Posted on 12/07/2007 11:38:13 AM PST by JZelle
If only the bumblers, blusterers and other bureaucrats in our "intelligence" services could make up their minds.
The estimates of what we know about Iran and its nuclear ambitions, released this week just in time to undercut the U.N. sanctions meant to deter another Islamic bomb, underscores how little the bumblers know.
These are the wiseheads who only four months ago were telling the president and Congress that Iran was hard at work developing their bomb. Now they want the president, Congress and the rest of us to believe that the Iranians actually stopped work, maybe, on their bomb four years ago.
President Bush himself, though blindsided by the National Intelligence Estimate, further added to public confusion with his praise of the "good work" of the men who had betrayed him again. This sounded familiarly like his famous praise for Michael ("You're doing a good job, Brownie") Brown, the FEMA chief who bungled the early recovery efforts in New Orleans. If anybody in town is entitled to his contempt for the intelligence services that misled him about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and now Iranian nuclear research, it's George W. Bush.
Friends of the intelligence services insist they do some things well, though beyond a talent for spending money without adult supervision it's not clear what that might be. James Bond, none of these guys are. Not even Miss Moneypenny. Over the past half-century, the intelligence agencies missed the development of the Soviet bomb, the Chinese bomb, the nuclear standoff between Pakistan and India, and the sudden emergence of the North Korean nuclear threat. Nobody's perfect, and some people suggest, perhaps not entirely in jest, that the new estimate is an attempt to get it right, one way or the other. A stopped clock is correct twice a day.
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The pen in the hands of these liberal hacks is murder.
Another slam dunk from the same guys that told Carter that the Shah had nothing worry about from a bunch of old farts in black turbans.
Check this out... Scroll down past our lovely pageant queen (if that doesn’t make you say America F-— Yeah, nothing will), the next two posts are Mahmood’s announcing going needing 60,000 centrifuges up from 3,000 and another denying he stopped the program as was reported via NIE>
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Think about it! The whole entire reason they hate war is because of this diversion of resources they wish to control so's they can control the masses to support their perpetual rule by divine right!!!
Programs for minorities and the poor are never enough either! GovernMental EnvironMental programs extend affirmative action to fish and plants and make welfare for wildlife. There should NEVER be money for WAR!!!
They wanna rule ya, so's they can fool ya!!!
They don’t want war because they inherently hate capitalism and American values.
I don’t remember the last Democrat to criticize Hugo Chavez, for example. Cindy Sheehan and Jimmy Carter can’t pose often enough with him.
That’s their vision.
Maybe Israel “ain’t” buying this bs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936399/posts
Israel Considering Strike On Iran Despite US Intelligence Report
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 12-7-2007 | Rory McCarthy
Posted on 12/07/2007 3:43:43 PM PST by blam
Israel considering strike on Iran despite US intelligence report
You knew there was something wrong with this NIE when the UN, yes THE UN, scorned it as so much wishful thinking,
I’m behind in the news to this situation.
Source for the UN dismissing the NIE?
The intelligence agencies didn’t miss these important advances in warfare by other nations.
They hid the info and denied any knowledge of it.
Think Valerie Plame, as in, in charge of getting intelligence on Saddam’s purchasing WMD’s.
Who sent her husband, as a surrogate spy, to investigate.
Ironic, in that her husband’s company brokers the sale of Yellowcake Ore for the President of Niger. He wouldn’t lie to make or cover a sale, now would he?
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