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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:14 PM
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Bullshit Alert
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iran_intelligence

U.S. weighs divulging Iran-Iraq proof

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is haunted by the history of intelligence blunders about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction as the United States tries to document that Iran is providing lethal help to Iraqi fighters.

After weeks of preparation and revisions, U.S. officials are preparing to detail evidence supporting administration's claims of Iran's meddlesome and deadly activities. A briefing was scheduled Sunday in Baghdad.

The Iran dossier, some 200 pages thick in its classified form, was revised heavily after officials decided it was not ready for release as planned last month. What is made public probably would be short, and shorter on details than the administration recently had suggested.

No one who has seen the files has suggested the evidence is thin. But senior officials — gun-shy after the drubbing the administration took for the faulty intelligence leading to the 2003 Iraq invasion — were underwhelmed by the packaging.

- more at link -

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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:16 PM
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1. Irony is dead
Basically they are trying to say we need to go to war with Iran because they are meddling with our meddling in Iraq.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:18 PM
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3. Well put.
:thumbsup:
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:21 PM
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6. Yep!! While we ignore Saudi Arabia's meddling with Iraq.
Edited on Sat Feb-10-07 03:22 PM by patrice
Hypocrisy sure isn't dead.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 05:35 PM
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15. The Saudis would make a better target
There is a lot more evidence that Saudis are funding the Sunni insurgency.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the Sunnis have killed and injured more Coalition troops than the Shia.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:18 PM
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2. Dupe -- It's in LBN with an appropriate headline
A discussion has already been strarted. Just sayin'...do we need six threads about everything?

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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:19 PM
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4. I prefer it here so I can use an inappropriate headline.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:20 PM
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5. Isn't six threads on one subject the least required number in GD?
...just sayin'... :rofl:
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:26 PM
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7. "If the public knew what we know, oh boy!"
Roll up your sleeves, folks. The battle for this country is in full swing.
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ohioINC Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:43 PM
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8. Iran was always the target.
Remember the Axis of Evil, they meant what they said. Iran was always part of the plan. They decided to attack first and wrote the dossier later.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 03:45 PM
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9. And on to North Korea?
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 03:36 PM
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18. Yes. Iran was the target
TPTB are probably angry at Bushco for getting all bogged down in Iraq, which was step 2 (after Afghanistan, also on the Iranian border.) That may be why some neocons appear to be jumping ship: there were complications and they didn't get to Iran in summer 2005, which was, according to Scott Ritter, the target date.
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:30 PM
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10. So if BushCo went in to help the Iraqis and the Iranians are helping Iraqi fighters, then where...
is the problem? OH YEAH, I almost forgot. This was never about helping the Iraqis!
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:37 PM
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12. If this keeps up, British Petroleum will sneak mercenaries in to help Exxon/Mobil fight the Iranians
Where will it all end?
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Martin Eden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 04:35 PM
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11. "meddlesome and deadly activities"
Damn those Iranians!

We Americans would never engage in "meddlesome and deadly activities" -- especially in Iraq!
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suegeo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 05:06 PM
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13. "Wolf! Wolf!" cried the little boy.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 05:15 PM
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14. "Underwhelmed by the packaging." Go back and rewrite it, in other words.
They're making it up again, and the attack on Iran is coming soon.
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many a good man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 08:09 PM
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16. Blunders?
Those weren't blunders. They were treasonous lies.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-11-07 03:32 PM
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17. bullshit is so right...
now get that evidence out there. take it to the congress. get rid of these insane rulers!~!!
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