Here goes:
US Seeks To Retain Pressure On Iran
I'm not putting it up.
You can waste time reading it like I did.
Or you can be smarter than me and ignore it.
Funny how the Globe pulled that article of the website, huh, readers?
Next!
Details in Military Notes Led to Shift on Iran, U.S. Says
I'll put up some of this one, since it is so ridiculous.
When Israel writes this stuff for them, think they have a straight face, readers?
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program after they obtained notes last summer from the deliberations of Iranian military officials involved in the weapons development program, senior intelligence and government officials said on Wednesday.
The notes included conversations and deliberations in which some of the military officials complained bitterly about what they termed a decision by their superiors in late 2003 to shut down a complex engineering effort to design nuclear weapons, including a warhead that could fit atop Iranian missiles.
Ultimately, the notes and deliberations were corroborated by other intelligence, the officials said, including intercepted conversations among Iranian officials, collected in recent months.
This is SUCH BULLSHIT!
Cheney held this thing up for over a year, and yet the Times dares to put this on their front-page (author shaking his head)?
The American officials who described the highly classified operation, which led to one of the biggest reversals in the history of American nuclear intelligence, declined to describe how the notes were obtained.
But they said that the Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies had organized a “red team” to determine if the new information might have been part of an elaborate disinformation campaign mounted by Iran to derail the effort to impose sanctions against it.
In the end, American intelligence officials rejected that theory, though they were challenged to defend that conclusion in a meeting two weeks ago in the White House situation room, in which the notes and deliberations were described to the most senior members of President Bush’s national security team, including Vice President Dick Cheney.
“It was a pretty vivid exchange,” said one participant in the conversation.
That is where the turn-in is, and what a load of shit this article is, huh?
This must be a GOVERNMENT HAND-OUT that made the front page of the NYT!
The officials said they were confident that the notes confirmed the existence, up to 2003, of a weapons programs that American officials first learned about from a laptop computer, belonging to an Iranian engineer, that came into the hands of the C.I.A. in 2004.
In fact, some in the intelligence agencies appear to be not fully convinced that the notes of the deliberations indicated that all aspects of the weapons program had been shut down.
Like I said: ISRAEL WRITES THIS SHIT!
The crucial judgments released on Monday said that while “we judge with high confidence that the halt lasted at least several years,” it also included the warning that “intelligence gaps discussed elsewhere in this Estimate” led both the Department of Energy and the National Intelligence Council “to assess with only moderate confidence that the halt to those activities represents a halt to Iran’s entire nuclear weapons program.”
Several news organizations have reported that the reversal was prompted in part by intercepts of conversations involving Iranian officials. In an article published on Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times said another main ingredient in the reversal was what it called a journal from an Iranian source that documented decisions to shut down the nuclear program.
Was that the Iranian general that USrael kidnapped?
Funny how the L.A. Times got the story -- and the N.Y. Times didn't!!!
Didn't want it, did you, Times?
The senior intelligence and government officials said a more precise description of that intelligence would be exchanges among members of a large group, one responsible for both designing weapons and integrating them into delivery vehicles.
The discovery led officials to revisit intelligence mined in 2004 and 2005 from the laptop obtained from the Iranian engineer. The documents on that laptop described two programs, termed L-101 and L-102 by the Iranians, describing designs and computer simulations that appeared to be related to weapons work.
I'm starting to believe that the "laptop" was a FORGERY!
"At the time of the laptop slide show, some European and United Nations officials questioned what they were being shown. “I can fabricate that data.”"
The newly obtained notes of the deliberations did not precisely match up with the programs described in the laptop, according to officials who have examined both sets of data, but they said they were closely related.
On Wednesday President Bush repeated his demand that Iran “come clean” and disclose details of the covert weapons program that American intelligence agencies said operated from the 1980s until the fall of 2003.
Iran’s government, Mr. Bush said, “has more to explain about its nuclear intentions and past actions, especially the covert nuclear weapons program pursued until the fall of 2003, which the Iranian regime has yet to acknowledge.”
