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kansasblue

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Mon Dec-03-07 07:11 PM
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Standdown on Iran ?

Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 07:12 PM by kansasblue

I watched the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. They covered the NIE is depth.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/03/world/main3566868.shtml

The opinion of the guest was the an attack on Iran is off the table. The diplomacy would most likely be the approach into the next administration.

How are the other network handling it?

CBS News was basically saying an attack on Iran is no longer in the plans!

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tekisui

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Mon Dec-03-07 07:15 PM
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1. It looks like the balance has shifted.

Although it is not impossible that it could happen, it no longer seems inevitable.

dickie is getting weaker. Maybe his ticker jumped when he was told this NIE would be released.

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kansasblue

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Mon Dec-03-07 07:15 PM
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2. ..and given that Cheney doctored up the NIE is the past...

does that mean Cheney has been pushed aside?

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WilliamPitt

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Mon Dec-03-07 07:20 PM
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3. There have been plenty of moments when I got pretty damned worried they'd really do it...

...but generally speaking, I just wasn't convinced they would actually do the deed. The brass was altogether against anything along that line, and even the most flagrant lickspittle GOP-aligned political commanders knew, no matter what the Green Zone talking points might say, that all manner of mortal calamities would come their way all over Iraq after such an attack. Instant Tet, Shia-style.

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ben_meyers

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Mon Dec-03-07 07:22 PM
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4. More analysis from The International Herald

It does seem strange that the White House would be backing off at this time. Makes you wonder.

The U.S. national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, quickly issued a statement describing the intelligence estimate as containing positive news rather than reflecting intelligence mistakes.

"It confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons," Hadley said. "It tells us that we have made progress in trying to ensure that this does not happen. But the intelligence also tells us that the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains a very serious problem."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/03/america/cia.php?page=2

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AlertLurker

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Mon Dec-03-07 07:24 PM
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5. Don't believe everything you hear:

Edited on Mon Dec-03-07 07:25 PM by AlertLurker

or read...

The WH believes that they were RIGHT, that their policies regarding Iran have been correct, that sanctions have been effective as a deterrent to Iran's nuclear ambitions, and it is now time to INCREASE THE PRESSURE...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/04irantext.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

"Today’s National Intelligence Estimate offers some positive news. It confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons. It tells us that we have made progress in trying to ensure that this does not happen.

But the intelligence also tells us that the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains a very serious problem. The estimate offers grounds for hope that the problem can be solved diplomatically — without the use of force — as the Administration has been trying to do. And it suggests that the President has the right strategy: intensified international pressure along with a willingness to negotiate a solution that serves Iranian interests while ensuring that the world will never have to face a nuclear armed Iran.

The bottom line is this: for that strategy to succeed, the international community has to turn up the pressure on Iran — with diplomatic isolation, United Nations sanctions, and with other financial pressure — and Iran has to decide it wants to negotiate a solution."

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