is watching the Hen House!

Jeeze, what a bunch of losers!

2 posted on 02/14/2008 5:07:05 PM PST by oswegodeee (Dee ( Born and raised in the south, yummy corn bread and BBQ ))
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To: oswegodeee

OOPs: N.I.E.A is what I meant..sorry I was typing to fast out of frustration..


3 posted on 02/14/2008 5:08:40 PM PST by oswegodeee (Dee ( Born and raised in the south, yummy corn bread and BBQ ))
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