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By: The Strata-Sphere » Iran And That Bogus 2007 National Intelligence Estimate

The Strata-Sphere » Iran And That Bogus 2007 National Intelligence Estimate — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:29:18 +0000

[...] Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Production in 2003? How Convenient! [...]

By: The Strata-Sphere » Axis Of Evil: Bush Right, Obama Wrong

The Strata-Sphere » Axis Of Evil: Bush Right, Obama Wrong — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:53:23 +0000

[...] wrote about the misrepresented and misreported NIE many times (here, here, here, here,Â to name a few). The last one is very enlightening, given the shocking news [...]

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:37:23 +0000

This might be true, but like Saddam the Iranians want to have it both ways. They do not want to lose face, but they do not want to be attacked either.

I think it is possible that they stopped on the bomb itself back in 2003 and decided to sit on that and keep on enriching uranium until the day when they could push forward.

Has anyone heard anything about what Iran has to say about this?

By: dave m

dave m — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:41:51 +0000

My take on this is plausable deniability for the USA.
I don’t think WE intended to START a war against Iran.
We are engaged in a world war against jihadists that we
intend to win. Starting a pre-emptive war against Iran would cause
such political blowback in both the USA and europe that our
abilities to prosecute the coming future jihad wars might end,
and we might choose some sort of pre-emptive surrender.
Therefore, I think we had two possibilities, firstly to allow
Iran the first strike, even granting the terrible consequences
of losing one or two of our major cities – secondly to give the
baton to Israel and let their first strike be seen in the West
as acting out of desperate necessity. Iran’s counter-attack
would draw us in but we would have that plausable deniability.
I thought there might be a small chance of the USA conducting
a pre-emtive attack during the Bush administration’s lame
duck period, but I think the President has now ruled that out.
So I think this is a formal diplomatic note to Israel that they
will need to act first at a time of their choosing.
I note that once again we have returned three carrier groups to
that area and the British are sending a carrier group out in
January. Still seems a lot of buildup if nothing’s happening.

By: Right Voices

Right Voices — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:50:41 +0000

Did Iran Halt Their Nuclear Weapons Program?…

Based on the links found at Memeorandum to this NYT’s article, this is the story of the moment. The New York Times looks to be inputing their own hopes into the article and trying to get a dif in at The POTUS. According to the Times, Iran ended…

By: Terry Gain

Terry Gain — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:24:26 +0000

Obviously we should proceed on the assumption that the intelligence agencies are wrong.

And President Bush should let it be known -through back channels -that he will only bomb Iran as a last resort. And that given the uncertainty he would prefer to leave the issue to a Republican successor but if he is forced to deal with the issue to protect America- i.e. if the country elects the harridan as his successor -then he will deal with the problem as best as he is able.

By: Klimt

Klimt — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:10:28 +0000

Been reading the blog for about a week now, I just wanted to say: please keep the updates on middle east coming!

By: S

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:48:30 +0000

Intel community doesn’t have a good track record and has shown themselves to be wrong on all the big issues and moreover risk averse? This is totally ocnsisitent with Fallon’s statement recently in the Gulf (which got no airplay?) that military actions was off the table. Another end run…

The time line of this suspension is beyond belief. Makes completly no sense. One needs to think about this in the contrext of the economy. why is the fed and the treas sec racing around like chickens with heads cut off trying to figure a way to calm markets (discussiojn of credit market turmoil can be found everywhere)? Why the desperation. I am sure Treas Sec is whispering in Bush ear that a run on iran would take oil to 150 and threaten the very foundation (debt) of the new economy. The risk is simply too great and that is what this is about. If nothing else one has to applaud the realism for a change.

A far greater threat right now is the emerging sovereigns and the crushing debt load snowing under the Atlanstic Alliance. This ramifications of lost dollar hegemy are chilling – think gov’t debt market.

This seems nothing mroe than a very p[ublic handoff to Israel; probably makes more sense to explore the joint training operations in the guld with US / Israeli Air Force?

By: kathie

kathie — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:34:28 +0000

This is good intel but Iraq was bad. From one closed society to the other………we, the US knows very little intel lets just face it!

By: Macsmind - Blog of The MacRanger Show!

Macsmind - Blog of The MacRanger Show! — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:21:46 +0000

How Shelved is “Shelved”?…

ABC and the lefty-wing blogs are huffing and puffing about a newly unclassified NIE about Iran supposedly shelving it’s nuclear problem over four years ago.

“ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, Jonathan Karl, Luis Martinez and Kirit Radia Rep…

By: Stop The ACLU

Stop The ACLU — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:07:47 +0000

NIE Report: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Project Years Ago…

I hope this intelligence is correct.
The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehranâ€™s ultimate intentions about gaining a nuclear weapon remain unclear, but that…