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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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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 07:05 AM

    @LondonLad

    Sorry for your loss,thank you for your service and your opinion.I can't help but wonder how many less victims of this mess there would be if we could have been less partisan and fully recognized the threat during the 1990's.That failure I feel, contributed to making Bush/Cheney ,9/11 and Iraq possible.Did you volunteer?

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