CNN Breaking: US INtelligence Says Iran Suspended Nuke Program in 2003!

[KoKo]

Breaking News according to CNN's Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. :wow:

What's going on here? Bizarre.... She's saying that like with Saddam, Iran could have been "posturing." She didn't say which "US Intelligence" had come to that conclusion.

My Thought: After all, we have so many different "Intelligence Agencies" these days...who is to know what's going on.

[Turbineguy]

1. So what?

Bush will attack them anyway.

[madokie]

10. it hasn't stopped him yet has it

[bdamomma]

11. they are after that oil and the profits.

I hope these bastards get arrested.

[TwilightGardener]

2. What--temporarily? That doesn't seem like a big deal if they're

continuing it now.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Ok. So what's with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ca-ca?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Link to AP article from maddezmom's post in LBN

WASHINGTON - Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003 under international pressure but is continuing to enrich uranium, which means it may still be able to develop a weapon between 2010 and 2015, senior intelligence officials said Monday.

That finding is a change from two years ago, when U.S. intelligence agencies believed Iran was determined to develop a nuclear capability and was continuing its weapons development program. It suggests that Iran is susceptible to diplomatic pressure, the official said.

"Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005," states the unclassified summary of the secret report, released Monday.

Officials said the new findings suggest that diplomacy was effective in containing Iran's nuclear ambitions.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_go_ot/iran_nuclear_2

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3087773#3087784

[KoKo]

5. Thanks for that link....CNN just said Stephen Haldley to have Presser with CNN re News 3:15 (est)

That should be interesting. The whole thing just seems bizarre. Why say this now?

[spanone]

6. Hadley to give white house spin in press conference re:cnn

[Javaman]

7. and this is news why? the IAEA has been saying this all along. Plus

they have been monitoring their nukes for years. I would believe them first before I would believe anything spoon fed to us by the news.

[MiniMe]

8. Sounds like somebody is trying to tell the truth to prevent a war

Kudos to them!

[blm]

12. In July2006 I was at a Dem event in Columbia, SC - Kerry spoke and said WH will lie

about nuclear threat from Iran and when they did we shouldn't believe them. He said US intel community already knew that Iran was at least 5yrs away from any nuclear arms capability.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

9. Betcha' Cheney's takin' a blood pressure AND heart pill, right now.

EWWWW! He must be steamin' MAD about the release of this assessment!!!

Oh, my! I can't wait to hear Madhatter Hadley's take on this. I can hear it now, "It indicates uncertainty about Iran's nuclear aims." "We can't wait like we did with Hitler" BLAH BLAH BLAH BULLSHIT BLAH!

Meanwhile, Cheney is SCUR-EAMING at folks in the Pentagon!!!

:rofl:

[Virginia Dare]

15. Maybe this is proof that Cheney is truly down and out..

and not there to pull the strings--perhaps his health is more precarious than we've been led to believe.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

17. .

[Tom Joad]

13. but congress will be listening to a report released today by WINEP

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2395637&mesg_id=2395637

They say an attack is necessary. and they have the political muscle in DC.

congress did not listen to reason before authorizing bush to go to iraq... why change their ways now? Not many will be hurt, just a couple million Muslims killed is all. :sarcasm:

[gilpo]

14. "War's over...."

"whadaya mean the war's over?"

"The war's over. I saw it on TV..."

Somebody got gamed here.

[eleny]

16. CNN is trying to keep us form nvading another country?!!!

[rockybelt]

18. CNN? CNN?

:wtf:

Why am I looking at this with a jaundiced eye?:shrug:

[spanone]

19. but, but we already imposed sanctions on Iran for what???? nothing.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

20. Oh, it was for "something" just not what it was stated for.

:grr: