06/12: John Bolton Takes the NIE to the Woodshed
Category: America and the World
Posted by: an okie gardener
Story here on Gateway Pundit. There is a downside to Civil Service job security. And to getting news from headlines.
Bottom line: we don't know any more hard intelligence data than we did in 2005 when it was concluded the Iranians were working on the bomb. The authors of the 2007 report, who concluded that the Iranians are not working on the bomb, are trying to read the mind of the mullahs, and probably not doing a very good job.
Bottom line: we don't know any more hard intelligence data than we did in 2005 when it was concluded the Iranians were working on the bomb. The authors of the 2007 report, who concluded that the Iranians are not working on the bomb, are trying to read the mind of the mullahs, and probably not doing a very good job.
A Waco Farmer wrote:
We were either wrong earlier on Iran--or we are wrong now-or both.
My decision to support the military action against Iraq in 2003 was not based solely on the intelligence (WMD was never my foremost concern--although it was a real worry).
Bottom line: The Gardener is right. The United States government cannot base policy solely on the ablity to read people's minds.