[...] Schippert points out how this NYTimes article perpetuates the politically motivated 2007 NIE assessment fairy tale that Iran stopped its work on nuclear weapons designs in [...]

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[...] Schippert points out how this NYTimes article perpetuates the politically motivated 2007 NIE assessment fairy tale that Iran stopped its work on nuclear weapons designs in [...]

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[...] Because of the left in this country our future holds a Russian backed nuclear armed Iran whose aggression towards its neighbors will make this Russian invasion look like a Disneyland ride. Just today the VP of Iran said that Israel is the most hated word in the world. Does anyone really believe that leaders who say such things will not act aggressively once armed with nukes? Well, the liberals may, but look how wrong they were about Iraq. [...]

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To some extent, I think the NIE report is outstanding news.
Because as of now, there isn’t any excuse to create another decade long, dog and pony show of Weapons Inspectors as we had in Iraq.

Remember these guys? The same bunch who were kicked out of Iraq, kicking and screaming Hussein was hiding material and programs, yet when finally allowed back in after four years claim “WE THINK everything is gone but we need more time. So let’s get the contracts and paperwork signed. We’ll get back to work.”

Sure guys. We’ll get those payroll checks rolling again. Just be sure to leave good notes to everyone for after you retire ON OUR DIME in ANOTHER TEN YEARS.

So now, if we should have to take out Iran, say when the Iranians tell the Russians to pack sand when they request the used Uranium back, or better still, an actual nuke test or even a launch against Europe, there won’t be a need to waste a year telegraphing our punch to the enemy by jerking around with the UN. We were told no weapons. So who is lying? Iran or the UN?

Moreover, if an actual launch were to occur against Europe, why is it even our problem at that point? Europe doesn’t want to see things for what they are and listen to us now. Since we will very likely be blamed for not stopping it anyhow, will there be any real sense of need to go to the aid of these ankle-biters?

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bbartlog,

Good points. There is more about WHO wrote the NIE and why the NIE and the whole intelligence headquarters is suspect.

The fact the writers of the NIE are leftist partisan hacks openly hostile to US policy and friendly to those allied against the West should sent a collossal shiver through the Free World.

It will not, however, because Brittiny is pregnant again and that will make “in depth coverage” news…..

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If they’re stilling running their centrifuges, they haven’t stopped their program in any meaningful sense of the word. Producing the fissile material is the most critical and costly part of a nuclear weapon. Even if all other parts of a weapons program were on hold, continuing enrichment activities would still be putting them day by day closer to possession of a nuclear weapon (once you have enough weapons-grade U-235, the rest is almost an afterthought). And anyway, the uranium enrichment stuff is big and hard to hide; the other activities involved in making a Hiroshima-type bomb are largely things you could do in a medium-sized machine shop and therefore basically unverifiable.

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Perhaps the Iranian Foreign Minister and his President should get their story straight. Ahmadinejad has been relentless in hinting at the capabilities of Iran’s nuclear program. Once again, they show themselves to be complete buffoons.

By the way, when is the World Court going to try Ahmadinejad and his compatriots for their kidnapping and holding of American hostages in 1979?

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If it took 4 yrs for the spooks to learn Iran stopped a covert program they denied existed how long will it take for them to identify the restart of this program? And if this analysis if based on Aug 07 reporting by a “reliable” source does anybody wonder if CIA’s most important tea-sipper has been travelling again now that he and his wife have retired to New Mexico?

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India, Pakistan and North Korea all had to explose their bombs before the U.S. discovered those countries had nuclear weapons.

It’s probably not in their best interest to have nuclear weapons because the inside government stability isn’t there and it’s a culture that breeds suicide bombers (this time with an atomic weapon). They are probably imagining an Al Qaeda or other agent setting off the atomic bomb in Iran or a general decides to use the atomic weapons to stage a coup.

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Thus spake the reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain.

Thanks John Ryan!

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