oh! I can help you with that! ::beams:: Fingar, Van Diepen and Kenneth Brill, a former US ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were able to put out what they regard as an objective assessment because those occupying senior roles in the Bush administration had changed. Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Douglas Feith and Donald Rumsfeld have given way to those who oppose war with Iran, including Robert Gates, the defence secretary and former CIA director, and the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
Only the vice-president, Dick Cheney, remains to advocate military strikes against Iran. Wolfowitz, out of work since resigning from the World Bank earlier this year, has been invited back into the administration by Rice as an adviser on WMD, but that is an act of pity for an old mentor, not a shift in power to the neocons. http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2224281,00.html On Dec 8, 2007 8:05 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What the new NIE shows is how foolish it is to take anything the CIA says > without healty skepticism. Why is it that the last NIE in 2005 estimated > that Iran was still developing nuclear weapons and the new NIE says Iran > stopped the program in 2003? Did the CIA not find out anything between 2003 > and 2005, when we had lots and lots of people on the ground in Iraq and > could have easily infiltrated Iran to gather intelligence? > > And BTW, I love how when the CIA is wrong about something it is the > President's fault, and how when they are (maybe) right about something, it > is still the President's fault. > > On Dec 8, 2007 1:17 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > > > > > The NIE is yet another data point on how massively stupid invading > > Iraq was. It shows Iraq begging to cut a deal with us prior to > > invasion and laughing at us - if not outright poking us with explosive > > sticks after. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248001 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
