NIE Report: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program Years Ago

What? We need them to be making WMD so that we have a reason to attack them. This is not good news; Iranian actions will lead to Peace on Earth………..can’t happen

LOL Roy!! I wonder how much of the egg our fearless leader will have washed off his face by the press conference tomorrow.I’m going to watch just to see him wiggle.

On the other hand, they have no announced the completion of several longrange missiles with a range of 1200 miles…

Brian b., is 1200 miles enough to threaten the US?

To GWB this Intelligence Report is just another gd “peice” of paper, like our Constitution. I’m sure he will place more weight on the advice of Darth Cheney and fire-up the Death Star to eradicate Iran. Impeach him NOW!!!!!

oh, don’t worry. There will be spin on the intelligence.

Why should Iran be allowed special treatment? If that’s what we did with Iraq, then as a matter of principle, we should do the same with Iran! Don’t worry, the oppressed masses will throw rose petals at our tanks as they roll through the streets of Tehran.

Well… since when have clean inspections EVER stopped the bush administration from attacking? This admin is hell bent on starting a fight… just watch…

What could be the real motive behind the rhetoric the Bush Administration has been disseminating for years against Iran?
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You just know what the Right Wingnuts are going to say?
Of course there’s no evidence of Iran’s nuclear program – because it’s secret. No evidence doesn’t mean it’s not there. because we “know” it’s there. Just like the moronic “debate” between science and religion. Oh, who cares what we can see with our own eyes, we “believe” the earth is 6,000 years old therefore it must be.
That’s all the “proof” I need.

Don’t worry my warmongering friends. W will just attack them in order to spread freedom and democracy. Because spreading freedom by occupying sovereign nations always works out in the end…

No WMD didn’t stop us before! Onward to Tehran with an arrogant self-righteous swagger! Oh, and make sure there is no post-invasion plan for Iran either. That’ll make the conflict last and defense contractors can make a heck of a lot MORE money! Quick wars are just a bad investment if you manufacture things used by the military.

This could have a big impact on our foreign policy! Unfortunately, as we all know too well, this administration doesn’t pay much attention to NIEs…

‘It’s “an intentions judgment, not a capabilities judgment,” said a senior U.S. official.’ This one idiotic comment speaks volumes about our current foreign (and domestic)anti-terror policy– it’s what they are thinking about doing that we have to punish them for. I haven’t read this much doublespeak nonsense since Orwell’s ’1984′. By the way, recent letterhead legislation by our own doublespeak poster boy does in fact make citizens criminally liable for their ‘antagonistic thoughts, opinions, or intentions’. It’s “Minority Report”, but without the cool special effects or Tom Cruise. Iran may as well resign themselves to the fact that we intend to attack them with or without their provocation, and if they are smart will continue to develop a coalition of their own to discourage the warmongering cabal currently running our country.

Oh No!!!!
In your face, Georgie!
Now you and your Zionist buddies will have to find someone else to attack. I can only hope that you are held accountable on Judgement Day for every person killed in Iraq for no good reason. Not only should George Bush be impeached but also brought up on criminal charges for defrauding and lying to the American public. For Shame!!

Iran is just using what they can for a smoke screen,what about there secret faculities that may be underground,for uranium making,those areas,Iran is just trying to through us off,we need to attack them before it’s to late.

Those dang, liberal U.S. Intelligence Agencies!

So this means that Bu$hCO has been lying for the last 3 years as they have had and have been suppressing this information the whole time and yet still claimed that Iran was working on Nukes. Is that not impeachable?

“”For evil to prevail, it requires good people to do nothing.” Keep doing nothing liberals but complaing about how bad the United States is.
Posted by: dan | Dec 3, 2007 2:18:50 PM”
And you keep apologizing for the war-profiteering war criminals dan.

Frankly, I don’t believe a word of this report. However, I did get a kick out of reading that the NIE is “moderately confident” that Iran stopped developing nukes in 2003.
Iran is secretly developing nuclear as we speak. Regardless of how you feel about the current administration don’t let that blind you from lying dogs like the Iranian government.

