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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:21 AM Apr 2013

U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn't Building Nukes


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34672.htm

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to do so.The annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment,” which compiles the collective conclusions of all American intelligence agencies, has long held that Iran maintains defensive capabilities and has a military doctrine of deterrence and retaliation, but is not an aggressive state actor and has no intention of beginning a conflict, let alone triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

April 18, 2013 - Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee today and reiterated the same assessment regarding Iran as was delivered in March 2013.
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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
3. Hurray! Now STHU, Mitt, McCain, Graham, Gohmert, Cheney and the rest of y'alls.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:59 AM
Apr 2013
The world does not want your civil war, doesn't want your world war, go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200:



For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.

~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

America needs to get its own house in order and stop fighting the bogeymen of the world. They all come from us...

caledesi

(11,903 posts)
14. So I guess we don't have to be VERY afraid and CONTROLLED. So they don't have ANYTHING.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 03:48 AM
Apr 2013

Such news. LOL Can we all say EPIC FAIL! I love our POTUS. The PTB will just have to find another place for their "wars" and as the freepers' heads explode yet again! Great post!

USA! USA!

bhikkhu

(10,708 posts)
8. Eerily like Elbaridei's repeated statements that Iraq had no nuclear program
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:32 AM
Apr 2013

on behalf of the UN nuclear inspection mission, during the run up to the war. He'd issue a clear and well-put argument, go over the evidence (or, mostly, complete lack of evidence), determine that there was no case for war, and be completely ignored here.

...I hate to even remember this stuff, its so frustrating, if it wasn't at risk of happening yet again.

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
13. Well that can't be...that screws up our plans
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 03:43 AM
Apr 2013

Oh well... There is always Kim Jung Un for a new boogeyman.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
15. But I am pretty sure they are thinking about it and we cant be too careful.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 07:10 PM
Apr 2013

We have set the precedent to preemptively strike when we know they have no nukes. I bet if we looked hard enough we could find some aluminum tubes.

I tell you what, if Gen Powell says they have nukes, bingo-bango let's go to war.

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