Intelligence?
As usual, the Democrats prove the amazing feat of "talking out of both sides of your mouth" is well within their repertoire.
You see, today they are loudly proclaiming that Boosh should have known about Iran's peaceful intent with regards to nuclear power -- after all, the NIE reports that Iran may have ceased meaningful progress with their nuclear weapons program since 2005.
Here's the irony: the same Democrats rend their shirts at Boosh's stupidity in reliance on the ... NIE's ... determination of the presence of WMDs in Iraq. So Boosh was stupid then to rely on the NIE and stupid now not to rely on the NIE. Right. Nancy Pelosi, vampire of common sense, writ large.
How stupid do the Democrats have to get? Boosh IS stupid ... we all know that. Pretty much irrefutable. Ok, so what? Does this mean that we have to suspend common sense and believe one of the most inept intelligence communities ever to have misled a powerful nation? Friends, we are talking about the CIA, DIA, NSA and a host of other acronyms which all stand for CYA ... "cover your ass." When have they ever known anything useful in a timely manner ... at least that we are aware of?
Contrast that with Israel .... They just pulled off an amazing coup in detecting and terminating a joint Syrian / North Korean bomb making factory. Out in the middle of nowhere ... a place that the Syrians claim was an empty supply depot ... which they then covered in thousands of tons of dirt, a la Chernobyl. Why? Because they dislike untidy bombed out buildings in their deserts? Or because the weapons grade plutonium lying around oxidizing was making rather a mess of things? If you want to get nightmares, read a bit about oxidizing plutonium dust and its effect on the human body.
Israel says that the Iranians have started up again trying to make bombs. Who would you care to believe? Israel has actual "humint", that is real, live people who share information with them ... for money, of course, but why not? The US depends on electronic intercepts, satellite photos and other, uh ... reliable ... derivative information. Given that the Russians are helping the Iranians in their nuclear ambitions, don't you suppose that they might be able to give a few kind words of advice on how to make the US intelligence community look like buffoons? Iran admits that they have 3000 centrifuges in operation -- how efficiently we do not know. But given that you can buy your fuel from Russia or France, why do you need to enrich your fuel to ... weapons grade material? It doesn't make the reactor generating electricity any more efficient, and may make it much harder to control ... not that this is actually a Russian strong point.
Iran denies the holocaust. Iran provides the succor for the shiite insurgency. Iran supplies Hezbollah and Hamas. Iran supplies the Taliban (though this is more of a relationship of convenience to try and kill Americans, the Taliban being largely fundo-Sunni). Ahmadwhackojob is among the most untrustworthy heads of state seen since ... Pol Pot? Noriega? If he claims a stance on nuclear energy, it is a pretty good bet that he is lying. And Bella Pelosi wants to believe him. More irony in that Whackjob would cut her head of with a dinner knife given the opportunity, mainly because she is a woman without modesty.
Sometimes I despair at the abject stupidity displayed by members of Congress: what will they NOT do to further their immediate political aims? How short-sighted can they be? It is like going to a dinner party where the host has already served you poop on the plate ... are you going to drink the white wine? Iran means no good, notwithstanding any incompetence by the NIE and the gullibility of Congress.
You see, today they are loudly proclaiming that Boosh should have known about Iran's peaceful intent with regards to nuclear power -- after all, the NIE reports that Iran may have ceased meaningful progress with their nuclear weapons program since 2005.
Here's the irony: the same Democrats rend their shirts at Boosh's stupidity in reliance on the ... NIE's ... determination of the presence of WMDs in Iraq. So Boosh was stupid then to rely on the NIE and stupid now not to rely on the NIE. Right. Nancy Pelosi, vampire of common sense, writ large.
How stupid do the Democrats have to get? Boosh IS stupid ... we all know that. Pretty much irrefutable. Ok, so what? Does this mean that we have to suspend common sense and believe one of the most inept intelligence communities ever to have misled a powerful nation? Friends, we are talking about the CIA, DIA, NSA and a host of other acronyms which all stand for CYA ... "cover your ass." When have they ever known anything useful in a timely manner ... at least that we are aware of?
Contrast that with Israel .... They just pulled off an amazing coup in detecting and terminating a joint Syrian / North Korean bomb making factory. Out in the middle of nowhere ... a place that the Syrians claim was an empty supply depot ... which they then covered in thousands of tons of dirt, a la Chernobyl. Why? Because they dislike untidy bombed out buildings in their deserts? Or because the weapons grade plutonium lying around oxidizing was making rather a mess of things? If you want to get nightmares, read a bit about oxidizing plutonium dust and its effect on the human body.
Israel says that the Iranians have started up again trying to make bombs. Who would you care to believe? Israel has actual "humint", that is real, live people who share information with them ... for money, of course, but why not? The US depends on electronic intercepts, satellite photos and other, uh ... reliable ... derivative information. Given that the Russians are helping the Iranians in their nuclear ambitions, don't you suppose that they might be able to give a few kind words of advice on how to make the US intelligence community look like buffoons? Iran admits that they have 3000 centrifuges in operation -- how efficiently we do not know. But given that you can buy your fuel from Russia or France, why do you need to enrich your fuel to ... weapons grade material? It doesn't make the reactor generating electricity any more efficient, and may make it much harder to control ... not that this is actually a Russian strong point.
Iran denies the holocaust. Iran provides the succor for the shiite insurgency. Iran supplies Hezbollah and Hamas. Iran supplies the Taliban (though this is more of a relationship of convenience to try and kill Americans, the Taliban being largely fundo-Sunni). Ahmadwhackojob is among the most untrustworthy heads of state seen since ... Pol Pot? Noriega? If he claims a stance on nuclear energy, it is a pretty good bet that he is lying. And Bella Pelosi wants to believe him. More irony in that Whackjob would cut her head of with a dinner knife given the opportunity, mainly because she is a woman without modesty.
Sometimes I despair at the abject stupidity displayed by members of Congress: what will they NOT do to further their immediate political aims? How short-sighted can they be? It is like going to a dinner party where the host has already served you poop on the plate ... are you going to drink the white wine? Iran means no good, notwithstanding any incompetence by the NIE and the gullibility of Congress.
posted by Zaphod at Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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