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It Turns Out Ahmadinejad Was the Truthful OnePosted on Dec 4, 2007
Bush is such a liar. Or is he just out to lunch on the most important issue that he faces? In October, he charged that Iran’s nuclear weapons program was bringing the world to the precipice of World War III, even though the White House had been informed at least a month earlier that Iran had no such program and had stopped efforts to develop one back in 2003. Is it conceivable that Bush was telling the truth at his press conference Tuesday when he stated that he learned of the National Intelligence Estimate report, which contained that inconvenient fact, only last week? Even if Bush read the NIE report, he clearly doesn’t respect it, for at his press conference he said “the NIE doesn’t do anything to change my opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world—quite the contrary.” Not that he has anything against the NIE, whose directors he handpicked. “I want to compliment the intelligence community for their good work. Right after the failure of intelligence in Iraq, we reformed the intelligence community.” But whether or not the intelligence agencies are reformed, the president still ignores them. He didn’t listen when they told him he was wrong in claiming that Iraq had purchased yellow cake uranium from Niger and he doesn’t listen now when they tell him his alarms about Iran are without factual foundation. The difference this time around is that because Bush is a discredited lame duck the intelligence chiefs were a bit more forthcoming with their findings in a report that has, in part, been made available to the public. The whole episode shows that our democratic system retains at least some essential checks and balances, but it also is depressing to see that, in this instance at least, the fanatical leader of a theocracy seems to have a higher regard for truth than does the president of the world’s greatest experiment in representative democracy. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who took office as Iran’s president in August of 2005, two years after Iran’s nuclear weapons program ended, has now been vindicated in his claims that Iran has abandoned the weaponization program. Not so Bush, who has summarily dismissed the intelligence community’s findings and, using his favorite tactic in dealing with debacles, is sticking to his original story. A story, as in the case of the earlier Iraq threat inflation, that too many in the mass media and Congress, including some leading Democrats, have bought. Take Hillary Clinton, who said that “Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is in the forefront of that” by way of defending her vote for a resolution that, like the one she voted for before the Iraq war, blindly supports rather than seriously questions the president’s case for war. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was absolutely correct in calling candidate Clinton out on that vote and challenging her lame excuse that she had not read the full intelligence report before her Iraq war vote. “Members of Congress,” Obama cautioned, “must carefully read the intelligence before giving the president any justification to use military force.” Not a bad idea. In the case of Iraq’s non-nukes, the intelligence evidence supporting Bush was flimsy at best when it did not directly contradict his key assertions. In the case of Iran, it is now publicly understood that there is no such evidence, flimsy or otherwise. But don’t count on that to stop the bipartisan coalition of invasion hawks from pushing on. Once again, they will attack the United Nations’ experts, who have been proved right in Iran as they were in Iraq. A spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency pointed out that the NIE report supports the agency’s view that there is “no evidence” of an undeclared nuclear weapons program in Iran and “validates the assessments of [IAEA Director General] Mohamed ElBaradei, who continuously said in his public statements that he saw no clear and public danger, and that therefore that there was plenty of time for negotiations.” Can we get ElBaradei to run in the Iowa caucus? Why are our leading presidential candidates so easily fooled? It’s humiliating to all of us who believe in a free press, separation of powers and individual liberty that a system of government designed by its founders to hold leaders accountable can be so easily manipulated by an unremarkable loser who has been rewarded throughout his life for screwing up. It is hoped that this time around the truth will catch up with him before he gets us in yet another bloody war, just to show he can. Previous item: The Dubious Mr. Dobbs Next item: Not Enough 'Audacity of Hope' to Go Around Elsewhere: . Comments: 188 Published. Add Yours?Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. |
By odlid, December 30, 2007 at 12:37 pm #
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From this Scheer article:"World War
From this Scheer article:
“World War III, even though the White House had been informed at least a month earlier that Iran had no such program and had stopped efforts to develop one back in 2003.”
Robert Scheer, while honestly trying to balance out his views by reducing his use of (very brief)inflammatory suggestions regarding Iran, again falls victim to convenient baloney served to him by the govt. Here, he cites the NIE report, and in an effort to be fair-minded, agrees with that report that the Iranians “stopped efforts to develop one (nuclear weapons program) back in 2003.” In fact, as UN Inspector Scott Ritter states flatly in his recent (Dec.07) piece for Truthdig, that there never was such a program to develop nuclear weapons in Iran. Mr. Scheer is not required to do this, but I suggest that he move his journalistic slant away from his present commentator status and move in the direction of historian...accuracy is all.
Reply to this | Report thisBy karim29007, December 11, 2007 at 8:47 am #
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On NIE
On NIE
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On point 10
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ZIONIST’S spying in and on AMERICA AND AMERICANS.
