Who in their right state of mind would believe a CIA intelligence report about IRAN?

Question

So far today, many conservatives have pointed out Intelligence reports saying Iran is at least 10 years away from producing a bomb.

Conservatives with their heads in sand again? and when they are proved wrong, like Iraq, will conveniently blame flawed intelligence.

Answer 1

Bush

Ohh wait you asked "right mind"


Ahhhh nevermind

GO big Red Go

Answer 2

I doubt seriously that the CIA even believes that Iran’s nuclear capability is that far off. What we are hearing, as with much of what the government chooses to divulge to the public, is only the government’s spin on CIA reports. The CIA is sophisticated enough to discern that Iran is far closer than 10 years away from nuclear technology.

Just my barebones knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, and my own rudimentary understanding of how long it took other countries to develop nuclear weapons, I can pretty much surmise that they are far closer to a nuclear weapon than that. After all, they have been mulling over the idea for quite sometime now, and have been interacting with former Soviet scientists and the current Russian government. Furthermore, Iran has a highly sophisticated and educated population. So when you mix outside expertise with a learned population, great scientific feats can be achieved in a relatively short period of time. So it is quite conceivable that their track towards nuclear missiles is much closer than we are being led to believe.

Answer 3

i believe the USNIE checklist. Iran is working on construction a bomb. believe it. Bush screwed up no longer forcing an alliance on Saddam. If he had Iran does no longer be almost the prospect that it is right this moment. it is in our terrific activity to rebuild the Iraqi military and prepare them and our very own troops for the a danger invasion of Iran if the Ayatollahs do no longer end the nuke software. by ability of how, confident it became the NIE checklist that led Bush and Congress to believe that Saddam had WMD. That being reported you ought to understand that Saddam destroyed his WMD purely 3 short years formerly hand and then performed cat and mouse with the UN inspectors to lead them to and our intelligence companies think of that he nevertheless had them. Even his generals have been waiting for him to installation them in the process the U. S. invasion. They even believed that he nevertheless had them. Why could Iran lie and say that they have a nuclear software. particularly you do no longer believe that they opt to be attacked by ability of the U. S. or Israel. i do no longer think of that they have a death desire yet i might desire to be incorrect. they are rather Loony Tunes over there.

Answer 4

I would hope after the more recent blunders that the CIA has gotten better with its intelligence. Seeing the problems that happened last time sensitive intelligence was made known, I would hope they would be more careful about what they release. The CIA is not a conservative organization by the way.

Answer 5

It's OK. They fixed the problems. The solution was to cut the budget, choose an ineffectual leader, cause most of the senior experienced staff to resign, move the agency down the power pyramid so it loses priority, and let them hang for failing to stop the cherry-picking of intel.

Answer 6

"You can fool some of the people all of the time. They are the ones we want to concentrate on." GW Bush, March 2001

Besides, you can plausibly say every country in the world is "5 years away from making a nuclear bomb". The US did it from scratch in less time than that 60 years ago. Now that they know how it's done, there's no reason why anybody couldn't do it in that time if they really wanted to.

Answer 7

thank goodness the liberals were against their intelligence the whole time, especially Kerry. That is being firm. Oh, wait, they voted to go into Iraq and now they dont like it because we couldnt magically beat the insurgents and win in a year.

Answer 8

Plenty of democrats in the house and senate believed reports that said Iraq had WMDs.

Answer 9

last time the Bush and Blair regimes only wanted to see "intelligence" that supported their warmongering objectives, This time, they have had time to rearrange the CIA, and British Intelligence into compliance, promoting their most loyal yes men.

OR maybe they've changed their ways overnight, nah!

Answer 10

Judging by past events I believe that the government should be held to similar standards as journalists with regards to their information. Verify by one impartial source.