Well, FUCK OFF, asshole!
The only one with 'splainin' to do is YOU, you fucking mas-murdering, war-criminal LIAR!!!!!
Mr. Bush spoke at Eppley Airfield near Omaha, where a visit intended to showcase health care and to raise money for a Senate race was overshadowed by the furor caused by the National Intelligence Estimate and Iran’s taunting reaction to it.
Oh, they are just FUCKING INSULTING!!!
Fuck off, JEW YORK TIMES!!!!!!!
He faced calls from across the political spectrum for the United States to make a more concerted effort to negotiate with Iran, offering a package of incentives that could persuade it to suspend its uranium enrichment program and clear up concerns that it is building a civilian energy program to develop the expertise for a covert military program.
Right, Bush the compromiser! FUCK OFF, NYT!
“Bush has made a big mistake, and he’s not responding in a way that gives confidence that he’s on top of this,” said David Albright, a former weapons inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency and president of the Institute for Science and International Security. “He isn’t able to respond because he’s not able to say he’s wrong.”
That's because HE IS FUCKING MENTALLY-DERANGED!!!!
Truly INSANE!!! You can SEE IT in HIM, folks!
Mr. Bush, though, made it clear that there would be no immediate change in the United States’ approach, saying that the administration had already offered to talk, though on the condition that Iran suspend its current enrichment program first, as called for in two United Nations Security Council resolutions. Administration officials have said that they would continue to advocate tougher sanctions, which seems increasingly unlikely."
That's because BUSH SERVES ZION, not America!
Iranian Leader Calls Report U.S. Confession of ‘Mistake’
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said that Iran would move ahead with its nuclear enrichment program, adding that the report suggested that the Americans had admitted to a mistake in judging Iran’s program:
“But their attitude does not allow them to admit their mistake, and so they have to convey it in other words. We tell them, ‘It is all right, and it is enough that you are confessing to your mistakes.’”
Gee, that is AWFUL GRACIOUS of him!
Such a contrast with how the Zionist-controlled media portrayed him when he visited.
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said Wednesday at a news conference in Moscow that President Vladimir V. Putin urged Iran at a meeting on Tuesday with Saeed Jalili, Iran’s new nuclear negotiator, to heed international demands, including those for a freeze on its uranium enrichment program, the Interfax news agency reported.
Update: Lavrov: There Is No Proof That Iran Ever Had a Nuclear Program
Really rams home the Zionist liars at the NYT, doesn't IT?
Iran counts on Russia as an ally not to back tougher economic sanctions against it. Russia is building Iran’s first nuclear power plant.
The report made headlines in more than a dozen major Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. The state-run daily paper Iran called it a shock for the White House. The headline of another state-run daily, Hamshahri, was “Bush Under Pressure From the Media.”
Iranians don't understand AmeriKa's MSM!
They NEVER put pressure on Bush, and if it looks that way, it's a FOOLEY!
But at least two independent daily newspapers cautioned the authorities not to rush to optimistic conclusions. An editorial in Jomhouri Eslami, an influential conservative paper, warned that the report could be a trap for Iran. It said dividing Iran’s nuclear activities into two periods, one before 2003 and one after that, was “mischief” by the Americans to convince the world that international pressure against Iran should continue.
A reformist paper, Etemad Melli, said Americans could use the section in the report about Iran’s weapons program to exaggerate the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program and to seek tougher economic sanctions."
Yup, the Russians somehow aren't on Iran's side, and the newspapers in Iran (the extreme papers, right?) somehow see the world the way Israel does!
Haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!
If this WASN'T SO LUDICROUS, I'd get mad!
Next!
Continuing with the "nothing has changed" theme:
During the past year, a period when Iran’s weapons program was supposedly halted, the government has been busy installing some 3,000 gas centrifuges at its plant at Natanz. These machines could, if operated continuously for about a year, create enough enriched uranium to provide fuel for a bomb. In addition, they have no plausible purpose in Iran’s civilian nuclear effort. All of Iran’s needs for enriched uranium for its energy programs are covered by a contract with Russia.