Fox News: Israeli Spyring
Filed under:
• USA
• Jewry, “Israel”, Zionism…
May 28, 2003 - 11:36
It turns out that Israel has had a potential wiretap on every phone in America for years, along with the ability to monitor and record who any person is calling, anywhere in America; information of great value even if one does not listen to the calls themselves. Amdocs, Inc., the company which subcontracts billing and directory services for phone companies around the world, including 90 percent of American phone companies, is owned by Israeli interests. Yet another company, Comverse Infosys, is suspected of having built a “back door” into the equipment permanently installed into the phone system that allows instant eavesdropping by law enforcement agencies on any phone in America. This includes yours.
Fox News, alone of all the media, actually ran the story as a four part broadcast, and put the story up on its web site. Then, without explanation, Fox News erased the story from their web site and have never mentioned it again._
Part 1 at YouTube
Part 2 at YouTube
Part 2 at YouTube
Part 4 at YouTube
BRIT HUME, HOST: It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first, Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but later took responsibility for his work.
CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States.
There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are “tie-ins.” But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, “evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.”
Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis, spotted in North Carolina recently, is suspected of keeping an apartment in California to spy on a group of Arabs who the United States is also investigating for links to terrorism. Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to September 11, as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the United States.
Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that’s been compiling evidence since the mid ‘90s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say, “may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity.”
The first part of the investigation focuses on Israelis who say they are art students from the University of Jerusalem and Bazala Academy. They repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel, the report says, by saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork.
Documents say they, “targeted and penetrated military bases.” The DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities, and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel. The majority of those questioned, “stated they served in military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance units.”
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As for the rest google it!
Reply to this | Report thisBy Jonas South, December 10, 2007 at 2:14 pm #
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Hmmmmm. Karim, Karim. Why, it
Hmmmmm. Karim, Karim. Why, it is the Muslim name best known to Americans, as in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Here, I must tell you about back fires. Rangers routinely set back fires to deplete the brush, and the intensity of the forest fires they fight.
Karim’s posts smack of a back fire. His over-the-top anti-Zionist rant is exactly what we should expect from someone who is ‘fighting fire with fire’.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Joe13, December 10, 2007 at 12:38 pm #
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What really scares me is
What really scares me is that Congress hasn’t read our Constitution. They’re in the process of creating laws that are already IN the Constitution.
Reply to this | Report thisBy rowman, December 10, 2007 at 11:03 am #
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RE: #119119 by karim29007 Don’t know
RE: #119119 by karim29007
Don’t know where you get your data but it must be out of the fiction section. I have a suspicion that you are related to 1dress5 as you both seem to cite the same unsubstantiated, fictitious lies invented by those seeking to skew the facts and distort reality. You do yourself a great disservice this way for by choosing to ignore the real history; you are doomed to repeat it.
Here is a better book for you:
http://www.amazon.com/Case-Israel-Alan-Dershowitz/dp/0 471679526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=11973 12288&sr=8-1
Being that you are so willing to buy into any conspiracy theory, I have a bridge for sale as well…
Reply to this | Report thisBy Non Credo, December 10, 2007 at 12:21 am #
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#119151 by Inherit The Wind
#119151 by Inherit The Wind on 12/09 at 7:05 pm:
Yeah; this really shows the absurdity of Bush’s threat of preventive war to keep Iranians from acquiring the knowledge of how to make a nookular weapon.
How much of Iran will he have to destroy to be sure that all possible knowing of this is wiped out?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Howard, December 9, 2007 at 7:20 pm #
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RE: posting by #119119
RE: posting by #119119 by karim29007 on 12/09 at 1:56 pm
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On NIE,
Zionism
And the PROTOCOLS, ………
“Cure the cause, the cancerous cells of symptoms will disappear.”
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Wow, have you got their number. You left some things off of that list, too. Dem rotten Zionists.
Those Zionists started 19 Crusades. the 19th was World War I. Why? Only to build Israel.
The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation they gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs.
What’s the diff in adding on more fictional items. eh?
You can still buy the bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn, by the way.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, December 9, 2007 at 7:05 pm #
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[i]Ernest Canning on 12/09 at
Ernest Canning on 12/09 at 10:56 am
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ITW, if a high school student was able to produce a paper on how to build a nuclear bomb, and then the Bush/Cheney standard for justifying a pre-emptive attack on another nation because they supposedly have the intent to obtain the knowledge necessary to build a bomb, would that mean that Bush and Cheney would have the right to bomb all U.S. high schools to prevent another student from coming forward with a “how to build a bomb” paper?
Sort of underscores the absurdity of the Bush/Cheney rationalization offered to justify their intended regime-changing efforts, doesn’t it?
Yup.
Reply to this | Report thisAccording to them, they already have that right under the “Unitary Presidency” fascist dogma. Now all they have to do is get us lemmings to buy into it.