Shocking!

Looks like in return for American reassurances that they will not attack Iran is going to allow Russia to enrich Uranium on their behalf.
As Iran have not been able to get the centrifuges working anyway. Bush is just trying to position himself so that he doesn’t look a big as idiot as usual.
But this IS a 180 degree shift from where we were at yesterday. Make no mistake about it it is HUGE.

Wait..wait…Don’t put out this story until we bomb them first. Then we can say we didn’t find any WMD’s. So after crying wolf how many times, we should now believe everything you tell us. What a bunch of bumbling fools! The U.S. Intelligence Agency has a long way to go to re-establish my faith in them and this president.

Just like evolution is a theory, this is only an estimate. When would we ever want to let expert opinions stand in the way of what King George and Sir Richard Cheney “know” is true. It is so much easier to be omnipotent.

These Neville Chamberlains are laughing and stressing points with all the certainty of their own moronic guffaw. Hey people, it’s time to go back to the villages from whence you came; the villagers are lonesome for their idiots and the “Little Monkey” from Iran who laughs at you also thanks you for your support.

I shall be infinitely surprised if this story is not “permuted” in coming days, to “Iranians are building their nuclear capability…” — I even expect it to be altered on abcnews.com. Somehow this keeps happening — the story comes out — “Iranians Bent on Peace,” or “No Iranian Nukes,” or “Iranians Contributing Money to Israel” or whatever… and then any or all of CNN, MSNBC, and ABC… start retracing their steps as though they’d made a mistake — is the objective to devalue all media-based information?

I think I just had an enlightenment moment — actually, Iran NOT having nukes is helpful to the current administration (in DC) because when they go forward with their attack on Iran, the American people will more readily go along with it because we are assured that Iran has no nuclear retaliatory capability. In all likelihood, in the next few months to a year, someone will attack a major US city with a “dirty bomb” which will then be blamed on the Iranians — thus becoming the pretext for a war with them. The silly-minded, American public will again roll over on its back, sit-up, beg, lick its master’s hand and everything will be right with the world.

“The liberal media is at it again with it’s “truth” and “honesty”….Never Forget that Iran attacked us on 9/11 with Irag and whoever else has OUR oil under them.”
…No… you’ve got it all wrong again (nothing new for a neocon)… Iran (nor Iraq) ever attacked the US. The last war of aggression by Iran was in the 1750s. You need to study some history before you go spouting off irrelevant opinions.

Bush should Nuke’m before they can strike back. Honestly, Bush is nuts! He’s wasted his entire time in office sending us on expensive wild goose chases

It’s interesting that the question is whether the U.S. should be embarrassed. It is Iran that so loudly proclaims its intentions to pursue this path and its their crazy leader who believes his spiritual calling is to prepare the way (like John the Baptist) for the savior who will unite the muslims, that his role is to stir up comfusion and create division. He appears to be doing just that. The same ones who slam Bush for taking a strong stance with Iran are the same ones who really don’t have a clue about middle eastern mentality or understand our previous 50 years history with that region and would be the first ones to cry ‘shame on Bush’ if Iran were to successfully attack US. Can’t have it both ways people.

So we should always believe the happy reports and never believe the unhappy ones? And if Iran doesn’t have a nuclear program then they shouldn’t have any problem proving it.

kraven said: “The liberal media is at it again with it’s “truth” and “honesty”….Never Forget that Iran attacked us on 9/11 with Irag and whoever else has OUR oil under them.” I laughed so hard. excellent but I am at work.

To the authors of this article: Can’t you spell? You write, “…this aspect of there program.” When used as a possessive adjective, the word is spelled t-h-e-i-r.
Published journalists should write better english than this.

Does our Intelligence agencies s*u*c*k that bad? Wow, how the mighty have fallen.

