Bush on the NIE: " I have said Iran is dangerous, and the NIE doesn't do anything to change my opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world."
Indeed.
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A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Change
04 Dec 2007 12:50 pm
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Shorter Bush: Cheney still owns my balls
Shorter rest of the world on Bush: Your opinion and 50 cents will no longer buy you a Coke in most coin-operated machines.
What mind?
Matt - You missed Bush's best Freudian slip during his press conference:
“We have not a good President in Iran, since 1979.”
Yeah - He actually said that.
So, evidently, Bush views Iran to be just as dangerous without the bomb, as with one.
Brilliant.
Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2006:
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused the Bush administration of playing down the threat of a nuclear Iran and called for swift action at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Iranian government."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011903220.html
He believes the same thing on Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday...
Very astute of Clinton, Mike: outflank everyone on the right while advocating things that actually, you know, work.
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Bush, Part II: The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Absolute resolve in face of unknown or non-existent threats is no vice, and sneering at the determined and the few is no virtue.
Stephen Colbert on Bush: "He believes on Wednesday what he believed on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday."
" I have said Iran is dangerous, and the NIE doesn't do anything to change my opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world."
George Bush, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".
Mike KC - nice hit job on Hillary, using a 2 year old headline to discredit her. The current NIE of the time stated the exact opposite of the one released yesterday regarding Iran's development of nuclear weapons. That makes your credibility about the same as Bush's - next to nil.
And Mr. President: The link below gives us a clear picture of just why Iran may possibly be the threat you imagine it to be. Seems to me you blew a great opportunity for a much better outcome in the M.E. & South Asia back in 2003. Thanks a lot - for nothing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700727.html
Indeed is right. When are they going to give Omar from the Wire his own blog on this magazine?
Why couldn't we have had Bush as prez back in the 19th century when he couldn't hurt so many things?
"He believes the same thing on Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened on Tuesday..."
Which is the real reason Hadley & Cheney withheld the NIE from Bush, because they knew it wouldn't change his mind about a decision the Decider has already made, but only piss him off.
I admit that I am in a very small minority that believes an attack on Iran is still possible.
Iran doesn't even have weapons of mass destruction-related program activities.
Credit where credit is due. Joe Biden, bless him.
"Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) Tuesday asserted that President Bush is not leveling with the country when he says that he did not know in mid-October that U.S. intelligence services believed at that time that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
“Are you telling me a president who is briefed every single morning, who is fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the United States government said they had abandoned their effort for a nuclear weapon in ’03?” Biden said in a conference call with reporters.
“That’s not believable,” Biden added. “I refuse to believe that. If that’s true, he has the most incompetent staff in … modern American history and he’s one of the most incompetent presidents in modern American history.”
Bush told reporters earlier Tuesday that he was made aware only last week of a National Intelligence Estimate that described the stop to the Iranian nuclear program.
“I love presidents who parse words,” Biden said in response. “The NIE didn’t get written until a week ago.”
The Delaware Democrat, who argued that the administration is again misleading the country, charged that Bush must have known about the suspicion of the intelligence services when he made his famous remarks that tied the possibility of World War III to Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons.
Insert Homer Simpson's "d'oh" here.
Iran doesn't even have weapons of mass destruction-related program activities.
But it does have the desire to intend to make a schedule to engage in WMD-related program activities.
That's good enough for a pre-emptive strike.
Clinton is justifiably discredited by her previous statements on Iran and her current position.
I have yet to hear her advocate a "grand bargain" with Iran to provide security guarantees, take regime change off the table, and assist them in their nuclear energy program in exchange for recognition of Israel and dropping support for Hizballah and assistance in stabilizing Iraq.
All I've heard from her are demands for more sanctions and more confrontation with Iran under the guise of "diplomacy".
The same from Obama.
Translated from Politspeak, Bush is saying that Iran has been an obstacle to US power in the region since it threw off the Shah, and this is perfectly true.
I think the saying is,"Terrorism is a wasteful thing to mind."
Bush has no use for intelligence. He has none himself, and yet he made it to the White House!
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Heads in the Sand
Did Bush have this opinion before he destabilized Iran's two regional rivals (Sunni Afghanistan and secular Iraq)?
Seems unlikely. In March of 2003, Bush reportedly still didn't know what Sunni and Shi'ite were.
So, now we're stuck with Iran as a regional power, thanks to Bush, and Bush won't change his mind? We must all have done something very, very bad in our former lives.
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Posted by Grand Moff Texan | December 4, 2007 12:55 PM