By sanity, December 9, 2007 at 4:40 pm #
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Are all liberals on crack?
Are all liberals on crack? LaLa Land must be fun!
Reply to this | Report thisBy karim29007, December 9, 2007 at 4:06 pm #
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Ref.: Jason on 12/09 at
Ref.: Jason on 12/09 at 2:40 pm
Thank you.
Reply to this | Report thisBy karim29007, December 9, 2007 at 1:56 pm #
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On NIE, Zionism And
On NIE,
Zionism
And the PROTOCOLS, ………
“Cure the cause, the cancerous cells of symptoms will disappear.”
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In the year 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, whose real name was Israel, and who was a “ damped,” or baptized ZIONIST, published his novel, Coningsy, in which occurs this ominous passage:
“The world is governed by very different personages from what
is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes”.
And he went on to show that these personages were all ZIONISTS.
Now that ALL THESE DOCUMENTS has brought to the light of day, those secret Protocols, all of us may clearly see the hidden personages specified by Disraeli at work “behind the scenes” of many regimes.
This revelation entails on all people the grave responsibility of examining and revising their attitude towards the Race and ENTITY which boasts of its survival over the rest of humanity.
The word “ Agentur”, which means the whole body of agents and agencies has been made use of by the Elders over and over again in the PROTOCOLS.
Implying whether members of the ZIONIST’S ENTITY or their “Gentile tools”.
At this moment I have no intention of referring to the “BRONZE AGE” continuous documents discoveries with the ink not yet fully dried, and boring everyone.
Let’s have look at the today ‘s realities of implementation of the said PROTOCOLS and “Agentur” within our societies that seems surreal and unbelievable but regrettably true.
1- The consolidated ZIONIST’S CONSORTIUM with AIPAC as the CEO.
2- The 2% ethnic minority whom control every aspect of American’s way of life.
3- The strangulation of so called “foreign policy”. More than 90% of “high value and sensitive” official appointees are on the AIPAC approval list.
4- Total control of main stream media directly or indirectly by utilizing black-mail, coercion or straight forward check-book “journalism”.
5- Putting Americans in the harms way to do their dirty and immoral works, again and again, exactly according to the PROTOCOLS and hence the loss of thousands of American lives and more than a million of Iraqis’ , so far.
6- The daily genocide in Palestine. (During the last 3-weeks their water supply has been cut-off with the fuel and cooking oil deliveries being confiscated at the check points. The Nazis turn in their graves.)
7- The cantonisation and break-up of Iraq, once a sovereign nation and the region hence a perpetual conflict and bloodshed therefore easy manipulation and robbing their natural resources to the benefit of the Zionists.
8- Preparing the ground work to repeat and apply the same application to IRAN.(I guess we all aware of the recent NIE report, its back-ground and its future implication.( the Zionist entity’s defence minister Ehud Barks rejected the said NIE as fraud!)
9- The blatant lies and denial that the Zionist entity has no “nuclear weapon.” The pile-up of more than 300 nuclear war-heads in Tel-Aviv, and other places including their installations in the German-made Sub-marines’. well , may be they are be used just for the rainy days!
10- More than 80% of the Spies and Traitors against the U.S. has been ZIONISTS.
11- The non-stop aggression against the neighbouring countries.
12- The implementation of – [Admit nothing, deny everything, make counter accusations.] policy.
And the list seems to be non-ending perhaps as long as the Protocols.
No doubt the “gutter language and slurring” will be followed after this posting by those ”jog-heads” whom trying to avoid the truth and the serious consequences of their evil-doing deeds.
However just to remind them that illiteracy and ignorance is neither an option nor a blessing.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Ernest Canning, December 9, 2007 at 10:56 am #
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ITW, if a high school
ITW, if a high school student was able to produce a paper on how to build a nuclear bomb, and then the Bush/Cheney standard for justifying a pre-emptive attack on another nation because they supposedly have the intent to obtain the knowledge necessary to build a bomb, would that mean that Bush and Cheney would have the right to bomb all U.S. high schools to prevent another student from coming forward with a “how to build a bomb” paper?
Sort of underscores the absurdity of the Bush/Cheney rationalization offered to justify their intended regime-changing efforts, doesn’t it?
Reply to this | Report thisBy AXJ - Latinos for Dr. Ron Paul, December 9, 2007 at 10:49 am #
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Good Comment! You are on
Good Comment! You are on the AXJ list...Do you support Dr. Ron Paul for President? Time you did…
Reply to this | Report thisBy Jonas South, December 9, 2007 at 6:34 am #
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Robert Scheer asks, rather plaintively,
Robert Scheer asks, rather plaintively, I thought: ‘Why are our leading presidential candidates so easily fooled?’
They are not fooled; they are cowed. In the past decades, billions of our tax money have been flowing freely - into the coffers of Israel, with no strings or rules attached. Just the interest earned on such largess (we pay up front every year) can support an immense propaganda system.
