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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 06:25 AM

    All Signs point to......

    "Change we can all believe in that really isn't change at all."

    I know that's a lot more words than the campaign actually used, and it didn't fit neatly on slogan signs, but that's what they were really talking about. Don't you remember that, Glenn? They clearly opaquely and without reservations announced that with reservations when Obama caved on FISA after saying he wouldn't cave on FISA.

    Look for this behavior in everything he does for the next 4 years. There will be so much triangulation that Rubik's will invent a new puzzle and the Olympic rings will go all Delta on us....

    This is exactly why, IMO, something more radical than "training better democrats" is needed to turn this country around. It's like throwing antacid tablets into a vat of sulfuric acid the size of an olympic swimming pool.

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