Remember when Democrats didn't believe anything intelligence said because Bush and Darth Cheney cooked it? Well, now that the NIE says what they want it to say, it's infallible. This is getting dangerous.
And, as I suggested yesterday - the NIE was created and released by disgruntled State Department workers. They are either
a) trying to make a name for themselves or
b) think they're going to stop a war
c) should be hung for treason.
Time will tell.
Meanwhile, The Bush Administration claims it has new, secret information about Iran's weapons program that differs from the public NIE report that was just released. Hmmm... does this sound familiar to anyone? And the Israelis are also shouting No - No - No!
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak directly challenged the new assessment in an interview, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the new finding wouldn't deter Israel or the United States from pressing its campaign to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability.
"It seems Iran in 2003 halted for a certain period of time its military nuclear program, but as far as we know, it has probably since revived it," Barak said.
That would be called "Shock and Awe" ladies and gentlemen. The Iranians saw that and went "Daaaammmmm." But since then, after a couple years of picking at the open wound of Iraq, they probably felt that the US wouldn't have the stomach to blow the hell out of Iran. Why not "wipe Israel off the map?"
Now with the NIE causing a stir, flawed or spot on, doesn't even matter. Now the negotiation and diplomatic pressure are out the window, and sanctions aren't going to hold any water. Not with the Democrats, or China, or Russia. No negotiation? No pressure? What does that leave you? Only a military response.
I would contend, that if the NIE was written and handed out to prevent a war - it may have very well accelerated it.
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