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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 10:38 AM

    Jacob Kellenberger of the International Red Cross (also anti-semantic, I suppose) is on television

    pleading for help for the wounded inside Gaza as, inside the Ghetto, the soldiers enjoying Sugar Daddy's (aka Uncle Sam) go door-to-door, if any doors are left, to interrogate terrified people.

    omooex, your sophistry is unimpressive at this particular moment in history. The hydra-headed media in America must bear responsibility for the blatant partisanship of the people, whatever faith they may espouse. It's highly unlikely that all Americans are more thick-skulled than people anywhere else so why would they support the supreme right of 6 million people in a foreign country unless there were at least some element of indoctrination? I don't know about the educational system in the United States but I get the idea that victimhood is regarded as rather chic and that a considerable amount of time is spent on studies which might benefit the country more if they addressed numeracy, literacy, geography and promoted a less claustrophobic view of the world. There isn't a paradox in that because apart from the three "I"s in the Middle East, I wonder what, apart from American "exceptionalism", is the fooder fed to the children of America, some of whom will die in faraway places for causes few of us can understand.

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