Neo-Cons Push More Phoney Intelligence in Effort to Start Another Useless War
They're doing it again.
Not content with setting up the American people and the entire world via the U.N. Security Council with false intelligence from the CIA about so-called "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in the hands of the legitimate government of Iraq, a country that never attacked us and had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, the Neo-Cons are now pushing yet another "intelligence report" in what is a laughably transparent attempt to engage us in another needless and pointless war. This time the gun barrels of the chicken-hawks are pointed at (surprise!) another country that just happens to be full of what makes Halliburton happy: oil. And, as usual, the so-called "intelligence" is vague and speaks of "might" and "may" while presenting no clear evidence.
The Neo-Con house organ, The Wall St. Journal, a paper with numerous links to the Isreali hard right, including it's new editorial board member Bret Stephens (who used to edit the hard right, pro-settler and anti-Arab Jerusalem Post), naturally was chosen as the vehicle for this smear campaign designed to ignite fear in the hearts of average Americans as a way of getting them to support yet another mad adventure in the Middle East.
And what does this new American intelligence say? Well, if you can stomach their lies, read it yourself (here):
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I've heard this all before, from the lying mouth of Colin Powell. Don't think I'm going to fall for it again.
Wait.
Okay, never mind. I see now that this story is actually from leading left-wing newspaper The Guardian and the intelligence report the story describes is a secret report compiled by the intelligence services of Britain, France, Germany and Belgium and not those of the United States.
I'll have to think about this and what it means and get back to you.
/DailyKosSpeak off
Not content with setting up the American people and the entire world via the U.N. Security Council with false intelligence from the CIA about so-called "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in the hands of the legitimate government of Iraq, a country that never attacked us and had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, the Neo-Cons are now pushing yet another "intelligence report" in what is a laughably transparent attempt to engage us in another needless and pointless war. This time the gun barrels of the chicken-hawks are pointed at (surprise!) another country that just happens to be full of what makes Halliburton happy: oil. And, as usual, the so-called "intelligence" is vague and speaks of "might" and "may" while presenting no clear evidence.
The Neo-Con house organ, The Wall St. Journal, a paper with numerous links to the Isreali hard right, including it's new editorial board member Bret Stephens (who used to edit the hard right, pro-settler and anti-Arab Jerusalem Post), naturally was chosen as the vehicle for this smear campaign designed to ignite fear in the hearts of average Americans as a way of getting them to support yet another mad adventure in the Middle East.
And what does this new American intelligence say? Well, if you can stomach their lies, read it yourself (here):
Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile
The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country's weapons programmes.
Scientists in Tehran are also shopping for parts for a ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe, with "import requests and acquisitions ... registered almost daily", the report seen by the Guardian concludes.
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The 55-page intelligence assessment, dated July 1 2005, draws upon material gathered by British, French, German and Belgian agencies, and has been used to brief European government ministers and to warn leading industrialists of the need for vigilance when exporting equipment or expertise to so-called rogue states.
It concludes that Syria and Pakistan have also been buying technology and chemicals needed to develop rocket programmes and to enrich uranium. It outlines the role played by Russia in the escalating Middle East arms build-up, and examines the part that dozens of Chinese front companies have played in North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
But it is the detailed assessment of Iran's nuclear purchasing programme that will most most alarm western leaders, who have long refused to believe Tehran's insistence that it is not interested in developing nuclear weapons and is trying only to develop nuclear power for electricity. Governments in the west and elsewhere have also been dismayed by recent pronouncements from the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said that Holocaust denial is a "scientific debate" and that Israel should be "wiped off the map".
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The assessment declares that Iran has developed an extensive web of front companies, official bodies, academic institutes and middlemen dedicated to obtaining - in western Europe and in the former Soviet Union - the expertise, training, and equipment for nuclear programmes, missile development, and biological and chemical weapons arsenals.
"In addition to sensitive goods, Iran continues intensively to seek the technology and know-how for military applications of all kinds," it says.
The document lists scores of Iranian companies and institutions involved in the arms race. It also details Tehran's growing determination to perfect a ballistic missile capable of delivering warheads far beyond its borders.
It notes that Iran harbours ambitions of developing a space programme, but is currently concentrating on upgrading and extending the range of its Shahab-3 missile, which has a range of 750 miles - capable of reaching Israel.
Iranian scientists are said to be building wind tunnels to assist in missile design, developing navigation technology, and acquiring metering and calibration technology, motion simulators and x-ray machines designed to examine rocket parts. The next generation of the Shahab ("shooting star" in Persian) should be capable of reaching Austria and Italy.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I've heard this all before, from the lying mouth of Colin Powell. Don't think I'm going to fall for it again.
Wait.
Okay, never mind. I see now that this story is actually from leading left-wing newspaper The Guardian and the intelligence report the story describes is a secret report compiled by the intelligence services of Britain, France, Germany and Belgium and not those of the United States.
I'll have to think about this and what it means and get back to you.
/DailyKosSpeak off
