Given the excellent track record this administration has on these things, I can't see why we all do not just buy this hook, line and sinker. They have proven themselves relaible over and over.
We did with Iraq. That has been a huge success. The massive stockpiles removed from Saddam's control could have killed us all when transported over on Saddam's fleet of trans-oceanic UAV's. No longer are we under threat of his mobile weapons labs and his Al Qaeda brothers. Did you see those pics of Saddam partying with Osama at one of his palaces? Reprehensible.
We bought it about Iran and while out NIE now says that they had no such program, I'm sure they are lying. They will nuke us any day now.
I only hope these these pictures or rectangular buildings convince us we need to go to war lik the great Iraq intel did. That was such a huge success, I can't wait to send more troops to their deaths for these new claims. I'm sure that will be a big winner too.
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Newly declassified spy photos suggesting North Korean involvement in the construction of a Syrian nuclear reactor, which was heavily damaged in an Israeli bombing raid last year, have raised fresh questions about the facility's murky history—and about whether the disclosure of the images could derail a pending nuclear disarmament deal between Washington and Pyongyang.
Prior to last week's unveiling of the photos, U.S. and Israeli officials had refused to discuss publicly the September 2007 raid. Even now, U.S. officials acknowledge that they're still withholding key information about the provenance of the photos in order to protect sources and methods. But according to one senior intelligence official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, the "handheld" photos taken from inside the reactor were gathered "over a period of time," indicating that whoever took them was somehow able to breach the building's inner sanctum on a consistent basis. Among the few photos released to the media: a shot of a fuel-rod system whose design closely resembled the one at North Korea's Yongbyon plutonium plant.
Intelligence officials briefed select congressional leaders on the Syrian plant after the Israeli bombing raid. At a media briefing last week, a senior official said that the administration decided to keep the public—and the full membership of congressional intel committees—in the dark at Israel's request, and to avoid provoking Syrian retaliation. Pundits speculated that the timing of the North Korea-Syria disclosures hint at a plot by marginalized administration hardliners, such as Vice President Dick Cheney, to sabotage the nuclear-disarmament deal. But two current U.S. officials said that, in fact, the disclosures are part of a well-crafted diplomatic strategy to nudge Syria toward peace with Israel and to pressure North Korea to disclose its nuclear-proliferation activities. One of the officials told NEWSWEEK that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice briefed Chinese officials about the Syrian reactor project late last year. After examining the evidence, the official said, Beijing agreed to toughen its stance toward Kim Jong Il's regime.
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