And we wanted to go in and bomb Iran. Or let me rephrase. Those war-mongers in Bush's cabinet wanted to go in Iran and attack their nuclear facilities, which we know now are solely used for peaceful, resourceful purposes (for clean energy, and not for reasons of war). No, that ended almost five years ago, and the CIA either had, yet again, lacked efficient intelligence or were afraid to tell Bush and step down as cowards, afraid to tell the President, this time, what he so desperately needs to hear. The NIE (National Intellgence Estimate) was finally reported by the sixteen federal agencies. Finally. Bush is now, or was, obviously "confuddled" by this news that goes against "Bush's rhetoric" for the past four years. Good. The CIA actually had the balls this time to step up to the President.
Time Magazine:
"The NIE represented another promising opportunity missed. Imagine if the President had said,'This report means we don't want war. We want to talk, and everything - including lifting of the economic sanctions and our acknowledgment that you are a major regional power - is on the table so long as you put eveything on the table too. That means not only your uranium-enrichment program but also your support for terrorist organizations.' How could Iran have said no to that?
But that would have required another President. This President appears to lack the desire, creativity and patience to engage in the most important diplomacy that a nation can face - with its enemies - over issues that could mean the difference between war and peace."
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We all know Iran's leader just wants to nuke Israel. He's said it way too many times. Forceful action must be taken.
And we all know that President Bush failed to ask questions about this new information back in September. He was told that new information was coming in about Iran that "required further analyzation", but he forgot, apparently, to ask what this information was. He proceeded to make that World War III comment, knowing full well that the intelligence perhaps pointed otherwise. Its not just Bush, but the American government that has failed to extract proper intelligence, or intelligence at all, from the international community.
Forceful action is no longer needed, it seems. Military force was at the top of this administration's priority in approaching Iran, but they did not even exhaust diplomacy efforts, and we may have found out all this sooner about Iran no longer having a weapons program.
Ahmadinejad did not say anything, because he wanted talks with America, but Bush refused to engage him because he seems to lack all curiousity in the matter, and Ahmadinejad was no longer willing to get the truth out because of Bush and his cabinet's incompetency.
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