See, y’all got it all backwards. None other than Norman Podhoretz just knows that this is a vast left wing and intelligence community conspiracy. Mister Bush says that this is proof that we need to step up pressure on Iran – precisely because they stopped their weapons program.
And that goes exactly with the thinking of the chest thumping “send others off to kill and die” crowd. Are you “formidable” and do you have nuclear weapons? Then sorry, we don’t want to mess with you. But if you appear to be formidable and “evil”, but aren’t really a dire (or even imagined) threat to the US, your neighbors or anyone else, then it is of utmost importance to make sure that the weapons that aren’t being developed, well, aren’t being developed.
Which makes the NIE confirm the reason why Iran must be bombed. Just look at recent past history.
Pakistan – has nukes, quite possibly sold nuclear secrets to Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea and who knows what other countries. Harbors terrorists that are launching attacks against our troops, and who were responsible for 9/11. Clearly, our friend.
North Korea – charter member of the “Axis of Evil”, thumbed its nose at the US while developing nukes and telling Bush to piss off. Too crazy to bomb, especially since one of those nukes could possibly hit the west coast of the US.
Israel – heh….(and I am Jewish)
Which brings us back to Iraq and Iran. Of course it doesn’t really matter what the facts are or who knew what and when. It doesn’t matter that this same bunch of criminals leading the drumming for war with Iran and Iraq ruined the ability to actually track what was going on with their nuclear weapons program. What matters is certainty.
Now, certainty to some may be 16 of the country’s intelligence agencies agreeing on the fact that there is no need to bomb Iran – especially after its discontinuance of any weapons program, and even as recently as this summer there has still been no sign of nuclear weapons.
But, see – that is looking at it completely backwards. Logic doesn’t apply to madmen such as Bush, Cheney, the neoconservatives at the American Enterprise Institute, er, Ahmadinejad. Witness the always sane John Bolton:
“While I was in the administration, I saw intelligence march up the hill and down the hill in short periods of time with no reason for them to change their mind,” said John R. Bolton, Bush’s former ambassador to the United Nations. “I’ve never based my view on this week’s intelligence.”
Forget those commie terrorist loving intelligence agencies. It is that good solid intelligence from people like Doug Feith, Richard Perle, the above luminary Podhoretz and Paul Wolfowitz that was spot on with respect to Iraq, so it must be trusted over the entire intelligence community Or we can take the sage advice of Stephen Hadley, who conveniently ignored calls and memos indicating that the “16 words” should be taken out of Bush’s SOTU Address:
Hadley added, pointing to Iran’s continued enrichment of uranium, which could eventually be used to assist a weapons program. “I’m sure some people will use this as an excuse or a pretext for, you know, flagging on the effort,” he said. “Our argument is actually it should be just the reverse, because we need to keep the halting of the nuclear weapons program in place.”
So, don’t believe your lying eyes. The NIE doesn’t prove anything other than that Iran is more dangerous than ever, and must be bombed. After all, it may develop the weapons that it stopped trying to develop years ago. And we can’t take any chances that this clearly non-imminent threat may eventually at some point become just a plain “non-imminent threat”.
That much is clear.
also in orange
Congrats on making the rec list
Give this latest affront to reason time to sit in with the public.
At the end of it, Bush is nothing more than some backwoods snake-handler speaking in tongues. An inbred mongrel running loose, foam dripping from his mouth.
yeah, right…dream on.
just a shade over a month ago A majority of likely voters – 52% – would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53% believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows.
this’ll sink in just like torture, the loss of habeas corpus, illegal wiretapping, and all the other misdeeds, admitted, alleged, and under investigation, of this administration.
even though cheney and co. weren’t able to derail it, BushCo™ has known this was coming since august, and they’ve got the spin refined, focus grouped, poll tested, and ready to roll out; as evidenced by the presser today, and the nearly instantaneous and coordinated reich wing counter-assault.
what do the demoRATs do in response?…nothing beyond more hollow rhetoric. they’d stand around with their thumbs in their asses if their, and an apparent majority of the publics heads weren’t already in the way.
who’s going to make this an issue for the public at large, certainly not the msm. it will, posthaste, be swept below the event horizon and forgotten.
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I just can’t figure out why after electing oil men as leaders we suddenly start going to war with countries having large proven reserves of oil.
There must be something to it but damned if I can put my finger on it…