Wasting Time With Alex

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Sure the NIE was right…

I was surprised by this article dealing with Germany expelling an Iranian diplomat because he was caught trying to buy Uranium enrichment equipment, not because I am surprised Iran is hard at work trying to enrich weapon grade Uranium for their nuclear weapons program as the NIE claimed, but because the Germans for once didn’t just make the sale. This means something. That Germany declined to make the usual profit because of sales of dangerous equipment to a tyrannical government which has never been a problem in the past, even when there were sanctions involved, is absolutely telling. Why now? What has caused the Germans to suddenly forgo the all might Euro, and we are discussing some serious amounts of cash again here, and even creating a diplomatic incident over it? You do not kick out a diplomat unless you are trying to send a message to their government about their actions (or some other problem sometimes). Germany obviously believed that serious harm could be coming from this sale to Iran, and then likely to themselves, in order to stop it. If they had only known that Iran had given up its weapons program in 2003!

I have read out there that there were all manner of reasons for the NIE conclusion. The most obvious being a political motivated move directed at tying the hands of the WH on Iran. Others have attributed an incredibly clever ploy by the WH to hurt the Iranians by denying Ahmadinejad this powerful piece of propaganda he used to stir nationalism. Some believed it was intended to force the Arab neighbors of Iran to suddenly become serious about both the Palestinian peace process and Iran’s nuclear ambitions.  I have even seen the claim Bush is simply passing the buck to the next guy or that the WH has concluded we can live with a nuclear armed Iran. Only politically motivated idiots suffering from stage 6 BDS however believe Iran is not trying to make nukes. The French & the Germans, whom would be in range of Iranian nukes, seem to not particularly like the NIE report and considering how reluctant these nations are to have to use force it is telling that France is saying they will not accept a nuclear Iran. And then there is Israel which can not gamble on the politics of this report. But the proof is out there and is ample that Iran is hard at work building nukes and not worried about anyone knowing. I sure hope we know what the hell we are doing. Especially if we end up with some retard that is more concerned with dragging America down the path of socialism instead of protecting American lives.