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Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran

Last year, the NIE famously concluded with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Why did Obama say yesterday that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons?

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  • Monday, January 12, 2009 07:00 AM

    Israel is following the "Clean Break" plan almost to the letter

    And so is Obama.

    See:

    http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14046

    Justin Raimondo writes today about the overall plan that Isreal is following. You can read it, as it is not a myth. He writes perhaps the most chilling essay on the middle east I have ever seen.

    "... All these scenarios have played out, and quite recently, in rapid succession. Reading "A Clean Break," one might almost be scanning today's headlines. This is more than mere prescience: these are policymakers, not college professors, we're talking about. Nearly all of them were central players in the foreign policy councils of the past administration. All are exemplars of the neoconservative network, a camarilla of pro-Israel ideologues that has wreaked such havoc in eight years that it may take 800 more before we recover. ..."

    Read it.

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