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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 01:57 PM

    @Klytus, I'm not paying anything for those two. I'm not sure about all that grinning either

    because Methusela needs time to spend on hymn-singing and a lovely one is "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam". I can just imagine it; one relentlessly firing off quips and the other in the shower firing off....Never mind but the singing in basso profundo would probably raise the roof of the motel. I'll have to log off now and hope that the worst doesn't come to the worst, although the blog was about Iran's nuclear capacity. As for those two, every old stocking finds an old shoe.

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