Say Anything Blog

You’re right, Mike; let’s not worry about it until after they explode one.  /sarcasm
Let’s ignore Mahmoud’s rhetoric about wiping Israel off the map and destroying the US(since you’re right next door, you might get a few specks of fallout), and go back to sleep.  Yeah, that’ll work!  /sarcasm again

Save America; boycott the MSM.

Please excuse my skepticism, but are these not the same intelligence analysts working as part of the same Intelligence Community who told us that Saddam’s in-country WMD program was, in Tenent’s words, a “slam dunk”?

As I read the published portions of the NIE, it seems to me the report is little more than a hair-splitting exercise in policy semantics, rather than a clear and concise view of what the Iranians are up to.  Despite the virulent stupidity of certain immature liberal commenters, nobody who has seen war up close and personal is anxious to have more of it.  But unlike those same stupid liberals, I am not willing to ignore all the efforts made to date by two US administrations, the EU, and (most pointlessly) the UN to ensure that Iran does not acquire nukes.

A nuclear-armed, radical Iranian theocracy is simply unacceptable, and as usual, our liberal cohorts here are long on rhetorical braying against the Bush Administration’s efforts in that direction, but blatantly short of alternative policy suggestions.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

If they suspended the nuclear development program how can this be true,"But the BBC News website’s world affairs correspondent, Paul Reynolds, says the question of sanctions remains active because Iran is still defying Security Council calls for it to suspend uranium enrichment.”?

If they are still enriching uranium then they did not suspend the program. And if our intel services knew this in 2003 why did they not say this in 2003? Or 2004? Or 2005? Or 2006? Why the sudden change? Are we supposed to all believe it is just a coincidence?

And if they are developing nuclear power for electric production, why are there no high tension electric transmission lines running from the facilities to any cities or industrial sites? No transformer substations? There are several sites online that carry satellite images of the sites in question. The only electric lines I have found come to the facility, from a hydro electric site.

At the end of this NIE summary it states that Iran continues to advance its uranium enrichment program, and that work on ballistic missile and guidance systems continues at an accelerated pace.

Color me underwhelmed.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Good points all, particularly B1’s regarding the competence of the intelligence agencies. That being said, the Administration is left looking either incompetent or manipulative and neither helps the cause of those that would maintain a hard line on Iran.

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Kristol