AIPAC: Intelligence makes case against Iran

Tom Joad

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Wed Dec-05-07 09:59 AM
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AIPAC: Intelligence makes case against Iran

Edited on Wed Dec-05-07 10:10 AM by Tom Joad

AIPAC says a U.S. national intelligence estimate bolsters the case to isolate Iran.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee was reacting to a report that the assessments by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, declassified this week, is that Iran suspended a nuclear weapons program in 2003.

AIPAC spokesman Josh Block told JTA that if anything, the report showed that Iran had advanced further than was publicly known.

"Far from acquitting Iran, the NIE reveals that Tehran continues to violate the international community's calls to end the pursuit of the fuel cycle and the ability to make highly enriched uranium, concludes that Iran has utilized and has at its disposal a hidden, secret second unacknowledged, unmonitored track for enriching bomb fuel, and has engaged in a nuclear weaponization program, an assessment never before made public by the American intelligence community," Block said. "All in all, it's a clarion call for additional and continued effort to pressure Iran economically and politically to end its illicit nuclear programs."
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105674.html
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there you go. now you still think attacking Iran is off the table? think again.
Just some food for thought. aipac has its main conference in DC every spring. during its 3 day extravaganza... more congresspeople are sitting together in that conference room than at just about any other time.

the problem with aipac is not that it supposedly supports Israel (it is "pro-Israel" in the same sense the Republican Party is "pro-American"). there is nothing wrong with supporting other people. I spent much of my life working against what was called "US interests" and instead supporting the people of South Africa, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama ....

the problem with aipac is that it supports extremist militaristic policies... that are bad for the US, bad for Israel, and catastrophic for many more. But somehow, even many liberal congresspeople seem willing to give it support.

about time that changed. here in oakland, they are having their annual membership dinner. every politician gets invited. many attend. we are asking them to decline. in the meantime, we will be outside with our agenda:
Global nuclear disarmament. Including the US. Including Israel.
No attack on Iran.
Fairness for all in the Middle East.
http://www.stopaipac.org/oaklandprotest.htm

if you live in the SF Bay area, be sure to stop by.

oh yeah, you might want to check out this thread about an influential DC think tank, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an outfit that grew out of aipac (was headed by the same person who once headed aipac)
they say that Israel and the United States should begin an intense dialogue on ways to deal with Iran's nuclear plans and should examine ways to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2395637&mesg_id=2395637

one final note: to the people who say: Israel should attack Iran... i hold you in the same esteem (or lack thereof) as the people who say the US should attack Iran.