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Monday, January 12, 2009 12:00 AM

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 07:57 AM

    The Iranians and Islamic extremist terrorists have great publicists.

    President Bush just finished his last press conference and already one prediction he made has come true with regards as to how Obama will be treated by the press.Maybe,just maybe as he has gotten more and more of the security briefings the full picture has come into view for him better.The spin is already being spun by people like Muhammed Saddam el Greenwald.Iran wants peace,Iran loves Jews,there is no connection between them and Hamas if we just wear tie-dye tee shirts and sing Grateful dead songs and give the Islamofacist the peace sign we can all get together for a big world wide Woodstock and save the world !!!.It is us the big Satan that brought all this hate and war on ourselves,if we just repent and beg for mercy and give them everything they want oh what a wonderful world this could be.The truth is they want to kill us,all of us.Whether they have nuclear weapons or working on them doesn't matter we need to act with caution and not underestimate the threat.This threat is real ask any of the relatives of 9/11 victims.Safety is job one,to act like Jimmy Carter would be as big a mistake today as it was in 1979.Still I am impressed by the skill of the Iranians to sway public opinion away from the truth and thier true goals.They can rile up a mob as well as Hitler and get journalist like el Greenwald knowingly or unknowingly to do this bidding.

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