Iran and the lying Democrats

Iran gets the nukes Clinton and Obama denied Iran was seeking

The United Nations confirmed today that Iran is a nuclear power.

President George Walker Bush warned the world in 2007.

But the Smartest Woman on Earth and the Smartest Man in the Universe dismissed President Bush’s warnings as saber-rattling. They intuitively knew better than the intelligence reports that President Bush read every day.

From Agence France Presse on December 4, 2007:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Democratic White House hopefuls Tuesday accused President George W. Bush of “saber-rattling” on Iran, and said US intelligence that Tehran halted its nuclear program in 2003 debunked his hawkish policy.

The 2008 rivals urged Bush to open talks with Iran, and rejected the president’s contention in a news conference Tuesday that US policy towards the Islamic Republic should not change as Tehran was still dangerous.

“I vehemently disagree with the president that nothing has changed and therefore nothing in American policy has to change,” front-runner Hillary Clinton said, in a debate in Iowa hosted by National Public Radio.

“He should seize this opportunity and engage in serious diplomacy using both carrots and sticks,” Clinton said in the two-hour debate, a month before Iowans vote in the first nominating clashes of the 2008 race.

Clinton’s top rival Senator Barack Obama warned that despite the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran released Monday, the Bush administration would not modify its tough line on Iran.

“It is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology.”

“They need, now, to aggressively move on the diplomatic front.”

“They should have stopped the saber rattling — should never have started it,” said Obama.

Fools. Bloody impudent fools. Both of them. They did not take serious the threat. Now we have this report today from the Washington Post:

Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran’s government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles, according to Western diplomats and nuclear experts briefed on the findings.

Documents and other records provide new details on the role played by a former Soviet weapons scientist who allegedly tutored Iranians over several years on building high-precision detonators of the kind used to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, the officials and experts said. Crucial technology linked to experts in Pakistan and North Korea also helped propel Iran to the threshold of nuclear capability, they added.

The officials, citing secret intelligence provided over several years to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the records reinforce concerns that Iran continued to conduct weapons-related research after 2003 — when, U.S. intelligence agencies believe, Iranian leaders halted such experiments in response to international and domestic pressures.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog is due to release a report this week laying out its findings on Iran’s efforts to obtain sensitive nuclear technology. Fears that Iran could quickly build an atomic bomb if it chooses to has fueled anti-Iran rhetoric and new threats of military strikes. Some U.S. arms-control groups have cautioned against what they fear could be an overreaction to the report, saying there is still time to persuade Iran to change its behavior.

Iranian officials expressed indifference about the report.

“Let them publish and see what happens,” said Iran’s foreign minister and former nuclear top official, Ali Akbar Salehi, the semiofficial Mehr News Agency reported Saturday.

Salehi said that the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is “100 percent political” and that the IAEA is “under pressure from foreign powers.”

The American electorate should cashier President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton for their monumental incompetence.