newyorker.com — A classified CIA analysis finds no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It is based on intelligence collected by satellites, radioactivity measurements of water samples and plumes from industrial plants, and data gathered by high-tech radioactivity-detection devices placed by American and Israeli agents near suspected sites in Iran.
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omgitscolinNov 19, 2006
Good, no evidence of a threat. So when do we get to start bombing them?
mu99insNov 20, 2006
The CIA is not trustworthy. They have trouble hiring agents thatspeak Middle Eastern languages. Although, since they "haven'tthe foggiest" notion of what's happening over there, I do trust themto not have any evidence one way or another. Seymour Hersh believes the CIA now, because it conveniently fits his politics.
d4r7h3v1lNov 20, 2006
Of course it isn't Iraq all over again! The Q is an N this time!
kooftNov 20, 2006
@klawzSorry for double post, but I didn't see this bit from your post:"I think not. I think that certain countries are "mature" enough to know when to use WMD, and some are not."Iran has had WMD's since, at least, the Iran-Iraq war. In that time there have been precisely 0 mustard gas attacks on the US. Coincidentally there have also been 0 sarin attacks on the US. The list goes on, but the point is, Iran is apparently "mature" enough to know when to use WMD's and despite being run by the crazy Islamo-fascists, they haven't launched a massive WMD attack on Israel, the US or any other country for that matter (with the exception of Iraq in the war, only after Iraq had used them first).So, now that they're "mature" enough, why is it that they can't have any nuclear weapons?
justahumanNov 20, 2006
what if iran has nuclear weapons...america ,china,india etc etc has one..so y iran is a such a big deal motherfukers
williamdyerNov 20, 2006
@raisputinThe tragedy of it is that Islam really has been taken over by the totalitarian fundamentalists - much more so than fundamentalist Christians have sway in the U.S. If we had a rational discussion of why Islam breeds terrorists, we could insist that they stop using Israel as an excuse and clean up their act. Instead we blindly support Israel, enabling Muslims' denial about the totalitarianism in Islam.Just as Communism ceased to be a global threat when people could freely leave Communist countries, the "threat" of Islam will end when everyone, everywhere is free to be of any religion or irreligious if that is what they choose. The death penalty for apostacy is Islam's Berlin Wall.
chrisjjDec 5, 2006
What nonsense to say 99% of the diggs were non-American. We US Citizens are at last speaking out to oppose the lies and propaganda promulgated by our Government regarding the Middle East and regarding Israel in particular. The Middle East is a complex region whose politics cannot be reduced to mere black-and-white. Israel is not always the 'good guy' and the Arabs are not always the 'bad guys'. It is un-American not to question your government's edicts - in fact, if you don't, you might as well be a fascist.