Video: Senators Evan Bayh and Kit Bond discuss the NIE on CNN
posted at 10:31 am on December 17, 2007 by Bryan
This is from Late Edition, Sunday Dec. 16th. Both Bayh and Bond are members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and have read the classified National Intelligence Estimate. And neither buy the idea that the Iranians have truly dropped their nuclear weapons program. Both of the senators make a great deal of sense, though Bayh does wade into the fictitious “rush to bomb.” Bond corrects him on that. Wolf goes to bat for Iran when he describes their fissile material activities as being legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Bayh corrects him on that. Both senators play a common blog card and say that in order to fully understand the NIE, you have to read the whole thing. Presumably, by that they mean the classified version, which of course wasn’t released, so we’re stuck with the declassified version that was easily spun in Iran’s favor.
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I believe Wolf Blitzer is either Iranian or from the North Pole. Maybe both. His family ancestry goes back to the birth of Santa Claus whereas his great grandfather was one of several reindeer pulling Santa Claus’ sleigh. This makes him an expert at nuclear proliferation. Way beyond his years in wisdom… of Santa Claus.
Griz on December 17, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Read the unclassified version of the National Intelligence Estimate
abinitioadinfinitum on December 17, 2007 at 10:49 AM
See if he magically disappears right before Christmas.
amerpundit on December 17, 2007 at 10:50 AM
Agenda? Is it ALL BDS on the left’s part? How can these people ignore the REAL danger of Iran and Nukes? Is it all Politics? Do they really want to see Iran USE Nukes? I’m baffled. Truly!
abinitioadinfinitum on December 17, 2007 at 10:56 AM
redlasso s*cks.
shooter on December 17, 2007 at 11:05 AM
They don’t believe any of the danger will actually touch them.
Herd mentality. It’s ok if the predators pick off a few here and there. They don’t believe there is any real, credible terrorist threat.
Sad, really.
techno_barbarian on December 17, 2007 at 11:07 AM
It’s not just BDS and it’s not just the left. It’s the magic of pacifism: “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” It is an attitude of denial about the presence of human evil in statecraft, the spirit of Chamberlain that has animated so much foreign policy since World War I. You see this attitude in George W’s foreign policy and his dhimmi ways. You’ll see it even worse if our greatest possible disaster, a Huckabee presidency would occur. It will be easier to fight back against the Dems doing what Huckabee will do.
We have to admit that the world is dangerous place and the fault is not us. The fault is the enemies of democracy. The operate from a space similar to domestic abusers. It makes no more sense to think Ayatollahs will act peaceably than it is to tell a battered spouse to go back to his or her batterer and be nice. The batterer isn’t going to respond back with niceness.
thuja on December 17, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Your so right, unfortunately it’s not just the left and with the seemingly lack of knowledge about islam by the field of candidates running for POTUS, I really wonder about the future of our country as well as the world. I personally see Iran, The Middle East and Russia as the MAIN issue in this race by FAR.
abinitioadinfinitum on December 17, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Wait did I just see a sane Democrat talk about national security and get it right that wasn’t Lieberman?
- The Cat
MirCat on December 17, 2007 at 5:32 PM