Part of this system is mediated through the American media, and part of it is through political donations. This is the reason we will never have genuine campaign finance reform. This is the reason we will always live with a crippled Fourth Estate.
For your answer, Mr. Scheer, follow the money.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Thomas Billis, December 9, 2007 at 5:59 am #
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Preident Bush is against anyone
Preident Bush is against anyone having knowledge on anything.Do not worry you dummies keep reading your Bible and I will talk to God and figure out what we should do.If I cannot figure out what to do I will ask God’s little helper my VP The angel Dick Cheyney.Iraq has the GNP of Sweeden.It is a minor nothing that is capitalizing on our stupidity in the middle east.I guess Iran should not be concerned when they have US troops poised on two borders and a President who calls you part of the axis of evil.We have to make it clear to people the only country who can effect the middle east with faulty intelligence is us.They almost got us into another war for oil if it were not for some real Americans in the intelligence agencies who told the President if the N.I.E. summary did not get out they would leak it and take the consequences for it.Iran is not my leading candidate for country of the year but all this rhetoric about a country that realizes they are next on our oil hit list and is trying to protect itself the best they can is ridiculous.Pull all our troops out of the middle east and show the region we are not there just to steal oil and I am not saying peace will break out tomorrow but we will have taken a huge step towards it.I now know the exact meaning of “The Big Lie” that the Nazi’s used so effectively in the lead up to ww2.
Reply to this | Report thisBy vet240, December 8, 2007 at 9:43 pm #
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What I find ironic is
What I find ironic is that in th recent past (a month?), I’m not sure but i read a news article about an Israeli just released from prison after 18 years. His crime? Blowing the whistle on the Israeli Nuclear weapons development. By now I imagine Israel has at least a hundred such weapons.
The Iranians are hemmed in by countries on all sides that might go extremist at any time. Syria, Israel, Pakistan, Egypt and of course us. Now why would they feel the need to protect themselves given the history of Western involvment in their country for the last 40-50 years.
Never-the-less I think we have demonstrated to the world the total lack of respect given countries with such weaponry.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, December 8, 2007 at 7:18 pm #
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About 15 or 20 years
About 15 or 20 years ago a brilliant hish school student wrote a paper on how to build a nuclear device for something like $2000--but that didn’t include the plutonium you would need.
Several governments tried to contact him before the US military stepped in. He was de-briefed but had done nothing wrong.
My point? It’s not nearly as mysterious as everyone makes out to build a device.. you just need the fissionable material.
THAT should be far scarier than an Iranian, Pakistani or Korean bomb.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Goffredo, December 8, 2007 at 4:45 pm #
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Marshall, The NIE report has nothing
Marshall,
The NIE report has nothing for evidence other than “determined”...so what do you want to do with that word? Make it jus ad bellum if someone is “determined”?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Goffredo, December 8, 2007 at 4:44 pm #
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Marshall, The NIE report has nothing
Marshall,
The NIE report has nothing for evidence other than “determined”...so what do you want to do with that word? Make it jus ad bellum it someone is “determined”?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Non Credo, December 8, 2007 at 3:11 pm #
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Enemy of state writes: "And don’t
Enemy of state writes:
“And don’t claim we are doing for Israels sake. The Israeli citizens at least do not favor such an attack.”
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That’s a lie. The Israel public is only against a UNILATERAL ISRAELI ATTACK on Iran.
There is every reason to believe they would very much like for the US to bomb Iran. And unquestionably that is what their government wants.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Non Credo, December 8, 2007 at 2:33 pm #
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in #118954, Enemy of State
in #118954, Enemy of State (EOS) writes:
“… And don’t claim we are doing for Israels sake. The Israeli citizens at least do not favor such an attack.”
That’s a lie, EOS. The poll to which you presumably refer only shows that the Israeli public does not want a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran.
Their government undeniably wants this war, and the Israeli people probably want it, too. They just don’t want to do it themselves. They obviously would like very much for us to do it for them.
Reply to this | Report thisBy vet240, December 8, 2007 at 1:33 pm #
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Why anyone would be surprosed
Why anyone would be surprosed by this development I can’t say. Remember that guy Saddam Hussein? The man who was holding onto harsh but secular governance in Iraq?
In a recent article in my home town paper Moan Charen an apparent “professional writer, submitted an article in which a she attacked Ron Paul and his followers as “Neo-fascists”.
The real message in her article was to sway any “soft” Republicans away from Paul back into the mainstream Republican party. To do so she stated that when Paul supporters used the phrase “Neo-Con” they were speaking in code. She said “Neo-con” was really code speak for “Jew”. She also spoke with disdain of Ron Paul referring to “Dark Forces” in our country.
