Thread: Bombed If You Do, Bombed If You Don't

by Rep. Ron PaulThe latest National Intelligence Estimate has been greeted by a mixture of relief and alarm. As I have been saying all along, Iran indeed poses no quantifiable imminent nuclear threat to us or her neighbors. It is with much alarm, however, that we see the administration continue to ratchet up the war rhetoric as if nothing has changed.

Indeed nothing has changed from the administration's perspective, as they have had this latest intelligence report for some time. Only this week has it been made known to the public. They want it both ways with Iran. On the one hand, they discredit the report entirely, despite it being one of the most comprehensive intelligence reports on the subject, with over 1,000 source notes in the document. On the other hand, when discrediting it fails, they claim that the timing of the abandonment of the weapons program, just as we were invading Iraq, means our pressure must have worked, so we must keep it up with a new round of even tougher sanctions. Russia and China are not buying this, apparently, and again we are finding ourselves on a lonely, tenuous platform on the world stage. Article here...........

Give'm hell Paul...give'm hell!

So does this mean invading Iraq was not in vain?

Originally Posted by TenGig

So does this mean invading Iraq was not in vain?

I don't know where you got that but no!

they claim that the timing of the abandonment of the weapons program, just as we were invading Iraq, means our pressure must have worked

Would they still be pursuing the bomb if Iraq wasn't invaded?

Originally Posted by TenGig

Would they still be pursuing the bomb if Iraq wasn't invaded?

I thought the evidence was in on that one, they were not pursuing any WMD program.

I really don't know. I stopped following the whole ME shit storm a while back. All of it is just a big circus. I just thought I heard that Iran stopped pursuing the bomb in '03.

Last I heard, Iran is still enriching uranium.

That means they still have an active nuclear weapons program.

And that means we should bomb their facilities.

Originally Posted by TenGig

Would they still be pursuing the bomb if Iraq wasn't invaded?

Yes.

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