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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 07:17 AM

    New evidence perhaps? Things DO change...

    A year is a long time in the Middle East. No doubt Pres. Obama has had a first hand look at the latest assessments of what the Iranians are up to.

    I have no doubt that Iran is now trying to build a nuclear capability. Atoms for peace? Hardly likely.

    I don't agree with much of what the Bush administration has been up to for the last eight years, but I also am not so naive as to think that after all of our saber rattling, Iran is going to sit idly by and do nothing, especially after seeing how nuclear ambitions got North Korea into negotiations with the West.

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