She invited anyone who wanted to contact her, they could at http://www.creators.com . I went to that site and found it to be an agency representing many right-wing writers and entertainers. People like Robert Novack and Bill O’Reilly. I found her location to be ironic when considering the possibility of there being “Dark forces”
I would encourage everybody to go to the site mentioned and sound off to Mona Charen.
I would like to see Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul given as much monetary and voluntary support as possible. Lets get back to a time (did it ever exist?) when the government was representative of the people and not just hacks for the Military/Industrial complex, Multi-National corporations and big energy.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Enemy of State, December 8, 2007 at 1:32 pm #
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Well of course their ability
Well of course their ability to enrich Uraniun, and the knowledge gained from their civilian program put the Iranians closer to developing a bomb -if they so choose. The NIE does not gloss over this point, it just states that they have not been developing a bomb during the past four years.
So we still have problems. Problems that Iran, a country that we don’t trust, and who seeks to become the regional power in a part of the world we wish to dominate, could fairly quickly become a Nuclear weapons state. Problems that our very belligerant actions may well be the catalyst for Iran, or several other nuclear capable countries to choose to become nuclear weapons states. This is not a problem that can be solved by bombing, or sabre rattling. There are something like fifty countries who if they made the decision could quickly acquire Nweapons. Why are we so obsessed with this one?
So how dangerous would a nuclear armed Iran be? Would they be any more of a threat than China? Would they be a greater threat than Pakistan? We never tried to solve those problems by bombing. Why do we insist on keeping it on the table in the case of Iran? And don’t claim we are doing for Israels sake. The Israeli citizens at least do not favor such an attack. If there is any logic, beyond pure Iran is evil nonsense behind this obsession, it must have something to do with our desire to militarily control the worlds oil-heartland.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Howard, December 8, 2007 at 12:49 pm #
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ON Monday the United States
ON Monday the United States intelligence community issued what everyone agrees was blockbuster news: a report stating that in the autumn of 2003, Iran halted its nuclear weapons program. The National Intelligence Estimate has been heralded as a courageous act of independence by the intelligence agencies, and praised by both parties for showing a higher quality of spy work than earlier assessments.
In fact, the report contains the same sorts of flaws that we have learned to expect from our intelligence agency offerings. It, like the report in 2002 that set up the invasion of Iraq, is both misleading and dangerous.
During the past year, a period when Iran’s weapons program was supposedly halted, the government has been busy installing some 3,000 gas centrifuges at its plant at Natanz. These machines could, if operated continuously for about a year, create enough enriched uranium to provide fuel for a bomb. In addition, they have no plausible purpose in Iran’s civilian nuclear effort. All of Iran’s needs for enriched uranium for its energy programs are covered by a contract with Russia.
Iran is also building a heavy water reactor at its research center at Arak. This reactor is ideal for producing plutonium for nuclear bombs, but is of little use in an energy program like Iran’s, which does not use plutonium for reactor fuel. India, Israel and Pakistan have all built similar reactors — all with the purpose of fueling nuclear weapons. And why, by the way, does Iran even want a nuclear energy program, when it is sitting on an enormous pool of oil that is now skyrocketing in value? And why is Iran developing long-range Shahab missiles, which make no military sense without nuclear warheads to put on them?
For years these expensive projects have been viewed as evidence of Iran’s commitment to nuclear weapons. Why aren’t they still? The answer is that the new report defines “nuclear weapons program” in a ludicrously narrow way: it confines it to to enriching uranium at secret sites or working on a nuclear weapon design. But the halting of its secret enrichment and weapon design efforts in 2003 proves only that Iran made a tactical move. It suspended work that, if discovered, would unambiguously reveal intent to build a weapon. It has continued other work, crucial to the ability to make a bomb, that it can pass off as having civilian applications.
That work includes the centrifuges at Natanz, which bring Iran closer to a nuclear weapon every day — two to seven years away. To assert, as the report does, that these centrifuges are “civilian,” and not part of Iran’s weapons threat, is grossly misleading.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/opinion/06milhollin. html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Howard, Karim doesn't seem to
Howard, Karim doesn’t seem to want your bridge so I’ll offer it some nice beach front property on the Sea of Tranquility at a very reasonable price.
Reply to this | Report thisBy MAR, December 8, 2007 at 12:09 pm #
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Re: Ravings by: #118690 by
Re: Ravings by:
#118690 by lastdaywatchers on 12/07 at 10:34 am
Is this now a thread on religious insanity?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Howard, December 8, 2007 at 10:30 am #
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RE Post by #118918 by
RE Post by
#118918 by karim29007 on 12/08 at 10:10 am
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The protocols are ‘ fiction ‘. Like Santa, Cinderella, Bugs Bunny, etc.
Look up the definitin of fiction. I still think you’re under the age of 16 or 17 years of age.
But you got to get with it with it and stop promoting f-i-c-t-i-o-n.
