Fatal Thinking

Ahmadinejad: Israel can't do 'damn thing' to stop Iran's nuclear program By News Agencies

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Israel could not do a "damn thing" to stop the Islamic state's nuclear program, which the West suspects is a front to build bombs.

"The Zionist regime (Israel) and its (western) backers cannot do a damn thing to stop Iran's nuclear work," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech in the central city of Isfahan.

The conventional thinking around the beltway and its parameters is that we still have time to address nukes. Obama is too busy stealing from the working, from the private sector, and from our children to fund his communist revolution to be concerned with national security. That is just so last century. The individual built, the collectivist dismantles.

The idea of watered-down sanctions is a circle jerk. Saying something, anything for the sake of saying something, anything. Obama is prepared to live with a nuclear Iran. Would Obama have accepted a nuclear nazi Germany?

Back in 2007, George W. Bush was, for all intents and purposes, cut off at the knees. Whatever plan he may have had for de-nuking a brutal jihadist regime was all but scuttled when the NIE issued a fallacious report on Iran's cessation of their nuclear program. It was a thinly veiled attempt to change the direction on how we were going to handle Iran's nukes. And it clearly succeeded.

Foreign officers at the Office of the Director on National Intelligence, un-american, disloyal and seditious, were not elected by the people of this great nation, but they have imposed their foreign policy agenda on this country. It was, in fact a coup on the White House. There should be no permanent diplomatic institution, even at the federal level. They're too readily converted into bastions for America's enemies.

It was treachery at the highest levels of government -- a stall until their man seized power. Back in January of 2008, I warned of this in the Obama candidacy here.

That was an end run around the administration and easily provided the much needed out to everyone on the security council, the EU3, the Democrats and everyone who had been loathe to take any action on the development of Iran's nuclear weapons. The NY Times and the left wing media hungrily devoured the bait.

And now we have the CIA finally admitting Iran's nuclear capacity:

Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report.

"Iran continues to develop a range of capabilities that could be applied to producing nuclear weapons, if a decision is made to do so," the annual report to Congress states.

A U.S. official involved in countering weapons proliferation said the Iranians are "keeping the door open to the possibility of building a nuclear weapon."

"That's in spite of strong international pressure not to do so, and some difficulties they themselves seem to be having with their nuclear program," the official said. "There are powerful incentives for them to close the door completely, but they are either purposefully ignoring them or are tone deaf. You almost want to shout, 'Tune in Tehran.'"

The CIA report is the latest official study expressing concern over Iran's continuing nuclear activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency on March 3 issued a report warning that continuing nuclear activities in violation of U.N. resolutions raise "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile."

The U.S. report was produced by the CIA Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center, known as WINPAC. It is called the 721 report for the section of a 1997 intelligence authorization law requiring it.

The report also says that North Korea, based on a nuclear test in May 2009, now "has the capability to produce nuclear weapons with a yield of roughly a couple of kilotons TNT equivalent." A kiloton is a measure of a nuclear bomb's power and is equal to 1,000 tons of TNT.

On Iran, the report says that it is "keeping open" its options for building nuclear arms, "though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons."

The report reflects the published conclusion of a controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that stated Iran had halted work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The report, posted on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Web site, was written before a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, which is nearing completion and is expected to revise the earlier estimate, although details have not been disclosed.

According to the report, Iran expanded nuclear infrastructure and uranium enrichment in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions that since 2006 have called on Tehran to halt the enrichment.

During the first 11 months of last year, the main uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz produced about 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium hexafluoride, compared with about half a ton the previous year.

The number of centrifuges at Natanz increased from about 5,000 to 8,700 last year, although the number reported to be working is about 3,900, indicating the Iranians are having problems with the machines. The centrifuges enrich uranium gas by spinning it at high speeds.

Last year, Iran disclosed it is building a second gas-centrifuge plant near the city of Qom that will house an estimated 3,000 machines. U.S. officials have said the Qom facility, which was discovered in 2007, is a clear sign Iran's nuclear program is geared toward producing weapons, because the facility is too small for nonmilitary uranium enrichment.

Iran also continued work last year on a heavy water research reactor.

 Most people know this and shrug. The left loves to regurgitate the mantra that we can't be sure, that we got the intel wrong in Iraq. But I say, so what? Saddam was removed. The threat of  his despotic regime  was destroyed.

Here we are taking the opposite approach. Inaction based on bad intel is a deadly formula.

This is not Israel's problem. This is the non-Muslim world's problem. It is the world's complicity with Islamic barbarism that catapults the Jewish issue to the fore, because of the fierce Jew-hatred commanded in Islam. But the hate and the prescribed conquest is against all infidels and non-believers, devoutly followed and promised by the mullahcracy in Iran.

Even the godless cannot escape this religious war declared on the world by Islam. The fact is, it is a values issue. Right and wrong. Good and evil. And what side you are on in the war between the civilized man and the savage speaks volumes about your character, your credibility and your morality. The well developed obfuscation used by the haters of good -- words like nuanced, gray area, complicated -- are tools to confuse and confound lazy thinkers. But in this, the opposing sides could not be more clear. Yes, there is a very definite good and a very definite evil. If national self-interest converges, all the better. But at the end of the day, if your national self-interest aligns itself with evil, your country is on a one-way trip to nowhere. History is proof of that.

Americans know this. Time and time again they have demonstrated their support for Israel (invariably support for free men) even if their political leaders have not.

