US Intelligence: Iran NOT pursuing nuclear bombs »
Posted By hyperbola 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsThomas Fingar, the U.S. government’ s top intelligence analyst, in a public speech on Sept. 4, repeated the intelligence community’ s key judgment that Iran’ s work on the “ weaponization portion” of its nuclear development program “ was suspended” in 2003.
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Thinker221 year, 3 months ago
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DId Thomas Fingar, the U.S. government’ s top intelligence analyst elaborate on possible uses of those hundreds of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles Iran acquired during the last several years, 'hyperbola'?
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Saying that the Iranians spent and continue to spend hundreds of millions and, possibly, billions of dollars on these missiles KNOWING that they'll have no way to use them suggest that Iranian leaders are idiots. I do not think that this is the case. Do you?-
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Frankly I think the Iranians are at least as sane (if not more so) than the terrorists in Israel thinker. The US has let corruption in its politics lead to foreign policy that is NOT in american interests for far too long. What a shame for both the US and Palestine (including the jews) that a more even handed approach was not our policy long ago.
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JFK Was Enraged at 'Zionist Control' Effected by Campaign Contributions
Back in the shtetl the two highest values in Jewish life were wealth and learning. Well I'm pitting the learning against the wealth here. I'm going to keep on my theme of Jewish wealth in politics, inasmuch as it distorts our policy in the Middle East. ....
... 'As an American citizen he was outraged,' Bartlett recalled, 'to have a Zionist group come to him and say: "We know your campaign is in trouble. We're willing to pay your bills if you'll let us have control of your Middle East policy.'" Kennedy, as a presidential candidate, also resented the crudity with which he'd been approached. 'They wanted control,' he angrily told Bartlett....
... JFK wanted a nuclear-free near east with inspectors at Dimona and a resolution to the Palestinian refugee problem (which would be a policy based on American interests or perhaps even regional or international interests). I don't think his patrons liked those ideas much. they wanted a policy based on Israel's interests. and as they say, when you pay the piper, you call the tune.
To which I'd add: Israel got nukes. Nukes seem to have played a role in causing the '67 War. Now Iran wants nukes; and this time around the U.S. is contemplating military attacks. Maybe it's time to get nukes out of the Middle East? Isn't Dimona a bargaining chip?....
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/07/jfk-...
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