Otherwise you will in time be buying that bridge in Brooklyn.
Reply to this | Report thisBy karim29007, December 8, 2007 at 10:10 am #
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Protocols... --------- ref.:Howard. My previous post is above
Protocols…
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ref.:Howard.
My previous post is above your head.
Seek some help from your chief rabbi as soon as possible, if not, read talmud!
Ignorance is no longer a bless.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Howard, December 8, 2007 at 10:08 am #
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America’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Agencies The above
America’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Agencies
The above headline is currently on the front page of TruthDig, another report that commentators there love to agree with.
Come over here and goodness gracious, the NIE is accepted as gospel. Know what I mean.
Shows some people’s nefarious agendas are showing.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Ernest Canning, December 8, 2007 at 8:26 am #
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Good point Non Credo &
Good point Non Credo & Paolo, and let’s not forget that in directing the development of a new generations of U.S. nuclear weapons Bush, himself, is the one who is actually violating the NPT.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Blackspeare, December 8, 2007 at 8:05 am #
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We live in a world
We live in a world of disinformation. The old adage: “Believe nothing of what you read or hear and only half of what you see” is as true today as ever. Today, all we can rely on are the facts as we believe we know them.
Iran has spent vast sums of money on its uranium enrichment program----why? If Iran wanted nuclear power for peaceful purposes it could have acquired the nuclear fuel much more quickly and economically. Iran didn’t build a vast array of sites and install 3000 centrifuges for the Hell of it----it wants a nuclear weapon pure and simple----WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Reply to this | Report thisBy Non Credo, December 8, 2007 at 7:37 am #
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As Paolo points out: "[The Iranians]
As Paolo points out:
“[The Iranians] have every right to enrich uranium under the NPT. The argument that they don’t “need” to enrich uranium is specious: they have the right, and they don’t have to answer to anyone except the IAEA, which has turned up exactly ZERO evidence of a nuclear weapons program in years of intrusive inspections.”
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RE: Post by
RE: Post by #118879 by karim29007 on 12/08 at 6:11 am
What is so remarkable about those sayings that you put up since they are complete total fiction.?
Ah, that you believe in them is ok, nutty as they are.
But listen, I have a bridge that is for Sale. Big bridge in Brooklyn.. Ok ? Not much down.. Great deal, though.
How about it?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Non Credo, December 8, 2007 at 6:48 am #
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Once again Paolo makes a
Once again Paolo makes a point so well, I must simply echo it:
[The Iranians] have every right to enrich uranium under the NPT. The argument that they don’t “need” to enrich uranium is specious: they have the right, and they don’t have to answer to anyone except the IAEA, which has turned up exactly ZERO evidence of a nuclear weapons program in years of intrusive inspections.
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Thanks again, Paolo
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U.S. Intelligence: Iran's Nuclear Program
U.S. Intelligence: Iran’s Nuclear Program Still a Threat
- Pam Benson
U.S. deputy intelligence chief Donald Kerr told a House intelligence subcommittee Thursday that the National Intelligence Estimate “did not in any way suggest that Iran was benign for the future.” He said Iranians continue work on what he called the “most important component” of any future program, a uranium enrichment plant. Kerr also said Iran continues to develop a medium-range ballistic missile, which could be used as the delivery system for nuclear weapons. (CNN)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/06/iran.nie/
Reply to this | Report thisBy karim29007, December 8, 2007 at 6:11 am #
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THE PROTOCOLS ------------- The presumption is highly
THE PROTOCOLS
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The presumption is highly accurate and logical.
The Protocols have been issued, or reissued several times.
Stating at the First Zionist Congress held at Basle in 1897 under the presidency of the
Father of Modern Zionism, Theodore Herzl.
The present successor of Herzl, as leader of the Zionist movement, Dr. Weizmann, quoted one of these sayings at the send-off banquet given to Chief Rabbi Hertz on October 6, 1920.
The Chief Rabbi was on the point of leaving for his Empire tour of
H.R.H., the Prince of Wales.
And this is the “saying” of the Sages which Dr. Weizmann quoted: “A beneficent protection which God has instituted in the life of the ZIONIST is that He has dispersed him all over the world.” (Jewish Guardian, Oct. 8, 1920.)
Now compare this with the last clause of but one of Protocol XI.
“God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of dispersion, and from this, which appears to all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all the world.”
The remarkable correspondence between these passages proves several things.
1- It proves that the Learned Elders exist.
2- It proves that Dr. Weizmann knows all about them.
3- It proves that the desire for a “National Home” in Palestine is only camouflage and an infinitesimal part of the ZIONIST’s real object.
4- It proves that the of the ZIONISTS have no intention of settling in Palestine or any separate country, and that their annual prayer that they may all meet “Next Year in Jerusalem” is merely a piece of their characteristic make believe.
