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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:36 PM
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Some In GOP Skeptical Of Intelligence Finding That Iran Has Abandoned Nuclear Weapons Program
Source: Associated Press

Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a second opinion.

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The new report was received skeptically by some Republicans on Capitol Hill who believe Iran's nuclear program remains an immediate threat, and think the 2005 report is closer to the truth.

Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada plans to introduce legislation to create a bipartisan commission to produce an alternative report on the same intelligence.

"We just see politics injected into this," said Tory Mazzola, Ensign's spokesman. "When it comes to national security we really need to remove politics. We're saying, let's take a second look."



Read more: http://www.startribune.com/nation/12443676.html
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:38 PM
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1. Substituting your own reality in place of actual reality is a sign of insanity
When can we just declare that the Republican Party is a coalition of the delusional?
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:40 PM
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2. Yeah, sure. In other words:
"We're desperate to inject politics into this, but unless we get a second look, we can't."

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:49 PM
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3. "You know how it is. We republicons have trouble with facts." - Republicon homelanders
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 07:51 PM by SpiralHawk
"We aren't like you Americans, who are interested in facts and truth. We are republicon homelanders, and we are interested in power, money, propaganda, and deviant sex, though not necessarily in that order. Smirk."

- Republicon homelanders

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MaineYooper Donating Member (555 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:56 PM
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4. I'm skeptical of finding intelligence in the GOP. nt
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dapper Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:04 PM
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5. of course they want a second opinion....
They didn't like the first opinion so Dick Cheney will help write the second opinion, one which says they have found weapons of Mass Destruction. So we can go to war only to find... no WMD's!

Great Idea!

Dap
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SlingBlade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:05 PM
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6. Some In GOP Skeptical ?
WTF .....
They are ALL pissed off because this throws a kink in their next war
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:10 PM
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7. Where were these bozos when the "yellow cake" fraud was being sold? nt
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:15 PM
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8. The "we know better" party. They know better than the scientists (6000 years old), know better than
the climatologists (the jury's still out on climate change), and now they know better than our multi-trillion dollar intelligence organizations, who know EVERYTHING about EVERYONE.
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razors edge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 09:17 PM
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9. Some in GOP skeptical
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 09:19 PM by DiktatrW
Magellan circumnavigated the planet, film at eleven.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 09:32 PM
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10. i am skeptical the GOP is intelligent enough to find their ass with both hands. >Link>>
http://librocrat.blogspot.com/2007/10/conservatives-and-liberals-have.html

Conservatives are mentally deficient and it is questionable their perception is effective or appropriate enough to hold public office in the best interests of anyone other than themselves
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 09:39 PM
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11. Some in GOP skeptical that the earth is more than 6,000 years old.
So what's the bid deal--they make their own reality.
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Akoto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:16 PM
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12. Second opinion? Isn't the NIE from several different agencies? n/t
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 10:16 PM by Akoto
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 09:25 AM
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19. 16 agencies.
But gotta get a 2nd opinion! ROTFLMAO!!!
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:31 PM
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13. Nothing like faith based foreign policy!
It all began in 1948 when Harry Truman thought it was a good idea to transplant a bunch of European refugees to British held Palestine in order to fulfill a biblical prophesy. How much trouble has this brought to the world since then!
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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:33 PM
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14. This time they got it right, but all the other intelligence we've excoriated was wrong. Right?
Who knows?

Regarding Iran, Olmert, Sarkozy, and the House of Saud all think differently, and even China is raising its eyebrows. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad has seized it as a P.R. windfall and is propagandizing grandly. That's a warning pennant right there.

The CIA is inscrutable, and its politics serve neither repugs nor us. I neither accept nor reject what comes out of that wilderness of mirrors...I simply convince myself I didn't hear it. The "information" they serve up acts to decrease knowledge, not increase it.
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 02:22 AM
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15. A blind man could see what this is all about. n/t
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 02:57 AM
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16. "...to produce an *alternative* report *on* the *same intelligence*."
LMAO
translation: we want to put our spin on the intelligence so we can pretend there's something to debate

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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 08:56 AM
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17. Things the GOP is skeptical of:
Evolution
Global warming
The finite nature of oil reserves
Heliocentrism



Things they are not skeptical of:

Biblical literalism
Their own superiority
Trickle-down theory
The official 9-11 story
The 2004 Ohio vote
Anything Pat Robertson wants them to believe
Dumond's innocence
Hillary's guilt in Vince Foster's death
Bill's guilt for everything
Reagan's sainthood
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 09:22 AM
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18. Some In GOP (40%) Still Believe Iraq Did 911.
Edited on Thu Dec-13-07 09:23 AM by LynnTheDem
Some in GOP (98%) Stupidest MFers Ever.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 09:41 AM
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20. Methinks Ensign is PROJECTING here, LOL.
He's the one injecting politics into this!
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 12:29 PM
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21. Just restart the Office of Special Plans and the WH Iraq study Group
then throw in Joe Lieberman so it'll be bipartisan. No politics will be injected.
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 04:30 PM
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22. The bottom line
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ will kill for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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