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NYT: Don't Worry, Be Happy Intel Wanted For Nov
I've corrected the NYT Title. Original:Wanted: Scarier Intelligence Now you'd better sit down - the spin will leave you dizzy... The last thing this country needs as it heads into this election season is another attempt to push the intelligence agencies to hype their conclusions about the threat from a Middle Eastern state. That there was a "first" one was disproven, but please, do carry on. Thats what happened in 2002, when the administration engineered a deeply flawed document on Iraq that reshaped intelligence to fit President Bushs policy. And history appeared to be repeating itself this week, when the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, released a garishly illustrated and luridly written document that is ostensibly dedicated to helping the American people understand that Irans fundamentalist regime and its nuclear ambitions pose a strategic threat to the United States. They don't repeat the "16 words" meme, just allude to it. Another disproven lie from the Left. As for "garish" and "lurid", I detect jealousy. That is your gig, after all. You are, ostensibly, a news organization. That a nuclear Iran poses a threat, should be apparent even to you. Its hard to imagine that Mr. Hoekstra believes there is someone left in this country who does not already know that. But the report obviously has different aims. It is partly a campaign document, a product of the Republican strategy of scaring Americans into allowing the G.O.P. to retain control of Congress this fall. It fits with the fearmongering weve heard lately like President Bushs attempt the other day to link the Iraq war to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More alternate universe BS mixed with obvious good sense on the part of the Pubbies. BTW, Bush said no such thing. If he had, they would've cited when and where. I've seen each and every televised Bush speech and news conference. Didn't happen. Lying liars. But even more worrisome, the report seems intended to signal the intelligence community that the Republican leadership wants scarier assessments that would justify a more confrontational approach to Tehran. It was not the work of any intelligence agency, or the full intelligence panel, or even the subcommittee that ostensibly drafted it. The Washington Post reported that it was written primarily by a former C.I.A. official known for his view that the assessments on Iran are not sufficiently dire. Pure speculation and hypocritical scare-mongering. They stand the real issue on its head: The President of the United States, wants to know the truth, not an amped-up or watered down pile of the usual half-assed political crap. You assholes want the politically-acceptable version for your political ends. While the report contains no new information, it does dish up dire-sounding innuendo, mostly to leave the impression that Iran is developing nuclear weapons a lot faster than intelligence agencies have the guts to admit. It also tosses in a few conspiracy theories, like the unsupported assertion that Iran engineered the warfare between Israel and Hezbollah. And it complains that Americas spy agencies are too cautious, that they shy away from provocative conclusions. If it's full of the innuendo, they learned the art from you. As for Iran and Hezb, only tools like the NYT could doubt that Hezb acts at the command of its Masters in Iran. As masterful purveyors of conspiracy theories, once again you play the hypocrite's hand of charging your opponent with your own lies and schemes. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, put it even more bluntly in explaining some Republicans dissatisfaction with the C.I.A. reporting on Iran: The intelligence community is dedicated to predicting the least dangerous world possible. Oops, how did that inconvenient truth slip in? Gee, it sounds logical and honest. All in all, this is a chilling reminder of what happened when intelligence analysts told Vice President Dick Cheney they could not prove that Iraq was building a nuclear weapon or had ties with Al Qaeda. He kept asking if they really meant it until the C.I.A. took the hint. Another favorite meme - Evil Cheney demanding the assessment be changed. Disproven and laughable, yet repetition is the key since most people are lazy shits. Its obvious that Iran wants nuclear weapons, has lied about its program and views America as an enemy. We enthusiastically agree that the United States needs every scrap of intelligence it can get on Iran. But the reason American intelligence is not certain when Iran might have a nuclear bomb is because the situation is so murky not because the agencies are too wimpy to tell the scary truth. It's murky, alright, because the CIA and other agencies are full of asshole seditious agenda queens who conspire with NYT reporters in hopes of cashing in on the book and lecture circuit. Integrity has been largely jettisoned. A prudent persona should consider the real question: On which side of the wildly varying estimates should we err? If the Republicans who control Congress really wanted a full-scale assessment on the state of Irans weapons programs, they would have asked for one, rather than producing this brochure. Since the MSM, such as yourselves, can't be trusted to report facts, they decided to publish themselves to make sure people know what they think without your spin and BS. The nation cannot afford to pay the price again for politicians bending intelligence or bullying the intelligence agencies to suit their ideology. Actually, the nation can't afford to underestimate the threat, you morons. The intel is, most likely, incomplete - and only a bunch of Tranzi fuckwits would take your approach. The March of the Memes continues unabated. Die, NYT, die. Posted by: Shung Phinetle2153 2006-08-25 |
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