Iran is also building a heavy water reactor at its research center at Arak. This reactor is ideal for producing plutonium for nuclear bombs, but is of little use in an energy program like Iran’s, which does not use plutonium for reactor fuel. India, Israel and Pakistan have all built similar reactors — all with the purpose of fueling nuclear weapons. And why, by the way, does Iran even want a nuclear energy program, when it is sitting on an enormous pool of oil that is now skyrocketing in value? And why is Iran developing long-range Shahab missiles, which make no military sense without nuclear warheads to put on them?
Why does Israel already have a bomb, assholes?
For years these expensive projects have been viewed as evidence of Iran’s commitment to nuclear weapons. Why aren’t they still?
Because the AmeriKan government is a LYING, WAR-MONGERING slave for Israel!
The answer is that the new report defines “nuclear weapons program” in a ludicrously narrow way: it confines it to to enriching uranium at secret sites or working on a nuclear weapon design. But the halting of its secret enrichment and weapon design efforts in 2003 proves only that Iran made a tactical move. It suspended work that, if discovered, would unambiguously reveal intent to build a weapon. It has continued other work, crucial to the ability to make a bomb, that it can pass off as having civilian applications.
Oh, am I ever sick of Zionist shit coming out of the New York Times.
What a shit rag!
This situation is made all the more absurd by the report’s suggestion that international pressure offers the only hope of containing Iran. The report has now made such pressure nearly impossible to obtain. It is hardly surprising that China, which last week seemed ready to approve the next round of economic sanctions against Tehran, has now had a change of heart: its ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday that “we all start from the presumption that now things have changed.”
Thank you, China, for being human!
Thus Iran will be free to operate and add to its centrifuges at Natanz, accumulate a stockpile of low-enriched uranium customary for civilian use, and then have the ability to convert that uranium in a matter of months to weapons grade. This “breakout potential” would create a nuclear threat that we and Iran’s neighbors will have to live with for years to come.
Well, they SIGNED the NPT, so they have the LEGAL RIGHT to do what they are doing!
And as far as the booga-booga, well, we have lived with ISRAEL'S BOMB for FORTY YEARS, now, and they are WAY MORE of a DANGER than Iran!!!!
And Iran DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING!!!
So fuck off, Val and Gary!
Yup, Times plasters that on the ops page today!
What NaZionist shitters they are!!!
And do you think they read these letters from the people, readers?
Because they sure as hell aren't listening to us!
"Bush and Iran: A New Landscape
To the Editor:
Re “U.S. Finding Says Iran Halted Nuclear Arms Effort in 2003” (front page, Dec. 4):
The National Intelligence Estimate has established that Iran halted its weapons program four years ago, and President Bush has been misleading us on Iran. I am appalled, once again.
How can we, the American people, allow the Bush administration to continue to “massage” its own intelligence assessment on Iran’s extinct nuclear weapons program to prove that Iran must be pressured to suspend its weapons program? Excuse me?
I agree with President Bush that it is a warning signal, but the warning is that the last thing we, the American people, need is to be misled into another disastrous war based on blatant lies, overblown rhetoric, reckless hype and trumped-up intelligence. Congress must intervene quickly; we have lost too many men and women to the war machine.
Nancy DePas
Flushing, Queens, Dec. 4, 2007•
To the Editor:
It should come as no shock to anyone who has actively followed the Iraq war that President Bush has chosen to mislead the American public about the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. I have followed this war especially closely as my husband has served in Iraq twice, my friend’s son has served twice, and my other friend’s son died there.
President Bush has consistently demonstrated that he believes that belligerent words and actions make America safer, despite the now highly successful terrorist recruiting station known as Iraq. I am begging Congress, on behalf of my husband and our entire military, please do not let President Bush further abuse our fighting men and women. Condemn him for his brazen falsehood, and refuse to let our brave military be used against Iran.
