"What nuclear facility?"
Brilliant.
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About a year and a half ago Bush was asked at a press conference flat out if we would allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb. The obvious and correct answer would have simply been "No", and move to the next question. Instead he went into a long spiel about being on "the right track" with Condi Rice working with our European allies to negotiate, and going to the UN if that didn't work, yada, yada, yada. It was obvious right then the adminstration is going to do nothing and hope the Iranians don't get nukes until after they leave office.
"What nuclear facility?"
I suggest the "unnamed" source for this claim is either rabidly ignorant, lying or simply misinformed
If we listened to the State Dept, we would never take action against anything or anyone. Think about it: the job of the State Dept is diplomacy—they make their bones if they can acheive something through talking. The minute that the discussions end without success is a failure for them. So the solution is....never stop talking—even when it is painfully obvious that talk is totally ineffective. As a result, the national interest is often at odds with the State Dept interests. There are a few exceptions to this (e.g., John Bolton), but they are rare. You will note that Condi Rice used to be a hawk; now that she heads the State Dept, her tune has changed considerably.
BTW—this is not so with the DOD. You rarely see soldiers straining at the leash to go to war. That is because it is their ass on the line when the ballon goes up. While war is a quick way to earn medals and prestigue, it is also a quick way to die and inflict lasting damage on the force. The military will not hesitate to go to war if its in the national interest, but they always do so reluctantly.
Thank God that the Israelis now have their own spy satellites and no longer have to rely on our fickle generosity.
Does anyone believe we didn’t know what the Syrians were doing?
Condi really has turned out to be her mentor’s (Scowcroft) daughter. I have absolutely had it with her. There has absolutely got to be some kind of drug they slip into the building water supply down at Foggy Bottom.
I hear the word “destabilize” one more time...
The best descriptive phrase is Mark Steyn’s “the ‘stability’ of the cesspit.”
They could not allow the attack to go forward, because IT WOULD JEOPARDIZE THEIR APPEASEMENT TALKS WITH PYONGYANG IN BEIJING LED BY CHRIS HILL THIS SUMMER AND THE EVENTUAL US-NORTH KOREA PEACE TREATY THAT WILL BE SIGNED NEXT YEAR BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.
This no good crowd is almost as bad as KLINTOON when it comes to North Korea and appeasement. State Department is firmly running this quisling show.
Whatever happened to “you’re either with us, or against us” in the rubble of the World Trade Center?
It looks like that is now changed to “it’s only 15 months to President Hillary, so let’s just coast to the finish and let someone else take care of the problem.”
I can’t wait for President Hillary, standing in the rubble of the Sears Tower, saying to the world “if you’re against us, we’re sorry - please don’t hurt us again.”
And then passing a law to allow 100 million illegals in to clean up the mess.
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The only thing that would've been "jaw-dropping" is U.S. intel actually picking up the facility. The Mossad getting the job done is par for the course.
Officials said that the facility had likely been there for months if not years.
If we can't even find a nuke facility that had been in the same place for years how does anyone think we could've tracked the movement of Saddam's WMDs?
Between July and September, weeks of high-level talks took place. The Israelis wanted to destroy the facility immediately, and had some support from the American intelligence community that had managed to miss this development. However, Condoleezza Rice and others did not. They wanted to "confront" the Syrians first
The Arabists (including Condi, btw) in Foggy Bottom strike again! I suspect they were concerned about an Israeli strike "hurting the peace process" or some other ridiculous fantasy.
The Israelis, who actually originated the "Bush doctrine" decades ago, appear to be the only nation still using it.
The U.S. used if for about a month or two.
Israel, more worried about the consequences of a nuclear Syria -- something that should worry us as well -- simply ignored Washington after weeks of argument and acted in its own self-interest.
Big props to someone to whom I never thought I'd give any -- Ehud Olmert.
Yet another reason for President Thompson to appoint Ambassador John Bolton Secretary of State and Congressman Duncan Hunter as Secretary of Defense.
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Here's why you shouldn't believe a word of this cover story that is clearly being shopped around to various news sources by someone in U.S. diplo-intel circles:
The State Department is **INCAPABLE** of keeping secret a Syrian nuclear facility, or an Israeli request for a strike, from July into September.
Heck, memos of "torture" are routinely leaked, much less anything really important.
No way...no freaking way did the State Department goons keep a secret this big for this long. Heck, they'd have their book out on Amazon.com doing the Micahel Schuerer shuffle by this point if they'd been informed of the above back in July.
...But this sort of news "leak" will cause normally pro-Bush Americans to bash Condi Rice, as if the story was accurate.
Not buyin' it.
The author nails it.
Aren't these the same guys who missed the fall of the Soviet Union? Every single agent and analyst in the CIA should've been fired after that. Better to start from scratch than work with crap.
The CIA had other priorities, they were busy undermining the regime. Of George W. Bush.
Nothing has changed abroad or here at home