Thursday, August 24, 2006
Some Republicans just can't get enough of that good ol' war stuff.
The NY Times has a report on the complaints of some Republicans that the intelligence community is not find enough data to support their push for war. We already know the the Big Dick is stovepiping all the data he can get, but no one in their right mind will believe what he presents. The real intelligence community knows that they don't have the sources they should to give an accurate assessment of Iran and they are erring on the side of the angels, no doubt to the fury of the war mongers.
Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States.Consider this. The US has no problem with Pakistan & India having and increasing their nuclear stockpiles. What is so frightening to the desktop commandos about Iran? If they did have something, what could they do that would not soon turn Iran into a plain of green glowing glass? And could they really be anymore dangerous that Dr A Q Khan of our dear ally Pakistan? Everyone needs to wake up and smell the reality before Our Dear Embattled Leader totally screws the pooch.
Some policy makers have accused intelligence agencies of playing down Iran’s role in Hezbollah’s recent attacks against Israel and overestimating the time it would take for Iran to build a nuclear weapon.
The complaints, expressed privately in recent weeks, surfaced in a Congressional report about Iran released Wednesday. They echo the tensions that divided the administration and the Central Intelligence Agency during the prelude to the war in Iraq.
The criticisms reflect the views of some officials inside the White House and the Pentagon who advocated going to war with Iraq and now are pressing for confronting Iran directly over its nuclear program and ties to terrorism, say officials with knowledge of the debate.
The dissonance is surfacing just as the intelligence agencies are overhauling their procedures to prevent a repeat of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate — the faulty assessment that in part set the United States on the path to war with Iraq.
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