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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 05:56 AM

    @pmorlan

    Does anyone know how we can get more people on these shows who can articulate why we must hold the Bush criminals accountable?

    -- pmorlan

    Call me a loony lefty radical extremist utopian dreamer, but you could try voting for them?

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