The conventional thinking around the beltway and its parameters is we still have time to address nukes. Obama is too busy stealing from the working, from the private sector, from our children to fund his communist revolution to be concerned with national security. That is just so last century. The individual built, the collectivist dismantles.
The idea of water downed sanctions is a circle jerk. Saying something, anything for the sake of saying something, anything. Obama is prepared to live with a nuclear Iran. Would Obama have accepted a nuclear nazi Germany?
Back in 2007, George W. Bush was, for all intents and purposes, cut off at the knees. Whatever plan he may have had for de-nuking a brutal jihadist regime were all but scuttled when the NIE issued a fallacious report on Iran's cessation of their nuclear program. It was a thinly veiled attempt to change the direction on how how we were going to handle Iran's nukes. And it clearly succeeded.
Foreign officers at the Director on National Intelligence, un-american, disloyal and seditious, were not elected by the people of this great nation but they are imposed their foreign policy agenda on this country. It was, in fact a coup on the White House. There should be no permanent diplomatic institution, even at the federal level. They're too readily converted into bastions for America's enemies.
It was treachery at the highest levels of government - a stall until their man seized power. Back in January of 2008, I warned of this in the Obama candidacy here.
That was an end run around the administration and easily provided the much needed out to everyone on the security council, the EU3, the Democrats and everyone that has been loathe to take any action on the development of Iran's nuclear's weapons.The NY Times and the left wing media hungrily devoured the bait.
And now we have the CIA finally admitting Iran's nuclear capacity:
Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report.
"Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so," the annual report to Congress states.
A U.S. official involved in countering weapons proliferation said the Iranians are "keeping the door open to the possibility of building a nuclear weapon."
"That's in spite of strong international pressure not to do so, and some difficulties they themselves seem to be having with their nuclear program," the official said. "There are powerful incentives for them to close the door completely, but they are either purposefully ignoring them or are tone deaf. You almost want to shout, 'Tune in Tehran.'"
The CIA report is the latest official study expressing concern over Iran's continuing nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency on March 3 issued a report warning that continuing nuclear activities in violation of U.N. resolutions raise "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile."
The U.S. report was produced by the CIA Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center, known as WINPAC. It is called the 721 report for the section of a 1997 intelligence authorization law requiring it.
The report also says that North Korea, based on a nuclear test in May 2009, now "has the capability to produce nuclear weapons with a yield of roughly a couple of kilotons TNT equivalent." A kiloton is a measure of a nuclear bomb's power and is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT.
On Iran, the report says that it is "keeping open" its options for building nuclear arms, "though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons."
The report reflects the published conclusion of a controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that stated Iran had halted work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The report, posted on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Web site, was written before a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, which is nearing completion and is expected to revise the earlier estimate, although details have not been disclosed.
According to the report, Iran expanded nuclear infrastructure and uranium enrichment in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that since 2006 have called on Tehran to halt the enrichment.
During the first 11 months of last year, the main uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz produced about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, compared with about half a ton the previous year.
The number of centrifuges at Natanz increased from about 5,000 to 8,700 last year, although the number reported to be working is about 3,900, indicating the Iranians are having problems with the machines. The centrifuges enrich uranium gas by spinning it at high speeds.
Last year, Iran disclosed it is building a second gas-centrifuge plant near the city of Qom that will house an estimated 3,000 machines. U.S. officials have said the Qom facility, which was discovered in 2007, is a clear sign Iran's nuclear program is geared toward producing weapons, because the facility is too small for nonmilitary uranium enrichment.
Iran also continued work last year on a heavy water research reactor.
Most people know this and shrug. The left loves to regurgitate the mantra that we can't be sure, that we got the intel wrong in Iraq. But I say, so what? Saddam was removed. The threat of his despotic regime destroyed.
Here we are taking the opposite approach. Inaction based on bad intel is a deadly formula.
This is not Israel's problem. This is the non-Muslim world's problem.It is the world's complicity with Islamic barbarism that catapults the Jewish issue to the fore because of the fierce Jew hate hate commanded in Islam. But the hate and the prescribed conquest is against all infidels and non-believers devoutly followed and promised by the mullocracy in Iran.Even the godless can not escape this religious war declared on the world by Islam. The fact is, it is a values issue. Right and wrong. Good and evil. And what side you are on in the war between the civilized man and the savage speaks volumes about your character, your credibility and your morality. The well developed obfuscation used by the haters of good - words like nuanced, gray area, complicated - are tools to confuse and confound lazy thinkers. But in this, the opposing sides could not be more clear. Yes, there is a very definite good and a very definite evil. If national self interest converges all the better. But at the end of the day if your national self interest aligns itself with evil, your country is on a one way trip to nowhere. History is proof of that.
Americans know this. Time and time again they have demonstrated their support for Israel (invariably support for free men) even if their political leaders have not.
The clock is ticking, must we wait for the catastrophe?
