U.S. says Iran halted nuclear weapons program in 2003.?

Question

I sure am glad we didn't bomb Iran like all you chickenhawks suggested. Should we bomb anyway?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/03/america/cia.php

Even the Bush administration has downgraded the Iranian threat. Come on cons, admit it, the continued use of the fear factor is growing tiresome.

Answer 1

Don't confuse them with facts. They are still on here saying bomb Iran. They want war more than they want truth.

This is nothing new, this has been reported for the past 4 years at least:

On Monday, the IAEA released a 30-page report that detailed how Iran finally came clean and admitted to producing small amounts of low enriched uranium and plutonium.
But at the same time, the IAEA said there was "no evidence" that these previously undeclared materials were "related to a nuclear weapons program."
In a Wednesday speech, Bolton said the
CNN 12/12/2003
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/11/12/Iran.nuclear/

The US intelligence community believes that Iran has probably not acquired the fissile material (weapons grade nuclear fuel) needed to produce a nuclear weapon; Director of National Intelligence John Negraponte has stated that “Iran will not be in a position to have a nuclear weapon” until “sometime between the beginning of the next decade and the end of the next decade.”

Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States
Staff Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Policy, August 2006
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu6JgbFVHQD4AmMRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE4cTBnZmJjBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0gwMjBfNzQEbANXUzE-/SIG=12jk25of6/EXP=1196867040/**http%3a//intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/IranReport082206v2.pdf


The US has criticized an independent investigation which found no evidence that Iran was working on a secret nuclear weapons programme.

The report said traces of bomb-grade uranium in Iran’s nuclear facilities came from contaminated Pakistani equipment, not Iranian activities.

BBC World News 08/24/2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4178804.stm

JOEANIMAL: Interesting point. That is why our foreign policy should be based on REAL intelligence and not political posturing. Many countries want to appear stronger than they really are. It happens all the time.

Answer 2

What is it about you Liberals anyway? You refuse to believe intelligence reports when they claim there are weapons but you are sure quick to believe them when they claim there are not.

Here is my Conservative thinking on the subject. If it proves true, that is very good. If it proves to be wrong it will make our military's job that much harder.

Now that that is out of the way here is what occurs to me. Do you remember when North Korea tested a nuclear device a year or so ago? All we could detect was a conventional explosion, remember? We detected no release of radiation. Our experts called it a dud.

Maybe this means that the North Koreans cannot figure it out. We know Iran bought most of the technology from the North Koreans. Maybe they cannot figure it out either. It is not that simple to build a nuclear device that works.

Or, maybe the Iranian scientists are deliberately not solving the problems and are thwarting their country's attempt to get a nuclear device.

You and I can only speculate. We do not know one way or the other.

I hope it is true. I do not have any desire to send our troops into harms way for nothing. I do not hesitate to send them if need be.
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Answer 3

President Bush needs a conflict with with Iran so the reality of a nuclear application isn't probably common. company U.S. information companies will fabricate a perfectly terrible clarification for conflict, George Bush (or Hillary Clinton) will say "I advised you so" and a sparkling conflict has began. government comments won't be able to be used in an identical sentence with the observe "certainty". it incredibly is an identical government. that allowed and aided in the worldwide commerce center bloodbath.

Answer 4

Evil war criminal Bush lied in order to demonize Iran at any cause and accordingly to form a negative public opinion toward Iran and to scare American people that Iran will launch nuclear attack against the US so that American people will not object to invasion of other country and evil Bush will be able to start another oil war and achieve his evil goals.

Answer 5

it is funny, bush attacked irak because he considered sadam had a program to build "weapons of massive destruction" .
UN searched for the weapons and they found nothing. it didn't really mattered to bus.from that, bush had killed millions of people.
now, iran is the thatening country,
Guess what is the furture of iran????

Answer 6

it was uncovered during the interrogation of Saddam before his execution that he wanted people to believe that he had nuclear weapons because he was afraid of Iran!!!

so its possible that Iran was also using the same tactics, to make people believe they had gotten further along than they really did as a scare tactic!!!!

Answer 7

If you care to remember, the UN said they were happy with Saddam's cooperation before we invaded. Bush brushed aside they're assessment of the actual conditions in favor of his own ungrounded beliefs.
that was Iraq, now for Iran......ROUND TWO!

Answer 8

And it took 4 years to tell us that? Or did it take 4 years to find it out? Either way, that doesn't speak well for our intelligence community. Besides that, i don't believe it.

Answer 9

Thanks to Putin doing the leg-work and diplomacy that Bush should have been doing while he was shouting off his big mouth and causing more problems.

Answer 10

Bush stopped them from building a nuclear bomb without one shot being fired, some how you don't want to accept this.