DO, not does..sorry about that

Some of you should review our history with Islamic extremists. Here is a suggested reading list. Yeah I know, it’s all George Bush’s fault.
Iranian Takeover of the US Embassy and Iranian Hostage Crisis
Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut by Hezbollah
Munich Olympics massacre by the PLO
Iraq invasion of Kuwait
Khobar towers bombing by al Qaeda
US Embassy bombing in Kenya al Qaeda
USS Cole Bombing al Qaeda
1993 World Trade Center Bombing
9-11 World Trade Center Bombing al Qaeda
9-11 Pentagon Bombing al Qaeda
London Bombing al Qaeda
Madrid Bombing al Qaeda
I’m leaving out so much but this should be a start for many of you. In summary, the world is a dangerous place. Do you really need to have a nuclear event in a major city to understand what we are dealing with in terms of Islamic extremists?

Scott you’re so right!
Liberals have memory loss about certain things, but only when it pleases their Socialist-Communist side!

The intelligence agencies need a complete overhaul. After the weapons of mass destruction fiasco can you really believe this report?

Our President needs to be careful not to wear down his intelligence; and, to step back from possible paranoia. We are living in a sophisticated, global society and, the enemy uses mind games as its weapon. If we burn ourselves out mentally, internationally speaking, our nation will be caught by surprise with the wrong choice of leadership.

Hey guys, have you heard our nation is in 10 trillion dollars worth of debt? Lets go out and attack another country! Bet we could make it double that in a few years.

Well, if we could ever get past personal opinion or political affiliation and just focus on facts,… where would three quarters of the politicians, media, bloggers, and talking heads in this country (or any other for that matter) have to do? They might have to shut up for five minutes and let the working public have a few minutes of rest.
But while we’re on opinion,… isn’t there some non-nuclear way to simply flatten the entire middle east so we can just terminate the insanity it seems to breed in all people, everywhere?

SHOULD THE U.S. BE EMBARRASSED? NEWS FLASH – The U.S. has been embarrassed since 2000 when by some FLUKE of stupidity they placed a total imbecile into the highest office in the land! OF COURSE WE ARE EMBARRASSED!!!!

Here’s another “surprise” for you:
The second largest population of Jews living in the Middle East, happen to live in IRAN – and they even refuse $ bonuses from Israel to relocate. Google it yourself – and then ask what is wrong with the picture you are being fed by “our” media.
For all you good Christians out there – read Rev. 2.9 and Rev. 3.9 and then ask yourself why is it only a tiny handfull will find and walk the narrow path.
If you want to know why Iran is (and why Iraq was) being demonized – all you need to do is google “A Clean Break – A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”.
Read it and weep – then start really supporting out troops.

Marine and Scott… Well written and i 100% agree with you. However, its not very funny. At least with the libs and dems, i get to laugh out loud.

If Iran has already “shelved” its “Nuclear Weapons Program”, then why is the ‘International Community’ being urged to punish the people of Iran with diplomatic isolation, FINANCIAL PRESSURE, and UN SANCTIONS?? WOW, what a fulfillment of The Scriptures!! The consequence for not ‘BOWING’!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are we sure the White House is aware this news is getting out to the public? This is amazing!! So now, what will be our excuse to attack Iran?Appaarently this IAEA report was going to be leaked, and the White House is just going to have to spin it around and around to make themselves look like they have a lick of sense.

Don’t forget, when Europe made it thoughtcrime to make arguments or publish evidence about factual inaccuracies concerning the Holocaust, Iran allowed a convention to take place on their soil where people were allowed to excercise free speech. If “Freedom is Slavery”, as the Democrats and Republicans claim, then Iran clearly needs to be emancipated.
Rest assured.. even if the oil-loving Republicans lose the presidency in 2008, the Israel-loving Democrats will be sure to bomb Zion’s enemies back into the stone age. I hope the republicans still have their anti-war signs they used to march with during the Clinton presidency.. if not, they can probably borrow some from the democrats until the next Republican presidency.

Not good news for the Bush/Cheney liar and
crooks. Let’s see, who has OIL??????? Who’s next…….

huggy bear…being safe does not mean making the world hate us

I wish someone in congress would introduce a resolution to impeach both Bush and Cheney. Unfortunatley, they all seem to be a bunch of spineless bobble heads.