5- It also demonstrates that the ZIONISTS are now a world menace, and that the ALL OTHER races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe.
Once again the pathetic fallacy of these uneducated reactionaries whom “slurrism “ Is their only refuge without a fig leaf, makes one’s wonder who is their life support!!
The PROTOCOLS ARE ON COURSE AND ON AUTO-PILOT.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, December 8, 2007 at 5:35 am #
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This is the most profoundly
This is the most profoundly hate-filled thread yet.
The fact that the truth-dig administration would allow comments such as “Jews are a piece of shit” (pretty good sentence structure too)while removing comments mildly disapproving of their authors says much about the open “truth” they allegedly espouse.
Hitler favored his truth also
Oh BTW 1dree5 get some therapy before you strap on that bomb-laden suicide belt.
Reply to this | Report thisBy mpgarr, December 8, 2007 at 1:17 am #
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Bush may be crazy but
Bush may be crazy but he is not really stupid as some like to think--and I don’t know how anyone can be surprised he lied about Iran--he has pretty much lied about everything---my view of Bush--beginning with the 2000 election--if this man was speaking--it was at best wrong--or a worst a lie!!!
Reply to this | Report thisBy Nap, December 7, 2007 at 8:39 pm #
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As long as Iran confirms
As long as Iran confirms to NPT there is no reason under the sun to forgo of its rights.
Reply to this | Report thisWhen the Zionist annex and settle in disputed, occupied land they undermine Israel.
Why is that so hard to understand?
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#118646 by Ernest Canning on
#118646 by Ernest Canning on 12/07 at 7:42 am
Interesting, Ernest - I’m curious just how you interpret his statement then. Does it mean nukes were only against their religion after 2003?
#118619 by Goffredo on 12/07 at 5:33 am
I don’t know how to respond to your posts. You claimed that the recent NIE showed no past evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program, and I quoted you from the section that determined that there was. The word “determined” was nowhere in my post. I’d ask you to clarify but I think you’re as confused as I am.
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#118780 by karim29007 on 12/07
#118780 by karim29007 on 12/07 at 5:00 pm
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THE PROTOCOLS
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I know the Protocols have been discredit as false piece of goods long long time ago. Been revived in some Islamic countries and has been almost a top seller in those environs.
I would not think that in this century anyone would buy into them outside of that area. But here in living technicolor is a dingbat named ‘ Karim ‘ who puts it up as something worthy.
Yet he’ll scream bloody “ God is great”, if a cartoon of Muhammed is printed or verbally assaulted in the media.
He oughta’ be embarrased to death to give belief to one of the world’s most vicious pieces of fiction.
He’s probably 13 or 14 years of age. But that’s a poor excuse. Of course it shows how some children are raised in these times. Imagine.
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THE PROTOCOL ----------- These Protocols give the
THE PROTOCOL
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These Protocols give the substance of addresses delivered to the
innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion. They reveal the converted plan of
action of the ZIONIST’S Nation developed through the ages and edited by the Elders themselves up to date.
Parts and summaries of the plan have been published from time to time during many years as the secrets of the Elders have leaked out.
The claim of the slurring zionists that the Protocols are forgeries is in itself an admission of their genuineness, for they never attempt to answer the facts corresponding to the threats which the Protocols contain, and, indeed,
the correspondence between prophecy and fulfillment is too glaring to be set aside or obscured.
This the REACTIONARY ZIONISTS ILLITERATES well know and therefore evade.
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[i]karim29007 on 12/07 at 5:00
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THE PROTOCOL
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THE PROTOCOL is simply the minutes of the proceedings of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York World, February
17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly:
“The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old,and they have fitted the world situation up to this time.They fit it
now.”
08-12-2007: ON AUTO-PILOT AND ON COURSE.
HENRY FORD? HENRY FORD???? He was a BLATANT anti-semite who hated Jews from the day he was born. He believed and published ANYTHING negative about Jews because he WANTED to believe it.
No historian in America, no legitimate historian in the world would cite or accept Henry Ford as a source. He might have been a talented inventor but he sure as HELL was no scholar.
There never was such a conference, there never was such an organization. It was a crude forgery by the Tsarist Secret Police in Russia, to give justification to pogroms by Cossacks against the Jewish shtetls to divert the ignorant populace from who was REALLY raping them.
These days, only ignorant neo-nazis and badly-educated fanatics from the Islamic world are stupid enough to accept this piece of shit as authentic. Henry Ford was just such a piece of shit, too.
Since you defend it, you too are a piece of shit.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Frank Cajon, December 7, 2007 at 7:00 pm #
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Wow, Chancellor Bush using the
Wow, Chancellor Bush using the Big Lie a second time about a Middle East Islamic state having weapons of mass destruction and this time, gets caught BEFORE he can start a war. This is really a shame since this was counted on by the majority of this site’s posters as fodder for their anti-Zionist tirades as much as it was for Herr W as his validation for starting WW III. It’s moments like this that I miss Godsend, who would find some way to blame this on a Jew.
