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August 02, 2005

Look Out For Iran! They're Going To Kill Us All!

(Snippet):
Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb
U.S. Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements
By Dafna Linzer - Washington Post Staff Writer - Tuesday, August 2, 2005; A01

A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away from manufacturing the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon, roughly doubling the previous estimate of five years, according to government sources with firsthand knowledge of the new analysis.

The carefully hedged assessments, which represent consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered proof, that Tehran is moving determinedly toward a nuclear arsenal. The new estimate could provide more time for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear ambitions. President Bush has said that he wants the crisis resolved diplomatically but that "all options are on the table."

The new National Intelligence Estimate includes what the intelligence community views as credible indicators that Iran's military is conducting clandestine work. But the sources said there is no information linking those projects directly to a nuclear weapons program. What is clear is that Iran, mostly through its energy program, is acquiring and mastering technologies that could be diverted to bombmaking.

The estimate expresses uncertainty about whether Iran's ruling clerics have made a decision to build a nuclear arsenal, three U.S. sources said. Still, a senior intelligence official familiar with the findings said that "it is the judgment of the intelligence community that, left to its own devices, Iran is determined to build nuclear weapons."

At no time in the past three years has the White House attributed its assertions about Iran to U.S. intelligence, as it did about Iraq in the run-up to the March 2003 invasion. Instead, it has pointed to years of Iranian concealment and questioned why a country with as much oil as Iran would require a large-scale nuclear energy program....

A couple of points. First, Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy. Do they know something about their real reserves of oil that makes the acquisition of nuclear energy more urgent than it would otherwise appear?

Second... What is Bush-war waiting for? In only ten years Iran might have the ability to make nukes. Why wait? Attack them now, before they have a chance to start a research project that might look into the feasability of setting up a study to investigate the worthiness of possibly talking about initiating a program to consider the consequences of building a nuclear weapon.

The policy worked so well in Iraq, it's time to expand its use. It's time to nuke Iran back to the stone age. Hell, may as well nuke the rest of the bleeding-heart liberal/Islam-loving, hence America-hating, ungrateful world while we're at it. No one else likes our obesity-enveloped, American-Idol Empire, so let them all go to hell, no?

Praise to Bush-war and his christian god-appointed political/corporate money-changers. May they all save us from our righteous selves.

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