Iran 'years away' from nuclear weapon - Rumsfeld

[truthpusher]

http://in.news.yahoo.com/050206/137/2jg91.html

Sunday February 6, 11:16 PM

Iran 'years away' from nuclear weapon - Rumsfeld

By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is believed to be years away from having a nuclear weapon and the United States has decided to use diplomacy, not military action, in dealing with the issue, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.

"It's fairly clear from the public statements of the Iranians that, that they are on a path of seeking a nuclear weapon and don't have it at the present time," Rumsfeld said in a taped interview with CNN's "Late Edition."

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said in an interview with Reuters on Sunday that Iran would retaliate and accelerate its nuclear program if attacked.

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"I don't make estimates, that's the business for the intelligence community. But they're (Iran) some years away according to the estimates, but I don't know if the estimates are correct or not," Rumsfeld told CNN.

"The president handles Iran policy, he's decided on a diplomatic route," he said. "They're on a diplomatic path."

more:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/050206/137/2jg91.html

[Toucano]

1. I don't want that smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud!!!

Quick! Get me some 'faith-based' intel!

[shadowknows69]

2. ok so the sec of defense says Iran has no nukes

can we fly this quote over america on the goodyear blimp when shrub tries to tell us there's an imminent threat and we have to bomb.

[Rex]

3. Rummy the Mummy had tried this tactic before.

Say the opposite of what we will be doing. They always lie no matter what it is about.

[VegasWolf]

4. Iraq has WMDs and is a direct threat to the US. Rummy -2003.n/t

[bullimiami]

5. same bullshit, different mouth.

tomorrow cheney will say they dont know. tuesday rice will say there are concerns.

by friday they will be saying iran is an imminent threat.

next week it will be another war.

[tridim]

6. And after the war they will deny they ever said these things

Even with videotape evidence.

If America falls for this bullshit again, I'm going to lose it. I'm afraid they will. I just heard on the radio that 65% believe there's a Social Security "crisis". Apparently BushCo propaganda works.

[cthrumatrix]

7. Rumsfeld: Iran 'Years Away' from Nuclear Weapon (Reuters)

Rumsfeld: Iran 'Years Away' from Nuclear Weapon



By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is believed to be years away from having a nuclear weapon and the United States has decided to use diplomacy, not military action, in dealing with the issue, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.

"It's fairly clear from the public statements of the Iranians that, that they are on a path of seeking a nuclear weapon and don't have it at the present time," Rumsfeld said in a taped interview with CNN's "Late Edition."

snip

Rumsfeld was cautious about the accuracy of intelligence estimates on Iran's nuclear program.


"I don't make estimates, that's the business for the intelligence community. But they're (Iran) some years away according to the estimates, but I don't know if the estimates are correct or not," Rumsfeld told CNN.

snip

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20050206/ts_nm/iran_usa_dc_3

He doesn't make estimates..? He should look in his Iraq Diary.

[Sannum]

8. Is it 2002 again?

I can hear the familiar war drums.

[Conservativesux]

9. Rumsfeld: Iran 'Years Away' from Nuclear Weapon

Rumsfeld: Iran 'Years Away' from Nuclear Weapon

Sun Feb 6, 2005

By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is believed to be years away from having a nuclear weapon and the United States has decided to use diplomacy, not military action, in dealing with the issue, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday.

"It's fairly clear from the public statements of the Iranians that, that they are on a path of seeking a nuclear weapon and don't have it at the present time," Rumsfeld said in a taped interview with CNN's "Late Edition."

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said in an interview with Reuters on Sunday that Iran would retaliate and accelerate its nuclear program if attacked.

The Bush administration has been severely criticized for going to war against Iraq in 2003 by using the justification that Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction, when none have been found since the invasion.

More at:
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[LostInAnomie]

10. Keep this article handy for when they start carpet bombing the place.

eom

[struggle4progress]

11. Translation: W&Co are havin a hard time figurin out which end is up. eom

[ALago1]

12. Here we go again!

I wouldn't be surprised if they trotted out the same fradulant argument they used to invade Iraq to invade Iran. It isn't beyond their arrogance and contempt for the American people.

[ALago1]

13. Here we go again!

I wouldn't be surprised if they trotted out the same fraudulant argument they used to invade Iraq to invade Iran. It isn't beyond their arrogance and contempt for the American people.

[johncoby2]

14. Yea. Right and I have a 10" inch......

[davhill]

15. This is for Iranian consumption

To lull them into a false sense of security before the attack.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. U.S. decades away from reducing their use and reliance on nuclear

weapons, tactical nukes, preemptive strikes on nations that illegally harbor vast quantities of oil, and so forth. What else is new.

[muse]

17. His whole Late Addition appearance was ridiculous.

Blitzer grilled him pretty good on many issues, from Abu Ghraib to armor on vehicles to the number of trained Iraqi police, etc.

He would start his response with "well I don't know, but" or "that's for so and so to tell you" or "I don't know if I agree with that" and then he'd go on to give some weak ending to his answers.

Totally ridiculouos. You would think he was a secretary working for a boss at the DOD, instead of the Secretary of Defense.

[leesa]

18. The almighty King has decided on diplomacy...could this because

Condiliar was told to shove it everywhere she went??
Lying sacks of shit said this about Afghanistan and Iraq as well.

[Canuckistanian]

19. This message brought to you by the same people..

who sold you Iraq WMD's. You know, the ones around Baghdad, Tikrit, etc.

[smoogatz]

20. So the truth is...

Iran is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. These "estimates" are being produced by the same DIA idiots who believed the bullshit Chalabi was spooning them about Iraqi WMD. Half of the time it's incompetence, and half of the time it's neocon imperial hubris, but whatever Bushco says is ALWAYS the exact opposite of the truth.

[NNN0LHI]

21. The WMDs are right over there in Tikrit too

This guy should be in a rubber room. Quick, get a net.

Don

[despairing optimist]

22. It must be true then. He'd never lie.

Kool-Aid's colors don't run. They stain, though.

[Javaman]

23. Claim: Iraq had nukes but none were found. Now rumspuke says...

Iran doesn't have them, but all indications from the European nations shows that Iran isn't all that far making them.

God this kind of reasoning makes ones head explode.

this is his real message: Iraq has WMD's, even though we know they don't, so lets attack!!
Iran doesn't have WMD's, even though we know they do, so don't attack.

Appears to me like a cowards type of reasoning. Don't get me wrong, I don't, like, want or approve of war, but if these dolts wanted an excuse I believe that have a good one with Iran, but that's just me.

[ckramer]

24. "years away" means "let's not talk about it; it's embarrassing to know

that they already have it"