RSSNIE Report Not All The Left Cracks It Up To Be?
J.J. Jackson* | December 5, 2007
Following on the heals of the study that the liberals are more likely to classify their mental health as bad, this week we had a surprising report spurred by the NIE which supposedly states that Iran is now a happy land with no ambition for nuclear weapons. In fact all agencies that are monitoring Iran’s nuclear ambitions are supposedly in agreement … if you listen to the left and their spin.
Facts?
Ok!
The Washington Post:
While concluding that Iran’s weapons program is now halted, the NIE … portrays Iran’s ruling clerics as susceptible to international pressure, having abandoned an extensive and costly covert nuclear program in the face of threatened economic sanctions and global censure.
Ok, so they have no nukes … may not be pursing nukes … and if so, gave up such ambitions because of the Bush administration’s STRONG stance. Not probably something you have heard. Also
the report also depicts Iran as cleverly preserving its options, by making steady strides toward a civilian nuclear energy capability that both complies with international law and puts the country on a course that will allow it to easily develop nuclear arms if it so chooses.
Ok, so Iran is keeping it’s options open … not something that jives with the gumdrop trees and rivers of chocolate flowing freely in Iran analysis SOME partisans are putting on this report.
Want more? Of course you do!
The report also states more confidently than in previous assessments that Iran’s military had been actively seeking to build a bomb. Iranian armed forces were “working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons” until the fall of 2003, it says.
So, PREVIOUS estimates from these SAME groups were saying the exact opposite of what this NEW report says. But don’t worry, the “Bush lied” mantra will still be in full effect. And finally THIS:
The assessment, under preparation for more than 18 months, was completed on Tuesday and President Bush and Vice President Cheney were briefed on Wednesday, intelligence officials said. Hadley said Bush first learned in August or September about intelligence indicating Iran had halted its weapons program and was advised it would take time to evaluate.
So, this NEW information has only been available since “August or September” and it contradicts years of prior intelligence … or so you think.
Now, of course, the SAME liberals who decried the intelligence for being wrong on Iraq (even though it wasn’t wrong and we found hundreds of WMDs capable of killing hundreds of thousands) NOW say that because a NEW and CONTRADICTORY report compared to previous reports should be praised?
Well, which is it? Is our intelligence community a bunch of bumbling fools not to be believed? Or are they competent?
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