In the mountains somewhere Osama bin Laden is laughing h at us. We sit here being VERY afraid as we bankrupt ourselves in Iraq fighting “the evildoers”. So far we’re doing a pretty good job of that, while Halliburton, Carlyle Group, et al are stashing away our treasure for their futures in Dubai. All Osama needs to do is bide his time, like a vulture. Our children and grandchildren will be so broken from paying this nation’s huge Iraq debt back to China, they’ll be easy pickin’s. This country will be weakened and theirs for the taking. (they’re already doing this: Citibank is a prime example). It makes me sick to think about what kind of a future we’re creating for our beautiful grandchildren.

edward s…crumble in Vietnam. For god sake man, we fought there for close to ten years and how many young men never got to live their lives out, 50,000 – 60,000. How many more would you have had die for no reason. Oh yeah, Bush ran from that one didn’t he.

Clition lied about having a affair. Because of bush lies thousands of people are dead and the world is laughing and or hates us and this country is just falling apart. Back to my question…why has not bush been bought up on charges and you can play the word game like bush has I guess but the question is the same.

So Bush has been lying again, and has been for 3 years. I am glad he didn’t start a war over nuclear power plant. Even if they had one it is authorized under Article IV of the NPT! Bush has claimed Iran violates it….well we have been violating it for years. Is there a treaty we haven’t violated?

The reason Bush Jr hasn’t been impeached….despite there being at least ten valid reasons…is because the Democrats don’t have enough votes in Congress to do it, unless a few Republicans join them. And as we all know…not a SINGLE Republican will EVER do what’s right for their country. They always follow the party line. They’re worse than those goose-stepping Germans back in the 1930′s.

MarinesCallmeDoc5 – We all, including yourself, have baggage. Some of us hide from our problems. I believe, and before I say anything, I understand your comments. I too felt my heart sink when Clinton made some serious mistakes – once again, we all including your self have made some type of poor decision before. We all make mistakes – I believe I read that Clinton has sought professional help and assistance. I am not advocating the Clintons just as a human being that is not perfect – I have forgiven him. It takes a big person to forgive someone – I don’t expect you to. And no matter what the heck you say – President Clinton is one of the best foreign policy intelligent individual on this planet – he is brilliant unlike our current administration that is unqualified to be in his position, yet he is. We have more debt we are facing as a nation than any other President has ever, and I mean ever, left behind. And speaking of debt, it does not matter if the next administration is Republican or Democrat – the next administration will have to clean up the mess left behind. If you think for one minute, there is not a mess you are simply not admitting the truth.

“Posted by: Jeff Boste | Dec 3, 2007 1:20:10 PM
But they do have the intentions to declare their desire to engage in efforts to hire scientists who will develop skills to do research in nuclear weapons related program activities.
That’s good enough for me to support a pre-emptive strike.
On to Bandar ‘Abbas and Tehran!”
AND Then on towards Jerusalem, Tokyo, Berlin, London, Paris..why not Toronto and Maui as we are fired up dudes? Lets burn this whole globe and then hire HalliB to do the clean up shall we? The American thirst for blood and oil knows no boundaries..ROFL!

Kaitlyn writes:
It’s interesting that the question is whether the U.S. should be embarrassed. It is Iran that so loudly proclaims its intentions to pursue this path and its their crazy leader who believes his spiritual calling is to prepare the way (like John the Baptist) for the savior who will unite the muslims, that his role is to stir up comfusion and create division. He appears to be doing just that. The same ones who slam Bush for taking a strong stance with Iran are the same ones who really don’t have a clue about middle eastern mentality or understand our previous 50 years history with that region and would be the first ones to cry ‘shame on Bush’ if Iran were to successfully attack US. Can’t have it both ways people.
Posted by: kaitlyn | Dec 3, 2007 3:12:06 PM
I have one question for you. When did the leader of Iran Proclaim any such thing. Please clarify, I have never heard or read anything like that before. We will never have any type of peace in our Nation if we continue this warmongering, we are bringing it upon ourselves. Our Country has been spying all over the world for decades.

