"At a hearing before a House intelligence subcommittee, Donald Kerr defended the conclusions of the National Intelligence Estimate -- which said Iran stopped work on a nuclear weapon in 2003 -- but at the same time insisted that the NIE "did not in any way suggest that Iran was benign for the future."
He said Iranians continue work on what he called the "most important component" of any future program, a civilian uranium enrichment plant. Both intelligence officials and nuclear weapons experts have said producing fissile material such as highly enriched uranium is the most difficult aspect of creating a nuclear weapon.
Kerr also said Iran continues to develop a medium ballistic missile, which could be used as the delivery system for nuclear weapons.
Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kansas, expressing concern about the Iranian threat to the United States, questioned Kerr about whether the intelligence community has a "clear signal" of what Iran is up to. He said there are "mixed signals," arguing that the NIE's conclusion that the Iranians "haven't been doing anything since 2003" regarding a nuclear weapon program doesn't match the words and actions of the Iranian government."...
Iraq had WMDs in the sense of chemical weapons, though not nuks, and they used them. And 9/11 did actually happen, a few thousand people died, and many people lost jobs in the area and other areas at that time, and many suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome.
Granted, many kinds of unconventional warfare may be terrorism or may result in civilian casualties.
Bush may not be able to bring this country together, but he is not going to let this country fall appart.
2007-12-06 11:56:49
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answered by David L 4
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Well it DID happen, just like 7/7/2005 or 11/3/2004 or 26/7/1995 happened. I'm coming round to thinking that there were Establishment motivations for it happening. A terrorist atatck on the USA gives an excuse for a 'war' of some kind against a rogue nation. This activates the US industrial-military complex, which requires a lot of productivity. The money raised from this stimulates the sluggish US economy.
They could well have been done before. In 1941, they witheld support for Pearl Harbour knowing that a Japanese attack may happen. When it did, it gave the USA an excuse to enter WW2, and the money raised by war machine stimulated-productivity, kick-started the US economy after the Great Depression of the 1930s.
2007-12-06 04:53:29
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answered by The Global Geezer 7
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Iraq WMD was a bigger lie, then could 9/11 be the biggest lie ,
But Iran's Nukes may not be a lie , and Honestly Iran deserves to have ,
But 911 is a necked lie ,
2007-12-06 04:59:13
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answered by ? 7
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This seems irrelevant to me becuase it is commentary on what may have or not have happended back in 2001.
today there is a reality that there are fringe groups out there who wish to destroy us. If Bush "masterminded" this or did nit for monetary reasons so be it. It is done. Another curiosity to go unknown, because the fundamental fact is that we can't be for sure.
I say allow everyone to have nules and this will all be even. Why not just sell them one of our thousands of nukes? If Russia and the US just became a big nuke store for the world then everybody will be on even footing. Does this sound crazy? I don't think so. The fact that Russia, China, Pakistan, and India have nukes already really doesn't make me worry all too much if littel old Iran does too. You think those countries are any less insane to use one than Iran? I say the crazy factor is pretty much the same.
Happy Holidays!
2007-12-06 04:55:01
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answered by jennifer_weisz 5
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Yep, Iraq had WMD's in the 1980's and 1990's.. The US knows this because the US Sold them to Iraq. Of course after the First Gulf War UN Inspectors supervised the locating and decommissioning of those weapons. As result Iraq no longer had WMDs from 1999 when the Inspectors finished their work and beyond... Now when did Bush invade Iraq to get rid of those NO LONGER EXISTING WMD's?
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answered by April 4
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Iraq's WMDs was not a lie. We found some as there were over 6 stories done on it and two if them was from CNN and a captured general admitted the rest was shipped to Syria while the UN was making up their feeble minds on attacking Iraq. The lies that the libs and the LIEberal press make up is running amok and you're gullible enough to believe it.
2007-12-06 04:59:59
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answered by Anonymous
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Iraq ( Saddam ) lied about nukes & WMD's , because he didn't want Iran to invade him. Iran lies so they can get supplies from the rest of the world to help them with their energy problem.
9/11 was not a lie....it's hard to dispute the fact that young Arab or Islamic men flew 2 planes into the Twin Towers...after telling everyone they had a bomb and no one would get hurt if they co-operated ( now that was the lie )...the rest was real no matter how much we wished it wasn't.
2007-12-06 04:37:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Wow, some people are thick headed here. The guy never said that 9-11 or any of this never happened. What he is saying is that could it all be a set up.
No, I don't think the government caused it, but I do believe two things.
1. Their own stupidity(bueracracy, red tape, so on) hampered any chance they had of stopping it before it happened.
2. They certainly weren't upset about, since it allowed them to go into a foreign policy they always wanted, but couldn't openly pursue.
But there is a precedent for the conspiracy of the government did it. Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
2007-12-06 05:13:06
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answered by bacco l 3
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Iran is working toward having a nuclear weapon, Iraq had WMDs, they used them on the Iranians and the Kurds, 9/11 really did happen. What the hell are you mumbling about?
2007-12-06 04:34:19
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answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6
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Iran nukes was not a lie, nor was Iraq WMD.
Iraq WMD was bad information that should have been followed up on but wasn't. And the fact that they did not have WMD at the moment did not mean that they never used them or that they were a threat (They used WMD many times on minorities within their own country, they invaded tehir neighbor, Kuwait, etc).
Iran Nukes was information that is/has been followed up on and updated as all intelligence information should.
One thing for certain with Iraq and Iran--nukes or not--is that they would do anything to undermine the US and it's allies. So whether Iran has shifted away from building nukes (our intelligence may very well change again), it does not mean that they have not done, and continue to do a lot of harm to the US.
2007-12-06 04:33:35
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answered by HokiePaul 6
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