Wendy Chambers
Alexandria, Va., Dec. 5, 2007•
To the Editor:
Re “An Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate” (news analysis, front page, Dec. 4):
Your article about Iran’s supposed abandonment of its nuclear arms program asked if the latest revelations will raise questions, again, about the integrity of America’s beleaguered intelligence agencies. Having worked as an analyst at the National Security Agency, and had contacts with colleagues at the C.I.A., over the years, I can assure you that, in most cases, there is incredible pressure brought to bear on tailoring intelligence estimates to support White House policy initiatives. This was especially true during the Reagan years with regard to Nicaragua, and I suspect, with the current administration.
The people who make up the intelligence community are dedicated, hard-working and patriotic individuals who honestly believe in their mission and strive to make a difference. I find it sad that critics, and this White House, in particular, seek to discredit their efforts in order to mask incompetence, wrongheadedness and misdirected zeal. The most pernicious advocate of this form of scapegoating is the office of the vice president.
Manuel Michalowski
Washington, Dec. 4, 2007•
To the Editor:
Re “Bush Insists Iran Remains a Threat Despite Arms Data” (front page, Dec. 5): What’s surprising about the response to this report is how eager people are to believe it. The same people who have discredited our intelligence on Iraq have, overnight, become “believers” in the same intelligence community.
One might conclude that the reason for this transformation from cynic to believer is the report’s usefulness to critics of the Bush administration. Unfortunately, this report is also useful to those whose economic relationship with Iran is better served by turning a blind eye to its hostility toward the West.
Regardless of one’s political affiliation, Americans, especially presidential candidates, should remain clear on who our enemies and friends really are. Iran is no friend of America.
Andrea Economos
Scarsdale, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2007
To the Editor:
The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program is good news for the United States and the international community. It removes the urgency for using force against Iran. It gives diplomacy a chance to work, which could lead to a thaw of our relations with this critical Muslim nation.
But most important, it saves us from making another mistake like Iraq.
I remember sitting next to a top American envoy shortly after America’s March 2003 invasion of Iraq. I asked him how the United States could justify that attack, since American troops failed to find weapons of mass destruction.
He could only reply, We will find them.
I am glad that this time we find out first before we again wage a war with incalculable financial and diplomatic consequences.
Vincent Wei-cheng Wang
Richmond, Va., Dec. 4, 2007
The writer is an associate professor and chairman of the department of political science, University of Richmond.
To the Editor:
Re “Good and Bad News About Iran” (editorial, Dec. 5):
With your call for “intensified pressures,” you seem to join President Bush in spinning the National Intelligence Estimate’s finding that Iran halted nuclear weapons work in 2003 into an argument for a continued hard line.
But the truly worrisome fact is not that Iran is developing nuclear skills that could be applied to a bomb; it is that many countries are.
Some, like India, Pakistan and Israel, have acquired nuclear arsenals and yet enjoy our support. The only long-term solution for nuclear proliferation is to lead a global effort to abolish nuclear weapons.
The United States cannot preach as long as it possesses the world’s foremost nuclear arsenal, pursues nuclear bunker-busters, and threatens nuclear first use and attack on nonnuclear states. Nuclear abolition should be a top issue in the presidential campaign and a priority for a new administration.
David Keppel
Bloomington, Ind., Dec. 5, 2007•
To the Editor:
In your editorial, you appropriately caution us not to be overly optimistic about a regime (Iran’s) that has made a habit of misrepresenting facts about weapons programs and other issues.
You seem to omit a caution for us not to give credence to any warnings from President Bush or anyone in his administration based on seven years’ history of costly and deadly lies. One hopes that Mr. Bush might “salvage his credibility with the American people and America’s allies” (do we still have any?) by talking with rather than bombing the Iranians. After all, they both speak the same language of deception.
Theodore S. Voelker
Copake, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2007
I would never make the NYT because I never write them.
Why would I? They don't listen anyway!