You libs are amazing. In your twisted minds this is all some kind of conspiracy by G.W. If you think that just because Iran does not have a verifible necular weapons program that they pose no threat, than you evidently didnt read the whole article. They still are a threat to you, the only thing that has changed is the time line . I know, you believe that they are enriching uranium for power production. Yea right.

Oh oh! Bush will now have to announce tomorrow that Iran is secretly building a DeathStar.

kaitlyn, ABC was the only news cast that worded it that way, libs will be libs.

PNAC member and superhawk Bolton admitted that he wishes the Iranians will kick the inpection people out. This would serve his goal to militarily have a better chance to occupy another country. Last time, 1953 didn’t end all too well

The report was declassified now. How old is the report. I heard that it is more than one year old….which means that Bush/Cheney have spent the last year scaring Americans about another imminent threat that they knew was bogus

Of course the truth doesn’t matter to Bush, he has his own agenda and nothing will deter him from it.

To David re: A Clean Break …Thanks for checking that out.
Now for the real scary part – notice one author of it – Douglas Feith – and now Google “Feith + Iraq + Intel” and then add “spy” and Google some more. Want some more? Notice the other Clean Break author = Wurmser – and now google “MEMRI”….then Google “memri + ahmadinejad” … It then even gets worse if you Google “israel + pipeline + iraq” … Remember about a year ago we were told billions in Iraqi oil went “missing” due to “faulty” meters installed by Halliburton? Okay now – So when do we really start to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS?!

When will people wake up and realize that those NeoCons who put oil (Cheney/Bush) and Israel (Feith/Kristol/Abrams) first are the only ones who were pushing for more lies and more wars? Even as the Iraq debacle and lies were being exposed, people like Kristol were writing articles about war with Iran. Thank God the intelligence community has chosen to put the US FIRST. Face the truth already. When N. Korea is being treated to diplomacy, yet the Mideast is always threatened w/ war, you have to ask yourself why. I have always known the answer – INFLUENCE.

…just say NO to Cheney by voting more Republicans out in 2008.
By the way, Cheney has a bunker paid for by you.
Do you think you’ll get a nice bunker from Cheney for your Xmas present this year?

Just like with all other info going against the official line, this will be completely ignored because there is an agenda here that has nothing to do with WMDs aside from using them as a smokescreen and excuse to carry out the agenda. People need to wake up!

This is further proof of why Bush and Cheney need to be impeached. We can’t allow these blatant crimes and lies to the American people to continue. They KNEW Iran had halted their nuke weapon program, but STILL went to the public saying they had one. How many more times does this administration have to lie about huge national security issues before they are held accountable?

I have one last question to the folks that think we should keep up this warmongering. The question is, what do you think we would do if another country decided to come to the United States with thousands of troops to supposedly locate/kill terrorists but they weren’t quite sure who they were, or if they just wanted to stop us from having nukes? Do you think we would want that? Do you think we would allow that? I think not, and that is exactly what we are doing. As President Bush said several years back, “Mission Accomplished”, that was said after we took down Saddam, we should have come home then, now we have a bigger mess to deal with. There are more of these so called terrorists but they can’t be found.

Mahmud Ahmadinejad does not represent the majority of the Persian people! Even with his fanatic boosting, according to most middle-east experts, it would take Iran 4-5 years to develope a nuclear weapon. In this time, he will be history and the beautiful and intelligent generation coming on will turn things around!

Where is “curveball” when you need him?

Two things are true; Bush is always wrong and Bush always lies to the American people. How long did Bush have the “classified” version of the report and still lied and lied and lied. Puke!

What the Iraq war taught rogue nations is that they need nuclear weapons to keep other countries from attacking them. If you don’t have already have nukes then you will end up like Iraq which didn’t have nukes yet. No country will invade North Korea or Pakistan for that reason.

