Monday, December 03, 2007

Not so relentlessly - From the NYT "U.S. says Iran ended atomic arms work": "A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb."

Captain Ed shares his thoughts: "Hmm. What might have happened in 2003 to convince Teheran to stop its nuclear-weapons pursuit?" Read VDH also.

Another thought - From Q&O: maybe our intelligence agencies don't have a clue. That, too.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

But are they really "thoughts," when they come from Captain Ed?

FOUR WEEKS AGO: "Now we have months":
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/015942.php

THREE WEEKS AGO: "It's almost literally the smoking gun":
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/015995.php

TODAY: What's that? The complete opposite? Another war success! Our "sound and careful" leader has been vindicated!

Bla bla f'n bla. And thank God the real world isn't run by armchair blog warriors.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what else happened in 2003 that caused to adjust their policy?

Anonymous said...

I wonder what happened in 2006 that's kept Iran's real people and nonexistent weapons program from being bombed by Deadeye Dick?

Anonymous said...

But are they really "thoughts," when they come from Captain Ed?

After Floundering Georgie's "because we were wrong, it shows we were really right!" Iran comments at today's press conference, it's obvious that Captain Ed was AHEAD OF THE CURVE.

Anonymous said...

The NIE report was drafted over a year ago. Dick Cheney's office blocked it in early 2007, objecting to its content, and John Negroponte resigned as director of national intelligence. In October, Negroponte's successor Mike McConnell wrote a policy memo making it more difficult to declassify the report. The next month, in November, McConnell claimed the report (completed in February) was not finished. On November 26, Bush briefed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on the report. Two days later, on November 28 according to national security adviser Stephen Hadley, Bush first learned the contents of the report. Bush claims that he became aware that new information "existed" in August, but did not ask what it was, and no one told him.

How's that whole "restoring honor to the Oval Office" thing going?

Anonymous said...

Ooooooops!

President Bush was told in August that Iran’s nuclear weapons program “may be suspended,” the White House said Wednesday, which seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by Bush Tuesday.... The new account from Perino seems to contradict the president’s version of his August conversation with McConnell and raised new questions about why Bush continued to warn the American public about a threat from Iran two months after being told a new assessment was in the works.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what else happened in 2003 that caused to adjust their policy?

The same thing that happened in 2000, and 1995, and 1992. Qadaffi personally offered to dismantle his program... to President George Bush SENIOR. You know, ongoing diplomatic negotiations. The kind that Bush's flop son thinks are for pussyboys.

As for Iran, on August 9, 2005, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons because the practice is inconsistent with Islam. And presumably, Islamofascism.