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Monday, January 12, 2009 12:00 AM

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 09:21 PM

    ondo

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054275.html

    about Rice writing it...yeah cause Haraatz said that Zipi was helping on the wording wanting to water it down towards Israel.Thurs/Fri night.

    Israels already come under fire just a yr ago about the Lebanon war and faced war crimes on that front...

    But I think after reading this-the good cop/bad cop routine is really jsut a genuine rift between Ohlmert and Zipi..(they don't like each other-she led investigation of Ohlmert about the war of 06)

    I do in fact think, that Ohlmert is unstable, out of control-and world opinion had shifted against war..

    Lebanon war ended in a UN resolution..Israel didn't want this to end on UN resolution..(my guess)upcoming elections/war-all about saving face to voters.

    Had heard rumor online that Ohlmert may be prolonging war...to putoff elections and hang on to his seat...

    (and why maybe the rift beginning..)

    Ohlmert may also be fearing warcrimes from this..and he knows would be easier to prosecute him if out of office (putting off inevitable)..

    One things for sure...Ohlmert looks panicked..grasping at Bush like a drowning man for support...

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