December 8, 2007
"This Has Only
Been A Test...
Had this
been a real alert, you would have been
instructed to tune your radio to your
emergency station."
Vol. 2
Issue18
Let us assume,
that after some long and arduous thinking, I
decided to give in to the
argument that in 2001, President Bush may
have intentionally exaggerated the
intelligence
reports that stated Iraq and Saddam Hussein
had Weapons of Mass Destruction.
If the nay sayers really believe that
President Bush "Lied" and he will always be
a liar then
why aren’t they saying he is lying now with
the new intelligence report that Iran has
stopped
their pursuit of building a nuclear weapon.
If they continually claim that we cannot
believe
any intelligence data then, why should we
believe it now?
In a recent
article, the New York Times wrote, "Rarely,
if ever, has a single intelligence
report so completely, so suddenly, and so
surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate
here."
A single report?
Prior to 9/11,
there were hundreds of reports that went
back to the early 1990's during the
Clinton administration. These reports
constantly corroborated the ones that came
before
them.
They were so
powerful and the intelligence so convincing
that in October 1998, Congress
passed, and President Clinton signed the
Iraq Liberation Act (H.R.4655). This act
gave him
the authority to overthrow Suddam Hussein,
even by using military assistance, if
necessary.
In addition, the
intelligence reports were not from one
source; they were from our
intelligence, Germany's, Great Britain's,
Italy's, Russia, France, and Australia. With
all this
corroboration it was hard to deny the
existence of WMD's in Iraq; especially when
Suddam
would not cooperate with the U.N. weapons
inspectors. So with all this intelligence
you have
to wonder if Suddam Hussein was the only one
telling the truth?
Everyone was
fooled or were they? Were the weapons moved
to Syria or some other
clandestine location? We may never know.
However, the one
thing we do know is the latest intelligence
we see about Iran is from "one
source."
The question is,
has Iran fooled us and is leading us into
another decade of complacency that
we experienced during the Clinton
administration prior to 9/11?
If Iran did not
have a weapons program and as they
constantly insisted were building nuclear
power plants for energy, why did they
repeatedly refuse to cooperate with the
United
Nations and the International Atomic Energy
Agency? Does that scenario sound familiar?
If they were
only building nuclear power plants for
peaceful energy production, why would
they shut them down under international
pressure?
The intelligence
apparently came from notes that were
obtained this past summer from
deliberations of Iranian military officials
that were involved in the nuclear weapons
development program. Were these notes
intentionally written and leaked in an
attempt to
throw us off? That is a thought I haven't
heard the media address. They only keep
saying
that we were fooled in the past. However, we
must be right this time. However, where is
the
corroboration?
The
Corroboration is in the intelligence that
Iran, despite what Ahmadinejad and the New
York Times (who appears to believe the
terrorists before our own administration)
repeatedly
stated, was building the bomb. It appears
that the intelligence we uncovered shows
that Iran
by their own admission, whether their
reports were planted or not, stopped
production of a
nuclear weapon of mass destruction.
Even if the
reports are correct and Iran has ceased its
production of nuclear weapons, the
question still has to be asked. Why do they
continue to enrich uranium if they have no
plans
to use it?
The answer is
simple. Shutting down the production sites
is the smallest step in building a
nuclear weapons program. Once you have
enriched uranium it only takes 30-60 days to
assemble a weapon. So halting their program
for assembly does not preclude them from
seeking the bomb. By the time we find out
they reinvigorated their program, it may be
too
late.
John Bolton, the former ambassador
to the
United Nations, said, "Iran’s
intentions would
always remain a concern as long as it
continues to enrich uranium."
What has this
new revelation done? It has weakened
international support for sanctions
against Iran. Which once again raises
questions about America’s integrity with
regard to its
intelligence gathering?
Senator Chuck
Hagel of Nebraska and a number of other
senators have expressed the hope
that President Bush will open the door to
dialogue with Iran just as we did with North
Korea.
Two things that Hagel and his comrades are
missing in the equation are: First,
President
Ahmadinejad has stated repeatedly he has no
interest in talking with us.
Secondly, North
Korea only came to the table when we seized
$25 million in counterfeit U.S.
dollars secretly sequestered in an offshore
bank. Once the world was told not to accept
U.S.
dollars from North Korea because they could
be worthless. The sanctions remained in
place
and Kim Jon Il had two choices; come to the
table or starve.
If the
international community removes the
sanctions from Iran and Iran gets back on
their
feet, how long will it be before they resume
their nuclear program? Will they have the
bomb
before our intelligence ascertains it? In
addition, if we do find out, who is going to
believe us?
— Especially in the wake of the liberal
media lambasting our intelligence, when it
does not go
their way.
Recently, I
attended a meeting that was addressed by
James Woosley, former Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency. His
assessment of the Iranian situation is the
same as mine.
He did, however, add one more element that
must be addressed. "Once Iran has the bomb,
they are not going to test it in the deserts
of Iran. They will test it in the cities of
Israel and
the United States."
So, if you are
running to find shelter after hearing the
big boom and seeing the big flash in
the sky, don't stop to buy the New York
Times on the way because it will only tell
you, there
is nothing to worry about. It is only a
test.
And, that is my opinion.
Michael Solomon
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