Before yesterday, the real debate on the Republican side was whether to use conventional or tactical nuclear weapons to bomb Iran, and they seemed knocked back a bit by the news that the Islamic Republic has had no nuclear program for several years, while still trying to maintain their warmongering ways.
“For years now, the Islamic Republic of Iran has defied and played games with every international effort aimed at persuading the country to halt enriching uranium,” Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, said in a statement. “Sanctions and other pressures must be continued and stepped up until Iran complies by halting enrichment activities in a verifiable way.”
Apparently, the intelligence community has been deceived. Dirty lying Iranians!
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, has taken a slightly different line on Iran than his rivals, often focusing on reports that it was supplying weapons to militias in Iraq that were being used against American troops (which have also been proven false -ed.).
Mr. McCain said the release of the report was such a “rare occasion” that he would still “have to try and make sense of it” before commenting in depth. But he did say that Iran was still bent on the destruction of Israel and on interfering in Iraq, and that therefore the sanctions against Tehran were appropriate. Referring to the war in Iraq, he said, “We were deceived by intelligence reports in that situation,” and because of that, the public is “justifiably skeptical.”
“Because I lied to you about Iraq, my friends, all intelligence is suspect, and I’m free to tell you anything I want without fear of contradiction.” That’s almost a deliberate “Peter and the Wolf” situation; the intelligence community “cried wolf” on Iraq, so they can’t be believed EVER AGAIN (except they didn’t cry wolf, they were overwhelmed by neocon infiltrators setting up their own intelligence shops inside the Pentagon and Dick Cheney forcing them to change their conclusions).
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