Reply to this | Report thisThe real issue is that the CIA is a cluster f..k. How many more times is this fascist despot of ours going to be given just the intel he wants, no matter how wrong, and either put us in an endless genocide or bring us to brink of a nuclear faceoff? This is the best information that the most modern black on black torture prisons in the world can come up with?
I have an idea: DUE PROCESS OF LAW. First, the information in the Wall Street Journal and foreign press is likely more accurate than the CIA’s classified documents. Second, we were getting more accurate information back in the old days when we weren’t snatching people off the street and throwing them into secret prisons, locking them away for years, and torturing them. Then destroying any evidence it happened. Call me old school, I just don’t think it’s worth nuking the world over a non-existent nuclear weapon program.
By Paolo, December 7, 2007 at 6:44 pm #
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Look--I'm no great fan of
Look--I’m no great fan of Iran, but fair is fair.
Are they too theocratic--sure. (Although I’ve met and talked with people who went to Iran and said it really wasn’t that bad. Western women who visit Iran are requested [or required] to wear a hijab--a scarf covering their hair.)
Having said this, I say in Iran’s defense:
1) They have invaded no foreign nation in over 200 years. The USA cannot make such a claim, nor can Israel.
2) They have every right to enrich uranium under the NPT. The argument that they don’t “need” to enrich uranium is specious: they have the right, and they don’t have to answer to anyone except the IAEA, which has turned up exactly ZERO evidence of a nuclear weapons program in years of intrusive inspections.
3) Iran has been the victim of the most outrageous interference by the President’s private army, aka the CIA. Their democratically-elected, Time Magazine “Man of the Year” honoree, Mohammad Mossadegh, was forced out of office in a CIA-engineered coup in 1954. The President’s private army, aka the CIA, installed the bloody, brutal regime of “Shah-an-Shah (king of kings), Light of the Aryans,” aka Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi, with CIA guidance, established SAVAK, a brutal secret police known for particularly gruesome torture methods.
4) Iran was invaded by Iraq under Saddam, when Saddam was our favorite Satrap in the Middle East, in the 1980’s. A million human beings died in that senseless conflict. Thanks, CIA! (Incidentally, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons in that conflict, weapons supplied by the President’s private army--the CIA.)
I conclude that, despite the fact I disagree with the Iranian theocracy, I completely understand their viewpoint. They have been truthful about their non-pursuit of nuclear weapons; the Bush Administration has been proved yet again to be world-class liars.
Actually, I am impressed with the forbearance shown by the Iranian leadership, given the nauseating degree of US interference in their affairs. Now, in practical terms, this is probably due to their knowledge that the USA, with a military a thousand times more powerful than their own, could crush them if they became too “uppity.”
Sheer is right: Ahmadi-Nejad has told the truth. George W. Bush has been shown, for the hundredth time, to be a bald-faced liar.
Reply to this | Report thisBy PatrickHenry, December 7, 2007 at 6:28 pm #
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#118686 by ender Very good
#118686 by ender
Very good post ender and very true.
I don’t blame Iran for wanting a nuclear weapon as a defensive option, against a provocative, overflying Israel, sort of a quid pro quo. The U.S. should demand as a condition of receiving AID that Israel open up it’s nuclear stockpile and let the IAEA inspect the safety of Israels’ nuclear program.
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THE PROTOCOL ------------ THE PROTOCOL is simply
THE PROTOCOL
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THE PROTOCOL is simply the minutes of the proceedings of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York World, February
17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly:
“The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old,and they have fitted the world situation up to this time.They fit it
now.”
08-12-2007: ON AUTO-PILOT AND ON COURSE.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Ernest Canning, December 7, 2007 at 3:08 pm #
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Non credo, while the IAEA
Non credo, while the IAEA confirms the level of Iranian enrichment is only to the level required for domestic nuclear power plants, I have to question the wisdom of any nation seeking to develop such a dangerous method of power generation when the are so many green alterntive sources of energy. But that is a question of ecology and not one that warrants the bellicosity of these neocons who are simply looking for an “excuse” to carry out their long-held goal of extending U.S. hegemony over the whole of the oil-rich middle east.
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here are the link to
here are the link to the videos to my comments bellow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2346853306620 58240&q=israel+secret+weapon&total=107&start=0& amp;num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1 Israel secret weapon program
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RIRedinPA you say "lastdaywatchers -
RIRedinPA you say “lastdaywatchers - are you talking to yourself in the third person?”
The answer is NO I’m talking to the whole world, but to those of you on TruthDig I say this
“If you don’t want to believe God Word about the Iraq Invader”
Try some of these treads by men (I was lead to these video by Robert see below)
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