Funny how NIE says Iran halted program after we invaded Iran yet draws no connection. Read the report. It says sanctions are important and necessary. It also explains that dual use build-up continues and DOE & NIC have moderate confidence Iran has halted all its nuclear bomb making programs (the ones we know about…LOL).
Did NIE warn us about nuclear facilities in Syria? Did they predict Pakistani nuke? This is an estimate report and doesn’t even address the funding of terrorism by Iran, it’s programs in other countries, nor why Iran refuses the complete disclosure to the IAEA which South Africa allowed. Meanwhile, it builds bunkers, heavy water facilities, ballistic missiles and silent subs, all underway long before George Bush.
The truth, if the NIE is rights, is that Qaddafi and Ahmadinejad blinked when we invaded Iraq. Having been burnt by better news coming from Iraq, many on the Left read what they will into this Report. The sad truth is that many would rather believe Ahmadinejad than the NIE which makes the good case for sanctions without even mentioning terrorism and threats (see other WMD Iran has). Please note they release this report as critical negotiations go on between the US and China in regards to sanctions. Not political? Sure as hell is. With Saddam around now without sanctions who would bet the NIE would look anything like it does today?

Funny how NIE says Iran halted program after we invaded Iraq…..(excuse typo above)
Yes, I suppose they would really stop their programs should we invade “Iran”…LOL.
On the matter of Syria, why do some here think they leveled the bomb site after the Israeli attack and poured massive concrete over a wide area? Some experts conclude Syria was building a nuclear bomb making facility and plutonium was on site. Did a NIE Report on Syria reveal this?
With what degree of confidence did any NIE reject the idea past NK nuclear tests involved small nukes Iranian and North Korean scientists observing need to place on ballistic missiles? People talk about Iraq showing how countries need nukes to defend themselves from the US. Interrogations of Saddam by Piro revealed Saddam deliberately lied about WMD to fools Iran. He declared even at the the end, Iran’s programs required him to build nukes. Iran secretly strived to build the bomb since the early eighties, but Leftists denied this as they did about Gaddafi. They actually belived Gaddafi was building giant irrigation tunnels…LOL.
The idea that the most repressive regimes build WMD to protect themselves from our tyrannical threats is an affront to Jeffersonian ideals. Any Democrat that opposes WMD in the hands of extremists and psychopaths is called a neocon. Get a grip. Even France knows what Ahmadinejad is up to -buy time, build deep bunkers, carefully build secret facilities, get their hands on more fuel and expand their own enrichment programs required to build bombs. Why is this a shock? The NIE report gives the same timeline to an Iranian bomb. They have about as much Intel on secret Iranian facilities as they did about Pakistan, Russia, China, North Korea and Israel, despite nuclear materials from the US going to Israel.
After declaring they would not release declassified reports because of political manipulation, NIE reversed themselves. Now some will try to use the report to politically attack. Perhaps Mission Accomplished applied to Iranian fears after our troops landed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not even the NIE suggests we should let Iran off the hook. The only things now besides threat of force keeping them from nukes are sanctions, Remember that, when spinning the latest NIE. The Mullahs are probably laughing tonight, well not really, the IDF is wide awake.

How any ex-military person who bravely served this country can support the evil Neocons is beyond belief. They are Chickenhawk warmongers who would never serve,espeially during wartime. Shame on you if you support Bush and Cheney. Shame!

Okay, all the ‘Bush lied’ parrots out there. This very report states that the LAST NIE, 2005 WAS INCORRECT in their assesmet that Iran was actively CONTINUING to develope nuclear weapons. Bush has not been hiding, or lieing about it. Secondly, the report also states that the reason Iran shelved it nuke program, for now anyway, is because of the international pressure brout to bear, pressure brought about by Bushs’ leadership , you know the guy who never has any solution for any problem other than bombing, and killing. We have had Lybia give up its WMD program, we have our people in Northe Korea TODAY inspecting that program, and now we find out Iran shelved its program around the same time Lybia did. I dont expect any of you Bush hating idiots to give him credit for any of it, if it were Hillary shed get a Nobel prize.