The clock is ticking; must we wait for the catastrophe?

UPDATE: 'Iranian nuke scientist defected to CIA'

Comments

[IndiePatriot]

Israel will do what it needs to do and in the process save the west from an even greater war. The UN, EU, Russia (ironically) and even dare I say the US will condemn Israel's actions, but all will sleep better knowing that a terrible genocidal threat has been neutralized. Listen when you have Saudi Arabia and Israel on the same page understanding who the real enemy is, that rally says something about reality and geopolitics. Too bad the anti-semites at State and the White House can't see beyond their own limited vision of reality. They are stuck somewhere in the Kruschev regime view of the world. It's time they joined the 21st century.

[David_Francis]

I personally know Iraqi citizens who would welcome an encore of Operation Opera performed on Iran. HaShem didn't call His children back to Eretz Israel for destruction. Adonai will not be mocked. If any nukes ever do go Israel's way they won't work. I think the best to hope for, if Iranian missiles do strike Zion, is to clear the Threshing Floor for the third Temple.

[Noelegy]

So Mahmoud is singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" in that photo, right?

[Perfected democrat]

"The fact is, it is a values issue. Right and wrong. Good and evil. And what side you are on in the war between the civilized man and the savage speaks volumes about your character, your credibility and your morality."

This is the bottom line for our survival as both a civilization and authentically free individuals. It is a replay of 1933, in which the Obama Dems have positioned themselves similar to the Vichy French, pre-WWII (someone has finally even published a book on it). I had a short email interchange with a former "friend" recently, an unrepentant Obama Dem, over the very latest garbage emanating from the Obama administration, concerning Israel; all I had left to say was, "There is no way you can rationalize it that is acceptable". It's too early for capitulation, we don't need to submit as dhimmis or kapos voluntarily, until there is literally a gun to our heads. We need not deceive ourselves about who has betrayed long-time friendships when the "red" line on these issues was crossed so clearly, irrevocably, and so brazenly.

[Jim Campbell]

We can only hope that the Muslim-in-thief, and Muslim sycophant will finally get his act together and ship some Daisy Cutters to Israel. Saw that a shipment was headed that way but according to the source the administration diverted them to Diego Garcia. I'm hoping as a former propaganda writer and information specialist during Vietnam that this is a misdirection play. If we don't help Israel, they just might have to go tactical. Isn't it about time Mossad has a little sit down with Obama's minions and tells him, listen pecker head, you are either in it with us or against us, ah where is good Ole George W. If you are not with us we will dump everything we know about your phony bony ass all over the media. You will be run out of Washington on a rail. My only question is what has been holding them back.

[CHOI]

"It was treachery at the highest levels of government - a stall until their man seized power"

It was UNEXPLAINABLE at the time.
One highly probable "factor" behind the shadows :GROVER NORQUIST.

[CaptainAmerica]

I wonder how the Leftists will exonerate BHO and lay the blame at W's feet when the iranians announce and/or test their first nuke.

[CHOI]

FOX News(Shepard LEFTY Smith)at 7:03 Eastern did a piece on the Nuclear Weapons programs of Iran,North Korea and Syria and that the CIA has released info that things are "worse"than previously "thought"(paraphrase)
WHAT is REALLY NAUSEATING is that when FOX's Mike Emannuel referred to Syria ,STATING THAT IT WAS A NUCLEAR FACILITY that was Destroyed in 2007 by "A STRIKE"-NOT AN ISRAELI STRIKE,but "A STRIKE"
To acknowledge Israel would be to ADMIT that Israel SAVED THE WORLD from Syria having Nuclear Weapons just as ISRAEL did with Iraq in 1981.

"Destroyed by A Strike" is GALLING!

[Disgusted American Jew]

Israel won't make a peep. She will be vaporized unless God intervenes. I have no belief that she will defend herself.

How come you ask?

Over 7,000 rockets decimating Sedrot-and the Israeli government sitting by equivocating. Isreal's leaders are spineless.
Like the 78 percent of Judenrats in the US who voted for Obama.

Sorry for the downer kids. It is the truth.

[Laura Liebman]

The obama administration and the EU obviously believe that Jewish apartment buildings in Jerusalem is a greater threat than a nuclear armed Iran, given their greater focus on eliminating the former. These are the perverse, pathetic cowards we have the misfortune of being led by in the free world at this most perilous of time. You couldn't make up a satire as bizarre as what is really taking place.

[pythagoras]

Ahmadimejad si in for the shock of his short, lop-sided, and ugly little life: Israel is anything but helpless in this matter.

With its large nuclear arsenal of sophisticated missiles, Israel could quite easily launch an EMP attack that would destroy Iran from top to bottom and send it back to the century it actually belongs to (the seventh).

Let the Iranian mega-sleaze regime stew in their own fried juices when Israel (finally) does what the world urgently requires it to do to Iran.

[Laura Liebman]

Don't you all feel so much safer now that we have a commander in chief who's national security priority is not to do everything in his power to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes, not making sure jihadis are prevented from infiltrating our armed forces, but to do everything in his power to ensure that Jewish women and children are kicked out of their homes in Israel.

[marlene]

It isn't my name, but I too am a "Disgusted American Jew." And I don't give a shiite what ahMADinejab says or thinks. And I don't believe a word that more than half the world says. It's only G-d's word that I trust. "You [Israel] will be hated by all the nations and they will come against you...but I your G-d will slay them...and you will be burying their dead bodies for 7 weeks...". AMEN.