washingtontimes.com - 12/11/2008
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By: Gene44 One can only guess that he is a liberal democrat who picks out what he wants from all the intelligence reports. Trust, but verify and Iran has refused verification by the IAEA who did not know North Korean was building bombs until after they tested one. According to underground groups ...
haaretz.com - 12/11/2008
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haaretz.com —
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel
a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a nuclear...
attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said ...
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Obama's atomic umbrella: U.S. nuclear strike ...
iht.com - 12/11/2008
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iht.com —
America's new president will have to confront the
reality that Iran now has the capability to build...
a nuclear weapon.
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Was the CIA wrong (again)?
telegraph.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has branded
US PresidentElect Barack Obama's comments on Tehran's nuclear activities...
as "cowboy" talk the ISNA news agency reported.
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Iran accuses Barack Obama of 'cowboy talk'
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Creating Strategic Ambiguity Over Obama's Iran Policy
Newshoggers.com —
... to someone who led the charge on pushing Mohammed Atta's fictitious meeting with Iraqi intel and doesn't think Perestroika was real is anyone's guess, but there he is pushing a very slanted interpretation of the Laptop Of Death and uttering falsehoods like "Iran had no known space program." That'll confuse the hell out of all the arms control wonks debating whether Iran's latest space rocket test was two or three stage, liquid or solid fuelled.
Unfortunately for Epstein and Co.,the intel community is sticking by its NIE:
The nation's just-retired No. ...
Creating Strategic Ambiguity Over Obama's Iran Policy
Crooks and Liars —
... who led the charge on pushing Mohammed Atta's fictitious meeting with Iraqi intel and doesn't think Perestroika was real is anyone's guess, but there he is pushing a very slanted interpretation of the Laptop Of Death and uttering falsehoods like "Iran had no known space program." That'll confuse the hell out of all the arms control wonks debating whether Iran's latest space rocket test was two or three stage, liquid or solid fuelled.
Unfortunately for Epstein and Co.,the intel community is sticking by its NIE:
The nation's just-retired No. 2 ...
Clinton, Still Ignoring 2007 NIE On Iran, Upsets Israel Too
Newshoggers.com —
... . Yet the man who organised that NIE, former deputy director of national intelligence Tom Fingar, stands by it's findings and Obama's own Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, ...
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Iran: Will talks happen under Obama?
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But, but . . . We've DONE All That
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American Foreign Policy Project
americanforeignpolicy.org 11/17/2008 — Among the many challenges that will greet President-elect Obama when he takes office, there are few, if any, more urgent and complex than the question of Iran. There are also few issues more clouded by myths and misconceptions. In this Joint Experts' ...
Eric Margolis: How Obama Can Further U.S.-Iran Relations
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Obama on a Nuclear Iran: Yes They Can?
weeklystandard.com 1/27/2009 — From Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya :
Q Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important ...
Iran: American apology in order
swamppolitics.com 1/28/2009 — by Mark Silva
Perhaps this is what happens when the United States attempts to open a dialog with Iran:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demands an apology.
The vituperative Iranian president, delivering his first public address since President Barack ...
Senate report ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib abuse —
Reuters: Politics 12/11/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to portions of a report released on Thursday ...
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