You neolibs sound more and more loony-tunes daily. Youve gotten yourself all worked into a self diluding frenzy. I believe the recent study that found your mental health lacking was spot-on.
HAHAHAHAHA Silly neohippies, leave the grown-up stuff to the grown ups, you clearly are not mentaly tuff-enough

This could become an issue on the campaign trail. If it does, It’s bad news for Hillary. It would become she did it to Iraq and was about to do it to Iran. She was going to start two wars to stop WMDs and find none again, this is why she can’t be the next president. She’s Bush with a bra. I can see it now. Bush is a fool for hyping this, we could have made the same mistake. If it happened it could have crush our army. Thank god for those spies.

“High Confidence” = WE DONT KNOW, we ARE guessing, and we HOPE we are right —– The only fools here are the ones who really think this report says that Iran isn’t still trying to develop weapons…. They are, and they will, – Bush IS on the right track —–

Don’t any of you fools think to ask, Why did Iran suddenly stop their nuclear weapons program? (Considering the report is accurate)
Is it maybe because the Mullahs saw the U.S.invade Iraq and overthrow Sadam Hussein and his sons in a matter of weeks?
Wake up!!

Good post by Mike Davis. Intentions are critical here as well as the capability to produce enriched uranium, because the two keys to building nuclear weapons are the intention to build them and the ability to produce highly enriched uranium. The rest of the bomb is relatively simple 1940s technology. Iran is moving ahead as fast as possible on uranium enrichment, while trying to fool idiotic Western liberals into thinking Iran will not ultimately build nuclear weapons. Iran is just patiently waiting and taking advantage of the moronic Western news media to spread a false signal that they’re not going to build nukes. The foolishness of people on this board just amazes me. You cannot possibly underestimate how serious a threat a nuclear-armed Iran is to America and the West. We know a great deal about Iran’s intentions which has not been revealed in this NIE, because the sources have to be protected. Also, did it ever occur to you foolish liberals that the statement that intelligence on Iraq was wrong is an exaggeration intended to stop insurgents form looking for chemical weapons and using them on our troops? You’re going to have to move beyond high school thinking to understand what’s happening in the Middle East. God Bless W and Cheney for defending the US against all threats and the foolish liberals, such as the idiotic and childish Howard Dean.

Why is everyone believing this report, when the same folks reported that Iraq had WMD’s. This is one time I hope that the Congress has some investigations as to the REAL validity. Noting that it was 2003, was Iran an worried because we envaded Iraq to stop with theirs, after Libia gave up their program. The MSM is running with this, but should be doing some serious fact checking.

Did they stop their program after the Iraq invasion? Why did they not want WMD’s

you idiot liberals completely lack the ability to think independently. You’ll believe anything and everything that is shopped to your living room through your t.v. I dont have all the answers….but one thing is obvious. I’m not that stupid to believe that we’ve gotten report after report since 2005 that Iran is working towards building nuclear weapons, and now all of a sudden this is all wrong. Forget all the reports. This madman openly says what he intends to do.”Israel is a cancer on the map and I would gladly sacrifice half the population of iran in an attempt to destroy the jews.” Dont forget this gem…” America the great satan will be next”

why nuclear bomb
please safe life america love poeple and state 50 keep you bush life safe ok…..
leave alone iran
danger!!!
again not if america people die not keep life said
understand ok…..

It seems some people in here have more info about Iran’s Nukes than those 16 US intel. agencies who made NIE report after
months/years. Iran is the member of NPT and is inspected periodically by IAEA contrary of Israel with 200 nuke where didn’t
accept NPT yet. I think the West media and broadcasting, where more than 90 percent of them depend to Zionist, be successful to
wash the brains of West citizens. I have Studied about Iran and most of those said in West media about Iran are fictitious and
unreal. The Iranian are cultural people with 7000 years civilization. The recent IAEA report showed the trustfulness of Iran programs.