Obama to Iran: Let me be clear — it’s time to choose
Is it? Bush issued this same ultimatum maybe 500 times and yet here we
are, still wringing our hands over whether Russia and China will agree
to one more turn of the economic ratchet. Ask….

Iran admits to secret uranium enrichment facility; Update: Built near Iranian holy city; Update: Iran working on detonators too? Update: Ahmadinejad warns Obama
Iran scurried to the IAEA in order to reveal a previously-secret uranium enrichment……

You noticed that too!

Notice how things always happen just before or after or during something else?

Un frigging believable!
What exactly is the “need to know” here?

Ya just gave Iran a starting point to look for “who” and “what”

News flash!
NYT June 5th 1944

NYT has just learned that an invasion fleet has left England and will be landing on the beaches in Normandy within the next 3 hr’s

Here’s a map showing exactly where the landings will take place.

Our ACE reporter in Berlin has just left a meeting with the Nazi high command, he reports that the Nazis are very impressed with the invasion plans and thanks the NYT for giving them a heads up!

keep the change on January 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM

Don’t be so sure of that.

Israel’s present operation may (partially) be a pre-emptive elimiation of Gaza’s Iranian proxy, Hamas.

The Israelis know Hamas would be of the first retaliatory tools in Iran’s tool-box.

{Along with Hezbollah in Lebanon.}

Either course could carry risks for Mr. Obama. An inherited intelligence or military mission that went wrong could backfire, as happened to President Kennedy with the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba. But a decision to pull back on operations aimed at Iran could leave Mr. Obama vulnerable to charges that he is allowing Iran to speed ahead toward a nuclear capacity, one that could change the contours of power in the Middle East.

Wasn’t Kennedy’s problem that he did pull back on the Bay of Pigs operation, as in air support?

As much as I want to blame the NYT for publishing this, I really am angry at the traitors who leaked this information to a reporter. If it is indeed true what is written, then those fools broke the law and they are the ones we should be angry at. What did they think a reporter was going to do with a story like this, forget it?

I really wish people privy to classified information would keep their mouths SHUT.

nemecizer on January 11, 2009 at 4:27 PM

Good point. Remember, ‘Loose lips sink ships.” What has happened to ethic of self-preservation among our citizens?

I think that if President Bush had asked for, and gotten, a Declaration of War on September 12, 2001, treasonous behavior, like leaking State secrets to the press, would have been investigated and punished.

I really wish people privy to classified information would keep their mouths SHUT.

Hardware and power infrasctructure can be replaced in a few years.

The weak links are all the highly trained techs and scientists. Kill them and their program idles for the half-generation needed to replace these men.

Interesting dynamic at Powerline; if I copy and paste anything, the link simply takes you to the blog, rather than to the article of interest. Now, I’m a construction guy with limited computer skills. Maybe I’m butchering this technique. Most sites I visit allow me to link to a specific article.

Keemo on January 11, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Under ‘Share Post’ in PL, click on ‘Permalink’; that takes you to a ‘permanent’ page with just the post in question; then link to that URL.

Note that when you paste into HotAir, you lose the formatting, so we can’t tell which are the Times quotes and which are the PL comments. So you have to go through and use the ‘quote’ function here on the appropriate paragraphs.

There is a copyright issue when you copy and past a whole article, rather than ‘fair use’ excerpts. However, I doubt the PL guys will mind.

onlineanalyst on January 11, 2009 at 8:21 AM

Thanks for the info. I’ll check out the site. I’ve been talking about this, myself, for quite a few years, and I’m happy to know that others have also been identifying it. It is of utmost importance to understand this distinction, since fighting against tribalistic cultures requires quite different rules, strategies and tactics than fighting against individualistic ones (something the West has long forgotten).

With “The One” less than 10 days from assuming the office of President, it’s nice to see that the ultranationalist patriots over at the New York Times are still doing their part to undermine The Last Days of Bush…….

My guess is they are, as usual, running interference for Barack Obama. The Times doesn’t want Obama to be blamed for what happens next in connection with Iran:

Those covert operations, and the question of whether Israel will settle for something less than a conventional attack on Iran, pose immediate and wrenching decisions for Mr. Obama. …

Since his election on Nov. 4, Mr. Obama has been extensively briefed on the American actions in Iran, though his transition aides have refused to comment on the issue.

The Times is careful to assure us that Obama’s aides aren’t the leakers.

Early in his presidency, Mr. Obama must decide whether the covert actions begun by Mr. Bush are worth the risks of disrupting what he has pledged will be a more active diplomatic effort to engage with Iran.

I suppose we should enjoy what is likely to be the Times’ last major leak for some time, even assuming the paper stays in business through 2009. With a Democratic President in place, neither Democratic bureaucrats nor the Times will have any desire to undermine the administration by leaking and publishing classified information.

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Heh to all of that.

If that doctrine means a damn thing I would bet on some severely localized global warming happening all over Iran right around the time they have the ability to carry out a nuclear strike. Of course, that would rely on the President caring more about the future of America and our allies…something I am increasingly unsure of.

njcommuter on January 11, 2009 at 12:32 PM

Obviously members from HA would get some form of warning…most of them anyway.

There is a very simple solution to making the US safe.
First thing that needs to be done is nuke both the east and west coast with no prior warning.

Hey, wait a minute …!